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Dear colleagues,
I would like to share with you a piece of good news, i.e. the impact factor of our own journal, Botanical Studies (formerly Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica) has gone over 1.0 (see the info in website). Sometime ago, I challenged the Editorial Board of Botanical Studies to have its impact factor reaching 1.0 in three years, and they did it in less than a year!!
The impact of Botanical Studies is now very close to that of Canadian Journal of Botany. It goes without saying that we have to give all the credit to Dr. Yaw-Huei Lin, the Editor-in-Chief, and his staff who have been working tirelessly to improve on this journal. Thank you very much for a fine work, Dr. Lin.
Tuan-hua (6-22-2007) |
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5-1-2007 Professor Ping-Chin Cheng, an expert in confocal and nonlinear optical microscopy at the University of New York, Buffalo, is visiting IPMB for two months. Cheng is collaborating with our colleagues on examining a broad range of samples with quite modern tools in Plant Cell Biology Core Lab. This is his 2nd visit in last two years. He is going to give a training course on cell imaging, "Multi-dimensional imaging of plant cells", in coming this Summer at IPMB. But you'd better watch out this guy and guard your microscopes carefully, as he gets genius hands on scalping every microscope he can get, and custom to rebuild them to satisfy his innovative ego. |
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 5-1-2007 The first residential "yeast" biologist at IPMB is on board. Dr. Chao-Wen Wang, a new assistant research fellow, has officially joined us and started to build her lab in R322. Chao-wen received her B.S. and M.S. degree from National Taiwan University. Her Ph.D. degree in Cell and Developmental Biology was awarded by UC Davis although her studies were actually finished at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research has been focusing on protein trafficking and vesicular transport using budding yeast Sccharomyces cerevisiae as a model system. Prior to joining the faculty of IPMB she was a postdoc fellow in the R. Schekman lab at UC Berkeley. At IPMB, she plan to study "something old, something new, something different and something green"--very INTERESTING!! |
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 3-24-2007 Professor Thomas J. Buckhout, head of the Applied Botany working group at the Institute of Biology of Humboldt-University, Berlin, is currently spending his sabbatical leave at the IPMB. His major interest is how plants adapt to low bio-availability of iron. By using a concerted ‘omics’ approach, the iron stress syndrome of two model organisms, Chlamydomonas and Arabidopsis, has been successfully characterized in the Buckhout lab over the past decade. During his stay at the IPMB he is investigating short-term changes of gene transcription profiles in response to iron deficiency in co-operation with Wolfgang Schmidt. |
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 1-15-2007 Welcome aboard! One more assistant research specialist, Dr. Bill Chia-han Chang, has joined our institute, and has started to build a bioinformatics core facility on the third floor in R319. Bill has obtained bachlor degrees in Engineering and Arts and a Ph.D in bioinformatics, at University of Melbourne, Australia. Prior to Joining IPMB he began his career as a postdoc research fellow in the Dynamic and Systems Research Group at University of Melbourne. His research interest is in bioinformatics and he welcomes everyone to discuss with him on any bioinformatics related questions. Starting in May 2, Bill will teach a series of workshop courses on bioinformatics for colleagues. |
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 In the evening of April 24, 2007 at the "Knowledge Feast" Colloquium in Academia Sinica Professor Tuan-hua David Ho delivered a talk on "Realities and Prospect of Genetically Engineered Plants", and discussed how plant scientists are dramatically changing the agriculture world and people's day-to-day life. Professor Ho explained about the recent significant progress in R&D on GMO plants around the world including Taiwan, and the infrastructure of the future plant biotechnology. Public and academics actively participated the "Knowledge Feast" and shared their views on modern agriculture and biotechnology during one-hour active Q&A on GMO plants/food on people's daily life.
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