We are very happy to welcome or four new team members (from right to left): Sung-Ya Lin, Zhen Li, Lian-Yu Hou and Han-Wen (Vincent) Chang – who’s actually not new at all, he is the last member of Team Taipei to make the move to Tübingen!

Sung-Ya’s research tackles how the host evolves to respond to the rapid evolution of the genomic parasites transposons in an intragenomic evolutionary arms race between the host genome and the selfish elements.

Zhen combines bioinformatics and evolutionary genomics to investigate how genomes are shaped over time, using comparative approaches and custom computational tools to explore structural and functional changes across species.

Liang-Yu’s research focuses on how Pleurotus ostreatus reprograms its metabolism to facilitate the formation of toxocyst.