ISEGB awards

The Best Postdoctoral Oral Presentation Award:

Dr. Jia-Hsin Huang

Expansion of transcription factor binding specificities in the promoters of humans

Shun-Yuen Kwan, Jia-Hsin Huang, Zing Tsung-Yeh Tsai, Huai-Kuang Tsai

Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
 

The Best Student Oral Presentation Award:

Trieu-Duc Vu

Characterization of Aggressive Behavior and Analysis Differential Gene Expression Involved in Fighting Fish (Betta Splendens)

Trieu-Duc Vu

Life Sciences Department, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

The Best Poster Award:

Chih-Chi Lee

Adaptive evolution in invasive species: looking for selective sweep(s) in the red imported fire ant genome

Chih-Chi Lee, Yu-Kun Chiu, John Wang

Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
 

The Second Place Poster Award:

Yu-Kun Chiu

Techniques for Gene Silencing in the Red Imported Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta

Yu-Kun Chiu, Yu-Ching Huang, John Wang

Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
 

The Third Place Poster Award:

Huei-Mien Ke

Comparative genomics of Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates responsible for acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND)

Huei-Mien Ke^1,2, Henryk Urbanczyk³, Mei-Chin Lai^1,4,5, Chu-Fang Lo^6,7,8, Wen-Hsiung Li^1,2,9, Isheng J Tsai^1,2

¹ Ph.D. Program in Microbial Genomics, National Chung Hsing University and Academia Sinica, Taiwan 
² Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
³ Department of Marine Biology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Japan
⁴ Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
⁵Agricultural Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
⁶ Institute of Bioinformatics and Biosignal Transduction, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
⁷ Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
⁸ Center of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
⁹ Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, US
 

The Third Place Poster Award: (tie for third place)

Horacio Javier Sosa Galeano

Yeast beer volatome

Horacio Sosa, Hao-Yeh Lin, Ju-Yu Lin, Hsien-Lin Liu, Caroline Thia, Ching-Hsiang Chang, Lance Chang, Wen-Hsiung Li

Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
 

The Most Popular Award of Poster Presentation:

Sheng-Jou Hung

Trig: a robust alignment tool for non-regular T-cell receptor and immunoglobulin sequences

Sheng-Jou Hung¹, Chia-Hung Chu¹, Tsunglin Liu¹, Yi-Lin Chen², Chuan-Chun Lee², Ya-Lan Lin², Ming-Ching Lin2, Chung-Liang Ho2

¹Department of Biotechnology and Bioindustry Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
²Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Pathology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Taiwan. and Molecular Medicine Core Laboratory, Research Center of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Taiwan

The Best Postdoctoral Oral Presentation Award:

Dr. Chao-Li Huang

Ecological Genomics in Xanthomonas: the Nature of Genetic Adaptation with Homologous Recombination and Host Shifts

Chao-Li Huang*¹, Pei-Hua Pu¹, Hao-Jen Huang¹, Huang-Mo Sung¹, Hung-Jiun Liaw¹, Yi-Min Chen², Chien-Ming Chen³, Ming-Ban Huang¹, Naoki Osada⁴, Takashi Gojobori^1,4,5, Tun-Wen Pai³, Yu-Tin Chen¹, Chi-Chuan Hwang⁶, Tzen-Yuh Chiang¹

¹Department of Life Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
²Institute of Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
³Department of Computer Sciences and Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan
⁴National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
⁵Computational Bioscience Research Center, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
⁶Department of Engineering Science and Supercomputing Research Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

The Best Student Oral Presentation Award:

Wen-Sui Lo

Genomic and Transcriptomic Characterization of Mosquito-symbotic Spiroplasma

Wen-Sui Lo*^1,2, Chih-Horng Kuo^1,2

¹Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
²Molecular and Biological Agricultural Sciences Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, National Chung Hsing University and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

The Best Poster Award:

Chih-Kuan Chen

Long Non-coding RNAs Identification and Functional Analysis in Birds Natal Down Developments by Stranded RNA-Seq

Chih-Kuan Chen*^1,2, Chen-Siang Ng², Chun-Ping Yu², Sung-Chou Li³, Chau-Ti Ting¹, Wen-Hsiung Li²

¹Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
²Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
³Genomics and Proteomics Core Laboratory, Department of Medical Research, Kaohsiung; Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taiwan

The Second Place Poster Award:

Việt Đài Đặng

Division of Labor in Solenopsis invicta Using Brain Gene Expression Profiling

Việt Đài Đặng*, Ni-Chen Chang, John Wang

Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

The Third Place Poster Award:

Sheng-Jou Hung

Investigating the Role of DNA Methylation in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Sheng-Jou Hung*, Tsunglin Liu

Institute of Bioinformatics and Biosignal Transduction, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

The Most Popular Award of Poster Presentation:

Chun-Hui Yu

Draft Genome of Myxosarcina sp. Strain GI1, a Baeocytous Cyanobacterium Associated with the Marine Sponge Terpios hoshinota

Chun-Hui Yu^*1, Chung-Kuang Lu^*2,3, Tsunglin Liu^*1, Yi-Min Chen^*4

¹Institute of Bioinformatics and Biosignal Transduction, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
²National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
³Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, School of Life Science, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan;
⁴Institute of Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

The Best Postdoctoral Oral Presentation Award:

Dr. Chih-Ming Hung

Drastic Population Fluctuations Explain the Rapid Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon

Chih-Ming Hung*, Pei-Jen L. Shaner, Robert M. Zink, Wei-Chung Liu, Te-Chin Chu, Wen-San Huang, Shou-Hsien Li

Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

The Best Student Oral Presentation Award:

David Zhi-Chao Pan

Genome-Wide Analysis of Enhancer RNA in Gene Regulation across 12 Mouse Tissues

Jen-Hao Cheng, David Zhi-Chao Pan*, Zing Tsung-Yeh Tsai, Huai-Kuang Tsai

Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

The Best Poster Award:

Pei-Chun Lu

Lncin: Identifying lncRNA-modulated Protein–protein Interaction Networks

Pei-Chun Lu^{1, *}, Chia-Lang Hsu³, Chih-Hsun Wu², Hsueh-Fen Juan³, Hsuan-Cheng Huang¹

¹ Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
² Institute of Biotechnology in Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
³ Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

The Second Place Poster Award:

Shun-yuen Kwan

Expression Data-Driven Identification of Regulatory Elements in Sequenced Species without Regulatory Genomic Resources

Zing Tsung-Yeh Tsai, Shun-yuen Kwan*, Huai-Kuang Tsai

Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

The Third Place Poster Award:

Je-Jia Wu

Complete Genome Sequence of Biocontrol-active Collimonas arenae Cal35

Je-Jia Wu^{1, 3, *}, Wen-Ling Deng^{1, 2, 3}, Johan Leveau^{3, 4}

¹ Ph.D. Program in Microbial Genomics, National Chung Hsing University and Academia Sinica, Taiwan
² Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
³ Agricultural Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
⁴ Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA., USA
 

The Most Popular Award of Poster Presentation:

Sheng-Jou Hung

Excluding Impacts of Transcription Factors for Improving Prediction of Mirna Activity

Sheng-Jou Hung^*, Tsunglin, Liu

Institute of Bioinformatics and Biosignal Transduction, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

The Best Postdoctoral Oral Presentation Award:

Dr. Yu-Ching Huang

Clone and Characterize a Novel Sex Determination Gene in Ants

The Best Student Oral Presentation Award:

Tzu-Hsien Yang

cisMEP: An Integrated Repository of Genomic Epigenetic Profiles for cis-regulatory Modules in Drosophila

The Best Poster Award

Chih-Yao Hsu

The Essential Copy of the Two Mitochondrial HSP70 Duplicates in Arabidopsis Evolved Faster Than the Non-essential One

The Second Place Poster Award

Chih-Jen Huang

Experimental evolution for high temperature tolerant yeast

The Third Place Poster Award

Bernhard Schaefke

Inheritance of gene expression level and selective constraints on trans- and cis-regulatory changes in yeast

Most Popular Award of Poster Presentation

Zing Tsung-Yeh Tsai

Intrinsic properties of genomic sequences allow prediction of transcription factor binding sites

The Best Postdoctoral Oral Presentation Award:

Dr. Chen Siang Ng

The Genetic Basis of Morphological Traits and Evolution in Chickens

Chen Siang Ng*, Wen-Lang Fan, Ping Wu, Mei-Yeh Lu, Chih-Kuan Chen, Wensui Lo, Chi-Tang Mau, Yu-Ting Lai, Hsu-Chen Cheng, Chih-Feng Chen, Cheng-Ming Chuong, Wen-Hsiung Li

Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

The Best Student Oral Presentation Award:

Zing Tsung-Yeh Tsai

The Evolution of cis-regulatory Features in Yeast de novo Genes

Zing Tsung-Yeh Tsai^*, Huai-Kuang Tsai, Daryi Wang

Institute of Information Science and Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

The Best Poster Award

Jian-Geng Chiou

The Essential Copy of the Two Mitochondrial HSP70 Duplicates in

Arabidopsis Evolved Faster Than the Non-essential One

Jian-geng Chiou*, Catherine Hu, and Yee-yung Charng

Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

The Second Place Poster Award

Chih-Yao Hsu

Evolution, Functional Characterization, and Regulation of Two Key

Terpene Synthase Genes in the Scent Biosynthesis of Toona sinensis

Chih-Yao Hsu^{1, 2, 3,*}, Pung-Ling Huang², Chih-Ming Chen¹, Chi-Tang Mao¹, Shu-Miaw Chaw¹

¹Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica;
²Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, National Taiwan University;
³Current affiliation: Genome and Systems Biology, National Taiwan University

The Third Place Poster Award

Ching-Hung Tseng

Comparative Metagenomics on a Typhoon Impacted Freshwater Ecosystem

Ching-Hung Tseng>*^1,3,4, Pei-Wen Chiang¹, Fuh-Kwo Shiah², Jia-Rong Liou², Yi-Lung Chen², Ting-Chang Hsu², Sen-Lin Tang¹

¹Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan;
²Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taiwan;
³Bioinformatics Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan;
⁴Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan

The Honorable Mention Poster Award

Lo-Yu Chang

Chloroplast Phylogenomics of Seed Plants: Supermatrix vs. Supertree

Lo-Yu Chang^*1, Chung-Shien Wu², Shu-Miaw Chaw²

¹Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School;
²Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

The Best Poster Award

• Hsin-Ying Chang (Academia Sinica)
• Jing-Lian Chen (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
• Kuan-Lin Chen (Academia Sinica)
• Yi-Ting Hsu (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
• Wan-Yu Lin (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
• Wei-Chen Pan (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
• Hong-Wei Pi (Academia Sinica)
• Bing-Shiun Tsai (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

The Best Poster Award

• Kai-Pu Chen (National Taiwan University)
• Kuan-Ya Chen (National Taiwan University)
• Jie-Wei Chiu (National Central University)
• Albert Li (National Taiwan University)
• Mei-Huan Li (National Chung Hsing University)
• Ping-Yun Ou (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
• Jian-Hung Wen (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
• Mu-Heng Wu (National Cheng Kung University)
• Yu-Ren Wang (National Tsing Hua University)

The Best Poster Award

Yen-Ju Chen

Integrative brain transcriptome analysis implicates an enrichment of au-tism risk genes regulated by differentially expressed circular RNAs via microRNA sponges

Yen-Ju Chen^1,2, Chia-Ying Chen¹, Te-Lun Mai1, Chih-Fan Chuang¹, Sachin Kumar Gupta³, Laising Yen³, Yi-Da Wang¹, and Trees-Juen Chuang^1,2*

¹Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. 

²Genome and Systems Biology Degree Program, Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

³Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.

The Second Place Poster Award

Chi-Yuan Chen

Systematically predicting functions of human genes through coexpressed gene modules with conserved phenotypic associations across mammals

Chi-Yuan Chen^1,2,3, Yung-Jen Chuang², Ben-Yang Liao³

¹Graduate Program of Biotechnology in Medicine, NTHU & NHRI 

²Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan

³Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan

The Third Place Poster Award

Anggun Sausan Firdaus

Genetic mechanisms underlying body color variation in Drosophila elegans

Anggun Sausan Firdaus^1,*, Jonathan Massey^2,3, Ben-Yang Liao⁴, and Shu-Dan Yeh¹

¹Department of Life Sciences, National Central University, Taoyuan 32001, Taiwan

²Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA 

³Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA

⁴Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli 35053, Taiwan

Edi Sudianto

Two independent plastid accD transfers to the nuclear genome of Gnetum and other insights on acetyl-CoA carboxylase evolution in gymnosperms

Edi Sudianto and Shu-Miaw Chaw

Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan