College of Bioresources and Agriculture
Insect-Plant Interaction Lab
Principal Investigator: Po-An LIN
Study Field: The Evolution, Ecology, and Physiology of Plant-Insect Interactions
Forms of Int'l Cooperation:Joint Research Project, Personnel Exchange, Student Exchange, Equipment Share, Seminar, Joint Patent Application, MOU/Collaborative Agreement
The Insect–Plant Interaction Lab investigates the complex relationships between plants and insect herbivores across physiological, molecular, ecological, and evolutionary scales. We are particularly interested in how plant defense traits and insect foraging behaviors...
College of Bioresources and Agriculture
Institute of Food Science & Technology, Precision Fermentation Laboratory
Principal Investigator: Kuan-Chen CHENG
Study Field: Precision Fermentation
Forms of Int'l Cooperation:Joint Research Project, Personnel Exchange, Student Exchange, Equipment Share, Seminar, Joint Patent Application, MOU/Collaborative Agreement
My name is CHENG Kuan-Chen, receiving my Ph.D. degree in agricultural and biological engineering at Penn State University in 2010. I have more than 25 years of research experience in the areas of microbial bioprocessing and fermentation. Precision fermentation is a t...
College of Life Science
Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology- Lab of Prof. Hsueh-Ping CHU
Principal Investigator: Hsueh-Ping CHU
Study Field: Network of NcRNA-Protein-Genome
Forms of Int'l Cooperation:Joint Research Project, Personnel Exchange, Student Exchange, Seminar
More than 90% of the genome is transcribed into non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), including microRNAs (miRNAs) and long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs). LncRNAs play important roles in regulating a wide range of cellular functions and developmental processes via function critically...
College of Science
IONTU Paleoproxy Lab
Principal Investigator: Sze Ling HO
Study Field: Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography, Biogeosciences, Biomarkers
Forms of Int'l Cooperation:Joint Research Project, Personnel Exchange, Student Exchange, Equipment Share, Seminar
Our research aims to understand past changes in climate and ocean conditions by analyzing fossilized lipids and calcite microfossils found in marine sediments covering the seafloor. These fossils serve as proxies for climate conditions beyond the instrumental era. We...
College of Bioresources and Agriculture
Joint Center for Instruments and Researches
Principal Investigator: Shih-Shun LIN
Study Field: Bio-big Data Mining, Software Development, System Development
Forms of Int'l Cooperation:Joint Research Project, Personnel Exchange, Student Exchange, Equipment Share
The NGS core Lab provides Bio-big Data mining, software development, and system development service. The most critical benefit is the ContigViews system for transcriptomic analysis, which can analyze the model and non-model orgasms. The system can provide (1) gene ma...
College of Medicine
Lab for Cardiovascular Diseases and Organ Fibrosis-Graduate Institute and Department of Pharmacology
Principal Investigator: Prof. Kai-Chien YANG
Study Field: Novel Mediators for Organ Fibrosis, Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Cardiac Regeneration, Molecular Determinants of Atherosclerosis Induced by Disturbed Blood Flow Pattern
Forms of Int'l Cooperation:Joint Research Project, Personnel Exchange, Student Exchange, Equipment Share, Seminar, Joint Patent Application, MOU/Collaborative Agreement
Our laboratory employs next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics to identify novel pathogenic molecules that are associated with cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Using multidisciplinary research tools including cell culture, biochemistry and transgenic animal studi...
College of Medicine
Lab in PARP-1 and AMPK Study
Principal Investigator: Prof. Wan-Wan LIN
Study Field: Inflammation, Metabolism, Diseases, Drug Development of PARP-1 and AMPK
Forms of Int'l Cooperation:Joint Research Project, Personnel Exchange, Student Exchange, Seminar
PARP-1 and AMPK are important cell regulatory molecules involved in various cellular functions. The research team has carried out academic exchanges, personnel exchanges, and cooperation with the leading laboratories from Hungary and France in the research of both mo...
College of Life Science
Lab of Cell and developmental Biology Field
Principal Investigator: Su-Yi TSAI
Study Field: Using HPSCs to Study Cardiac Development and Disease Modeling
Forms of Int'l Cooperation:Joint Research Project, Personnel Exchange, Student Exchange, Seminar
Sarcomere is a fundamental and highly organized component of cardiac muscle cells and it is assembled precisely by hundreds of proteins. Mutations in genes encoding sarcomere proteins result in cardiomyopathies, a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. H...
College of Public Health
Lab of Environmental Organic Pollutants
Principal Investigator: Chia-Yang CHEN
Study Field: Analytical Methods for Detecting Environmental Organic Pollutants in the Environment and the Human Body
Forms of Int'l Cooperation:Joint Research Project, Personnel Exchange, Student Exchange, Equipment Share, MOU/Collaborative Agreement
Our lab focuses on detecting environmental organic pollutants such as perfluoroalkyl substances, phthalate esters, and bisphenol A and its analogs. Our lab utilizes liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry to determine these chemicals in the environment and hum...
College of Life Science
Lab of evolution and diversity of fossil vertebrates
Principal Investigator: Cheng-Hsiu TSAI
Study Field: Marine mammals, Vertebrate paleontology, conservation paleobiology, island evolution, Pleistocene extinction
Forms of Int'l Cooperation:Joint Research Project, Personnel Exchange, Student Exchange, Seminar
Fossils provide direct evidence for the life and biodiversity in the deep past, and my research interest focuses on vertebrate fossils and their evolutionary history. For example, without fossils, we have no clue that large crocodylians made themselves home in Taiwan...