Period: 2023-12-25 ~ 2024-1-1

Title：The first in vivo co-occurrence evidence of methane oxidation-nitrogen fixation in a single methanotrophic bacterial cell in rice root
Date：12/25/2023-1/7/2024

Topic：Olfactory navigation and foraging
Speaker：Dr. Cindy Poo (Allen Inst. for Neural Dynamics, Seattle, USA)
Date：2023-12-26 11:00 - 12:00
Place：1F Auditorium (B106), IST

Topic：Understanding the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Bat Distributions in Vietnam Under Environment Changes for Conservation Planning
Speaker：Mr. Tuan Quang Le (TIGP Biodiversity Program, Academia Sinica)
Date：2023-12-26 14:00 - 15:00
Place：Online

Topic：Epidemiology and Treatment Options of Obesity in France
Speaker：Prof Sébastien CZERNICHOW (Paris Cité University, France)
Date：2023-12-27 10:30 - 11:30
Place：4F Meeting Room, Genomics Research Center

Topic：Developing a Cutting-Edge Paradigm for Personalized iPSC-Derived Cell Therapies
Speaker：Dr. Yun C. Yung (The Scintillon Research Inst., USA)
Date：2023-12-27 11:00 - 12:00
Place：B1C Lecture Room, IBMS

Topic：Degrading – and not only making – proteins: how the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Promotes autophagy
Speaker：Dr. Yu-Jie Chen (Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan)
Date：2023-12-27 11:00 - 12:00
Place：1F Auditorium, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica

Topic：Engineering neural diversity: insights from single-cell multimodal profiling
Speaker：Dr. Hsiu-Chuan Lin (Dept. of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Date：2023-12-28 11:00 - 12:00
Place：1F Auditorium, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica

Topic：Securing Innovation: Protection and Technology Transfer in Plant Science
Speaker：Ms. Mei-Ching Chen (Assistant Research Specialist, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica)
Date：2023-12-29 11:00 - 12:00
Place：Auditorium A134, Agricultural Technology Building, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica

Topic：Introduction to Light Microscopy
Speaker：Dr. Chieh-Han Lu (Assistant Professor, National Taiwan Normal University)
Date：2024-01-02 15:00 - 17:00
Place：Auditorium A134, Agricultural Technology Building, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica

Topic：Deciphering the Tumorigenic Mechanisms of Glioblastoma in Drosophila
Speaker：Dr. Tzu-Yang Lin (Assistant Research Scientist, Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica)
Date：2024-01-03 11:00 - 12:00
Place：1F, Auditorium, Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology

Topic：Closed-loop optogenetic manipulation of cortical activity following hippocampal sharp-wave ripples in freely-behaving rats
Speaker：Dr. Jyh-Jang Sun (Researcher, KU Leuven, Belgium)
Date：2024-01-04 11:00 - 12:00
Place：1F Auditorium (B106), IST

On account of its competence to accept and donate electrons, iron is an essential element across all forms of life, including plants. Maintaining Fe homeostasis requires precise orchestration of its uptake, trafficking and translocation in order to meet the demand of Fe sinks such as plastids. Plants harboring defects in the systemic Fe transporter OLIGOPEPTIDE TRANSPORTER 3 display constitutive iron deficiency responses and accumulate toxic levels of iron in their leaves. Similarly, ectopic expression of IRONMAN genes, encoding a family of phloem-localized signaling peptides, triggers the uptake and accumulation of iron by compromising the iron sensor BRUTUS

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Identifying residues critical to protein-protein binding and efficient design of stable and specific protein binders are challenging tasks. Extending beyond the direct contacts in a protein-protein binding interface, our study employs computational modeling to reveal the essential network of residue interactions and dihedral angle correlations critical in protein-protein recognition.

The cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS)/stimulator of interferon gene (STING) signaling pathway plays a critical protective role against viral infections. Metazoan STING undergoes multilayers of regulation to ensure specific signal transduction. However, the mechanisms underlying the regulation of bacterial STING remain unclear.

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