Period: 2025-10-13~ 2025-10-20

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Topic：Create Graphical Abstracts Like a Pro
Date：Oct 16, 2025 at 9:00 am EDT

The Research Center for Critical Issues (RCCI) at Academia Sinica announced that the Quantum Computing Test Space (QC-Test) has entered its pilot operation on September 10. This platform currently features two internally developed 5-qubit superconducting quantum processing units (QPUs), now open for research teams and collaborative partners in quantum algorithm testing, research and development to apply for on-line access. The launch of QC-Test provides Taiwan’s quantum computing research community with a practical infrastructure for both innovation and validation.

9/30-Alternative-splicing detection by NGS(In English)
9/25-Using TAIR for Plant Research: Practical Tools for Arabidopsis and Crops(In Chinese)
9/18-GWAS Fundamentals and Advanced Applications: Bridging Genes and Diseases(In Chinese)

The carbon absorbed by plants through photosynthesis accounts for the vast majority of carbon uptake on Earth. However, the efficiency of this process still leaves much room for improvement. Enhancing carbon fixation efficiency in plants and promoting their growth is a major focus of the global scientific community.

Topic：Toward brain injury therapy: from epigenome, mitochondrial homeostasis to drug development
Speaker：Professor and Dean Linyi Chen (National Tsing-Hua University)
Date：2025-10-15 10:30 - 11:50
Place：1F Auditorium, Genomics Research Center

Topic：Catch a tiger by the TALE: Convergently evolved resistance to Xanthomonas in rice and tomato
Speaker：Dr. Adam J. Bogdanove (Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, USA)
Date：2025-10-16 11:00 - 13:00
Place：Auditorium A134, Agricultural Technology Building, Academia Sinica

Topic：Biological pacemaker enables device-free rhythm restoration and syncope rescue
Speaker：Dr. Liu Chih-Min (Taipei Veterans General Hospital)
Date：2025-10-16 16:00 - 17:15
Place：B1B Lecture Room, IBMS

Topic：Regeneration in Planarians: Why Some Species Can and Others Cannot?
Speaker：Dr. Jochen RINK (Department of Tissue Dynamics and Regeneration, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany)
Date：2025-10-20 11:00 - 12:00
Place：Auditorium, ICOB

Topic：Illuminating protein clusters in plant transcription and epigenetics
Speaker：Dr. Geng-Jen Jang (Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics, Germany)
Date：2025-10-20 10:00 - 12:00
Place：Auditorium A134, Agricultural Technology Building, Academia Sinica

Topic：Dissecting the nuance of virus-specific T cells in human health and disease
Speaker：B1B Lecture Room, IBMS
Date：2025-10-20 11:00 - 12:15
Place：Dr. Yang Cheng (Assistant Research Fellow)

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Date：2025-10-21 10:00 - 12:00
Place：1F Auditorium (B106), IST

Topic：The All Encompassing Importance of Innate Immune Receptors
Speaker：Academician Jenny Pan-Yun Ting (University of North Carolina, USA)
Date：2025-10-22 10:30 - 11:50
Place：1F Auditorium, Genomics Research Center

Topic：How an Electrophysiological Signal is Integrated into Scaling the Fins during Regeneration and Development
Speaker：Dr. Christopher Antos (ShanghaiTech University, China)
Date2025-10-27 11:00 - 12:30：
Place：Auditorium, Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology

Topic：Optical control of neurotransmission: from molecular design to in vivo manipulation
Speaker：Dr. Wan-Chen Lin (Assistant Research Fellow)
Date：2025-10-27 11:00 - 12:15
Place：B1B Lecture Room, IBMS

Date：2025-10-14 01:30 - 17:00
Place：International Conference Hall, Humanity and Social Science Building, Academia Sinica

In this work, we introduced in Arabidopsis thaliana a new-to-nature CO2 fixing cycle, malyl-CoA-glycerate (McG) cycle, which together with the CBB cycle forms a dual-cycle CO2 fixation system.

Self-complementing bipartite fluorescent proteins (FPs) are useful tools for the detection of protein-protein proximity and for localizing fluorophores to membrane-membrane contact sites.

Flaviviruses contain many important human pathogens such as dengue virus (DENV) and Zika virus (ZIKV).Our results demonstrate the effectiveness of rAAV in delivering bnAb 752-2C8 for long-term protection against multiple flaviviruses, providing a potential strategy to control flavivirus infections and possibly other viral diseases.

A 15-year prospective study of CHC patients with SVRs was conducted.

This study provides a comprehensive overview of the evolutionary dynamics of H10 avian influenza viruses isolated from wild birds in Taiwan, emphasizing the complexity of intercontinental gene flow and viral reassortment.

The genetic and molecular basis of asthma remains unclear and its gene-environment interaction is still enigmatic. In the present study, we aimed to identify asthma-causing genetic variants and their interactions with the environment.

Amyloid precursor protein (APP) plays a key role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

Our data demonstrate that serotonin modulates HTR2A, attenuating psoriatic inflammation by suppressing IL-23 secretion via inhibiting the non-canonical NFκB pathway in moLCs.

Our results support what we believe to be a novel mechanism by which a mutation in a single Calm gene can give rise to a severe phenotype.

Our results indicate that targeting the extracellular matrix can increase the antitumor activity of some nanomedicines, but that careful selection of compatible nanomedicines is necessary.

During a critical period of postnatal brain development, neural circuits undergo significant refinement coincident with widespread alternative splicing of hundreds of genes, which undergo altered splice site selection for the generation of isoforms essential for synaptic plasticity.

To solve this inefficiency, we introduced a synthetic carbon-fixing cycle, named McG cycle, into plants with native Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle (CBB), creating an unprecedented “dual-cycle carbon fixation” system.

This study provides the first comprehensive evidence linking egg mass to the evolution of nest architecture. Our findings demonstrate how biological trait evolution can emerge from a simple physical mechanism, resolving one compelling puzzle in bird behavior.

Integrating structural and functional approaches will be essential to decipher effector mechanisms and the molecular arms race between smut fungi and their hosts, ultimately informing strategies for durable crop resistance.

This review presents an overview of AF3’s advancements, using examples in plant and fungal research, and comparisons with existing tools.

Our findings demonstrate that hydrotropism, rather than phototropism or gravitropism, guides aerial root growth in P. aphrodite. This hydrotropic response may represent a key adaptation that enables epiphytic orchids to effectively acquire water in the forest canopy.