News & Events
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Aug.02
Welcome to 30th Anniversary Symposium on November 15 – 17, 2016 [Registration]
Seminars
Oct. 04
Dr. Roger Reddel
11:00am, IMB B1 Auditorium Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres in Cancer: from Discovery to Potential Therapy (Frontier)Oct. 04
Dr. Guohua Xu
3:30pm, IMB 1F Auditorium Enhancing Crop Nutrient Use EfficiencyOct. 11
Dr. Karen Koch
11:00am, IMB 1F Auditorium Functional Genomics of Sugar Metabolism and Signals that Guide Development of the Maize Grain (Frontier)
Awards & Honors
2016Jun
Dr. Ming-Zong Lai and his team discovered that tumor suppressor death-associated protein kinase (DAPK) inhibits T helper 17 (Th17) differentiation and suppresses the generation of inflammatory autoimmune diseases. The work was published in Nature Communications on June 17, 2016. [more]
2016Mar
Dr. Yi-Ping Hsueh and her research team found that increasing protein synthesis has a beneficial effect on synapses, the information exchange sites between neurons. The work was published in Nature Communications on March 17, 2016. [more]
Research News
September, 2016
Dr. Hsueh, Yi-Ping
"Postsynaptic SDC2 induces transsynaptic signaling via FGF22 for bidirectional synaptic formation"
Scientific Reports 6:33592.
September, 2016
Dr. Li, Hsou-min
"Polypeptide Transport-Associated Domains of the Toc75 Channel Protein Are Located in the Intermembrane Space of Chloroplasts"
Plant Physiology September 2016 vol. 172 no. 1 235-243
September, 2016
Dr. Yuan, Hanna
"Identification of Inhibitors for the DEDDh Family of Exonucleases and a Unique Inhibition Mechanism by Crystal Structure Analysis of CRN 4 Bound with 2 Morpholin-4-ylethanesulfonate (MES)"
J. Med. Chem. (2016)
August, 2016
Dr. Hsueh, Yi-Ping
"AIM 2 inflammasomes regulate neuronal morphology and influence anxiety and memory in mice"
Scientific Reports 6:32405.
August, 2016
Dr. Shen, Che-Kun James
"Co-regulation of mRNA translation by TDP-43 and Fragile X Syndrome protein FMRP
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Acta Neuropathol (2016). doi:10.1007/s00401-016-1603-8
August, 2016
Dr. Chien, Cheng-Ting
"Genetic screen: Hearing lessons from flies"
eLife 2016;5:e19285. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.19285.
July, 2016
Dr. Leu, Jun-Yi
"Mutation at a distance caused by homopolymeric guanine repeats in Saccharomyces cerevisiae."
Sci. Adv. 2: e1501033 (2016)
June, 2016
Dr. Yuan, Hanna
"Oxidative stress impairs cell death by repressing the nuclease activity of mitochondrial Endonuclease G "
Cell reports