國立嘉義大學

[Educational Background]

• Doctor of Philosophy (1998—2002)

  Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Australia

• Master of Science (1991—1993)       

 Division of Microbiology and Immunology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

• Bachelor of Science (1987—1991)

  Division of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, National Chung-Hsing University

[Professional Experience]

• Research Fellow (2017-present), Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• President of Taiwan Coral Reef Society (2021-present)
• Executive Secretary of SCOPE committee Academia Sinica (2020- present)
• Deputy Director of Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica (2018- 2019)
• Deputy Director of Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica (2012- 2016)
• Representative Principle Investigator in Life Division of Academia Sinica (2017-2019; 2019-2021) Coordinator of Taiwan International Graduate Program on Biodiversity (2016-2017)
• Associate Research Fellow (2012-2016), Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

• Joint Assistant & Associate Professor (2007-2016), Joint Professor (2016-present)

   National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2007-present), National Taiwan Normal University         

   Taiwan (2013-present), National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan (2013-present), 

   Tzi-Chi University, Taiwan (2017-present), National Sun Yet-sen University,

   Taiwan (2021-present), Soochou University, Taiwan (2018-2020)

• Assistant Research Fellow (2006-2012), Research Center for Biodiversity, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• Adjunct Assistant Professor (2008-2012), National Taiwan University, Taiwan
• Joint Assistant Professor (2008-2012), National Chung-Hsin University, Taiwan
• Post-doctoral research fellow (2002—2006), School of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Australia

[Awards, Scholarships, Fellowships, Honors, etc. in the past five years]

• 2020        Investigator Award of Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• 2018             Honorable Visitor Grant, Australia National University, Australia
• 2017             Honorable Visitor Grant, University of the Ryukyu
• 2016             Honorable Visitor Grant, The University of Melbourne, Australia
• 2016             Honorable Visitor Grant, University of the Ryukyu
• 2015/2018      Selected to Significant Research Achievements of Academia Sinica.
• 2012-2015      MOST Grant優秀年輕學者研究計畫

[Research Interest]

I am interested in the studies of coral microbial ecology, metagenomics and microbial genomics. Two current main research directors are detection of coral-microbe interaction at molecular level and development of coral probiotics for coral restoration, respectively.

List of papers within the last five years (2021-2016)

1. Yu-Hsiang Chen, Hsing-Ju Chen, Cheng-Yu Yang, Jia-Ho Shiu, Daphne Z. Hoh, Pei-Wen Chiang, Wenhua Savanna Chow, Chaolun Allen Chen, Tin-Han Shih, Szu-Hsien Lin, Chi-Ming Yang, James Davis Reimer, Euichi Hirose, Budhi Hascaryo Iskandar, Hui Huang, Peter J. Schupp, Chun Hong James Tan, Hideyuki Yamashiro, Ming-Hui Liao, Sen-Lin Tang#, 2021, Prevalence, complete genome, and metabolic potentials of a phylogenetically novel cyanobacterial symbiont in the coral-killing sponge, Terpios hoshinota, Environmental Microbiology, accepted.
2. Yu-Ting Wu, Pei-Wen Chiang, Kshitij Tandon, Denis Yu Rogozin, Andrey G. Degermendzhy, and Sen-Lin Tang*, 2021, Single-cell genomics-based analysis reveals a vital ecological role of Thiocapsa sp. LSW in the meromictic Lake Shunet, Siberia, Microbial Genomics, accepted.
3. Chih-Wei Wang, Yu-Hsiang Yu, Chun-Yao Wu, Ru-Ying Feng, Kshitij Tandon, Ying-Lien Chen*, Sen-Lin Tang*, 2021, Detection of pathogenic and beneficial microbes for roselle wilt disease, Frontiers in Microbiology, accepted.
4. Shan-Hua Yang, Chi Chen, Yunli Eric Hsieh, Sung-Yin Yang, Hau-Wen Li, Tzu-Yun Ching, Chia-Hui Wang, Ching-Fong Chang, Sen-Lin Tang*, Guan-Chung Wu*, 2021, Bacterial Dynamics in the Accessory Nidamental Gland of Sepioteuthis lessoniana throughout Maturation. Microbes Environ 36: ME21030.
5. Yu-Hsiang Chen, Pei-Wen Chiang , Denis Rogozin , Andrey Degermendzhy , Hsiu-Hui Chiu, Sen-Lin Tang, 2021, Salvaging high-quality genomes of microbial species from a meromictic lake using a hybrid sequencing approach, Communication Biology, 4, 996. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02510-6
6. 109. Ching-Yun Huang, Jiang-Shiou Hwang, Hideyuki Yamashiro, Sen-Lin Tang, 2021, Spatial and cross-seasonal patterns of coral diseases in Taiwan's reefs: High prevalence and regional variation, Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/dao03624
7. 108. Hiroki Taninaka, Davide Maggioni, Davide Seveso, Danwei Huang, Abram Townsend, Zoe T Richards, Sen-Lin Tang, Naohisa Wada, Taisei Kikuchi, Hideaki Yuasa, Megumi Kanai, Stphane De Palmas, Niphon Phongsuwan, Nina Yasuda, 2021, Phylogeography of blue corals (genus Heliopora) across the Indo-West Pacific, Frontiers in Marine Science, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.714662
8. Michael Dyall-Smith, Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Pei-Wen Chiang, and Sen-Lin Tang, 2021, Genome sequence of Hardyhisp2, a gammapleolipovirus infecting Haloarcula hispanica, Microbiology Resource Announcements, 10.1128/MRA.00226-21
9. Haiwei Luo, Danli Luo, Xiaojun Wang, Xiaoyuan Feng, Mengdan Tian, Sishuo Wang, Sen-Lin Tang, Put Jr Ang, and Aixin Yan, 2021, Population Differentiation of Rhodobacteraceae Along Coral Compartments, ISME J. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-021-01009-6
10. Kshitij Tandon, Min-Tao Wan, Chia-Chin Yang, Shan-Hua Yang, Bayanmunkh Baatar, Chih-Yu Chiu, Jeng-Wei Tsai, Wen-Cheng Liu, Chen Siang Ng and Sen-Lin Tang*, 2021, Aquatic microbial community is partially functionally redundant: insights from an in situ reciprocal transplant experiment, Science of All Total Environment, 786: 147433
11. Siti N. Aini, Sen-Lin Tang, Hideyuki Yamashiro, 2021, Monthly progression rates of the coral-killing sponge Terpios hoshinota in Sesoko Island, Okinawa, Japan, Coral Reefs, 40:973–981
12. Yu-Hsiang Chen, Shan-Hua Yang, Kshitij Tandon, Chih-Ying Lu, Hsing-Ju Chen, Chao-Jen Shih, Sen-Lin Tang*, 2021, Potential syntrophic relationship between coral-associated Prosthecochloris and its companion sulfate-reducing bacterium unveiled by genomic analysis, Microbial Genomics, doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000574
13. Ching-Hao Teng, Pin-Chieh Wu, Sen-Lin Tang, Yi-Chen Chen, Ming-Fang Cheng, Ping-Chih Huang, Wen-Chien Ko, Jiun-Ling Wang *, 2021, Large spatial survey of colistin-resistant gene mcr-1-carrying E. coli in rivers across Taiwan, Microorganisms, 31;9(4):722.
14. Mike Dyall-Smith* , Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Pei-Wen Chiang and Sen-Lin Tang, 2021, The Novel Halovirus Hardycor1, and the Presence of Active (Induced) Proviruses in Four Haloarchaea, Genes, 12:149
15. Sung-Yin Yang, Chih-Ying Lu, Sen-Lin Tang, Rocktim Ramen Das, Kazuhiko Sakai, Hideyuki Yamashiro, Shan-Hua Yang, 2020, Effects of ocean acidification on coral endolithic bacterial communities in Isopora palifera and Porites lobata, Frontiers in Marine Science, 7: 603293. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.603293
16. Wu WK, Panyod S, Liu PY, Chen CC, Kao HL, Chuang HL, Chen YH, Zou HB, Kuo HC, Kuo CH, Liao BY, Chiu THT, Chung CH, Lin AY, Lee YC, Tang SL, Wang JT, Wu YW, Hsu CC, Sheen LY, Orekhov AN, Wu MS., 2020, Characterization of TMAO productivity from carnitine challenge facilitates personalized nutrition and microbiome signatures discovery. Microbiome 19;8(1):162
17. Kshitij Tandon^#, Bayanmunkh Baatar^#, Pei‐Wen Chiang, Narangarvuu Dashdondog, Bolormaa Oyuntsetseg and Sen‐Lin Tang*, 2020, A Large‐Scale Survey of the Bacterial Communities in Lakes of Western Mongolia with Varying Salinity Regimes, Microorganisms, 8(11), 1729   
18. Shan-Hua Yang†, Ching-Hung Tseng†, Hsueh-Ping Lo, Pei-Wen Chiang, Hsing-Ju Chen, Jia-Ho Shiu, Hung-Chun Lai, Kshitij Tandon, Naoko Isomura, Takuma Mezaki, Hiromi Yamamoto, Sen-Lin Tang*, 2020, Locality Effect of Coral-associated Bacterial Community in the Kuroshio Current from Taiwan to Japan, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8:339
19. Ya-Fan Chan, Pei-Wen Chiang, Kshitij Tandon, Denis Rogozin, Andrey Degermendzhi, Vladimir Zykov and Sen-Lin Tang*, 2020, Spatio-temporal changes in the bacterial community of the meromictic Lake Uchum, Siberia, Microbial Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-020-01592-9
20. Ya Shen, Sheng-Chung Chen, Mei-Chin Lai, Hsing-Hua Huang, Hsiu-Hui Chiu, Sen-Lin Tang, Denis Yu Rogozin, Andrey G. Degermendzhy, 2020, Methanolobus halotolerans sp. nov., isolated from a saline lake Tus in Siberia, IJSEM, https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004453
21. T. Thinesh, R. Meenatchia Anuj, Nishanth Liptona, Rangasamy Anandham, Polpass ArulJose, Sen-Lin Tang, G. Seghal Kirand, Joseph Selvina, 2020, Metagenomic sequencing reveals altered bacterial abundance during coral-sponge interaction: Insights into the invasive process of coral-killing sponge Terpios hoshinota, Microbiological Research, 240:126553
22. Naohisa Wada, Hideaki Yuasa, Rei Kajitani, Yasuhiro Gotoh, Yoshitoshi Ogura; Dai Yoshimura, Atsushi Toyoda, Sen-Lin Tang, Yukio Higashimura, Hugh Sweatman, Zac Forsman, Omri Bronstein, Gal Eyal, Nalinee Thongtham, Takehiko Itoh, Tetsuya Hayashi, Nina Yasuda, 2020, A ubiquitous subcuticular bacterial symbiont of a coral predator, the crown-of-thorns starfish, Microbiome, in press.
23. Mike Dyall-Smith, Sen-Lin Tang, Brendan Russ, Pei-Wen Chiang, Friedhelm Pfeiffer *, 2020, Comparative genomics of two new HF1-like haloviruses, Genes, 11(4), 405
24. Vidanaarachchi, R., Shaw, M., Tang, S. L., & Halgamuge, S., 2020, IMPARO: Inferring Microbial Interactions through Parameter Optimisation., BMC Molecular and Cell Biology, 2020 (In Press)
25. Sonny T M Lee, Jiun-Yan Ding, Pei-Wen Chiang, Mike Dyall-Smith, Sen-Lin Tang*, 2020, *Insights into gene regulation of the halovirus His2 infecting Haloarcula hispanica, MicrobiologyOpen, https://doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.1016
26. Chih-Yu Chiu, John R. Jones, James A. Rusakc, Hao-Chi Lin, Keisuke Nakayama,Timothy K. Kratz, Wen-Cheng Liu, Sen-Lin Tang, Jeng-Wei Tsai, 2020, Terrestrial loads of dissolved organic matter drive interannual carbon flux in subtropical lakes during times of drought, Science of the Total Environment, 717:137052
27. Kshitij Tandon, Pei-Wen Chiang, Chih-Ying Lu, Shan-Hua Yang, Ya-Fan Chan, Naohisa Wada, Ping-Yun Chen, Hsiao-Yu Chang, Ming-Shean Chou, Wen-Ming Chen, Sen-Lin Tang*, 2020, Dominant coral bacterium Endozoicomonas acroporae metabolizes DMSP, ISME J, 14(5):1290-1303.
28. Wada N, Ishimochi M, Mastui T, Pollock FJ, Tang S-L, Ainsworth TD, Willis BL, Mano N, Bourne DG., 2019, Characterization of coral-associated microbial aggregates (CAMAs) within tissues of the coral Acropora hyacinthus, Scientific Reports, 9(1):14662
29. Chung-Yen Chen, Sen-Lin Tang, Seng-Cho Chou*, 2019, Taxonomy Based Performance Metrics for Evaluating Taxonomic Assignment Method, BMC Bioinformatics, 20:310.

30.   Duleepa Jayasundara*, Damayanthi Herath*, Damith Senanayake, Isaam Saeed, Cheng-Yu Yang, Yuan Sun, Bill C Chang, Sen-Lin Tang*, Saman K Halgamuge, accepted, “ENVirT: inference of ecological characteristics of viruses from metagenomic data”, BMC Bioinformatics. DOI:10.1186/s12859-018-2398-5

31. 101. Jaspers, Cornelia, Fraune, Sebastian, Arnold, A. Elizabeth, Miller, David J., Bosch, Thomas C.G., Voolstra, Christian R., Adamska, Maja, Ainsworth, Tracy, Ball, Eldon, Boote, Chlöe, Bourne, David, Butterfield, Nicholas J., Chan, Cheong Xin, Cooke, Ira, Cowman, Peter F., Darling, Aaron, Davy, Simon K., Mohamed, Amin, Fabricius, Katharina, Valero Fortunato, Sofia V., Hernandez Agreda, Alejandra, Hoogenboom, Mia, Moya, Aurelie, Pita, Lucia, Ragan, Mark A., Robbins, Steven J., Andrade Rodriguez, Natalia R., Sakamaki, Kazuhiro, Schoepf, Verena, Seemann, Thorsten, Shinzato, Chuya, Stolarski, Jarosław, Strugnell, Jan, Takahashi, Shunichi, Tang, Sen-Lin, Webster, Nicole N, Whitelaw, Brooke, and Ying, Hua (2019) Resolving structure and function of metaorganisms through a holistic framework combining reductionist and integrative approaches. Zoology, 133. pp. 81-87.
32. Shan-Hua Yang, Kshitij Tandon, Chih-Ying Lu, Naohisa Wada, Chao-Jen Shih, Silver Sung-Yun Hsiao, Wann-Neng Jane, Tzan-Chain Lee, Chi-Ming Yang, Chi-Te Liu, Vianney Denis, Yu-Ting Wu, Li-Ting Wang, Lina Huang, Der-Chuen Lee, Yu-Wei Wu, Hideyuki Yamashiro, Sen-Lin Tang*, 2018, “Metagenomic, phylogenetic and functional characterization of predominant endolithic green sulfur bacteria in the coral Isopora palifera”, Microbiome, 7(1), 3. 
33. Wu Yu-Ting, Yang Cheng-Yu, Chiang Pei-Wen, Tseng Ching-Hung, Chiu Hsiu-Hui, Saeed Isaam, Baatar Bayanmunkh, Rogozin Denis, Halgamuge Saman, Degermendzhi Andrei, Tang Sen-Lin*, 2018, “Comprehensive Insights Into Composition, Metabolic Potentials, and Interactions Among Archaeal, Bacterial, and Viral Assemblages in Meromictic Lake Shunet in Siberia”, Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, 1763. 
34. Jia-Ho Shiu, Jiun-Yan Ding, Ching-Hung Tseng, Shueh-Ping Lou, Takuma Mezaki, Yu-Ting Wu, Hsiang-Iu Wang and Sen-Lin Tang*, 2018, “A Newly Designed Primer Revealed High Phylogenetic Diversity of Endozoicomonas in Coral Reefs”, Microbes and Environments, 33(2), 172-185. 
35. 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*, 2018, “Bacterial community in water and air of two sub-alpine lakes in Taiwan”, Microbes and Environments, 33(2), 120-126. 
36. Hsieh Chia-Jung, Zhan Shing Hei, Liao Chen-Pan, Tang Sen-Lin, Wang Liang-Chi, Watanabe Tsuyoshi, Geraldino Paul John L., Liu Shao-Lun, 2018, “The effects of contemporary selection and dispersal limitation on the community assembly of acidophilic microalgae”, Journal of Phycology, 54(5), 720-733. 
37. Shiau Yo-Jin, Pai Chung-Wen, Tsai Jeng-Wei, Liu Wen-Cheng, Yam Rita S.W., Chang Shih-Chieh, Tang Sen-Lin, Chiu Chih-Yu, 2018, “Characterization of Phosphorus in a Toposequence of Subtropical Perhumid Forest Soils Facing a Subalpine Lake”, Forests, 9(6), 294. 
38. Yang Sung-Yin, Chen Hsing-Ju, Ho Ming-Jay, Chen Yen-Jia, Huang Ya-Yi, Chow Wenhua Savanna, Tang Sen-Lin, Jeng Ming-Shiou, Chen Chaolun Allen, 2018, “Outbreak of coral-killing cyanobacteriasponge, Terpios hoshinota, in Taiping Island (Itu Aba), Spratlys, South China Sea”, Bulletin of Marine Science, 94(4), 1543-1544. 
39. 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, “Methanolobus psychrotolerans sp. nov., a psychrotolerant methanoarchaeon isolated from a saline meromictic lake in Siberia”, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 68(4), 1378-1383. 
40. 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. 
41. 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. 
42. 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.
43. 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) 
44. Jessica Song, Aazani Mujahid, Lim, Po-Teen, Azizan Abu Samah, Birgit Quack, Klaus Pfeilsticker, Tang Sen-Lin, Elena Ivanova, Moritz Müller, 2017, “Shotgun metagenomic analysis of microbial communities in the surface waters of the Eastern South China Sea”, Malaysian Journal of Microbiology, 13(4), 350-362. 
45. 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. 
46. B Bayanmunkh*, Tang Sen-Lin, 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). 
47. 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. 
48. 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. 
49. 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. 
50. 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. 
51. 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. 
52. 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. 
53. 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. 
54. 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. 
55. 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. 
56. 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. 
57. 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.
58. 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.
59. 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.
60. 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. 
61. 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