Department of Agricultural Chemistry,

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Department of Agricultural Chemistry, National
Taiwan University
NG LEAN-TEIK Professor and
Chairman
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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, respectively.
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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
biotecnology (3) four professors for
microbiolo55gy 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 promote research quality.
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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 the safety
of living environments, the Department is
committed to attain the highest quality of human
capital and scientific knowledge for the
sustainable growth of agricultural ecosystems and
the green utilization of bioresources.
Department of Agricultural Chemistry Both
microcosm and macrocosm From atom to
molecule From molecule to cell From cell to
ecosystem
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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 multi-divisions 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 Calculus (General Mathematics),
32 General Physics and Lab., (31) 2 General
Chemistry and Lab., (31)2 General Biology and
Lab., (21)2 Analytical Chemistry and Lab.,
(21) 2 Organic Chemistry and Lab., (21) 2
General Microbiology and Lab., (31) Soil
Science and Lab., 21 Physical Chemistry, 22
Soil Chemistry and Lab., 21 Biochemistry and
Lab., 22 Chemical Analysis of Biomaterials and
Lab., 22 Plant Nutrition and Lab., 21 Food
Chemistry, 2 Agricultural Pesticides, 2
Statistics, 3 Molecular Biology, 2
Environmental Chemistry, 2 Seminar, 11.
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Academic Programs  -3  
Elective courses for undergraduate program
Research Training, 22 Soil Physics and Lab.,
21 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.
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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 Professor National Taiwan Univ., Ph.D., 1984
Dar-Yuan Lee 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
Research Soil and environmental chemistry Soil
chemistry Chemical instrument analysis Environmen
tal organic chemistry,   Environmental
nanotechnology, The transport and transformation
of organic chemicals in the environment
Shan-Li Wang Professor Purdue Univ., Ph.D., 2001
Yang-hsin Shih Associate Professor National
Taiwan Univ., Ph.D., 2002
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Soil and Environmental Sciences
Jui-Hung Yen Professor National Taiwan Univ.,
Ph.D., 1996
Research Pesticide chemistry Environmental
Toxicology Soil pollution Environment resource
reservation Ecosystem
Pei-Jen Chen Assistant Professor Duke Univ.,
Ph.D., 2005
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Plant Physiology, Phytochemistry, and Plant
biotechnology
Ren-Shih Chung Professor National Taiwan Univ.,
Ph.D., 1982
Research Plant nutrition Plant physiology Soil
fertility Plant phytochemistry
Lean-Teik Huang Professor and Chairman Univ.
Paris VI ., Ph.D., 1990
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Plant nutrition, Phytochemistry, and Plant
biotechnology
Chwan-Yang Hong Associate Professor National
Taiwan Univ., Ph.D., 2003
Research Plant physiology Plant molecular
biology Plant Bio-technology
Chien-Teh Chen Assistant Professor Cornell
Univ., Ph.D., 1999
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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
Kai-Yin Lo Assistant Professor Univ. Texas at
Austin ., Ph.D., 2008
Nai-Chun Lin Assistant Professor Cornell Univ.,
Ph.D., 2004
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
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 Bio
informatics
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 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, X-ray
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 (ICP-AES), 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, 3366-4811
FAX [phone]
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