[2025/06/18] Yu Wu PhD Defense
Congratulations to Yu Wu (吳宇) on her successful PhD defense! We thank the committee members for their helpful feedback and all team members for their support over the years.
[2025/06/02] Lab Anniversary Party
15th anniversary!
[2025/02/20] IPMB AMT Symposium
Project symposium for the agrobacteria-mediated transformation (AMT) team of our institution.
[2025/01/16-17] MiTalk 9 (Taipei, Taiwan)
The lab attended MiTalk 9 at the Soochow University in Taipei. Shan-Chi Hsieh (謝善棋) and Sook-Kuan Lee (李淑君) gave invited talks; Hsi-Ching Yen (顏席清) presented a poster.
[2025/01/14] Mini lab reunion
Former lab members joining our weekly sports hours when they come back to Taiwan for vacations is becoming a delightful trend. So nice to see Yu-Chen Lin and Ling-Wei Weng again!
[2025/01/10] PEM Party
Annual party of the Plant and Environmental Microbiology (PEM) labs of our institute.
[2024/12/24] Mini lab reunion
Our alumni, including those working in Taiwan and others pursuing PhDs in the USA, came back for a visit. Delighted to see that they are doing well and loved having them join our weekly sports hours, just like old times.
[2024/12/10] Birthday Party for Yu Wu
[2024/11/14] IPMB 80th Anniversary
Our institute celebrates the 80th Anniversary since establishment & the 20th Anniversary since changing our name from the Institute of Botany (IOB) to the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology (IPMB).
[2024/10/02] Visit to AIST (Tsukuba, Japan)
Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻) and Shen-Chian Pei (裴慎謙) visited Takema Fukatsu (深津武馬) at the Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) to discuss our collaboration on insect-microbe symbiosis. Special thanks to Shigeyuki Kakizawa (柿澤茂行) for coordinating the visit.
[2024/10/01] Visit to Hosei University (Tokyo, Japan)
Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻) and Shen-Chian Pei (裴慎謙) visited Kenro Oshima (大島研郎) to discuss phytoplasma research.
[2024/10/01] Visit to the University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻) and Shen-Chian Pei (裴慎謙) visited the Laboratory of Plant Pathology at the University of Tokyo. We thank Shigetou Namba (難波成任) and Kensaku Maejima (前島健作) for the hospitality.
[2024/09/27-29] Wakate Colosseum for Bacteriology (Osaka, Japan)
Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻) and Shen-Chian Pei (裴慎謙) attended the 18th Wakate Colosseum for Bacteriology, a special conference for junior microbiologists sponsored by the Japanese Society for Bacteriology, and had a fruitful discussion with Makoto Miyata (宮田真人) and Yoshihito Kitaoku (北奥喜仁) on deep-branching Mollicutes and other related lineages.
[2024/09/25-10/15] Visit to Osaka Metropolitan University (Osaka, Japan)
Sponsored by the "Frontiers in Science" Program of Osaka Metropolitan University, Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻) and Shen-Chian Pei (裴慎謙) had a short-term visit to Japan. Special thanks to Makoto Miyata (宮田真人; Department of Biology) for hosting, Kae Nakahara (中原香恵; International Support Center) and Sachiko Asagai (浅貝佐智子; Miyata lab) for arranging the visit, and the Miyata lab members for their hospitality.
[2024/08/23-25] Bacteriology Conference (Tainan, Taiwan)
We attended the 28th Bacteriology Conference in Tainan, Taiwan. Yu Wu (吳宇), Shen-Chian Pei (裴慎謙), and Hsi-Ching Yen (顏席清) presented their research projects.
[2024/08/09-18] IPMB Virtual Race
For our institutional summer sports event this year, we have a virtual race during Aug. 9-18. Together, the 12 members of our lab member contributed 531 km to the Team Microbes!
[2024/07/07-11] IOM Congress (Gran Canaria, Spain)
We attended the 25th Congress of the International Organization for Mycoplasmology (IOM) in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Congratulations to Shen-Chian Pei (裴慎謙) and Xiao-Hua Yan (顏小華) on receiving the IOM travel grants to attend this conference and having successful poster presentations. Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻) gave an oral presentation on genome-based taxonomy of Mollicutes. The gala dinner at the Poema del Mar Aquarium was amazing. Other than the exciting science, it was lovely to see many friends and collaborators again!
[2024/07/03] Lab Badminton Time
Welcome our former intern Nian-Pu Li (李念璞) to re-join the lab as a research assistant.
[2024/06/18] Visit by Kenro Oshima
Kenro Oshima (大島研郎) (Hosei University) visited our institute to talk about the fascinating biology of phytoplasmas.
[2024/01/25] 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.
[2024/01/18-19] MiTalk 8 (Hualien, Taiwan)
The lab attended MiTalk 8 at the Tzu Chi University in Hualien. The lab PI Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻) was invited to give the keynote speech; Hsin-Ying Chang (張心盈), Dina Fitriana (費迪娜), Yu Wu (吳宇), and Hsi-Ching Yen (顏席清) presented their posters.
[2024/01/05] PEM Party
Annual party of the Plant and Environmental Microbiology (PEM) labs of our institute.