Department of Plant Medicine, College of Agriculture, National Chiayi University.

Assistant Professor Yen-Po Lin, Ph. D.

Tel. 886-5-2717814  Fax 886-5-2717451
E-mail: yenpo.lin@mail.ncyu.edu.tw

Education

2013/11  Doctor of Philosophy, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia

2007/09  Master of Science, Advanced Methods in Taxonomy and Biodiversity, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, UK

2002/07  Master of Science, Graduate Institute of Entomology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

2000/07  Bachelor of Science: Entomology Division, Department of Plant Pathology & Entomology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Speciality

Evolution and Biodiversity of Insects

Insect-plant Interactions

Species Delimitation of Parthenogenetic Pest Insects

Molecular Identification of Pest Insects

Phylogenetics

Systematics

Taxonomy

Experience

2018/02-        Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Medicine, College of Agriculture, National Chiayi University, Taiwan

2017/07-2018/01  Researcher, Arthropod Ecology and Biological Control Research Group, Department for Management of Science and Technology Development, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam

2017/04-2018/01  Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia

2017/04-2017/10  Endeavour Postdoctoral Research (PDR) Fellowship, Department of Education and Training, Australia / School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia

2016/11-2017/03  Postdoctoral Researcher, Division of Evolution, Ecology and Genetics, Research School of Biology, College of Medicine Biology & Environment, The Australian National University, Australia

2016/07-2016/10  Senior Research Officer, Division of Evolution, Ecology and Genetics, Research School of Biology, College of Medicine Biology & Environment, The Australian National University, Australia

2014/07-2016/06  Postdoctoral Fellow, College of Life Science, Shanxi University, China

2014/07-2016/06  Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia

2003/02-2005/05  Research Assistant, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

2002/08-2002/12  Research Assistant, Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Academic researches

1. LIN, Y.-P., P.J. GULLAN and L.G. COOK. 2010. Species richness and host-plant diversity are positively correlated in Coccidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coccoidea). Entomologia Hellenica 19:90-98.

2. LIN, Y.-P., T. KONDO, P.J. GULLAN and L.G. COOK. 2013. Delimiting genera of scale insects: molecular and morphological evidence for synonymising Taiwansaissetia Tao, Wong and Chang with Coccus Linnaeus (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae). Systematic Entomology 38:249-264. (SCI)

3. LIN, Y.-P., D.H. COOK, P.J. GULLAN and L.G. COOK. 2015. Does host-plant diversity explain species richness in insects? A test using Coccidae (Hemiptera). Ecological Entomology 40:299-306. (SCI)

4. LIN, Y.-P. 2015. The triptych of asexuality, chastity and cryptic diversity in Parasaissetia nigra (Nietner, 1861). Entomological Society of Queensland News Bulletin 43:65-67.

5. LIN, Y.-P., R.D. EDWARDS, T. KONDO, T.L. SEMPLE and L.G. COOK. 2017. Species delimitation in asexual insects of economic importance: The case of black scale (Parasaissetia nigra), a cosmopolitan parthenogenetic pest scale insect. PLoS ONE 12:e0175889. (SCIE)

6. LIN, Y.-P., Z.Y. DING, P.J. GULLAN and L.G. COOK. 2017. A newly recognised Australian endemic species of Austrolecanium Gullan & Hodgson 1998 (Hemiptera: Coccidae) from Queensland. Zootaxa 4272:119-130. (SCIE)

7. LIN, Y.-P., H. TANAKA, T. KONDO and L.G. COOK. 2017. A newly recognised species that has been confused with the global polyphagous pest scale insect, Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae). Zootaxa 4320:571-591. (SCIE)

8. LIN, Y.-P., T. KONDO, P.J. GULLAN and L.G. COOK. 2018. A newly recognised species of Cryptes Maskell 1892 (Hemiptera: Coccidae) from Western Australia. Zootaxa 4508:101-114. (SCIE)