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A breakthrough in plant gene delivery by Chih-Hang Wu Chih-Hang Wu In collaboration with Erh-Min Lai Erh-Min Lai & Chih-Horng Kuo Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻) Supported by 中央研究院 Academia Sinica Grand Challenge Program Newly published in Plant Biotechnology Journal onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pb

Our next invited speaker for #Agrobacterium2025 is Erh-Min Lai from IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) ! Breakthrough report published this week by Chih-Hang Wu Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻) and Erh-Min Lai doi.org/10.1111/pbi.70… 15-16/9 in Leuven, Belgium. Abstract deadline: May 1! kuleuven.be/agrobacterium2…

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A breakthrough in plant gene delivery!🌱 Our new study shows that R. rhizogenes strain A4 outperforms traditional agro strains in transient gene expression, especially in solanaceous crops like tomato and pepper. Chih-Hang Wu Erh-Min Lai Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻) IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) Plant Biotechnology Journal

Thanks Gitta Coaker for insightful talk and exciting work on tandem kinase and single cell RNAseq to reveal spatial defense IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) Great time for scientific discussion and casual chatting with Gitta LaySunMa （馬麗珊） Chih-Hang Wu

1/6 Excited to share our new preprint integrating floral stage selection, immune evasion, and #Agrobacterium engineering, to advance genome editing in #Arabidopsis biorxiv.org/content/10.110…, by Mao-Sen and Teng-Kuei in collaboration with Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻) Chih-Hang Wu IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) #AMT

Happy to share that our Helixer deeplearning-based annotation of 230 superasterid genomes is now online on Dryad 💻🌱 doi.org/10.5061/dryad.… Check out how we used 69 of them to study the molecular evolution of a plant immune receptor network here! 👇

[Dr. Erh-Min Lai Erh-Min Lai] Cooperation and antagonism in Agrobacterium-mediated transformation Nature Plants Nature Plants nature.com/articles/s4147…

令和7年5月1日付で北海道大学大学院先端生命科学研究院に准教授として着任し、植物免疫研究室を新設することになりました。ラボメンバーの皆さんと協力して頑張っていきたいと思います。今後ともご指導ご鞭撻の程よろしくお願いいたします！！life.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/fa/topic/20325

Deeply honored and humbled by this recognition. Thrilled to be part of The Sainsbury Laboratory! None of this would be possible without the unwavering support from my colleagues, friends, family, and above all, every past and present member of my group! 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🙏🙏🙏The Royal Society IS-MPMI

Congratulations to Hung-Yu Wang on successfully defending his PhD thesis today! Hung-yu Hank Wang

We are proud to announce the establishment of The Annual Roger Freedman Lecture. This lecture will be given by a distinguished international scientist and will emphasise the impact of discovery science on biotechnology and world agriculture. tsl.ac.uk/news/the-annua…

Our new #preprint Comparative Transcriptomics Reveals Context- and Strain-Specific Regulatory Programs of #Agrobacterium During Plant Colonization doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) AMT team: Yu Wu Hsin-Yi Chang Chih-Hang Wu Erh-Min Lai

Great pleasure to host Clay Fuqua to visit IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所). Great talk on the regulatory mechanism of #c-di-GMP signaling for unipolar polysaccharide and biofilm formation in #Agrobacterium. Enjoy scientific discussion and casual chatting!

Finally published~! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1. Strong evidence of adzuki domestication in Japan 2. The Jomons are not merely hunter-gatherers 3. Tracing evolutionary changes in domestication traits difficult to observe from archaeological evidence

🌍 Excited to announce our 1st Mentor Panel for the IS-MPMI 2025 Satellite Meeting! 🌱Building Careers in MPMI through Effective Mentoring 🗓️13th July 2025 Cologne, Germany 🌟Join global leaders in plant-microbe interactions as they share career insights and mentoring wisdom.

Excited to share the firs my lab at MPIMP in Potsdam! Huge thanks to Oliver Sulkowski who, in his first PhD year, put together this story! And of course the whole team for their hard work and dedication. 📄 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…