Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

2018-2023 | PhD, National Normal University and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Biodiversity program, Taiwan International Graduate Program(TIGP)
Thesis: Comparative genomics of free-living nematodes
Advisor: Dr. Isheng Jason Tsai
2014-2018 BSc, Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2023-present | Postdoctoral fellow, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Advisor: Dr. Isheng Jason Tsai
2017-2018 | Intern, Nematology Lab (II), National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Advisor: Dr. Peichen Janet Chen
Topic : Glycoside hydrolase families (GH) in Aphelenchoides besseyi isolate from Vallisneria spiralis’s and their correlation with the host range
2017 | Summer Intern, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Topic: Determination of aquatic microbial community with Nanopore sequencing
Advisor: Dr. Isheng Jason Tsai

AWARDS

PUBLICATIONS

2024 | Echiniscus gemmatus sp. nov. (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae; the spinulosus morphogroup) from Macau, China
WI Leong, JK Yu, IJ Tsai, Ł. Kaczmarek, YC Lee and CP Lin
Zootaxa, 0.11646/ZOOTAXA.5551.2.5
2023 | Single worm long read sequencing reveals genome diversity in free-living nematodes
YC Lee, HM Ke, YC Liu, HH Lee, MC Wang, YC Tseng, T Kikuchi, IJ Tsai
Nucleic Acids Research, 10.1093/nar/gkad647
2023 | The Aphelenchoides genomes reveal substantial horizontal gene transfers in the last common ancestor of free-living and major plant-parasitic nematodes
CK Lai, YC Lee, WA Liu, HH Lee, HM Ke, YC Liu, T Yoshiga, T Kikuchi, PJ Chen and IJ Tsai
Molecular Ecology Resources 10.1111/1755-0998.13752

RESEARCH WORKSHOPS

2024 | Speaker, From zero to hero: Getting to 959 nematode genomes
Evolutionary Biology of Caenorhabditis and other Nematodes conference, Austria
2023 | Instructor, Helminth BioinfromaWcs-Asia
Wellcome connecting science, Khon Kean University, Thaliand
2023 | Participants, Yong invesWgator PhD course
EMBO, Heldelberg

CONFERENCES PRESENTATION

2024 | Evolutionary Biology of Caenorhabditis and other Nematodes conference, Vienna, Austria
Topic: Single-worm long-read sequencing reveals genome diversity in free-living nematodes
2023 | Annual Society of Nematologists Conference, Ohio, US Topic: Whole genome amplification enables single worm sequencing and reveals genome diversity in free-living nematodes
2022 | International Congress of Nematology, AnJbes Juan-Les-Pins, France
Topic: Comparative genomics of free-living nematodes
2021 | Virtual Nematology Conference
Topic: De novo genome assembly from single nematode using whole genome amplification

PEER REVIEW SERVICE

Reviewer for Zoological Studies, Molecular Ecology Resources and Scientific Data