Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology & Department of Life Sciences

Dr. Oliver Wagner, Professor

Scientific Education

Full Professor 2018/8-present: Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Life Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Associate Professor 2011/8-2018/7: Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Life Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Assistant Professor 2006/8-2011/7: Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Life Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
2nd Post-doc 2004/1-2006/7: DFG Research Center for Molecular Physiology of the Brain / Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany (Dr. D. Klopfenstein)
1st Post-doc 2001/1-2003/12: Institute for Medicine and Engineering / University of Pennsylvania (UPENN), Philadelphia, USA (Prof. P. Janmey)
PhD Study (Dr. phil. nat.) 1996-2000: Kinematic Cell Research Group / J. W. Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany (Prof. J. Bereiter-Hahn)

Awards & Honors

2024 NTHU Talent Development Fund "Academic Research Incentives"
2023 National Tsing Hua University "Outstanding Research Scholar Award"
2022 Muming Poo Outstanding Neuroscience Paper Award
2022 National Tsing Hua University "Outstanding Faculty Flexible Bonus Reward"
2021 National Tsing Hua University "Outstanding Faculty Flexible Bonus Reward"
2020 National Tsing Hua University "Outstanding Research Scholar Award"
2019 National Tsing Hua University "Outstanding Research Scholar Award"
2018 MOE Naturalization Award For High Professionals
2018 National Tsing Hua University "Outstanding Faculty Flexible Bonus Reward"
2014 National Tsing Hua University "Best Lecturer Award" (first foreigner in the STEM fields since 1956)
2013 College of Life Science "Outstanding Teaching Award"
2010 National Tsing Hua University "Publication Award"
2010 College of Life Science "Outstanding Research Scholar Award"
2009 College of Life Science "Outstanding Teaching Award"
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Postdoctoral Stipend (2001 - 2003)

Invited Peer Reviewer

2023: J. Cell Sci. (IF 4.0)
2021: Frontiers Aging Neurosci. (IF 4.8)
2021: PLoS Genetics (IF 4.5)
2021: Development (IF 4.6)
2021: Advanced Science (IF 15.1)
2020: Development (IF 4.6)
2020: PNAS (IF 11.1)
2018: J. Neurosci. Meth. (IF 3.0)
2016: Cell. Mol. Life Sci. (IF 8.0)
2014: Cell. Mol. Life Sci. (IF 8.0)
2012: Mol. Biol. Cell (IF 3.3)
2012: Cell. Mol. Life Sci. (IF 8.0)
2011: Mol. Biol. Cell (IF 3.3)
2011: Eur. Biophys. J. (IF 2.0)
2010: Mol. Biol. Cell (IF 3.3)

Honorable Committees

Since 2018: Tsung Cho-Chang Education Foundation Taipei - Scholarship selection committee (Master studies in Germany).
Since 2013: Member of the "Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Ph.D. degree program of the University System of Taiwan"
Since 2012: Appointed Adjunct Professor of the Institute of Systems Neuroscience NTHU
Since 2011: DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Taipei - Scholarship selection committee (PhD studies in Germany).
Since 2009: Member of the Taiwan Neuroscience Society
Since 2008: MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology) Grant Application Reviewer.
Since 2021: Advisory Board of the CLC BJI Higher Education school for Taiwanese migrant worker.

Past and present collaborators (in alphabetical order)

Dieter Klopfenstein (Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany)
Dennis Discher (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Fan-Gang (Kevin) Tseng (Dpt. Engineering and System Science, NTHU, Taiwan)
Fred Wouters (European Neuroscience Institute, Göttingen, Germany)
Erika Holzbaur (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Jean-Francois Leterrier (University of Poitiers, France)
Junmin Pan (Tsinghua University Beijing, China)
Jürgen Bereiter-Hahn (J. W. Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)
Kang Shen (Stanford University, USA)
Paul Janmey (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Ta-Jen Yen (Dpt. Metamaterial and Nanotechnology, NTHU, Taiwan)

NTHU Links

C. elegans links

NEWS:

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