Program Results

Introduction to the event

I. Research Activities

(1) Published 4 international journal articles and 5 conference papers.

(2) Delivered 10 invited talks at universities and conferences.

(3) Reviewed 11 manuscripts for international journals.

(4) Reviewed 8 grant proposals (preliminary review) and 2 grant proposals (final review), and served on the Abstract Review Committee.

(5) Supervised 4 undergraduate students and 1 Master's student.

(6) Served as session chair for 2 conference sessions.

II. Teaching Activities

(1) Taught/co-taught 22 undergraduate and 8 graduate courses, including two foundational bioinformatics courses, “R Programming for Biology” and “Basic Linux Commands for Biology,” designed for life-science students with no prior coding experience; also co-taught “Bioinformatics,” “Applications of NGS in Molecular Biology,” “Practical Bioinformatics,” and the EMI course “Genomics,” with the aim of establishing a robust data-science foundation for life-science students in the AI era.

(2) Served on 7 thesis/dissertation defense committees (undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral).

(3) Invited by the Taiwan Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Society to deliver lectures and lead hands-on workshops for society members and the public.

(4) Featured as a signature course in the NTU Newsletter (Issue No. 1619).

(5) NTU Outstanding Teaching Faculty Member (Academic Year 113).

III. Research Highlights

(1) Conducted phenotype-driven drug discovery for triple-negative breast cancer to deepen understanding of its regulatory mechanisms and to inform future therapeutic strategies (published in Archiv der Pharmazie; co-first author).

(2) Comprehensively identified the biosynthetic pathway of monolignols and established systematic chemical syntheses of monolignol metabolites, providing a foundation for future studies of monolignol metabolism (published in New Phytologist; co-author).

(3) Investigated upstream and downstream gene regulatory networks governing trichome formation on peach skin, with the long-term objective of selecting cultivars suitable for domestic cultivation to support the national peach industry (published in BMC Plant Biology; co-author).

(4)  Applied single-cell multi-omics approaches to examine stress-induced effects on xylem in plants, thereby advancing our understanding of how trees respond to environmental challenges and providing a foundation for breeding more resilient tree species (published in Developmental Cell; co-author).