Ming-Yang Ho

Ming-Yang Ho is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan. He received his undergraduate from the same Department, his Master's degree from the Institute of Plant Biology in the same university, and a Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in the US.

Mentored by Dr. Donald Bryant, Dr. Ho's previous works in the US focused on elucidating the mechanism of far-red light photoacclimation (FaRLiP) in cyanobacteria. That is a light-regulated acclimation process that enables photosynthetic apparatus to harvest far-red light for photosynthesis when visible light is limited. After a short period as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Cheryl Kerfeld's lab at Michigan State University, Dr. Ho returned to Taiwan as an assistant professor.

Dr. received two distinguished honors for young scholars in Taiwan, Taiwan MOST Young Scholar Fellowship and Yushan Young Scholar, which supported research in his team for five years. His team's focus is to study the environmental impact, the mechanism, and the application of using far-red light for oxygenic photosynthesis.