Biography

She is working as a Research Fellow in the Academia Sinica, Institute of plant and microbial biology. She completed her ph.d in university of Illinois.

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Research Interest

Construction a Tagged Rice Population, TRIM, for functional genomics analysis We develop an indexed mutant population for rice functional genomics studies and I'm responsible for the bioinformatics part. • Utilization/studies of the TRIM mutant resources With the huge collection of activated and/or knocked-out mutants and detailed phenomics data, my lab picks up some mutants and performs detail analysis. • Next generation sequencing (NGS) mapping and characterization of important rice mutants We work on the gene finding/characterization of several rice mutants related to seed development and seedling growth. • NGS analysis of rice modern varieties and land races in Taiwan We work on the modern varieties, the recent and very old land races in Taiwan, with emphasis on introgression,domestication, and utilization. • Sequencing of Oryza nivara, an annual wild rice We joined the international consortium with the goal to decode several wild rice species. My lab is responsible for an annual AA genome, Oryza nivara . • Re-annotation of genes encoding LEA proteins in the rice and soybean genomes The extensive distribution of LEA genes among diverse taxa impliesthat these genes might be primitive yet important and therefore maintained by these species. We work on the re-annotation of LEA genes in two important model plants.