Feb 14, 2024 New publication on Agrobacterial T6SS His-Me nuclease effectors! Congratulations to 1st author, former Ph.D. student Nia Santos, and co-authors Keith Pintor, Yee-Wai Cheung, Li-Kang Sung from the Lai lab contributing to this work. A great collaboration with Yu-Ling Shih and her research assistant Pei-Yu Hsieh on microscopy imaging.

Dec 25, 2023 Farewell to Si-Chong Wang, former MS student and research assistant. Very proud of Si-Chong’s scientific achievement and thanks Si-Chong for his contribution to the lab! Wish Si-Chong all the best and success in next stage of career and life!

Sep 1, 2023 Farewell to summer interns Te-En Chen (陳得恩), Hao-Wen Hsu (徐顥文), and Xing-Tai Zheng (曾杏泰) and very happy and proud of their excellent achievement! Also congratulations to Te-En for receiving the Bronze Award in IPMB summer internship final presentation!

Aug 31, 2023 Congratulations to Xuan Lai (賴軒) for becoming Ph.D. candidate and being awarded the Outstanding Presentation Award (2nd place) in Ph.D. student progress report of the Institute of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University.

Aug 25, 2023 Congratulations to Li-Kang Sung (宋立綱) for being awarded the Best Presentation Award (優等) in 2023 Annual Bacteriology Conference (細菌學研討會).

Aug 22, 2023 The workshop recording by Dr. Lai has been posted to the PlantGENE website. Watch video on YouTube.

Jul 03, 2023 Welcome summer interns Te-En Chen (陳得恩), Hao-Wen Hsu (徐顥文), and Xing-Tai Zheng (曾杏泰)!

Jun 30, 2023 Jei Yang (楊捷) has completed his lab rotation. It has been a great pleasure hosting Jei as a rotation student. Wish Jei all the best in his Ph.D. career and life!

Jun 30, 2023 Farewell to Dr. Jemal Ali, a beautiful closure with a Ph.D. open seminar and celebration party. Wish Jemal the success and happiness in the next career stage as a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Ching-Hong Yang lab at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

May 15, 2023 Congratulations to Yu Wu (吳宇) for the achievement and great job for contribution on data analysis and figure illustration!

May 02, 2023 Congratulations to Jemal Ali for passing his Ph.D. oral defense.

Apr 18, 2023 Congratulations to Jemal Ali and all authors for new publication in EMBO Reports for demonstrating the role of glycine zipper motif(s) in T6SS effector translocation.

Mar 14, 2023 Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Yu Wu (吳宇) for being awarded IPMB travel grant for attending international conferences.

Mar 13, 2023 Welcome new rotation student Jie Yang (楊捷), 1st year Ph.D. student of AS-NCHU Microbial Genomics program.

Mar 07, 2023 Congratulations to Si-Chong Wang (王思翀) for his work published in mBio on development of soil inoculation and blocker-mediated sequencing to reveal effects of the antibacterial T6SS on agrobacterial tumorigenesis and gallobiome.

Feb 13, 2023 Congratulations to Victoria Yung-Hui Wen (溫永蕙) for passing her qualifying exam.

Feb 10, 2023 Congratulations to林祐安 and 張皓翔 (師大附中數理資優班學生), for being awarded as 2nd place (Microbiology) in 2023 Taiwan International Science Fair (台灣國際科展).

Jan 16, 2023 Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Yu Wu for being awarded the first place in the 3 min fire talk competition at 2023 Taiwan MiTalk Annual meeting!