Period：2026-08-17~2026-08-24

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Topic：Expanding the Detectable Proteome: Small Proteins, Signaling, and Therapeutic Insights from Mass Spectrometry
Speaker：Dr. Miao-Hsia Lin (Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University)
Date：2026-08-18 11:00 - 12:00
Place：B1 Auditorium, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica

Topic：Host-adaptations to gut microbes
Speaker：Dr. Ken Cadwell (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Date：2026-08-19 11:00 - 12:00
Place：B1B Lecture Room, IBMS

Topic：Multiplex CRISPR/Cas9-mediated Somatic Mutagenesis for Cancer Studies
Speaker：Dr. You-Tzung (Bob) Chen (NTUCM)
Date：2026-08-20 16:00 - 17:00
Place：B1B Lecture Room, IBMS

Topic：The study of rare pediatric neurological diseases drives discoveries in common diseases
Speaker：Dr. Hugo Bellen (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
Date：2026-08-24 10:30 - 12:00
Place：IBC 103 Auditorium

Topic：To Eat or Not to Eat? It Never is a Question! Exploring Biodiversity with Single-leech Blood Meals in Peninsular Thailand
Speaker：Dr. Meng-Shin Shiao (Mahidol University, Thailand)
Date：2026-08-25 10:30 - 11:30
Place：Auditorium, 1st Floor, Interdisciplinary Research Building

Topic：What Do Plant Receptors Really Sense? Decoding Receptor–Ligand Coevolution and the Future of Crop Immunity
Speaker：Dr. Ken Shirasu (RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan)
Date：2026-08-26 10:00 - 11:00
Place：Auditorium A134, Agricultural Technology Building, Academia Sinica

Topic：How plants regenerate: stress signals, chromatin and cell fate plasticity
Speaker：Dr. Keiko Sugimoto (RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan)
Date：2026-08-26 11:00 - 12:00
Place：Auditorium A134, Agricultural Technology Building, Academia Sinica

Topic：Can Biotechnology Help Save Coral Reefs?
Speaker：Professor Line Bay (Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia)
Date：2026-08-26 15:00 - 15:40
Place：Lounge C102, 1st Floor, Interdisciplinary Research Building

Topic：Scaling Up Coral Production for Conservation Aquaculture – Building an Industrial-Scale Coral Seeding Pipeline
Speaker：Dr. Muhammad Azmi Abdul Wahab (Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia)
Date：2026-08-26 15:40 - 16:30
Place：Lounge C102, 1st Floor, Interdisciplinary Research Building

Topic：Neural Computations Underlying Polarization Vision in Cephalopods
Speaker：Dr. Tomoyuki Mano (Okinawa Inst. of Science and Technology, Japan)
Date：2026-08-27 11:00 - 12:00
Place：1F Auditorium (B106), IST

Date： 2026-08-20 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker Name：Prof. Eric Jinsheng Huang & Prof. Hollis T. Cline
Location： B1C Auditorium, IBMS

Every fish carries tiny stones in its inner ear called otoliths. These “ear stones” help fish hear and maintain balance.

This review synthesizes our current knowledge of the ecology, evolution, and molecular predation mechanisms of nematode-trapping and toxin-producing fungi, highlighting these systems as invaluable models for predator–prey biology.

The study demonstrates that fungi rely on custom chemical decorations to outsmart plant immunity in the ongoing evolutionary arms race.

A hypothetical model of Glu–induced defense responses and root hair elongation.