Department of Agricultural Chemistry,
National Taiwan University
Ren-Shih Chung
Professor and Chairman
Outline
Introduction
Mission
Goals
Academic program
Faculty and research
Research facility
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Introduction-1
Formerly known as the "Agro-chemical
schoolroom" of Agricultural division in Taipei
Imperial University since 1928, it was renamed
to the Department of Agricultural Chemistry of
National Taiwan University in 1945 and the B.S.
program was offered.
The graduate programs for the M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees were established in 1947 and 1968,
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respectively.
Introduction-2
The Department is committed to basic research
and application in four disciplines :
(1) soil and environmental sciences;
(2) plant nutrition, phytochemistry, and plant
biotecnology;
(3) microbiology and biotechnology;
(4) utilization of bioresources.
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Introduction-3
The department has 17 full time professors ( two
faculty are in recruiting), which can be divided into
four major study and research fields, including:
(1) six professors for soil and environmental sciences;
(2) four professors for plant nutrition, phytochemistry,
and plant biotechnology;
(3) four professors for microbiology and biotechnology;
(4) three professors for utilization of bioresources.
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Introduction-4
We will continue revising our contents of
courses and research to meet the
requirement of country and to meet the
working opportunities and ideal career
of graduate students.
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Introduction-5
We also want to provide good teaching
quality and train students having more
specific technologies on agricultural
chemistry and internationalized
leadership, and also to generate good
research environment and resources, to
produce innovative research results and to
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promote research quality.
Introduction-6
The teaching quality and examination
process were improved to strengthen
student confidence.
The department also enhances the teaching
programs and research capacities via hiring
new faculty members and enhancement of
the cooperation and integration of courses
with other departments.
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Mission
To participate the global efforts on
Department of Agricultural
the safety of living environments, the
Chemistry
Department is committed to attain
the highest quality of human capital
Both microcosm and
macrocosm
From atom to molecule
From molecule to cell
From cell to ecosystem
and scientific knowledge for the
sustainable growth of agricultural
ecosystems and the green utilization
of bioresources.
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Goals-1
(1)To provide higher teaching quality, and
train the people to develop expertise as
an expert on science and technology
with leadership.
(2)To create high quality environment and
resources for studying, produce
investigative originality, and raise the
quality of researches.
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Goals-2
(3)To integrate the excellent human
resources and create a team of multidivisions of science for extending the
agricultural chemistry-related
investigation.
(4)To provide the techniques and strategies
for food producing, ecological
environment protecting and biodiversity
maintaining.
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Goals-3
(5)To provide frontier knowledge and
advance high quality agricultural
products and living industries of
healthy food, bioresource materials etc.
and the green utilization of
bioresources.
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Academic Programs -1
Undergraduate program
The department offers a four-year
program for undergraduate students.
After students complete a minimum
of 128 credits of course work, the
degree of B.S. in Agriculture is
conferred.
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Academic Programs -2
Basic courses for undergraduate program
requirements:
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Calculus (General Mathematics), 3*2; General
Physics and Lab., (3+1)* 2; General Chemistry and
Lab., (3+1)*2; General Biology and Lab., (2+1)*2;
Analytical Chemistry and Lab., (2+1)* 2; Organic
Chemistry and Lab., (2+1)* 2; General Microbiology
and Lab., (3+1); Soil Science and Lab., 2+1; Physical
Chemistry, 2*2; Soil Chemistry and Lab., 2+1;
Biochemistry and Lab., 2+2; Chemical Analysis of
Biomaterials and Lab., 2+2; Plant Nutrition and
Lab., 2+1; Food Chemistry, 2; Agricultural Pesticides,
2; Statistics, 3; Molecular Biology, 2; Environmental
Chemistry, 2; Seminar, 1+1.
Academic Programs -3
Elective courses for undergraduate program :
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Research Training, 2+2; Soil Physics and Lab.,
2+1; Fate of Organic Chemicals in the Soil
Environment, 2; Plant Physiology, 2;
Instrumental Methods of Soil Chemical Analysis,
2; Fertilizers, 2; Biogeochemistry of Trace
Elements, 2; Pesticide Chemistry, 2;
Fundamentals of Land Pollution, 2; The Surface
Chemistry of Soils, 2; Lipid Chemistry, 2; Cereal
Material and Processing, 2; Carbohydrate
Chemistry and Application, 2; Food Processing,
2; Molecular Genetics of Bacteria, 2; Microbial
Physiology, 2; etc.
Academic Programs -4
Master program requirements:
Students must complete a minimum
of 24 credits of course work and
thesis (which is approved before a 3
to 5 member thesis committee in a 2
to 4 year period) to be awarded the
degree of M.S. in Agriculture.
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Academic Programs -5
Ph.D. program requirements:
Students must complete a minimum
of 18 credits of course work and a
thesis (which is approved before a 5
to 9 member thesis committee in a 2
to 7 year period), to receive the
degree of Ph. D. in Agriculture.
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Faculty and Research
Soil and Environmental Sciences
Zueng-Sang Chen
Dar-Yuan Lee
Professor
National Taiwan Univ., Ph.D.,
1984
Professor
Univ. California, Riverside, Ph.D.,
1988
Research
Soil science
Soil classification and survey
Soil morphology and genesis
Soil pollution and remediation
Soil chemistry
Soil physics
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Soil and Environmental Sciences
Shan-Li Wang
Professor
Purdue Univ., Ph.D., 2001
Yang-hsin Shih
Associate Professor
National Taiwan Univ.,
Ph.D., 2002
Research
Soil and environmental chemistry
Soil chemistry
Chemical instrument analysis
Environmental organic chemistry,
Environmental nanotechnology,
The transport and transformation of
organic chemicals in the
environment
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Soil and Environmental Sciences
Jui-Hung Yen
Professor
National Taiwan Univ., Ph.D., 1996
Pei-Jen Chen
Research
Pesticide chemistry
Environmental Toxicology
Soil pollution
Environment resource
reservation Ecosystem
Assistant Professor
Duke Univ., Ph.D., 2005
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Plant Physiology, Phytochemistry, and Plant
biotechnology
Ren-Shih Chung
Professor and Chairman
National Taiwan Univ., Ph.D.,
1982
Lean-Teik Huang
Professor
Univ. Paris VI ., Ph.D., 1990
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Research
Plant nutrition
Plant physiology
Soil fertility
Plant phytochemistry
Plant nutrition, Phytochemistry, and Plant
biotechnology
Chwan-Yang Hong
Associate Professor
National Taiwan Univ., Ph.D.,
2003
Chien-Teh Chen
Assistant Professor
Cornell Univ., Ph.D., 1999
Research
Plant physiology
Plant molecular biology
Plant Bio-technology
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Microbiology and Biotechnology
Chia-Yin Lee
Professor
Univ. Kentucky, Ph.D.,
1989
Whi-Fin Wu
Associate Professor
Univ. Iowa, Ph.D., 1992
Research
Microbiology
Biochemistry
Molecular biology
Biotechnology
Microbial and bacteria physiology
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Microbiology and Biotechnology
Nai-Chun Lin
Kai-Yin Lo
Assistant Professor
Cornell Univ., Ph.D.,
2004
Assistant Professor
Univ. Texas at Austin .,
Ph.D., 2008
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Research
Microbiology
Biochemistry
Molecular biology
Biotechnology
Interaction between microbes and plants
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Utilization of Bioresources
Hsi-Mei Lai
Professor
Univ. Illinois, Ph.D., 1990
Nan-Wei Su
Professor
National Taiwan Univ.,
Ph.D., 2001
Chun-Hua Hsu
Associate Professor
National Taiwan Univ.,
Ph.D., 2002
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Research
Food science and technology
Lipid chemistry
Food chemistry
Cereal chemistry and processing
Carbohydrate chemistry and
application
Fermentation
Structural biology
Proteomics
Multi-Dimensional NMR
Protein X-Ray Crystallography
Bioinformatics
Research facility-1
The Department of Agricultural Chemistry is
housed in two major research buildings.
All of the routine apparatus and
instrumentation required for the most
advanced research are available.
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Research facility-2
Available equipments include real time Q PCR, preparative
ultracentrifuges, fermentors, fluorometers, ion and gas
chromatographs, high pressure liquid chromatographs, Xray diffractometer, Infrared spectrometer, surface area,
flame photometers, atomic absorption spectrophotometer,
supercritical fluid extractor, amino acid and automatic
image analyzers, capillary electrophoresis apparatus, ELISA
photometric system, GC-MS, HPLC Quadrupole-time of
flight tandem mass spectrometer, CNS-analyzer, inductively
coupled plasma atomic emission spectrophotometer (ICPAES), ICP-HPLC-MASS etc.
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Thank you for your attention
Department of Agricultural Chemistry,
National Taiwan University
No. 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road
TAIPEI, TAIWAN 10617 REPUBLIC OF
CHINA
TEL: +886-2-3366-4802, 3366-4809
FAX: +886-2-2363-3123, 2362-0432
E-Mail: chungrs@ntu.edu.tw (Head)
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