Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology & Department of Life Sciences

Dr. Oliver Wagner, Professor

Current Members

PhD Students

Odvogmed (Ogi) Bayansan

PhD student

Project: Effect of post-translational polyglutamylation of tubulin on axonal transport.

Awards: 2020 International Competition Incubation Fellowship. Invited oral presentation at the 2021 Annual ASBMB Meeting USA (April 27-30, virtual)

Muhammad Safwan Khawaja

PhD student

Project: Dissecting a novel linker complex to tie kinesins of two distinct classes.

Vignesh Mahendran Ruckmani

PhD Student

Project: Identification of novel regulastors in tau disease phenotypes.

Master Students

Dwika Sarnia Putri

Master Student

Project: Investigating a LIN-10 regulatory function on kinesin-2 OSM-3 autoinhibition.

Eric Kuo Cheng-Shan 郭呈善

Master Student

Project: Understanding changes in ACh neurotransmission and axonal tubulin acetylation.

Awards: 2020 MOST Undergraduate Project funding.

Undergrads

Cadence Lee 李若語

Undergraduate Student

Project: A novel linker complex to link kinesins of two classes.

Graduated from Wagner-lab

Photo	Name, Earned Degree, Awards, Career Status
	Dr. Syed Nooruzuha Barmaver Project: Tthe molecular function of SFXN-1.2 in mitochondrial dynamics and its effects neuropathology. Awards: 2022 Phi Tau Phi National Award, 2022 Dept. Life Science Paper Award; 2022 Shen's Scholarship Award; 2022 Muming Poo Paper Award; 4 invited talks at national and international symposia Career Status: Postdoc at Vanderbilt University Medical School, TN, USA
	Dr. Muniesh Muthaiyan Shanmugam Awards: Shen's Culture & Education Foundation Scholarship; first author of 2018 MCB paper, co-author of 4 other papers published from our lab Career Status: Postdoc at Buck Institute for Research on Aging, CA, USA
	Dr. Prerana Bhan Awards: Shen's Culture & Education Foundation Paper Award 2018; first author of 2019 Traffic paper, co-first author of 2018 MCB paper, co-author of two other papers and one submitted paper Career Status: Project Manager, R&D Department, Lih Pao Life Science Corp. Principal Researcher Taiwan Joint Commission of Precision Medicine.
	Dr. Wu Gong-Her (吳恭和) Awards: first author of our 2016 Traffic paper; co-author of 4 other papers published from our lab; 2012 NTHU LS Poster Award Career status: Postdoc at Stanford University, CA, USA
	Dr. Hu Chun-Chih (胡竣智) (Co-Advisor) Awards: Two frist author paper: ACS Appl. Mater Interfaces (IF 8.097) and Scientific Reports (IF 4.122) Career status: Postdoc at National University of Tainan (NUTN).
	Dr. Tien Nai-Wen 田乃文 MSc Degree: my lab, PhD: Baylor College of Medicine Awards: First author of our 2011 Neurobiol. Dis paper (cited by Wikipedia on the major article on synaptic vesicles); NSC support for Undergrad studies; Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Society Honorship Career status: 1) Postdoc at Stanford University, CA, USA; 2) Postdoc at WashU Medicine, MO, USA
	Cindy Lin Tzu-Ying 林茲瑩 MSc Degree Awards: Co-author of submitted paper Career status: RA at NTU College of Medicine
	Zaira Wang 王孟婕 MSc Degree Awards: Co-author of submitted paper Career status: Medem Inc. Taiwan
	Hsu Chih-Chun 許智鈞 MSc Degree Awards: First author of 2011 Neuroscience paper; co-author of 2011 Neurobiol. Dis paper, 1st price for best oral presentation at Osaka University/NTHU student activity fair Career status: Joined a PhD program at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
	Huang Yu-Hsin 黃郁心 MSc Degree Awards: Co-Author of 2016 Traffic paper Career status: Officer at the Ministry of Civil Service
	Hsieh Jung 謝榕 MSc Degree Awards: Co-Author of 2018 MCB paper Career status: Project Assistant at Parexel
	Chang Yen 張妍 MSc Degree Awards: Co-Author of submitted paper; DLS service award Career status:PhD student University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
	Juan David Moncaleano MSc Degree Awards: Co-first author of 2011 Neuroscience paper Career status: Diplomat at Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Colombia
	Chang Chien-Yu 張茜毓 MSc Degree Awards: Co-Author of 2011 Neurobiol. Dis paper and submitted paper; DLS Service Award; Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Society Honorship Career status: Officer at Changhua County Public Health Bureau
	Ying-Cheng Yen 閻映丞 MSc Degree Awards: Co-Author of 2019 J. Neurosci. Res. paper Career status: Full-time Employee at National Science and Technology Museum in Kaohsiung
	Peng Yu-Fei 彭郁斐 MSc Degree Awards: Co-Author of 2019 J. Neurosci. Res. paper Career status: Researcher at Phalanx Biotech
	Huang Hsin-Yi 黃欣怡 MSc Degree Awards: Co-Author of 2018 MCB paper and submitted paper Career status: Clinical Trial Division Chief at isRed Pharma & Biotech Research Co. Ltd
	Víctor Daniel Lee Aplícano MSc Degree Awards: Co-Author of 2018 MCB paper Career status: PhD student Chang Gung University Taoyuan
	Wang Ding 王鼎 MSc Degree Awards: Co-Author of 2019 Traffic paper Clinical Research Assistant, Division of Neurology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Co-Advising, Undergrads & Summer Students

	Chang Joe-Ming 張佐民 Former PhD student (Co-Advisor) Project: Elasticity of C. elegans neurons as determined by atomic force microscopy (AFM)
	Wang Zhong-Nan 王中南 Former Master Student (Co-Advisor) Project: Elasticity of C. elegans neurons as determined by atomic force microscopy (AFM)
Undergraduate Training in Wagner-Lab
	Peter (Chang Kuang-Wei) 光瑋張 Former Undergraduate Student Now Master student at NTU
	Gao Wen-Ling 高雯玲 Former Undergraduate Student Project: Elasticity of C. elegans neurons as determined by atomic force microscopy (AFM)
	Tsai Hsin-Chu 蔡欣居 Former Undergraduate Student Project: Regulation of intraflagellar transport
	Shi Yu-Ann 施俞安 Former Undergraduate Student Project: Role of small Gproteins in axonal transport
	Lin You-Hui 林佑暉 (Lam Iao-Fai) Former Undergraduate Student Project: Screen of proteins involved in mitochondria transport in C. elegans
	Ye Shu-Han 葉書涵 Former Undergraduate Student Project: LIN-2/UNC-104 interactions
	Huang Szu-Jo 黃斯柔 Former Undergraduate Student Project: Evaluating the function of PKG-1 and GCK-2 in the regulation of IFT (intraflagellar transport)
	Hsu Chien-Hui 徐千惠 Former Undergraduate Student Project: Evaluating the function of PKG-1 and GCK-2 in the regulation of IFT (intraflagellar transport)
	Chang Meng-Chun 張孟群 Former Undergraduate Student Project: Mitochondria/IFB-1 interactions
	Hsieh Chia-Ying 謝佳穎 Former Undergraduate Student Project: LIN-2/UNC-104 interactions
	Hsieh Yu-Han 謝予涵 Former Undergraduate Student Project: LIN-2/UNC-104 interactions
	Li Hui-Min 李惠珉 Undergraduate Student Project: Mitochondria/IFB-1 interactions
Summer Exchange Projects in Wagner-Lab
I) Exchange Students from Germany:
	Fiona Riegel Summer exchange student from Germany Project: Analyzing molecular functions of a hypothetic adaptor that regulates the dendritic/axonal transport interface.
	Severin Filser Summer exchange student from Germany Project: Detection of neurofilaments in C. elegans neurons
	Marcel Beining Summer exchange student from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Project: Elasticity of C. elegans neurons as determined by atomic force microscopy (AFM)
	Jonas Seiler Summer exchange student from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Project: Effects of dynein/dynactin on bidirectional movement of kinesin-3
	Avni Baser Summer exchange student from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Project: RAB-3/RIM-10/SYD-2 vesicle linkeage
	Hendrik Schürer DAAD RISE interims student Project: Evaluating the function of PKG-1 and GCK-2 in the regulation of IFT (intraflagellar transport)
	Stefan Werner DAAD Exchange student Project: Mitochondria/IFB-1 interactions
	Franziska Krautter DAAD Exchange student Project: The role of posttranslational tubulin modification on IFT transport
II) Exchange students from Mainland China:
	Huang Qi Summer exchange student from Xiamen University, China Project: Effects of post-translational modifications of tubulin on axonal transport
	Shen Qing 申晴 Summer exchange student from Shandong University, Jinan Shi, China Project: Phosphorylation regulation of SYD-2/UNC-104 interactions
	Wang Sisi 王思斯 Summer exchange student from Suzhou University, Suzhou, China Project: LIN-2/UNC-104 interactions
	Sun Zhixing 孙之星 Summer exchange student from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Project: RAB-3/RIM-10/SYD-2 vesicle linkage
	Zhang Yunchuan 張雲川 Summer exchange student from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Project: UNC-104/PTL-1(tau) interactions
	Hongchen Zhang 張宏晨 Project: The role of PKG-1 and GCK-2 on IFT Summer exchange student from Xiamen University, China
	Limei Chen 陳李梅 Project: UNC-104/dynein interactions Summer exchange student from Yunnan University, China

Lab tour

Our facility consists of 5 rooms including:

2 large laboratory units including gradient PCR, 3 centrifuges, gel-documentation, micro-needle puller etc.
1 microscope room including a fully automated confocal spinning disk microscope (with an watercooled EMCCD camera and microinjection device) and 2 fluorescence stereo microscopes
1 cell culture room
An adjacent space with 2 large -80 freezers and 3 incubators for C. elegans maintenance
1 student study room and Oliver's office

1st lab unit

2nd lab unit

Cell culture and microscopy/microinjection room

C. elegans maintenance room

Student study room and rest area

Welcome to join us!

NTHU Links

C. elegans links

NEWS:

Congrats to Ogi's 2024 paper in Neurobiology Disease a top 15% journal in the Neuroscience category (Q1) with IF 5.1

Wagner-Lab received the 2023 NTHU Excellent Research Reward

Congrats to our 2022 Muming Poo Outstanding Neuroscience Paper Award! (Traffic 23(5):270–286)

Oliver invited to give a talk at the prestigious TSBMB Meeting "Frontiers of Biochemistry in Biomedical Science" Nov 4-6 2022.

Congratulation to Syed Noor receiving 3 awards: 2022 National Phi Tau Phi award, 2022 Dept. Life Science paper award and 2022 Shen's Culture Scholarship award.

Our recent publication in Traffic (IF 6.215) has been featured on the COVER of the 2022 issue 23 (vol 5).

Oliver invited to give a talk in March 2022 at the "Seminar Lecture Series of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences" (National Sun Yat-Sen University Kaohsiung)

Syed and Ogi have been chosen for an oral presentation at the 2021 Annual ASBMB Meeting USA (April 27-30, virtual)

Our publication in MBoC (Mol Biol Cell) has been featured on the COVER of the 2020 MBoC issue 15.

Congratulations to Eric Kuo receiving the 2020 MOST Undergraduate Project funding.

We have been invited to provide a book chapter in Springer Nature "Methods in Molecular Biology" about axonal transport.

A review about "post-translational modifications of tubulin" in the June 2020 Nature Review Mol. Cell Biol. edition underlines the importance of our research.

Congratulations to Ogi receiving the "2020 International Competition Incubation Fellowship"

Wagner-Lab received the 2019 NTHU Excellent Research Reward

Former Master student Tien Nai-Wen as well as former PhD student Wu Gong-Her both now Postdocs as Stanford University

Congratulations Chun-Chih "Jim", Muniesh and Gong-Her for authorship on our recent Scientific Report paper

Wikipedia cites our 2011 Neurobiol. Dis. paper on a major article about synaptic vesicles

Oliver will speak at the "2018 International Symposium of Innovative Research and Graduate Education in Biomedical Sciences"

Prerana won the 1st price of "College of Life Science Poster Competition 2018"

Muniesh won the 3rd price of "College of Life Science Paper Competition 2018"

Our publication in MCB (Mol Cell Biol) has been featured on the COVER of the 2018 issue 7 (vol 38).

Congratulations to our paper on TiO2 toxicity in ACS Appl. Mater Interfaces (vol. 10, issue 10, 2018) (IF 7.705, Rank Q1)

Oliver's 2004 Postdoc paper on dynein-NF interactions got cited in 2018 Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (vol 19, no. 6)

Gong-Her is first author of our 2017 Traffic paper (IF 4.133, Rank Q2)

Muniesh M. Shanmugam received the 2016 Shen's Culture & Education Foundation Prize

Oliver will speak at the 3rd NTHU-NUS Bilateral Meeting "Frontiers in Molecular Biomedicine" in Singapore

Chih-Wei won the 1st price of "College of Life Science Poster Competition 2014"

Ahmed won a poster contest price at "The 29th Joint Annual Conference of Biomedical Science Yang Ming University"

Liberty Times (Taipei Times publ. group) interviews Oliver about his NTHU teaching award (being the first foreigner in the STEM fields since 1958)

2014 NTHU and 2013 College of Life Science Teaching Awards goes to Oliver

2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to 3 scientists "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells"

A JCB interview (04/2013) with a scientist working on axonal transport in C. elegans

Prerana was voted Miss NTHU 2013 (of all international students)

Oliver invited to speak at the “Frontiers in Biological Sciences Seminar”, Tsinghua University Beijing, China.

The highly acclaimed “2012 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award” goes to 3 scientists working on molecular motors

Chih-Wei received the "2012 TSBMB Meeting Poster Award" (5 of 90 posters)

Gong-Her&Yu-Hsin and Chih-Wei&Alice rceived a "2012 LS Poster Award"

Chih-Wei was selected to give an oral presentation at the 2012 EMBO Conference Series “C. elegans Neurobiology” (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany)

Nai-Wen has been accepted by UPENN, WUST and Duke University. Yu-Hsin has been accepted by Rutgers University and Zhi-Jun by Purdue University and Baylor College of Medicine

Nai-Wen's work now published in Neurobiology of Disease (IF 5.403) and it is the first time for NTHU to publish in this journal

Oliver invited to speak at the "European C. elegans Neurobiology Meeting" in Heraklion, Greece

Chien-Yu and Nai-Wen awarded
"2010 Membership of Phi Tau Phi
Scholastic Honor Society"

Congratulations to our "NTHU Publication
Award 2010"

Zhi-Jun received "1st price for best
presentation at the 2010 Osaka
Univ./NTHU student activity fair"

Congratulations to our "NTHU College of
Life Science Outstanding Research
Award 2010"

Gong-Her made image contribu-
tion to Wormatlas

Chih-Wei, Che-Piao and Gong-Her
authors of our 2009 PNAS paper

"NTHU College of Life Science Outstanding Teaching Award 2009" goes to Oliver

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology has launched a special article series on "Cytoskeletal Motors"

Wagner-Lab

Regulation of molecular motors in the nervous system of C. elegans