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“SUNNY LAB” (8-2-2007)
Dear colleagues,
Please join me in welcoming Dr. Sunny Wan-Sheng Lo, our newest PI, who joined us on Aug 1. Dr. Lo's lab/office will be in Rm222 and her phone numbers there are 2789-3771 or extension 222. Dr Lo is an expert in chromatin remodeling in yeast and other eukaryotic cells, and she is also interested in signaling processes in Arabidopsis. Please stop by her temporary office in Rm217 (before Aug 15) to say Hi and introduce yourself to her. Tuan-hua
So we now have a “SUNNY LAB” at IPMB.
Before joining us, Dr. Sunny W.S. Lo was an assistant professor at the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, NTU. Her work is on the molecular mechanism of chromatin remodeling in transcriptional regulation of gene expression using budding yeasts as the primary experimental organism. She might be interested in the roles of chromatin modifications in Arabidopsis and rice.
Ph.D. at St. John's University, New York and postdoctoral at the Wistar Institute in U Penn, and UCSD, Sunny was a Special Fellow of the American Leukemia and Lymphoma Society before her appointment at NTU. |
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7-2-2007 Reply to Wei-chin Chang's decision on his sudden retirement on July 2nd, 2007 one of his friends wrote:
“We may not see each other for weeks at a time --
We may have different interests and live in different life --
We may not talk on the phone or gossip all day long --
But when we meet, time and differences drop away
and all that's left is friendship that grows more precious by the days...”
“This was by far the most difficult decision that I have ever made,” said WCC in an e-mail to the friend on his decision to step down. “I want you to know that I am not leaving IPMB. Rather, I am following my heart and returning to a place that I consider my home for my family... My decision is that simple and that complex. Over the past several weeks, colleagues have done everything possible to make me feel valued and appreciated. I assure you... But you get about 35 years in the frying pan and then burnout can take place... It was the right time for me to make that change. And at the same time, I think it's the right time for the IPMB team and my family.”
After he retired, WCC said he is looking forward to pursuing some of his other interests. “I might become active in different culture areas,” he said. “I like art. I'm not sure what, but I can see myself being involved at the creative painting, photographing, gardening, or, more generally, the arts, to create beauty.”
Though he is retired and done with research and being on committees, his presence at IPMB will not completely vanish. |
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6-25-2007 Just before his sudden retirement on July 2nd, 2007, Wei-chin Chang was appointed as an Associate Editor at the peer-reviewed journal In Vitro Plant for an initial term of three years. Now he oversees the contents within the sections on tissue culture, morphogenesis and micropropagation.
In Vitro Plant will continue to support the traditional readership by encouraging submissions of articles related to micropropagation, developmental biology/morphogenesis, and biotechnology/genetic transformation, but now with a new cover face especially encourage more submissions related to biotechnology, functional genomics, molecular farming, metabolic engineering, secondary metabolism, and somatic cell genetics.
Wei-chin Chang, a veteran tissue culturist, has been associated with IPMB for 35 years, doing research on regeneration, in vitro flowering and organ (flower and fruit) proliferation on a variety of plants including ginseng, bamboo and orchids. |
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