Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology & Department of Life Sciences

Dr. Oliver Wagner, Professor

Teaching

(past and present)

Handouts (click here)

Undergrad Core Course "Molecular and Cellular Biology I" LS 220400 (coordinator)
Graduate Core Course "Advanced Cell Biology": Cytoskeleton Part I and II LS 524700 (coordinator)
Model Organisms in Life Sciences (C. elegans Anatomy, Genetics and Neurobiology) LS 545700 (initiated course)
Atomic Force Microscopy (in: "Detection and Analysis of Macromolecules") LSMC544100
Biological Machines, Cell Mechanics and Nanotechnology (in: "Introduction to Life Science") LS 110301 & LS 110302
Introductory Laboratory of Model Organisms: C. elegans LSIP181200
Engineers Meet Biologists: Cytoarchitecture, Cell crawling and Cell mechanics LSMM564300 (initiated course)
Seminar LS 850003 & LS 850005
Special Topics on Molecular Motors and Axonal Transport I&II LSMC510700 & LSMC510800
Life Science Research Introduction II LS192200
Colloquium LSMC790400

Summer classes

"C. elegans Neurobiology" at the C. elegans Summer Course of the Department of Life Science, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan

"Cytoskeleton Mechanics" at the Summer Camp of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences, NTHU

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