Principal Investigator

Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻)

Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan): Deputy Director (2022-present); Research Fellow/Professor (2022-present); Associate Research Fellow/Professor (2014-2022); Assistant Research Fellow/Professor (2010-2014)

Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University (Taichung, Taiwan): Professor (2022-present); Associate Professor (2015-2022); Assistant Professor (2011-2015)
Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University (Taipei, Taiwan): Associate Professor (2015-present); Assistant Professor (2012-2015)
Department of Life Sciences, National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan): Associate Professor (2022-present)

Postdoc (2008-2010): Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ, USA); advised by Howard Ochman and Nancy Moran
Ph.D. (2003-2008): Department of Genetics, University of Georgia (Athens, GA, USA); advised by Daniel Promislow and Jessica Kissinger
M.S. (2000-2003): Interdepartmental Genetics Program, Iowa State University (Ames, IA, USA); advised by Fredric Janzen
Research Assistant (1998-2000), Department of Agronomy, National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan); advised by Kae-Kang Hwu (胡凱康)
B.S. (1994-1998): Department of Botany, National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan)

Academic Editor, PLOS ONE (2014-present)
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Microbiology (2020-present)
At-large Member, Board of Directors, International Organization for Mycoplasmology (2016-2018; 2018-2021; 2021-2023)
Team Leader, Plant and Arthropod Mycoplasmas, International Research Programme on Comparative Mycoplasmology (2019-present)
Member, Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Mollicutes, International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (2017-present)
Member, Academic Affairs Committee, Taiwan Microbiota Consortium (2020-2023)
Board Member, Taiwan Society of Plant Biologists (2022-2024)