[2023/08/31] IPMB Summer Undergraduate Internship Program

Congratulations to our summer interns Nian-Pu Li (李念璞) and Ru-Bin Yao (姚儒賓) on their successful completion of the internship program. Also, Nian-Pu received the Gold Award for her final presentation!

[2023/08/24-26] Bacteriology Conference @ NCYU

We attended the 27th Bacteriology Conference in Chiayi, Taiwan. Congratulations to Hsin-Ying Chang (張心盈) and Xiao-Hua Yan (顏小華) on receiving poster awards!

[2023/08/01] Visit by Maria Pieters

Dr. Maria Pieters (University of Minnesota, USA), a Board Member of the International Organization for Mycoplasmology (IOM), visited our lab.

[2023/07/27] Lab Table Tennis Time

For this summer, we changed the weekly sports hours from badminton to table tennis.

[2023/07/16-20] IOM Congress @ Osaka, Japan

Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻) (middle) received the Derrick Edward Award from the International Organization for Mycoplasmology (IOM) Chair Steven Geary (left) and Award Committee Chair Amir Hadjinoormohammadi (right).

The Derrick Edward Award Lecture by Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻).

Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻) (left) with other Derrick Edward Award recipients: Rohini Chopra-Dewasthaly (2018), Pascal Sirand-Pugnet (2010), Mitchell Balish (2008), Makoto Miyata (1998), and Alain Blanchard (1996).

Poster presentation by Shen-Chian Pei (裴慎謙).

Poster presentation by Xiao-Hua Yan (顏小華).

Poster presentation by our collaborators Prof. Jun-Yi Yang (楊俊逸) and Ms. Yi-Ching Chiu (邱怡靜).

Poster presentation by our collaborators Prof. Martina Šeruga Musić and Dr. Marina Drčelić.

[2023/03/21] Lab Lunch

[2023/01/12-13] MiTalk7 @ NTOU

The lab attended MiTalk7 at the National Taiwan Ocean University in Keelung. In addition to the fun scientific discussion about microbiology, we also enjoy the beautiful weather and seaside view. Congratulations to Yu Wu (吳宇) on receiving the First Place Award in the 3-min Fire Talk Competition!

[2023/01/06] PEM Party

The Plant and Environmental Microbiology (PEM) group of our institute had a joint party to celebrate the start of a new year.

[2022/12/21] Alumnus Visit

A former lab member, Ching-Ting Huang (黃敬廷), who is pursuing his doctoral study in the University of Georgia (UGA), came back to visit the lab. The special gift that celebrates UGA National Championship is much appreciated. The lab PI Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻) is also a UGA alumnus.

[2022/12/05-07] Australasian Plant Virology Workshop (APVW)

The lab PI Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻) attended this conference in Melbourne as an Invited Keynote Speaker to present our work on phytoplasma genomics. Chih-Horng also discussed potential collaborations with Dr. Fiona Constable (Research Leader) and Bianca Rodrigues Jardim (PhD student) from Agriculture Victoria, as well as met with several graduate students from Taiwan.

[2022/08/31] IPMB Summer Undergraduate Internship Program

Congratulations to our summer intern this year, Fang-Yu Lin (林芳瑜), on receiving a Bronze Award, and to Ho-Lin Chung (鍾鶴林), a former high school intern in our lab and did her internship in the Ku lab this summer, on receiving a Silver Award, for their final oral presentations!

[2022/08/25-27] Bacteriology Conference @ NYCU

We attended the 26th Bacteriology Conference in Hsinchu, Taiwan with members from Dr. Erh-Min Lai's lab in our institute. Congratulations to Yu Wu (吳宇) on receiving a honorable mention for her poster presentation!

[2022/08/23] Alumni Visit

Two former lab members, Shu-Ting Cho (卓舒婷) and Lin Chou (周林), who are both pursuing their doctoral study in the USA, came back to visit the lab. The hand drawing of a bacterial type VI secretion system (T6SS) on the whiteboard was done by Lin Chou (周林).

[2022/08/08] Group Photo

Farewell to our Ukrainian guests, Dr. Hanna Chepyshko and her beautiful family. Wish them a good trip to the US and hope the war ends soon for them to return home. We thank the generous support from the Taiwan Scholarship for Ukrainian Scholars provided by Academia Sinica and the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan.

[2022/06/28] Lab Badminton Time

Several lab alumni joined us in our weekly badminton time. Nice to catch up with everyone and we said farewell to Yu-Chen Lin (林宥辰), wishing him the best for his PhD study in New York University.

[2022/06/06] Group Photo

We welcome Dr. Hanna Chepyshko to join us as a visiting scholar via the Taiwan Scholarship for Ukrainian Scholars. We thank the strong support from Academia Sinica and the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan, and hope the war in Ukraine will end soon.

[2022/01/19-20] MiTalk6 @ THU

[2022/01/14] PEM Party