Exciting news! I am launching the Lab of Polymicrobial Interaction & Evolution IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) 中央研究院 Academia Sinica! 🎉 Our brand-new website is live: labofpie.org 🥧 We’re recruiting at all levels—if you're curious about how fungi and bacteria compete and co-evolve, come join us!

[IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) Seminar] 2025-07-22 15:00; A134, Ag Tech Bldg Speaker：Dr. Makoto Shirakawa Makoto Shirakawa (Assistant Professor, NAIST, Japan) Title：Creating Cellular Identity: How Transcription Factors Make a Difference

Functional replacement of ancestral antibacterial secretion system in a bacterial plant pathogen #T4SS #T6SS #Xanthomonas nature.com/articles/s4155…

[Dr. Chuan-Chih Hsu Chuan-Chih Hsu] Integrated Single-Tip IMAC-HILIC Enables Simultaneous Analysis of Plant Phosphoproteomics and N-Glycoproteomics Journal of Proteome Research ACS Publications pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

It's Christmas in July! Simmons Citrate and MacConkey agar.

【植微所暑期大學生培育計畫特別系列講座】 講員：馬麗珊副研究員LaySunMa （馬麗珊） 講題：誰偷吃了我的玉米？🌽 時間：2025/7/25（星期五）上午 10:30 地點：本所農科大樓 A134 演講廳 歡迎踴躍參加 中文公開演講

Single component CRISPR-mediated base-editors for Agrobacterium and their use to develop an improved suite of strains doi.org/10.1016/j.bide…

Effector Innovation in Genome-Reduced Phytoplasmas and Other Host-Dependent Mollicutes | bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Great place to develop your independent career on #MPMI IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所). We Chih-Hang Wu LaySunMa （馬麗珊） KaWaiMa@lab are here #2025ISMPMI. Welcome to talk to us to learn more about open #PI positions

We should also mention the incredible camaraderie & collegiality IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所). What I saw during my visit Chih-Hang Wu lab was amazing! colleagues are truly invested in your success! This is a huge plus!!!

It has been a while… but an updated, faster & more accurate version of OrthoFinder is now out! Scales to thousands of species on conventional compute resources with higher accuracy than ever before and the same data rich fully phylogenetic outputs 👉biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Enjoy a nice lunch get-together with folks from Taiwan #2025ISMPMI. Great to see IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) alumni doing wonderful work in #MPMI

Aphid effectors suppress plant immunity via recruiting defense proteins to processing bodies | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

[Dr. Guang-Yuh Jauh] HYCCIN2 is essential for recruiting the SH3P2-DRP1A complex to the cell plate in Arabidopsis embryos New Phytologist New Phytologist nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Writing = Thinking Don't outsource it to AI

【植微所暑期大學生培育計畫特別系列講座】 講員：吳素幸特聘研究員Shu-Hsing Wu 講題：植物怎麼知道現在幾點了？⏰ 時間：2025/7/31（星期四）上午 10:30 地點：本所農科大樓 A134 演講廳 歡迎踴躍參加 中文公開演講

🎉 Congratulations to Ms. Pei-Ling Wu on receiving the 2025 Academia Sinica (中央研究院 Academia Sinica) Outstanding Performance Award for Civil Servants! 恭喜本所吳佩玲小姐榮獲本院114年工作績優人員殊榮！

Empowering Agrobacterium: Ternary vector systems as a new arsenal for plant transformation and genome editing #Agrobacterium #transformation doi.org/10.1016/j.biot…

We’ve updated the Mycoplasmatota phylum chapter for Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria Bergey's Intl. Society for Microbial Systematics doi.org/10.1002/978111… Grateful to Gail Gasparich Gail Gasparich for leading the effort, and to my student Shen-Chian Pei Shen-Chian Pei for his assistance.

1/ Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) is the first step in any data analysis journey. When working with RNA-seq data, one of the most commonly used techniques is Principal Component Analysis (PCA). But what exactly is PCA, and why does it matter? Let’s break it down. 🧵👇