Members
Yen-Ping Hsueh
薛雁冰
Principal investigator
EMBO Global Investigator
EMBO Young Investigator
Yen-Ping Hsueh received her undergraduate (2001) and master’s (2003) degrees from National Taiwan University where she majored in Plant Pathology and Microbiology. In 2003, she joined Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at Duke University and conducted her graduate work on the genetics and evolution of the sexual cycle and the mating-type locus of the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans under the mentorship of Dr. Joseph Heitman. In 2010, she moved to Caltech and joined Dr. Paul Sternberg’s group as a postdoctoral fellow to study the predator-prey interactions between the nematode-trapping fungi and C. elegans. In 2015, Ping returned to Taiwan and established her independent laboratory at IMB, Academia Sinica. The Hsueh lab studies the predatory-prey interactions between carnivorous fungi and C. elegans and is broadly interested in diverse questions in Biology. We employ multidisciplinary approaches that include genetics, genomics, imaging analyses, computational biology, and biochemistry to address diverse questions of interest in our unique predator-prey systems.
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Guillermo Vidal-Diez de Ulzurrun 葛林墨
Postdoctoral fellow
Use mathematics to measure and classify nematode-trapping fungi.
Chih-Yen Kuo 郭芷嫣
Postdoctoral fellow
I work on the identification of fungal receptors responsible for nematode-sensing in the nematode-trapping fungi.
Han-Wen Chang 張瀚文
Ph.D. student, TIGP Molecular & Cell Biology Program
I am interested in trapping interaction between the nematodes and fungus. Use the power of forward genetic screening to reveal the trapping mechanism of the fungus.
Tsung-Yu Huang 黃孮每育
Ph.D. student, TIGP Molecular & Cell Biology Program
I am interested in the roles of nutrient-sensing in nematode predation in Arthrobotrys oligospora.
Yi-Yun Lee 李宜芸
Ph.D. student, TIGP Molecular & Cell Biology Program
I work on the molecular mechanisms of how do the oyster mushrooms kill nematodes and identify the nematicidal compounds in the specialized structure of Pleurotus mushroom.
Sheng-Chian Juan 阮聖茜
Ph.D. student, TIGP Molecular & Cell Biology Program
I am interested in nitrogen-sensing and uptake in nematode-trapping fungi.
Tzu-Hsiang Lin 林子翔
Master student, Genome & System Biology Degree Program, NTU
I am interested in how prey C. elegans response to predator A. oligospora, and the coevolution between two predator-prey species, from gene to cell to circuit to behavior.
Yun-Zhen Zhou 周筠臻
Research assistant
I am interested in how nematode-trapping fungi catch nematodes by trap.
Hung-Che Lin 林宏澤
Research assistant
I am interested in how nematode-trapping fungi sense the namatodes and form traps.
Ching-Ting Yang 楊景婷
Lab manager