BRCAS

Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica

People Faculty Dr. Sen-Lin Tang

Dr. Sen-Lin Tang Deputy Director/ Research Fellow

Lab PI

Dr. Sen-Lin Tang

Deputy Director/ Research Fellow

Ph.D. University of Melbourne

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Office: Interdisciplinary Research Building for Science and Technology A305

Tel:+886-2-2787-3863
Research Fields
  • Microbial Biodiversity
  • Microbial Metagenomics
  • Metaviromics

Research Directions

  • The foci of research in my laboratory are biodiversity, composition, dynamics and functions of the aquatic bacterial communities in two aquatic ecosystems coral reef and lake ecosystems. In the coral reef ecosystem, bacteria are potentially related to health, disease and nutrient supply in coral holobionts. Long term surveys found coral-associated bacteria community has high diversity and rapid changes in its composition. However, it still lacks direct evidence of the interaction between bacterial associates and their coral hosts. We have established a working model of the cultivable coral-associated bacteria and corals to study physiological and biochemical interactions between the corals and the bacteria. Lake ecosystems, comparing to coral reefs, are more an enclosed ecosystem, which has less environmental variables and is more stable; the ecosystem is therefore very suitable for us to explore the influence of microbial community in local environments and the ecological functions. The increasing frequency of strong precipitation is one phenomenon of global warming. To study the impact of the strong precipitation on bacterial community and lake metabolisms, we selected two high mountain lakes (autotrophic and heterotrophic lakes) and are comparing their functional changes in microbial community under the influence of the precipitation.

 

Latest published paper

Publications ( 2015-2018 )
  1. Jia-Ho Shiu, Jiun-Yan Ding, Ching-Hung Tseng, Shueh-Ping Lou, Takuma Mezaki, Yu-Ting Wu, Hsiang-Iu Wang and Sen-Lin Tang*, accepted, “A Newly Designed Primer Revealed High Phylogenetic Diversity of Endozoicomonas in Coral Reefs”, MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS. (SCI) (IF: 2.909; SCI ranking: 33.1%,41.6%)
  2. Kshitij Tandon, Shan-Hua Yang, Min-Tao Wan, Chia-Chin Yang, Bayanmunkh Baatar, Chih-Yu Chiu, Jeng-Wei Tsai, Wen-Cheng Liu, and Sen-Lin Tang*, accepted, “Bacterial community in water and air of two sub-alpine lakes in Taiwan”, MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS. (SCI) (IF: 2.909; SCI ranking: 33.1%,41.6%)
  3. Sheng-Chung Chen; Hsing-Hua Huang; Chieh-Yin Weng; Hsiu-Hui Chiu; Sen-Lin Tang; Denis Yu Rogozin; Andrey G. Degermendzhy, Mei-Chin Lai,, 2018, “A psychrotolerant methanoarchaeon, Methanolobus psychrotolerans sp. nov., isolated from a saline meromictic lake in Siberia”, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, 68(4), 1378-1383. (SCI) (IF: 2.134; SCI ranking: 60.8%)
  4. Kshitij Tandon, Pei-Wen Chiang, Wen-Ming Chen and Sen-Lin Tang, 2018, “Draft Genome Sequence of Endozoicomonas acroporae sp. Acr-14T isolated from Acropora coral,”, Genome Annoucement, 6(6), e01576-17.
  5. Shih-Yi Sheu; Pei-Bei Xie; Der-Shyan Sheu; Sen-Lin Tang; Wen-Ming Chen, 2018, “Litoribrevibacter euphylliae sp. nov., isolated from the torch coral Euphyllia glabrescens”, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, 68(1), 432-437. (SCI) (IF: 2.134; SCI ranking: 60.8%)
  6. Shiu JH, Keshavmurthy S, Chiang PW, Chen HJ, Lou SP, Tseng CH, Justin Hsieh H, Allen Chen C, Tang SL*, 2017, “Dynamics of coral-associated bacterial communities acclimated to temperature stress based on recent thermal history”, Scientific reports, 7(1), 14933. (SCI) (IF: 4.259; SCI ranking: 15.6%)
  7. Sheu SY, Lin KR, Hsu MY, Sheu DS, Tang SL, Chen WM., 2017, “Endozoicomonas acroporae sp. nov., isolated from Acropora coral.”, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, 67(10), 3791-3797. (SCI) (IF: 2.134; SCI ranking: 60.8%)
  8. Lee, S. T.M.*, S. K. Davy, S.-L. Tang*, P. S Kench, 2017, “Water flow buffers shifts in bacterial community structure in heat-stressed Acropora muricata”, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 7, 43600. (SCI) (IF: 4.259; SCI ranking: 15.6%)
  9. Herath D*, Jayasundara D, Ackland D, Saeed I, Tang SL, Halgamuge S, 2017, “Assessing Species Diversity Using Metavirome Data: Methods and Challenges.”, Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 15, 447-455.
  10. Damayanthi Herath*, Sen-Lin Tang, Kshitij Tandon, David Ackland and Saman Kumara Halgamuge, 2017, “CoMet: A workflow using contig coverage and composition for binning a metagenomic sample with high precision”, BMC Bioinformatics, 8(Suppl 16), 571. (SCI) (IF: 2.448; SCI ranking: 17.5%,42.5%,48.7%)
  11. Sheu Shih-Yi, Lin Kai-Rou, Hsu Ming-yuan, Sheu Der-Shyan, Tang Sen-Lin, Chen Wen-Ming*, 2017, “Endozoicomonas acroporae sp. nov., isolated from Acropora coral”, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 67(10), 3791-3797. (SCI) (IF: 2.134; SCI ranking: 60.8%)
  12. Woo S, Yang SH, Chen HJ, Tseng YF, Hwang SJ, De Palmas S, Denis V, Imahara Y, Iwase F, Yum S, Tang SL*, 2017, “Geographical variations in bacterial communities associated with soft coral Scleronephthya gracillimum.”, PloS one, 12(8), e0183663. (SCI) (IF: 2.806; SCI ranking: 23.4%)
  13. Yang SH, Tseng CH, Huang CR, Chen CP, Tandon K, Lee STM, Chiang PW, Shiu JH, Chen CA, Tang SL*, 2017, “Long-Term Survey Is Necessary to Reveal Various Shifts of Microbial Composition in Corals.”, Frontiers in microbiology, 8, 1094. (SCI) (IF: 4.076; SCI ranking: 20.8%)
  14. B Bayanmunkh*, Lin T Sen, D Narangarvuu , B Ochirkhuyag , O Bolormaa, 2017, “Physico-Chemical Composition of Saline Lakes of the Gobi Desert Region, Western Mongolia”, Journal of Earth Science & Climatic Change, 08(02), 388.
  15. Baatar Bayanmunkh, Chuluun Buyan, Tang Sen-Lin, Bayanjargal Ochirkhuyag, Oyuntsetseg Bolormaa*, 2017, “Vertical distribution of physical–chemical features of water and bottom sediments in four saline lakes of the Khangai mountain region, Western Mongolia”, Environmental Earth Sciences, 76(3), 130. (SCI) (IF: 1.569; SCI ranking: 53.4%,62.9%,56.4%)
  16. Fu-Chun Yang, Yi-Lung Chen, Sen-Lin Tang, Chang-Ping Yu, Po-Hsiang Wang, Wael Ismail, Chia-Hsiang Wang, Jiun-Yan Ding, Cheng-Yu Yang, Chia-Ying Yang, and Yin-Ru Chiang*, 2016, “Integrated multi-omics analyses reveal the biochemical mechanisms and phylogenetic relevance of anaerobic androgen biodegradation in the environment”, ISME Journal, 10(8), 1967-1983. (SCI) (IF: 9.664; SCI ranking: 2%,5.6%)
  17. Shan-Hua Yang , Pei-Wen Chiang , Tin-Chang Hsu , Shuh-Ji Kao , Sen-Lin Tang*, 2016, “Bacterial Community Associated with Organs of Shallow Hydrothermal Vent Crab Xenograpsus testudinatus near Kuishan Island, Taiwan”, PLoS One, 11(3), e0150597. (SCI) (IF: 2.806; SCI ranking: 23.4%)
  18. Jeng-Wei Tsai,* Timothy K. Kratz, James A. Rusak, Wan-Yu Shih, Wen-Cheng Liu, Sen-Lin Tang, and Chih-Yu Chiu, 2016, “Absence of winter and spring monsoon changes water level and rapidly shifts metabolism in a subtropical lake”, Inland Waters, 6(3), 436-448. (SCI) (IF: 1.987; SCI ranking: 30%,33.3%)
  19. Bayanmunkh Baatar, Pei-Wen Chiang, Denis Yu Rogozin, Yu-Ting Wu, Ching-Hung Tseng, Cheng-Yu Yang, Hsiu-Hui Chiu, Bolormaa Oyuntsetseg, Andrey G. Degermendzhy and Sen-Lin Tang*, 2016, “Bacterial Communities of Three Saline Meromictic Lakes in Central Asia”, PLOS ONE, 11(3), e0150847. (SCI) (IF: 2.806; SCI ranking: 23.4%)
  20. Lan-Feng Fan, Hsing-Ju Chen, Hwey-Lian Hsieh, Hsing-Juh Lin, Sen-Lin Tang*, 2016, “Comparing abundance, composition and environmental influences on prokaryotic ammonia oxidizers in two subtropical constructed wetlands”, ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING, 90, 336-346. (SCI) (IF: 2.914; SCI ranking: 30.1%,40.8%,32.3%)
  21. Ching-Hung Tseng, Jaw-Town Lin, Hsiu-Jon Ho, Zi-Lun Lai, Chang-Bi Wang, Sen-Lin Tang*, and Chun-Ying Wu*, 2016, “Gastric microbiota and predicted gene functions are altered after subtotal gastrectomy in patients with gastric cancer”, Scientific Reports, 6, 20701. (SCI) (IF: 4.259; SCI ranking: 15.6%)
  22. Jiun-Yan Ding,Jia-Ho Shiu,Wen-Ming Chen,Yin-Ru Chiang,Sen-Lin Tang*, 2016, “Genomic insight into the host-endosymbiont relationship of Endozoicomonas montiporae CL-33 with its coral host”, FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY, 7, 251. (SCI) (IF: 4.076; SCI ranking: 20.8%)
  23. Sonny T.M. Lee*,Simon K. Davy,Sen-Lin Tang*,Paul S Kench,, 2016, “Mucus sugar content shapes the bacterial community structure in thermally stressed Acropora muricata”, Frontiers in Microbiology, 7, 371. (SCI) (IF: 4.076; SCI ranking: 20.8%)
  24. Yang, Shan-Hua; Lee, Sonny; Huang, Chang-Rung; Tseng, Ching-Hung; Chiang, Pei-Wen; Chen, Chung-Pin; Chen, Hsing-Ju; Tang, Sen-Lin*, 2016, “Prevalence of potential nitrogen-fixing, green sulphur bacteria in the skeleton of reef-building coral Isopora palifera”, LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY, 61(3), 1078-1086. (SCI) (IF: 3.383; SCI ranking: 10%,7.9%)
  25. Sheu SY, Liu LP, Tang SL, Chen WM*, 2016, “Thalassotalea euphylliae sp. nov., isolated from the torch coral Euphyllia glabrescens.”, International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 66(12), 5039-5045. (SCI) (IF: 2.134; SCI ranking: 60.8%)
  26. Kuei-Han Lin, Ben-Yang Liao, Hao-Wei Chang, Shiao-Wei Huang, Ting-Yan Chang, Cheng-Yu Yang, Yu-Bin Wang, Yu-Teh Kirk Lin, Yu-Wei Wu, Sen-Lin Tang*, Hon-Tsen Yu*, 2015, “Metabolic characteristics of dominant microbes and key rare species from an acidic hot spring in Taiwan revealed by metagenomics”, BMC GENOMICS, 16(1), 1029. (SCI) (IF: 3.729; SCI ranking: 21.9%,29.9%)
  27. Sonny Lee, Simon Davy, Sen-Lin Tang*, Tung-Yung Fan, Paul Kench, 2015, “Successive shifts in the microbial community of the surface mucus layer and tissues of the coral Acropora muricata under thermal stress”, FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY, 91(12), fiv142. (SCI) (IF: 3.72; SCI ranking: 25.6%)
  28. Chia-Jung Hsieh, Shing Hei Zhan, Yiching Lin, Sen-Lin Tang and Shao-Lun Liu*, 2015, “Analysis of rbcL sequences reveals the global biodiversity, community structure, and biogeographical pattern of thermoacidophilic red algae (Cyanidiales)”, JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY, 51(4), 682-694. (SCI) (IF: 2.608; SCI ranking: 18.1%,24.5%)
  29. Yu-Te Lin, William B. Whitman, David C. Coleman, Shiang-Yun Shi, Sen-Lin Tang, Chih-Yu Chiu*, 2015, “Changes of soil bacterial communities in bamboo plantations at different elevations”, FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY, 91(5), fiv033. (SCI) (IF: 3.72; SCI ranking: 25.6%)
  30. Ching-Hung Tseng, Pei-Wen Chiang, Hung-Chun Lai, Fuh-Kwo Shiah, Ting-Chang Hsu, Yi-Lung Chen, Liang-Saw Wen, Chun-Mao Tseng, Wung-Yang Shieh, Isaam Saeed, Saman Halgamuge, Sen-Lin Tang*, 2015, “Prokaryotic assemblages and metagenomes in pelagic zones of the South China Sea”, BMC GENOMICS, 16, 219. (SCI) (IF: 3.729; SCI ranking: 21.9%,29.9%)
  31. Duleepa Jayasundara, I. Saeed, B.C. Chang, S.-L. Tang and S.K. Halgamuge*, 2015, “Accurate reconstruction of viral quasispecies spectra through improved estimation of strain richness”, BMC BIOINFORMATICS, 16(Suppl 18), S3. (SCI) (IF: 2.448; SCI ranking: 17.5%,42.5%,48.7%)

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