College of Life Science
Bioanalytical Chemistry and Nanobiomedicine Laboratory
Principal Investigator: Ja-an Annie HO
Study Field: Bacterial Toxins and Microbes, Disease-Related Small Molecules, Peptides, Mi-croRNA
Forms of Int'l Cooperation:Joint Research Project, Personnel Exchange, Student Exchange, Seminar, Joint Patent Application, MOU/Collaborative Agreement
Our group research interests are in bioanalytical chemistry, focusing on developing rapid, sensitive, and reliable methods for assaying the pathogenic agents, such as bacterial toxins and microbes, disease-related small molecules, peptides, and mi-croRNA, and applyin...
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Department of Life Science- Lab of Prof. Ying-Chung LIN
Principal Investigator: Ying-Chung Jimmy LIN
Study Field: Xylem Development and Detailed Mechanisms
Forms of Int'l Cooperation:Joint Research Project, Personnel Exchange, Seminar
Xylem is the most abundant tissue on Earth. Wood is xylem, and wood formation is a complex developmental process involving cell proliferation of vascular cambium followed by the differentiation of secondary xylem cells. Growth and development in multicellular organis...
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Environment, Ecology & Resource LAB
Principal Investigator: Chia-Ying KO
Study Field: Impacts of Species Distributions, Community Assemblages and Ecosystems under Climate Change, Ocean Litter and Microplastics, Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Sciences, Temporal and Spatial Dynamics in Aquatic Ecosystems, Fisheries Ecology and Big Data Analysis of Long-term Changes in Fisheries Resources
Forms of Int'l Cooperation:Joint Research Project, Personnel Exchange, Student Exchange, Equipment Share, Seminar, Joint Patent Application, MOU/Collaborative Agreement
Climate change is one of top important environmental problems that we need to face in the 21st century. We use species distribution modelling to explore the implementation and utilization of those models at different spatial scales and among different species, and to...
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Fundamental Neuronal Physiology and Behavior Research Group
Principal Investigator: Shih-Kuo CHEN
Study Field: Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration of Cultured Neurons; Fighting Response and Depression of Zebrafish; Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cell and Circadian Rhythm of Mice
Forms of Int'l Cooperation:Joint Research Project, Personnel Exchange, Student Exchange, Seminar
The nervous system integrates single neurons' activities to respond to environmental stimuli with behaviors. Basic neuronal circuits like the knee reflex involve several neurons; however, complex behaviors and cognitive functions need cooperation among different brai...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Pioneering Study in Plant Sciences in Institute of Plant Biology
Principal Investigator: Chiu-Ping CHENG
Study Field: Photobiology, Stress Biology, Genomics of plants
Forms of Int'l Cooperation:Joint Research Project, Personnel Exchange, Student Exchange, Equipment Share, Seminar, Joint Patent Application, MOU/Collaborative Agreement
Pioneering Study in Plant Sciences group consists of fifteen members from different departments working across the spectrum of photobiology, stress biology, and genomics. Photobiology research investigates the growth and development of plants affected by light qualit...
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Plant Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Laboratory
Principal Investigator: Mei-Chun CHENG
Study Field: Light signal transduction mechanism, plant stress response, translation regulation mechanism, translatome and proteome
Forms of Int'l Cooperation:Joint Research Project, Personnel Exchange, Student Exchange, Equipment Share, Seminar, Joint Patent Application, MOU/Collaborative Agreement
Light is not only essential for photosynthetic energy production, but also functions as one of the most important environmental factors affecting plant growth and development, including stress response. With global climate change and population growth, developing res...