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Prof. Houng Yung CHEN

Houng-Yung Chen is a Professor in the Department of Oceanography and the Dean of the College of Marine Sciences National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He graduated from National Taiwan University with a BS degree in zoology in 1975 and a MS degree in Oceanography in 1978 and received his Ph.D. with the work on crustacean nutrition in1983 from Texas A&M University. He since has worked for the University studying fish and crustacean nutrition and biological oceanography. He has been Principal Investigator of projects studying nutrient (amino acids, vitamins, phospholipids, etc.) requirements and interactions for Penaeus monodon as well as nutrient requirements and interactions with immunity for groupers and cobia. His recent works are adiposity and adipogenesis-related gene expression in cobia. He also engages in trophodynamics study in Taiwan Strait and East China Sea in research projects sponsored by the National Science Council. As a professor, he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses including fish nutrition, physiological ecology of marine organisms and marine ecology. He also works with graduate students in researches mainly in fish and shellfish nutrition. Currently his laboratory has 2 PhD students, 3 MS students and 1 full-time assistant. Most of them work on research dealing with interactions between nutrition and immunity, or molecular nutrition, or immunostimulants. Over the years, Chen has authored more than 50 papers published in refereed journals. Chen has been an active member of the Asian Fisheries Society. He served in the 9th Council between 2004 and 2008.