Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University

Specialty:

Insect-Plant Interactions, Chemical Ecology, Plant Physiology, Molecular Biology

Lab: Insect-Plant Interaction Laboratory

Email: poanlin@ntu.edu.tw

Tel: 02-3366-5579

Education:

Ph.D., Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Bachelor, Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University.

Experience:

2022-Present, Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University

2021-2022, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Bern, Switzerland

Main research focus:

We study the interactions between plants and herbivore insects. Five major research themes include (1) the physiology of plant antiherbivore defenses, (2) the ecology of plant-insect interactions, (3) the evolution of plant-insect interactions, (4) the influence of abiotic factors on plant-insect interactions, (5) agricultural/ecological application of plant-insect interactions. We welcome students and early-career scientists interested in insect herbivores and plants to join our lab.

Courses:

Agricultural Entomology (Main Instructor)

Chemical Ecology (Main Instructor)

Practice in Integrated Plant Health Management (Co-instructed)

Plant Disease and Insect Control (Co-instructed)

Links

Lab website: http://www.poanlin.com

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Po-An-Lin-2

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zmoyaK4AAAAJ&hl=en

Publications 

1. Escobar-Bravo R.*, Lin P.-A.*, Waterman J.M.*, Erb M. 2023 Dynamic environmental interactions shaped by vegetative plant volatiles. Natural Product Reports. doi:10.1039/d2np00061j. (* co-first author)
2. Lin P.A., Kansman J., Chuang W.P., Robert C., Erb M., Felton G.W. 2022 Water availability and plant-herbivore interactions. Journal of Experimental Botany. doi:10.1093/jxb/erac481.
3. Lin P. A., Paudel S, Zainuddin N. B., Tan C. W., Helms A, Ali J. G., Felton G. W. (2022). Low water availability enhances volatile-mediated direct defenses but disturbs indirect defenses against herbivores. Journal of Ecology. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13987
4. Lin, P. A., Chen, Y., Ponce, G., Acevedo, F. E., Lynch, J. P., Anderson, C. T., Ali, J. G., and Felton, G. W. (2021). Stomata-mediated interactions between plants, herbivores, and the environment. Trends in Plant Science. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2021.08.017
5. Lin, P. A., Chen, Y., Chaverra-Rodriguez, D., Heu, C. C., Zainuddin, N. B., Sidhu, J. S., Peiffer, M., Tan, C. W., Helms, A., Kim, D., Ali, J., Rasgon, J. L., Lynch, J. P., Anderson, C. T., Felton, G. W. 2021. Silencing the alarm: An insect salivary enzyme closes plant stomata and inhibits volatile release. New Phytologist. doi: 10.1111/nph.17214
6. Lin, P. A., Liu, C. M., Ou, J. A., Sun, C. H., Chuang, W. P., Ho, C. K., Kinoshita, N., Felton, G. 2021. Changes in arthropod community but not plant quality benefit a specialist herbivore on plants under reduced water availability. Oecologia. doi: 10.1007/s00442-020-04845-z
7. Lin, P. A., Felton, G. W. 2020. Oral cues are not enough: induction of defensive proteins in Nicotiana tabacum upon feeding by caterpillars. Planta, 251(4). doi:10.1007/s00425-020-03385-3
8. Lin, P. A., Peiffer, M., Felton, G. W. 2020. Induction of defensive proteins in Solanaceae by salivary glucose oxidase of Helicoverpa zea caterpillars and consequences for larval performance. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 14(3), 317-325. doi:10.1007/s11829-020-09751-y
9. Lin, P. A., Paudel, S., Afzal, A., Shedd, N. L., & Felton, G. W. (2020). Changes in tolerance and resistance of a plant to insect herbivores under variable water availability. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 104334. doi:10.1016/j.envexpbot.2020.104334 
10. Paudel, S., Lin, P. A., Hoover, K., Felton, G. W., & Rajotte, E. G. (2020). Asymmetric responses to climate change: temperature differentially alters herbivore salivary elicitor and host plant responses to herbivory. Journal of Chemical Ecology. doi:10.1007/s10886-020-01201-6
11. Tsai, C. L., Chu, I. H., Chou, M.-H., Chareonviriyaphap, T., Chiang, M. Y., Lin, P. A., Lu, K. H., Yeh, W. B. (2020). Rapid identification of the invasive fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) using species-specific primers in multiplex PCR. Scientific Reports, 10(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-020-73786-7
12. Paudel, S., Lin, P. A., Foolad, M. R., Ali, J. G., Rajotte, E. G., & Felton, G. W. (2019). Induced plant defenses against herbivory in cultivated and wild tomato. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 45(8), 693-707. doi:10.1007/s10886-019-01090-4