Lab Introduction & Major Research Interests
1. The molecular mechanisms involve in development of mammary gland
2. The signaling pathways contribute to breast tumorigenesis using three dimensional culture system of mammary epithelial cells.
3. The neuroendocrines controlling the brain-breast-reproduction axis that regulating milk protein expression.
4. The molecular evolution of Taiwan indigenous pigs and establishment laboratory pig model.
5. Study the eye development by using miniature pig model.
Recent Representative Publication ( * corresponding author)
1. Tsai C.H., Y. T. Ju, Y.N. Jiang, M.T. Chen, and Y.B. Tang. 2008. Measurement of mammary epithelial cell size in Juvenile macromastic breasts. J. Breasts Plastic Surgical Association R. O. C. 17(2): 105-112.
2. Chang, W.H., Chu, H.P., Jiang, Y.N., Li, S.H., Chen, C.H., Chen, K.J., Lin, C.Y., Ju, Y.T. 2009. Genetic variation and phylogenetics of Lanyu and exotic pig breeds in Taiwan analyzed by 19 microsatellite markers. J. Animal Sci. 87:1-8.
3. Tsai Y. J., Chung W. C., Wang L. C., Ju Y. T., Hong C. L., Tsai Y. Y., Li Y. H., and Wu Y. L. 2011. The dog mite, Demodex canis: Prevalence, fungal co-infection, reactions to light, and hair follicle apoptosis. Journal of Insect Science. 11 (76): 1-13.
4. Ke, M.W., J.T. Hsu, Y.N. Jiang, Winston T.K. Cheng, and Y.T. Ju. 2012. Characterization of hTERT-immortalized caprine mammary epithelial cell lines. Reprod. Dom. Anim. 47(4): 553-561.
5. Huang C.Y., J.T. Hsu, P.H. Chung , Winston T.K. Cheng , Y.N. Jiang , and Y.T. Ju. 2013. Site-Specific N-Glycosylation of Caprine lysostaphin restricts its bacteriolytic activity towards Staphylococcus Aureus. Animal Biotechnology. 24:129-147.
6. Li, Y.H., H.P. Chu, Y.N. Jiang, C.Y. Lin, S.H. Lee, K.T. Li, G.J. Weng, C.C. Cheng, D.J. Lu, and Y.T. Ju. 2014. Selection of informative microsatellite markers to improve individual assignment efficiency among close lineage populations with a high level of co-ancestry exemplified by Lanyu pig breeds. Asian-Aust. J. Anim. Sci. 27 (5):616-627.
7. Matsumoto Y., Y. T. Ju, T. Yamashiro, and A. Yamashiro. 2014. Evidence of pre-introduction hybridization of Formosan sika deer (Cervus nippon taiouanus) on Okinoshima, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. Conserv. Genet. DOI: 10.1007/s10592-014-0675-z.
8. Li K. Y., K. T. Li, C. C. Cheng, C. H. Chen, C. Y. Hung, and Y. T. Ju. 2015. Genetic Analysis of Taoyuan pig and its phylogenetic relationship to Eurasian pig breeds. Asian-Australas. J. Anim. Sci. 28 (4): 457-466.
9. Kung, M. H., Y. J. Lee, J. T. Hsu, M. C. Huang, and Y. T. Ju. 2015. A functional study of proximal goat b-casein promoter and intron 1 in immortalized goat mammary epithelial cells. J. Dairy Sci. 98:1-17.
10. Chou A. C., Y. T. Ju, C. Y. Pan. 2015. Calmodulin interacts with the sodium/calcium exchanger NCX1 to regulate activity. PLOS One.10(9): e0138856. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0138856
11. Yi Zhang, Yongfang Lu, Marnoch Yindee, Kuan-Yi Li, Hsiao-Yun Kuo, Yu-Ten Ju, Shaohui Ye, Md Omar Faruque, Qiang Li, Yachun Wang,Vu Chi Cuong, Lan Doan Pham, Bounthong Bouahom, Bingzhuang Yang, Xianwei Liang, Zhihua Cai, Dianne Vankan, Wallaya Manatchaiworakul, Nonglid Kowlim, Somphot Duangchantrasiri, Worawidh Wajjwalku, Ben Colenbrander, Yuan Zhang, Peter Beerli, Johannes A. Lenstra, J. Stuart F. Barker. 2016. Strong and Stable Geographic Differentiation of Swamp Buffalo Maternal and Paternal Lineages Indicates Domestication in the China/Indochina Border Region. Mol. Ecol. doi: 10.1111/mec.13518.