魏安祺 Wei, An-Chi
- Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University
- Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 2013
- M.S. Georgetown University, 2005
- B.S. National Taiwan University, 2004
- Office : MD 521
- TEL : +886-2-33668612
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- Website : https://ntu-mito.webflow.io/
Major Research Areas
Research Summary
The objective of my research is to apply recent advances in systemic and quantitative methods to examine the functional roles of mitochondria inside the cells and develop computational models of mitochondrial dynamics and energetics. The goal is to elucidate the roles of mitochondrial regulations in energy supply and demand matching, integrated cell function, and the progression of the disease. The model may ultimately be used to optimize the design of therapeutic agents in order to maximize protective effects.
An-Chi Wei received her Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2013. She continued her postdoctoral training in Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University. She then joined Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics at National Taiwan University.
Her main areas of research interest are using integrative computational and experimental methods to study mitochondrial biology, bioenergetics and metabolism. She is studying the roles of mitochondria in energy production, cell death and regulating cellular functions by quantitative experiments and developing biophysical based computational models.
Journal articles & book chapters
1. Nguyen,Lu,Chen,Lee,Lo,Wei,Ho,Yu, “Mitochondrial
2. Chang,Wei, “Transcriptome and machine learning analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on mitochondria and multiorgan damage” , PLOS ONE , Vol. 19 , e0297664-, Jan. 2024
3. Tseng,Chu,Lee,Zhao,Chang,Ho,Wei, “Metabolic regulation of mitochondrial morphologies in pancreatic beta cells: coupling of bioenergetics and mitochondrial dynamics” , Communications Biology , Vol. 7 , Oct. 2024
4. Cheng,Chong,Hsieh,Lin,Ye,Khumsupan,Lu,Yu,Cheng,Yap,Kou,Cheng,Hsu,Sheen,Lin,Wei,Yu, “Identification of anti-fibrotic and pro-apoptotic bioactive compounds from Ganoderma formosanum and their possible mechanisms in modulating TGF-β1-induced lung fibrosis” , Journal of Ethnopharmacology , Vol. 327 , 118008-, Jun. 2024
5. Hsieh,Lee,Sung,Wei, “Long-Term Photobiomodulation of Cellular and Mitochondrial Activities in IMR-32 Cells Using an 810 nm Light-Emitting Diode” , IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics , Vol. 29 , 1-10, Jul. 2023
6. Chiu,Tseng,Wei, “Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Mitochondrial Retrograde Signaling Dynamics” , iScience , Vol. 25(12) , Nov. 2022
7. Tseng,Wei, “Kinetic Mathematical Modeling of Oxidative Phosphorylation in Cardiomyocyte Mitochondria” , Cells , Vol. 11 , 4020-, Dec. 2022
8. Ching-Hsiang Chu, Wen-Wei Tseng, Chan-Min Hsu and An-Chi Wei, “Image Analysis of the Mitochondrial Network Morphology With Applications in Cancer Research” , Frontiers in Physics , Apr. 2022
9. Samuel,Lai,Schär,Wu,Steinberg,Wei,Anderson,Tomaselli,Gerstenblith,Bottomley,Weiss, “Myocardial ATP depletion detected noninvasively predicts sudden cardiac death risk in heart failure patients” , JCI Insight , May 2022
10. Yang,Zhang,Xie,Peng,Manning,Zimmerman,Wang,Wei,Khalifa,Reynolds,Jin,Om,Zhu,Bedja,Jiang,Jurczak,Shiva,Scott,O’Rourke,Kass,Paolocci,Feng, “Myocardial brain-derived neurotrophic factor regulates cardiac bioenergetics through the transcription factor Yin Yang 1” , Cardiovascular Research , Jun. 2022
11. M. H. Rahman, Q. Xiao, S. Zhao, A. C. Wei, Y. P. Ho, “Extraction of functional mitochondria based on the membrane stiffness” , Methods in Molecular Biology, Springer Protocols. Mitochondrial Medicine: Assessing Mitochondria , Vol. 2 , 343-355-, Jun. 2021
12. Umapathi,Banerjee,Zachara,Abrol,Wang,Mesubi,Luczak,Wu,Granger,Wei,Reyes Gaido,Florea,Talbot Jr.,Hart,Anderson, “Excessive O- GlcNAcylation Causes Heart Failure and Sudden Death” , Circulation , Apr. 2021
13. Chelko,Keceli,Carpi,Doti,Agrimi,Asimaki,Beti,Miyamoto,Amat-Codina,Bedja,Wei,Murray,Tichnell,Kwon,Calkins,James,O’Rourke,Halushka,Melloni,Saffitz,Judge,Ruvo,Kitsis,Andersen,Di Lisa,Paolocci, “Exercise triggers CAPN1-mediated AIF truncation, inducing myocyte cell death in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy” , Science Translational Medicine , Vol. 13 , Feb. 2021
14. Wang, Hernández-Ochoa, Viswanathan, Blum, Do, Granger, Murphy, Wei, Aja, Liu, Antonescu, Florea, Talbot, Mohr, Wagner, Regot, Lovering, Gao, Bianchet, Wu, Cammarato, Schneider, Bever, Anderson, “CaMKII oxidation is a critical performance/disease trade-off acquired at the dawn of vertebrate evolution” , Nature Communications , Vol. 12 , May 2021
15. Lin,Lin,Huang,Wei, “MitoTox: a comprehensive mitochondrial toxicity database” , BMC Bioinformatics , Vol. 22 , Jul. 2021
16. Lin,Lin,Cheng,Chang,Chao,Liu,Wei, “Transcriptomic and Metabolic Network Analysis of Metabolic Reprogramming and IGF-1 Modulation in SCA3 Transgenic Mice” , International Journal of Molecular Sciences , Vol. 22 , 7974-, Aug. 2021
17. Konstantinidis, Bezzerides, Lai, Isbell, Wei, Wu, Viswanathan, Blum, Granger, Heims-Waldron, Zhang, Luczak, Murphy, Lu, Gratz, Manta, Wang, Wang, Kolodkin, Gladyshev, Hund, Pu, Wu, Cammarato, Bianchet, Shea, Levine, Anderson, “MICAL1 constrains cardiac stress responses and protects against disease by oxidizing CaMKII” , Journal of Clinical Investigation , Aug. 2020
18. Luczak,Wu,Granger,Joiner,Wilson,Gupta,Umapathi,Murphy,Reyes Gaido,Sabet,Corradini,Tseng,Wang,Heck,Wei,Weiss,Anderson, “Mitochondrial CaMKII causes adverse metabolic reprogramming and dilated cardiomyopathy” , Nature Communications , Vol. 11 , Sep. 2020
19. Wen-Wei Tseng, Ching-Hua Lu, Zih-Hua Chen, Yu-De Lin, Ko-Hong Lin, Yi-Chia Wei, An-Chi Wei, “Diagnostics for neurodegenerative disorders” , Frontiers in Nanobiotechnology Vol. 1, Advances in Biosensing Technology for Medical Diagnosis , Vol. 1 , 387-435, 2020
20. Md Habibur Rahman, Qinru Xiao, Shirui Zhao, Fuyang Qu, Chen Chang, An-Chi Wei and Yi-Ping Ho, “Demarcating the membrane damage for the extraction of functional mitochondria” , Microsystems & Nanoengineering , Vol. 4 , Dec. 2018
21. Junfeng Ma, Partha Sarathi Banerjee, Stephen A Whelan, Ting Liu, An-Chi Wei, Genaro Ramirez-Correa, Mark E McComb, Catherine E Costello, Brian O'Rourke, Anne Murphy, Gerald W Hart, “Comparative Proteomics Reveals Dysregulated Mitochondrial O-GlcNAcylation in Diabetic Hearts” , Journal of proteome research , May 2016
22. An-Chi Wei, Ting Liu, Brian O'Rourke, “Dual Effect of Phosphate Transport on Mitochondrial Ca2+ Dynamics” , Journal of Biological Chemistry , Vol. 290(26) , 16088-16098, Jun. 2015
23. Junfeng Ma, Ting Liu, An-Chi Wei, Partha Banerjee, Brian O'Rourke, Gerald W Hart, “O-GlcNAcomic Profiling Identifies Widespread O-Linked β-N-Acetylglucosamine Modification (O-GlcNAcylation) in Oxidative Phosphorylation System Regulating Cardiac Mitochondrial Function” , Journal of Biological Chemistry , Vol. 290(49) , 29141-29153, Dec. 2015
24. Russell S Whelan, Klitos Konstantinidis, An-Chi Wei, Yun Chen, Denis E Reyna, Saurabh Jha, Ying Yang, John W Calvert, Tullia Lindsten, Craig B Thompson, Michael T Crow, Evripidis Gavathiotis, Gerald W Dorn, Brian O'Rourke, Richard N Kitsis, “Bax regulates primary necrosis through mitochondrial dynamics” , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Vol. 109(17) , 6566-6571, Apr. 2012
25. An-Chi Wei, Ting Liu, Raimond L Winslow, Brian O'Rourke, “Dynamics of matrix-free Ca2+ in cardiac mitochondria: two components of Ca2+ uptake and role of phosphate buffering” , The Journal of general physiology , Vol. 139(6) , 465-478, Jun. 2012
26. An-Chi Wei, Ting Liu, Sonia Cortassa, Raimond L Winslow, Brian O'Rourke, “Mitochondrial Ca 2+ influx and efflux rates in guinea pig cardiac mitochondria: low and high affinity effects of cyclosporine A” , Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell Research , Vol. 1813(7) , 1373-1381, Jul. 2011
27. An-Chi Wei, Miguel A Aon, Brian O'Rourke, Raimond L Winslow, Sonia Cortassa, “Mitochondrial energetics, pH regulation, and ion dynamics: a computational-experimental approach” , Biophysical journal , Vol. 100(12) , 2894-2903, Jun. 2011
28. Miguel A Aon, Sonia Cortassa, An-Chi Wei, Morten Grunnet, Brian O'Rourke, “Energetic performance is improved by specific activation of K+ fluxes through K Ca channels in heart mitochondria” , Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics , Vol. 1797(1) , 71-80, Jan. 2010
29. Lufang Zhou, Sonia Cortassa, An-Chi Wei, Miguel A Aon, Raimond L Winslow, Brian O'Rourke, “Modeling cardiac action potential shortening driven by oxidative stress-induced mitochondrial oscillations in guinea pig cardiomyocytes” , Biophysical journal , Vol. 97(7) , 1843-1852, Oct. 2009
Conference & proceeding papers:
1. Huang, Lee, Wei, “Cell Cycle Phase Classification from Deep Learning-Predicted Images of Cell Organelles” , IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering , 2022
2. Hsieh, Tseng, Wei , “Mathematical model of photobiomodulation on cytochrome c oxidase” , IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering , 2022
3. Hsu, Lee, Wei, “Convolutional neural networks predict mitochondrial structures from label-free microscopy images” , Proc. SPIE 11792, International Forum on Medical Imaging in Asia 2021 , 2021