Research Focus
This core facility was established to facilitate plant transformation related research in Academia Sinica. Our mission including collecting transgenic plant-related materials and information, providing campus-wide and off campus non-profit institutions transformation support, utilizing and improving upon current transformation protocols, establishing stable transformation protocols for additional plant species, educating through training such as technique-related workshops.
Currently we provide Agrobacterium-mediated transformation services of 8 plant species: Arabidopsis, tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum and N. benthamiana), tomato, rice, Petunia, potato and Brachypodium distachyon. Besides, we share the materials culturing/propagating in our lab with researchers. We continuously establish consistent stable transformation protocols for new model plant such as Setaria, etc.
Lin-Yun Kuang
Assistant Research Specialist
2019-present Assistant Research Specialist, ABRC, Academia Sinica
2004-2019 Assistant Research Specialist, IPMB, Academia Sinica
1999 M.S. Institution of Botany, National Taiwan University
1995 B.S. Department of Biology, Tunghai University