2021 IIP Summer Internship Host Mentors Program Host PI Affiliation Personal web page Email Which project would you like to offer for the intern?
1. Barcoding and meta-barcoding of local lichen Jen-Pan Huang Academia Sinica https://sites.google.com/view/jenpanhuang [email protected] communities. 2. Hercules beetle genome assembly.
http://www.biodiv.tw/en/people/faculty/dr- [email protected] Ryuji Machida Academia Sinica aquatic molecular ecology ryuji-machida .tw http://www.biodiv.tw/en/people/faculty/dr- John Wang Academia Sinica [email protected] Identification of selfish genes in nematodes john-wang
Evolution, interactions and genomics of eukaryotic Chuan Ku Academia Sinica https://chuanku-lab.github.io/kulab/ [email protected] microbes (microalgae, giant viruses, protists) Field ecology of coral community, including coral http://www.biodiv.tw/en/people/faculty/dr- Yoko Nozawa Academia Sinica [email protected] reproduction, coral recruitment, coral long-term yoko-nozawa#lab-pi monitoring, reef fish, and sea turtles [email protected] fungal community assemblies of early diverging Ko-Hsuan Chen Academia Sinica https://kohsuanchen.wixsite.com/fungi .tw plant lineages
BIODIV Sen-Lin Tang Academia Sinica http://sltang.biodiv.tw/ [email protected] Coral microbial community survey
Deep time marine fossils: What are the possible Chien-Hsiang Lin Academia Sinica https://otolithlin.biodiv.tw/ [email protected] drivers shaping the diversity of marine organisms through geological time? National Taiwan http://web.ntnu.edu.tw/~treehopper/index.p Fighting Behaviour of Stag Beetles; Behaviroual Chung-Ping Lin Normal University [email protected] hp?page=home&lang=en Ecology of Damselflies (NTNU) http://biodiv.sinica.edu.tw/en/people/faculty Kuo-Fang Chung Academia Sinica [email protected] Phylogenomics of plants /dr-kuo-fang-chung#lab-pi Effects of abiotic and biotic environments on the http://www.biodiv.tw/en/people/faculty/dr- [email protected] Mao-Ning Tuanmu Academia Sinica diversity and structure of bird communities in mao-ning-tuanmu w cities http://www.biodiv.tw/index.php/en/people/f impact of climate change on corals, coral reef Allen Chen Academia Sinica [email protected] aculty/dr-chaolun-allen-chen governance, resilience http://www.biodiv.tw/index.php/en/people/f Social evolution, climate change biology, Sheng-Feng Shen Academia Sinica [email protected] aculty/dr-sheng-feng-shen biogeography http://www.rcas.sinica.edu.tw/faculty/jhlin.ht protein structure prediction based on distance and Jung-Hsin Lin Academia Sinica [email protected] ml angle restraints https://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/ming-jing- machine learning approaches to computational Ming-Jing Hwang Academia Sinica [email protected] hwang/ biology and medicine Developing bioinformatic strategies to analyse Pao-Yang Chen Academia Sinica https://paoyang.ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/ [email protected] genomics data This mitochondria database project would require BIOINFO National Taiwan skills in data science, including organizing data, An-Chi Wei https://ntubmse.com/ [email protected] University (NTU) building database as well as text mining and machine learning. Druggable DynOmics, a medicinal extension of National Tsing Hua Lee-Wei Yang https://dyn.life.nthu.edu.tw/ [email protected] DynOmics - http://dyn.life.nthu.edu.tw/oENM/ or University (NTHU) http://dynomics.pitt.edu/ National Taiwan https://www.ee.ntu.edu.tw/profile1.php?id=9 1) Artificial intelligent courses for handling clinical Eric Y Chuang [email protected] University (NTU) 9 data 2) Single cell rnaseq data analysis protocols
https://www.ibc.sinica.edu.tw/people/investi Protein design with expanding genetic code approach [email protected] Yane-Shih Wang Academia Sinica gators/principal-investigators/yane-shih- and protein chemistry study in synthesizing branched u.tw wang/ ubiquitin and their functional studies. Optogenetics-based probing of organelle damage Wei Yuan Yang Academia Sinica https://www.ibc.sinica.edu.tw/yang/ [email protected] responses (1) vaccine response with a focus on germinal National Taiwan https://www.mc.ntu.edu.tw/pharmacology/V Shiang-Jong Tzeng [email protected] center reaction (2) development of novel cancer University (NTU) card.action?q_type=A02&q_itemCode=453 immunotherapy https://www.ibc.sinica.edu.tw/people/investi The project will focus on the synthesis of complex Todd Lowary Academia Sinica [email protected] gators/principal-investigators/todd-l-lowary/ glycans, likely related to microbial disease https://www.mc.ntu.edu.tw/pharmacology/V CBMB National Taiwan card.action?q_type=- Inflammasome and cell death-mediated Wan-Wan Lin [email protected] University (NTU) 1&q_itemCode=405&struts.token.name=toke inflammation n&token=1EBR3JC40QA9YHOF3GI7JQSGITWI [email protected] Hsiao-Ching Lin Academia Sinica https://sites.google.com/site/hsiaochinglab/ Natural Product Biosynthesis w Jiun-Jie Shie Academia Sinica https://shiejj.wixsite.com/shie-group [email protected] fluorescent dyes or small molecules synthesis
Danny Hsu Academia Sinica http://sites.google.com/site/hsushangte [email protected] Finding coronavirus host receptors Research is related to drug discovery; gut infection, Hans Chun-Hung Lin Academia Sinica http://idv.sinica.edu.tw/chunhung/ [email protected] immunity and metabolites https://www.ibc.sinica.edu.tw/people/investi Identification of glycans serving as the Takashi Angata Academia Sinica [email protected] gators/principal-investigators/takashi-angata/ determinants of recognition by Siglecs Investigating the convective-scale heavy rainfall National Central https://sites.google.com/view/ncu- [email protected] Shu-Chih Yang predictability through a high-resolution ensemble Unviersity (NCU) predictability/home w data assimilation system National Tsing Hua TSAN-YAO CHEN https://tychencaeser.wixsite.com/mysite [email protected] CO2 reduction on heterogeneous nanoreactor University (NTHU) Probing the effects of climate change on ocean https://www.earth.sinica.edu.tw/member/inf Kuo-Fang Huang Academia Sinica [email protected] environments using elemental/isotope proxies in o/23?lang=en marine biogenic carbonates National Central Jia-Jyun Dong http://sr.geo.ncu.edu.tw:5755/en/ [email protected] Rock mechanics experiment operation Unviersity (NCU) Limnology and oceanography. Microbial ecology. https://www.rcec.sinica.edu.tw/?action=mem Fuh-kwo Shiah Academia Sinica [email protected] Plankton dynamics and the biogeochemistry of ber&id=15 carbon and nitrogen in aquatic ecosystems. National Taiwan ENSO prediction/forecast and global ocean Yu-heng Tseng http://coda.oc.ntu.edu.tw/coda/ [email protected] University (NTU) modelling X-ray fluorescence core scanning applications in National Taiwan http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~ludvig/People/ paleoclimatology and forensic geoscience. ESS Ludvig Löwemark [email protected] University (NTU) page1.html Applying element ratios to solve problems in geoscience. Thermal conductivity of Earth materials with Wen-Pin Hsieh Academia Sinica https://sites.google.com/site/whsieh2/ [email protected] implications for mantle and core dynamics http://www.earth.sinica.edu.tw/member/info Bio-geo-chemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, Mao-Chang Liang Academia Sinica [email protected] /19 and/or oxygen. https://980198.wixsite.com/sinica-wu-cheng- Wu-Cheng Chi Academia Sinica [email protected] seismology chi National Taiwan Understanding the cycles of dissolved organic Haojia Ren https://www.abbyren.com/ [email protected] University (NTU) nitrogen in the ocean from nitrogen isotopes https://www.earth.sinica.edu.tw/member/inf Kwan-Nang Pang Academia Sinica [email protected] Using micro-XRF to characterize geo-materials o/24?lang=en marine trace metal biogeochemical cycling, the https://www.rcec.sinica.edu.tw/index_en.php role of Fe on coral bleaching, the role of Ni in Tung-Yuan Ho Academia Sinica [email protected] ?action=member&id=9 marine diazotroph's nitrogen fixation and hydrogen production, Develop a computational/mathematical model to [email protected] Sheng-hong Chen Academia Sinica https://celldynamicslab.mystrikingly.com investigate cellular robustness against drug w perturbations The specificity of neurodegeneration: how Shen-Ju Chou Academia Sinica http://icob.sinica.edu.tw/lab.php?id=28 [email protected] neurodegenerative diseases affect specific neuronal types. molecular mechanisms controlling neural circuit Chi-Hon Lee Academia Sinica http://icob.sinica.edu.tw/lab.php?id=45 [email protected] assembly
National Yang Ming http://bml.ym.edu.tw/ibs/brain/TsaiLab/inde Investigation of cellular and molecular mechanisms Jin-Wu Tsai [email protected] University (NYMU) x.html for brain development and disorders
https://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/wan-chen- Develop new tools for site-specific probing of Wan-Chen Lin Academia Sinica [email protected] INS lin/ neurotransmission. Glutamate receptor function in Shu-Ling Chiu Academia Sinica http://icob.sinica.edu.tw/lab.php?id=49 [email protected] neurodevelopmental disorders (intellectual disability and/or autism spectrum disorder)
Cheng-Ting Chien Academia Sinica http://www.imb.sinica.edu.tw/~ctchien/ [email protected] Dendrite development and cell biology study
To study neural and cellular bases of goal-directed spatial navigation: 1. establish mouse behavioral paradigm with virtual reality; 2. dendritic patch- https://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/ching-lung- Ching-Lung Hsu Academia Sinica [email protected] clamp recording; 3. establish pupil/behavioral hsu/ tracking (based on deep neural network); 4. computational modeling (multi-compartmental models of single neurons) https://ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/en/people/ipmb_r Lay-Sun Ma Academia Sinica [email protected] Fungal infection strategies in colonizing host esearchers/ma-lay-sun
We focus on the biology of the selected diseases (e.g., diabetes, cancer and infections). We are also developing the nutraceuticals, therapeutics and Wen-Chin Yang Academia Sinica http://abrc.sinica.edu.tw/pi/?id=wcy [email protected] phytogenics for the above diseases in humans and MBAS animals. We welcome self-motivated students to learn and develop their career with us.
https://ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/en/people/ipmb_r Wan-Hsing Cheng Academia Sinica [email protected] ABA, abiotic stress, and their interaction esearchers/cheng-wan-hsing
https://ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/ch/people/ipmb_r Forward genetic screen in N. benthamiana looking Chih-Hang Wu Academia Sinica [email protected] esearchers/wu-chih-hang for mutants defective in plant innate immunity https://sites.google.com/view/chenlab- Apply in toto imaging approaches to dissect Chen-Hui Chen Academia Sinica [email protected] website/home regeneration mechanisms. https://ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/en/people/ipmb_r Physiology and molecular analysis of genes Paul Verslues Academia Sinica [email protected] esearchers/verslues-paul-e involved in plant drought resistance.
Cheng-Hsun Ho Academia Sinica http://abrc.sinica.edu.tw/pi/?id=chho [email protected] Transport and Signaling: Biosensors
The Hsiao lab has developed the cell culture and mouse models that recapture the metastatic progression of human prostate cancer. We targeted knock-in of reporters to therapeutic Pei-Wen Hsiao Academia Sinica http://abrc.sinica.edu.tw/ [email protected] response genes in our metastatic cell line models MBAS as a surrogate phenotype to identify the bioactivity inducing the cancer immunogenic cell death from herbal medicines. https://ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/ch/people/ipmb_r Plant-fungal interaction through extracellular Tien-Shin Yu Academia Sinica [email protected] esearchers/yu-tien-shin vesicles https://ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/en/people/ipmb_r Use of CRISPR/Cas9 technology to improve Ming-Hsiun Hsieh Academia Sinica [email protected] esearchers/hsieh-ming-hsiun nitrogen use efficiency in plants I will provide the learning environment, including the experimental skill, research discussion, how to do problem-solving and independent thinking. For HUI-MING CHEN Academia Sinica http://abrc.sinica.edu.tw/pi/?id=hmchen [email protected] education purposes, a small project will be designated for his participation/practice if he is also willing to do so. 1) Genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic analyses of green algae, ciliates, and yeast, and 2) Jun-Yi Leu Academia Sinica http://www.imb.sinica.edu.tw/~jleu/ [email protected] molecular mechanism of microorganism adaptation. Our lab is interesting in elucidating the molecular mechanisms of nitrate transport and signaling in http://www.imb.sinica.edu.tw/en/research/fa higher plants. Knowledge gained from our studies Yi-Fang Tsay Academia Sinica [email protected] MCB culty/mbyftsay.html can lead to novel strategies of improving nitrogen utilization efficiency of crops, a key issue in sustainable agriculture. Microtubule Remodeling in Cell Division, Jen-Hsuan Wei Academia Sinica http://www.imb.sinica.edu.tw/~jhwei/ [email protected] Ciliogenesis and Brain Development http://www.imb.sinica.edu.tw/ch/research/fa Ting-Fang Wang Academia Sinica [email protected] Fungal Genetics and Genomics; Meiosis; Biocontrol culty/tfwang.html Chih-Yen King Academia Sinica http://www.imb.sinica.edu.tw [email protected] Amyloid diseases and prion biology
National Defense https://wwwndmc.ndmctsgh.edu.tw/DocDet/ Yi-Shing Shieh [email protected] Tumor microenvironment and signal transduction MCB Medical Center 191/100004/556/309 Systematic Analysis of Human Disease-relevant http://www.imb.sinica.edu.tw/en/research/fa Chien-Ling Lin Academia Sinica [email protected] Mutations on RNA stability and Translation culty/chienling.html Efficiency https://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/dennis- Dennis Hwang Academia Sinica [email protected] MRI, biophysical chemistry hwang/ The trainees can participate my current project that focuses on identifying genetic variants that National Yang Ming https://dls.ym.edu.tw/faculty/faculty- Wen-Ya Ko [email protected] affect evolutionary fitness in human populations. University (NYMU) member/wenko.html He or she will be able to learn how to analyze population genomic data. My lab uses a combination of cellular, molecular, animal model, and hiPS-derived organoid approaches to understand how the cellular Tang Tang Academia Sinica https://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/tang-tang/ [email protected] organelles (centrioles or cilia) are established and how mutations in centriolar genes cause primary microcephaly, ciliopathies, and tumors in humans.
MM investigating the roles of immune response in heart regeneration by CRISPR-mediated Shih-Lei (Ben) Lai Academia Sinica https://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/benlai/ [email protected] mutagenesis and/or AAV/nanoparticle-mediated manipulations. 1. The construction of EBV mutants National Yang Ming https://wisewind1005.wixsite.com/tsaimh- Ming-Han Tsai [email protected] 2. The mechanisms how Epstein-Barr virus University (NYMU) ebv contributes to human malignancies We have employed bioinformatics approaches to https://b62.505.myftpupload.com/wp- National Yang Ming identify potential drugs for colon cancer. The Chi-Ying Huang content/uploads/2020/08/%e9%bb%83%e5% [email protected] University (NYMU) interns will learn how to test these drugs in colon a5%87%e8%8b%b12020-08-25-CV.pdf cancer cell lines. National Yang Ming https://biochem.ym.edu.tw/files/15-1256- Function and Genome-wide profiling of Histone Wei-Yi Chen [email protected] University (NYMU) 16043,c21-1.php Demethylases in B-cell Malignancies https://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/yuh-shan- molecular mechanisms of PSPC1-driven cancer Yuh-Shan Jou Academia Sinica [email protected] jou/ metastasis Jer-Lai Kuo Academia Sinica https://sites.google.com/site/jlkiams/ [email protected] computational material/molecular science
National Taiwan Ya-Ping Hsieh http://mylabntu.weebly.com/ [email protected] fabrication of 2D semiconductors University (NTU) Creating fluorescent quantum defects in carbon nanotubes for biomedical applications; Chiral Ching-Wei Lin Academia Sinica https://sites.google.com/view/lincwgroup [email protected] nanoparticle preparation, spectroscopy, and cytotoxicity. Perform theoretical calculation on reaction rates Kaito Takahashi Academia Sinica https://labs.iams.sinica.edu.tw/project/kaito [email protected] for reactions of importance in the atmosphere. https://www.phy.ncu.edu.tw/wp/en/faculty/ National Central Developing a 3D microorganism tracking MST Chien_Jung Lo %e7%be%85%e5%81%a5%e6%a6%ae-lo- [email protected] Unviersity (NCU) microscopy chien-jung https://sites.google.com/view/hsianghuajen/ Chiral quantum network and quantum engineering Hsiang-Hua Jen Academia Sinica [email protected] home of subradiant states Assist in our ultracold atomic physics experiment https://www.iams.sinica.edu.tw/en/?link=me Ming-Shien Chang Academia Sinica [email protected] or in a project related/subsidiary to the main mber&id=36 experiment. https://labs.iams.sinica.edu.tw/project/dharm membrane protein research in near-native Tsyr-Yan Yu Academia Sinica [email protected] a/pages/news environment http://www.ntu- National Taiwan First principle simulation of IR and Raman of Michitoshi Hayashi ccms.ntu.edu.tw/en/members/michitoshi- [email protected] University (NTU) periodic molecule-related systems hayashi-9
My lab engineered spherical microwells as 3D cell culture substrate and study how 3D microenvironment affect cellular behaviors such as Keng-hui Lin Academia Sinica http://www.phys.sinica.edu.tw/~softlab [email protected] its proliferation and differentiation. Interns would gain experience on microfabrication, advanced microscopy, cell biology, and image analysis. NANO Synthesis and Characterization of 2D National Taiwan Mario Hofmann http://mylabntu.weebly.com [email protected] nanomaterials and their integration into electronic University (NTU) and energy devices. https://www.phys.sinica.edu.tw/~optical/inde Ultrafast and nonlinear optical spectroscopic Yu-Chieh Wen Academia Sinica [email protected] x_e.php studies on novel quantum materials Jason Chia-seng Exploration and detection of quantum phenomena Academia Sinica https://www.phys.sinica.edu.tw/~nano/ [email protected] Chang in nano and low-dimensional materials https://labs.iams.sinica.edu.tw/project/chenk [email protected]. Kuei-Hsien Chen Academia Sinica thermoelectric, lithium ion battery h tw https://www.phys.sinica.edu.tw/directory_en Atomic force microscopy of nanostructures on Ing-Shouh Hwang Academia Sinica [email protected] .php?directory=11&id_key=12 surfaces http://www.rcas.sinica.edu.tw/faculty/kauncc Computational modeling of electronic transport in Chao-Cheng Kaun Academia Sinica [email protected] .html nanostructures NANO Predicting, Modeling, and Engineering Topological Hsin Lin Academia Sinica https://sites.google.com/site/nilnish/ [email protected] Insulators and 2D Materials for Spintronics and Optoelectronics Application http://www.rcas.sinica.edu.tw/faculty/peilin. Peilin Chen Academia Sinica [email protected] Development of novel imaging platform html National Taiwan 2D nanomaterials: growth, optoelectronics and Li-Chyong Chen http://www.ntu-ccms.ntu.edu.tw [email protected] University (NTU) energy applications National Chiao Tung Chung Sun https://www.nctu.edu.tw/academics [email protected] Organic synthesis University (NCTU)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&u National Chiao Tung Chia-Chih Chang ser=yL_wsqcAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&aut [email protected] Polymer Mechanochemistry University (NCTU) huser=1&sortby=pubdate
Mitch Ming-Hsi https://www.chem.sinica.edu.tw/faculty/inde catalyst/electrode material design for energy Academia Sinica [email protected] Chiang x.php?piName=mhchiang conversion and storage https://www.chem.sinica.edu.tw/faculty/inde Tiow-Gan Ong Academia Sinica [email protected] Organometallic, catalysis, chemistry x.php?piName=tgong SCST https://www.chem.sinica.edu.tw/faculty/inde Yu-Ju Chen Academia Sinica [email protected] Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry x.php?piName=yjchen&lang=en Droplet synthesis of soft matter and cell-mimicking Hsiung-Lin Tu Academia Sinica https://scellse.weebly.com/ [email protected] materials Nanographene synthesis; Fabrication of energy Hung-Ju Yen Academia Sinica http://hjyen.weebly.com [email protected] storage devices https://www.chem.sinica.edu.tw/faculty/inde combining machine learning with optoelectronic Chao-Ping Hsu Academia Sinica [email protected] x.php?piName=cherri properties prediction National Taiwan Ying-Chih Liao http://www.che.ntu.edu.tw/che/?p=472 [email protected] 3D printed pressure sensor/ printed electronics University (NTU) Chengchi University Tsai-Yen Li http://www3.nccu.edu.tw/~li [email protected] Topics in AI, UAV, VR, and Computer Animation. (NCCU) https://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/pages/mcc/ind Applying deep learning methods for PM2.5 Meng Chang Chen Academia Sinica [email protected] ex_en.html prediction 5G MEC IoT data management and computing SNHCC Chengchi University platform/smart shopping area for innovative Tzu-Chieh Tsai http://www.cs.nccu.edu.tw/~ttsai [email protected] (NCCU) services and/or VR/AR/XR with IoT applications; prototype implementation or solution design Immersive video communications with next- National Tsing Hua Cheng-Hsin Hsu https://nmsl.cs.nthu.edu.tw [email protected] generation 3D representations, such as point University (NTHU) clouds and light-field video clips.