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 Date : 2022/07/18 No:290 
 
 
 

Recent News

 
 
 
 
New Books
 
Period: 2022-07-18 ~ 2022-07-25
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Awards & Honors
 
Newly Elected Academicians Announced for Academia Sinica’s 33rd Academicians Election
 
 
 
 
 
 

Database Introduction

 
 
 
 
HSTalks New Releases
 
HSTalks: The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection New Releases for July.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Video Service

 
 
 
 
Welcome to browse the video service of LSL courses
 
EndNote 20(In Chinese)(online)

Turnitin training course for instructor (in Chinese & in English)

IPA advanced training course (in Chinese & in English)

Taiwan Biobank and genomic implementation(In Chinese)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Lectures

 
 
 
 
7/19 IBMS Seminar
 
Topic:The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — How bacteria ally with immune cells to defeat cancer
Speaker:Dr. Mou, Yun
Date:2022-07-19 11:00 ~ 12:00
Place:B1B Lecture Room, IBMS & Webex
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7/20 BioTReC Seminar
 
Topic:Using Big Genomic Data to Improve Complex-Trait Prediction and More with AI.
Speaker:Wen-hsuang (Adam) Yao, Ph.D.
Date:2022-07-20 10:00 ~ 12:00
Place:National Biotechnology Research Park C212
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7/20 IPMB Seminar
 
Topic:The evolution and diversity of bioluminescent fungi
Speaker:Dr. Huei-Mien Ke
Date:2022-07-20 15:00 ~ 16:00
Place:A134、A133 (Synchronous Broadcasting)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7/20 IBMS Seminar
 
Topic:Towards the next step in biomedical science
Speaker:Dr. Wan-Chen Lin, Dr. I-Hsuan Jessica Wang, Dr. Shu-Ping Wang, Dr. Shih-Yu Chen, Dr. Ching-Lung Hsu
Date:
Place:B1C Lecture Room, IBMS
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7/21 IBMS Seminar
 
Topic:Extracellular vesicles from immortalized cardiosphere-derived cells attenuate arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy in desmoglein-2 mutant mice.
Speaker:Dr. Yen-Nien Lin
Date:2022-07-21 16:00 ~ 17:00
Place:webex only
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7/22 IPMB Seminar
 
Topic:Summer Undergraduate Internship Program - Special Lecture Series
Speaker:Distinguished Research Fellow and Director Shu-Hsing Wu
Date:2022-07-22 14:30
Place:Room A134, Agri. Tech. Building, Academia Sinica (A133, Synchronous Broadcasting)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7/26 IMB Seminar
 
Topic:Immunometabolic editing in tumor evolution
Speaker:Dr. Ping-Chih Ho (University of Lausanne)
Date:2022-07-26 11:00 ~ 12:00
Place:IMB B1 Auditorium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7/29 IPMB Seminar
 
Topic:Leaf epidermal development: Fate determination and Coordination
Speaker:
Date:2022-07-29 11:00 ~ 12:00
Place:A134、A133 (Synchronous Broadcasting)
 
 
 
 
 
 

Seminars

 
 
 
 
YUE-IE C. HSING Retirement Symposium on Plant Omics Research
 
Date: August 26th (Friday), 2022
Venue: Auditorium A134, Agricultural Technology Building, Academia Sinica & Cisco Webex
Agenda: As the attached poster
Organizer: Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BIO Asia-Taiwan 2022 Conference
 
Session 11 - Novel Platforms for Biopharma Discovery
Date: 2022-07-29 9:00 - 10:30
 
 
 
 
 
 

Important Research

 
 
 
 
Fibroblasts Drive Metabolic Reprogramming in Pacemaker Cardiomyocytes
 
The sinoatrial node (SAN) initiates all heartbeats within the heart. The diseases of SAN result in catastrophic consequences from bradycardia to cardiac arrest. The sinoatrial node (SAN) is characterized by the microenvironment of pacemaker cardiomyocytes (PCs) encased with fibroblasts. A complex interaction between PCs and their microenvironment (especially fibroblasts) critically determines SAN function......
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A unique self-truncation of bacterial GH5 endoglucanases leads to enhanced activity and thermostability
 
GsCelA is a 368-amino acid endoglucanase secreted by the thermophilic bacterium Geobacillus sp. 70PC53 isolated from a rice straw compost in southern Taiwan. This enzyme belongs to the glycoside hydrolase family 5 (GH5) EGs with a TIM-barrel structure that is common among this type of enzymes. The purified recombinant GsCelA displays unique self-truncation process, resulting in the removal of 53 amino-acid peptide from the C-terminus, leading to higher specific activity and thermostability than the original full-length enzyme. A similar self-truncation/activation process has been observed in at least two other GH5 EGs produced by Gram-positive bacteria. The mechanisms and biological significance of this self-truncation has been explored by the Ho lab......
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unveiling the secret of coral associated microbial aggregates
 
Microbial aggregates can be found in many different animals and plants. These aggregates play important roles in their host with various ecological functions, like symbiosis or parasitism. Although several reports have claimed the finding of microbial aggregates reside in corals; however, the knowledge of their physiology, biochemistry, morphology, genetics, ecological functions… is barely studied.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A hybrid mRNA vaccine induced broadly neutralizing antibodies against Omicron and other SARS-CoV-2 variants
 
Wuhan wild-type strain-based vaccines became almost ineffective against new SARS-CoV-2 variants. Academia Sinica mRNA Alpha team constructed a hybrid mRNA vaccine containing mutations of Omicron and Delta variants. When used as a booster in mice previously immunized with wild-type vaccine, the hybrid vaccine induced high titers of broadly neutralizing antibodies against all tested variants, as well as T cell responses against conserved T cell epitope. This hybrid vaccine also includes important mutation sites of Omicron BA.4/5, its effectiveness against the new dominant strains is being explored......
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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