Period: 2022-02-14 ~ 2022-02-21

1. Congratulations to Dr. Kan-Yen Hsieh of IBC & Dr. Chih-Chieh Tao of IBMS for being awarded the 「MOST Postdoctoral Research Award for 2021」.

2. Congrats to Dr. Ching-Ching Yu of IBC for receiving 3 awards in 2021.

3.Congratulations to Mr. Marvin Angelo Esteban Aberin, Mr. Chung-Yao Hsu, Mr. Kaushik Chowdhury, Ms. Vanessa Joy Timoteo of TIGP-MM students for winning the 2022 AS-TIGP Research Performance Fellowship.

Date: 02/14/2022-03/20/2022
Place: Life Science Library

HSTalks: The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection New Releases for February

Topic：Role of Neuronal Chromatin Regulation in Memory and Cognitive Disorders: Towards Cell-Type Specific Resolution
Speaker：Dr. Cemil Kerimoglu
Date：2022-02-15 15:00-16:00
Place：Presentation by Cisco Webex

Topic1：Reconstitution of minimal motility system based on Spiroplasma swimming by expressing two bacterial actins in synthetic minimal bacterium
Speaker：Prof. Makoto Miyata

Topic2：New advances in understanding of the mechanisms governing motility and control of helicity in Spiroplasma citri
Speaker：Prof. Laure Beven

Date：2022-02-16 15:00
Place：Presentation by Cisco Webex

Topic： Atypical antipsychotic drugs deregulate the cholesterol metabolism of macrophage-foam cells by activating NOX-ROS-PPARγ-CD36 signaling pathway
Speaker：Dr. Chia-Hui, Chen
Date：2022-2-27 16:00-17:00

Place：Webex only

Topic：Size Does Matter: A View from the Nucleus Dimension to Cellular Functions
Speaker：Dr. Hsu-Wen Chao
Date：2022-02-18　10:00-11:00
Place：Presentation by Cisco Webex

Topic：Sulfoglycolysis: Bacterial pathways for sulfosugar metabolism
Speaker：Dr. Spencer Williams
Date：2022-2-24 11:00-12:00

Place：IBC R209

Topic：Interrogating the calcium dynamics of oligodendrocyte precursor cells and their progenitor fate
Speaker：Dr. Tsai-Yi Lu
Date：2022-02-24 11:00
Place：IMB B1 Auditorium

Iron is an essential micronutrient that plays pivotal roles as an electron donor and catalyst across organisms. To counteract limited iron availability, a situation frequently encountered in alkaline soils, plants have evolved a suite of mostly transcriptionally regulated responses that mediate the acquisition of iron from recalcitrant pools. In collaboration with Wendar Lin from the bioinformatics core lab, En-Jung Hsieh and Wolfgang Schmidt discovered a network of concatenated homeostatic mechanisms that are induced in response to iron deficiency in a precisely timed pattern to ensure supply is matched to demand......

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The NRT1/PTR FAMILY (NPF) in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) plays a major role as a nitrate transporter. The first nitrate transporter activity biosensor NiTrac1 converted the dual affinity nitrate transceptor NPF6.3 into fluorescence activity sensors. To test whether this approach is transferable to other members of this family, screening for genetically encoded fluorescence transport activity sensor was performed with the member of the NPF family in Arabidopsis......

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Plant viruses with densely packed genomes employ non-canonical translational strategies to increase the coding capacity for viral function. However, the diverse translational strategies used make it challenging to define the full set of viral genes. Here, using tomato yellow leaf curl Thailand virus (TYLCTHV, genus Begomovirus) as a model system, we identified genes beyond the annotated gene sets by experimentally profiling in vivo translation initiation sites (TISs)......

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