Who we are
Current and past lab members
Wei-Li Wu (吳偉立)
Principal Investigator
ORCID: 0000-0003-2610-1881Scopus: 56541997900
Associate Professor, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 2023-now
Director (理事), Taiwan Neuroscience Society, 2022-2024
International Affairs and Physiology Education Committee, Chinese Physiological Society, 2020-2026
Academic Committee, Chinese Physiological Society, 2020-2024
Assistant Professor, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 2018-2023
Visiting Associate, California Institute of Technology, USA, 2018-2021
Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology, USA, 2012-2018
Postdoctoral Scholar, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2011-2012
Ph.D., National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan, 2005-2011
(co-sponsored with Academia Sinica and National Health Research Institutes)
M.S., National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, 2001-2003
B.S., National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, 1997-2001
Dr. Wei-Li Wu is an associate professor in the Department of Physiology at the College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University. Dr. Wu received his M.S. degree in marine biology with Dr. Hin-Kiu Mok and Dr. Chi-Ying Lee as advisors at National Sun Yat-sen University. Dr. Wu's master's study investigated neurotransmission during aggressive behavior using a fighting fish model. Then Dr. Wu received his Ph.D. degree in neuroscience with Dr. Chih-Cheng Chen as advisor at the Academia Sinica. In the Ph.D. training, Dr. Wu profiled the alternations of emotion-related behaviors in a mouse model with sensory deficits. After completing the doctoral degree, Dr. Wu joined the late Prof. Paul Patterson laboratory at Caltech as a postdoctoral scholar in neuroimmunology from 2012 to 2014. In Patterson laboratory, Dr. Wu focused on the gene x environment interactions in a preclinical mouse model of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia, maternal immune activation. In 2014, Dr. Wu joined Prof. Sarkis Mazmanian laboratory at Caltech to carry on his works from the Patterson lab and to explore a fascinating topic: understanding how gut microbiota mediate mental homeostasis and disorder. In 2018, Dr. Wu set up his laboratory at National Cheng Kung University and continuously worked to unravel the neural mechanism by which gut microbiota impact brain circuits and host behaviors. Dr. Wu interrogated the microbiota-based neural circuits underlying the various innate behavior using microbiome-manipulated mice.
Current personnel
Tzu-Ting Lai (賴姿廷)
PhD student
110 -114 學年度 國科會&國立成功大學培育優秀博士生獎學金
110學年度 黃崑巖教授獎學金
B.S. National Cheng Kung University
M.S. National Cheng Kung University
Physiology, Feb 2019 - Jan 2021
Ph.D. student in the National Cheng Kung University
Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, 2021/09-now
Yu-Hsuan Tsai (蔡于宣)
PhD student
112-116 學年度 國科會&國立成功大學培育優秀博士生獎學金
B.S. I-Shou University
M.S. National Cheng Kung University
Physiology, Sep 2021-Aug 2023
Ph.D. student in the National Cheng Kung University
Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, 2023/09-now
Ru-Qing Zheng (鄭如晴)
MS student
B.S. Chung Shan Medical University
M.S. National Cheng Kung University
Physiology, Sep 2023-now
Wei-Chen Chen (陳緯宸)
MS student
B.S. National Sun Yat-sen University
M.S. National Cheng Kung University
Physiology, Sep 2024-now
Chia-Yu Tung (董家瑜)
MS student
B.S. National University of Kaohsiung
M.S. National Cheng Kung University
Physiology, Sep 2024-now
Yu-Chia Yu (游昱嘉)
Undergraduate Researcher
B.S. National Cheng Kung University
Nov 2023-now
Alumni
PhD
Chia-Wei Liou (劉嘉瑋)
PhD '24, Basic medical sciences (2018.09-2024.02)
Ph.D. National Cheng Kung University
110 學年度 黃崑巖教授獎學金
M.S. National Cheng Kung University
B.S. National Sun Yat-sen University
Thesis: Targeting short-chain fatty acids mediated neural circuits in social recognition and anxiety-like behavior in mice
MS
Jo-Ting Wu (武若婷)
MS '21, physiology (2018.09-2021.01)
M.S. National Cheng Kung University
B.S. National Cheng Kung University
Thesis: The role of short-chain fatty acid in innate fear response and social behavior
Tzu-Ting Lai (賴姿廷)
MS '21, physiology (2019.02-2021.01)
M.S. National Cheng Kung University
B.S. National Cheng Kung University
Thesis: Gut microbiota-mediated glucagon-like peptide-1 modulates locomotor activity via vagal-dependent pathway
Yuan-Yuan Lin (林元元）
MS '21, physiology (2019.09-2021.08)
M.S. National Cheng Kung University
B.S. Chung Shan Medical University
Thesis: The impact of early-life antibiotics exposure on the behaviors and gut microbiota in mice
Yu-Hsuan Tsai (蔡于宣)
MS '23, physiology (2021.09-2023.08)
M.S. National Cheng Kung University
B.S. I-Shou University
Thesis: Commensal gut microbe modulates stress-induced gut dysmotility through gut-derived metabolites and sympathetic nervous system
Jia-Ying Xue (薛家滎)
MS '23, physiology (2021.09-2023.08)
M.S. National Cheng Kung University
B.S. National Sun Yat-sen University (Undergraduate researcher Dec 2018-Feb 2020; 108學年科技部大專生計畫)
Thesis: Effect of transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation of the whole brain on microbiome and behavior in mice
Tzu-Hsuan Yao (姚子宣)
MS '24, physiology (2022.09-2024.08)
M.S. National Cheng Kung University
B.S. National Cheng Kung University
Undergraduate researcher in WLW lab (Mar 2019 - Aug 2022; 109學年科技部大專生計畫)
Thesis: Short-chain fatty acids regulate neural activity in excitatory neurons of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis
Shin-Mei Wen (文心玫)
MS '24, physiology (2022.09-2024.08)
M.S. National Cheng Kung University
B.S. Soochow University
Thesis: Colonization of commensal gut microbes impacts colonic migrating motor complex ex vivo
Undergraduate Researcher
Kuan-Min Wu (吳冠旻): B.S. National Cheng Kung University (May 2021 - Feb 2023): 暑期研究 (110); 健康文教基金會暑期研究(111)
Ilona Chen (陳映蓉): B.S. Boston College (June 2022-Sep 2022 )
Dong-Ting Ke (柯東廷): B.S. National Cheng Kung University (Oct 2021 - Feb 2023): 暑期研究 (111)
Ying-Chia Christina He (何盈佳): B.S. National Cheng Kung University (Oct 2021 - Feb 2023): 暑期研究 (111)
Hephaes Chow (周佺): B.S. National Cheng Kung University (Oct 2021 - Jul 2023)
Co-advisor
PhD