Nat Pombubpa Lab News
2026
First PhD Defense of Nat Pombubpa Lab
First PhD Defense of NatPombubpa Lab On 9 June 2026, Niar Ibrahim, the first Ph.D. student of the NatPombubpa Lab, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation after a three-hour oral examination. This milestone marks the first Ph.D. graduation from our research group and reflects years of dedication, perseverance, and scientific achievement in environmental microbiology and medical mycology. At the end of June, the lab celebrated this memorable achievement together with Dr. ...
Final Year Student 2026 Farewell
2026 NatPombubpa Lab Dinner and Farewell On 3 June 2026, the NatPombubpa Lab gathered for a farewell dinner at R&B Karaoke, Silom, to celebrate the graduation of our final-year students and commemorate another successful academic year. We were also delighted to welcome several of our alumni back to celebrate this special occasion with us. We proudly congratulate our graduates: - Niar Ibrahim Rose – Ph.D., Microbiology and Microbial Technology - Junarak Hokoon (Fah) – B.S...
SEA-ARMi 1st Online Training The Southeast Asia Antifungal Resistance Monitoring Initiative (SEA-ARMi) successfully launched its first online training session on metagenomics preprocessing, focusing on data curation and primary data analysis. Metagenomics preprocessing is a critical step in transforming raw sequencing data into high-quality datasets suitable for downstream analyses. The training covered essential quality control procedures, data curation strategies, and computati...
NEW YEAR PARTY 2026!!! Our lab welcomed 2026 by celebrating the New Year together with food and great company. The gathering was a wonderful opportunity for everyone to reflect on the achievements of the past year and look forward to exciting research, new collaborations, and future successes. We hope the new year brings continued growth, impactful discoveries, and many memorable moments for all members of the NatPombubpa Lab.
2025
Lab Member Goes to the UK! Our first Ph.D. student, Niar, was awarded an international research exchange at the Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology (MRC CMM), University of Exeter, United Kingdom, from November to December 2025. Hosted in Professor Neil Gow’s laboratory, she received advanced training in medical mycology while expanding her expertise in fungal pathogenesis and antifungal resistance research. During her visit, she also had the opportunity to connect with resea...
SEA-ARMi 1st Symposium The SEA-ARMi (Southeast Asia Antifungal Resistance Monitoring Initiative) team proudly organized the inaugural symposium, “Tackling Antifungal Resistance Through a One Health Lens,” as part of the Thailand Society for Biotechnology (TSB) 2025 conference. Supported by the FAILSAFE Programme at Chulalongkorn University and funded by the Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology (MRC CMM), University of Exeter, the symposium showcased ongoing resear...
2025 NatPombubpa Lab Member Graduation On October 3, 2025, our lab proudly celebrated the graduation of several members from Chulalongkorn University. We congratulate our graduates on this important milestone and wish them continued success in their future academic and professional careers. The graduating members include Master’s students Chayaporn Lakmuang (Bioinformatics) and Teeratat Kaewjon (Microbiology and Mi...
2025 Prachuap Khiri Khan Sampling Trip – Season 2
Prachuap Khiri Khan Sampling Trip – Season 2 On August 30–31, our lab conducted the second field sampling expedition to the beaches of Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand. The expedition aimed to investigate the microbial diversity of coastal beach environments, with a particular focus on environmental microorganisms of potential public health importance. The fieldwork was led by Niar, a Ph.D. student, as part of her doctoral researc...
Final Year Student 2025 Farewell
2025 NatPombubpa Lab Dinner and Farewell On May 30th, our lab held a farewell dinner at SHAKARIKI, Emsphere, to celebrate the graduation of our final-year lab members. We were also delighted to welcome some of our lab alumni who joined the celebration. We proudly celebrated and conratulated the achievements of our graduating members: Chayaporn Lakmuang (Bioinformatics, Master’s), Teeratat Kaewjon (Microbiology and Microbial Technology, Master’s), Pichsinee Thaitawee (Microbiolo...
East Thailand Sampling Trip 2nd Round
East Thailand Beach Sampling Trip On February 10, 2025, our lab conducted the second round of sampling at several beaches in Eastern Thailand. This fieldwork is part of our ongoing mission to investigate microbial diversity in coastal environments. Based on water current patterns and environmental conditions, these areas are suspected to harbor potentially harmful microbes. Through this sampling effort, we aim to better understand the presence, distribution, and potential risks ...
2024
East Thailand Sampling Trip 1st Round
East Thailand Beach Sampling Trip On October 21, 2024, our lab conducted the first sampling trip along several beaches in Eastern Thailand. This project aims to explore the microbial diversity in these coastal areas, which are suspected to harbor potentially harmful microbes based on water current patterns and local environmental conditions. This sampling effort also serves as the final project for one of our lab ...
NatPombubpa Lab Obtaining UK Grant “FAILSAFE – Fungal AMR Innovations for LMICS: Solutions and Access For Everyone” ” Southeast Asia Unites to Combat Soil-Borne Fungal Threats and Drug Resistance” Soil is home to diverse fungi that are essential for the environment but can also pose serious health risks to humans, plants, and animals. In Thailand, pathogenic fungi like Fusarium group, Mucorales and Eumycetoma agents ...
2024 NatPombubpa Lab Member Graduation October 3rd marked a memorable milestone for our lab as five of our dedicated members officially graduated. Congratulations to Gregorius Nico Setiawan (Master’s student), Monpatcharapan Santichaiyakun (Microbiology undergraduate), Phetcharin Hinmo (Microbiology undergraduate), Chatdanai Rojanatham (BBTech undergraduate), and Ekapol Duangdara (BBTech undergraduate) on this significant achievement...
Final Year Student 2024 and Marie Solau Farewell
2024 NatPombubpa Lab Dinner and Farewell On May 24th, our lab held a farewell dinner to celebrate the graduation of our final-year lab members and to bid farewell to Marie Solau, our exchange student from the Superior National School of Agronomy of Toulouse (INP-ENSAT), France, who joined us for the second semester of the 2023 academic year. We also celebrated the achievements of our graduating lab members: Gregorius Nico Setiawan (Master’s stu...
2nd Lab Workshop - AMPtk Pipeline
Second Mini Workshop Workshop for Lab Members “Processing of metabarcoding amplicon by using AMPtk (Amplicon Tool Kit) pipeline” On 5 April 2024, we held a workshop to provide real-time, hands-on training using practical case studies for our lab members. The goal was to ensure participants gained a solid understanding of command-line operations and script development for bioinformatics processing. In this case, we used the metabarcoding raw sequence file then processed it usin...
MiSeq Training 2024 Our lab members joined the traning for our department MiSeq maintainance training along with other students in the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University.
The 49th International Congress on Science, Technology, and Technology-based Innovation
STT49 Conference, 23-25 January 2024, Prince Songkla University Gregorius Nico is part of NatPombubpa Lab, and this is his last semester as a Master’s student at Chulalongkorn University. He presented part of his thesis research at the 49th International Congress on Science, Technology, and Technology-based Innovation (STT49), 23-25 January 2024, at the Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hatyai Campus, Thailand. He studied the...
2023
1st Lab Workshop - HPCC Introduction
First Mini Workshop for Lab Members “Introduction of High-Performance Computing Center (HPCC) and Basic Linux” The workshop was held on 7 December 2023 to support our lab members in effectively using the HPCC platform for future research. During this session, we provided basic training on bioinformatics processing, focusing on essential skills for researchers working in this field. The main objective was to ensure that our lab members understand how to navigate the command li...
2023 NatPombubpa Graduation October 5th marks a memorable milestone for our lab members. Congratulations to Bas (Teeratat Kaewjon) and Parm (Pudit Palasak) on officially graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology! Graduation is not the finish line—it’s the gateway to new possibilities. As you embark on the next chapter of your journey, may you face each challenge with confidence and pursue your dreams with passion and resilience. We are proud of you and look forward ...
Yuki Hayashi Farewell 5th September is Yuki’s rehearsal in the lab meeting before she presents at Mahidol University about her exchange program results. In the evening, we had a farewell dinner at Chuankin BBQ Mookata. At this dinner, our lab was accompanied by Aj. Choncanok and her lab members did farewell dinner to Yuki’s friend, Sho, who exchanged at Aj. Choncanok lab. Yuki presented well with her result of our lab trip at Faculty of Science, Mahidol University ...
Prachuap Khiri Khan Sampling Trip
Prachuap Khiri Khan Sampling Trip On 19 August 2023, our lab did a sampling trip on some of Prachuap Khiri Khan beaches. Our mission is to investigate the microbial diversity in that area, which is expected to have dangerous microbes based on the latitude literature. On this trip, we have two new members of our lab, that are Niar (Ph.D. student) and Yuki (exchange student from Osaka University). The next day (20 August), we visited some of the tourist areas in Saranwithi Pier a...
Congratulations to Bas and Parm
Congratulations to Bas and Parm Congratulations to our undergradaute students, Bas and Parm! They have finnaly made it through the end of their undergraduate program. While Bas is preparing himself for his master program in our lab, Parm has decided to go to the USA to gain new expereince. Good luck to Bas and Parm!
NatPombubpa Lab Dinner Thanks to NatPombupa lab members, we had dinner together at Dookki Topoki this year. to celebrate another successful year with all the research going on in the lab and prepare ourselves for the end of this school year.
2022
NatPombubpa Lab Research Grants
NatPombubpa Lab Research Grants In 2022, NatPombubpa lab has received several research grants and we would like to acknowledge these grants to help moving our reaserch forward. We thanks ASAHI glass foundation, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn university, and the office of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation.
Asian Mycological Congress 2021
NICE WORK project inititation NatPombubpa lab attended Asian Mycological Congress 2021 (AMC21), 3-5 August 2022 at Thailand Science Park Convention Center, Thailand. AMC21 is the first international conference for Chayaporn, Pudit, and Teeratat. ห้องปฏิบัติการ NatPombubpa เข้าร่วม Asian Mycological Congress 2021 (AMC21), 3-5 สิงหาคม 2022 ที่ศูนย์การประชุมอุทยานวิทยาศาสตร์ประเทศไทย AMC21 เป็นการประชุมระดับนานาชาติครั้งแรกของ ชยาภรณ์ ภูดิษ และ...
NICE WORK project inititation NatPombubpa lab in collaboration with Dr.Supachitra Chadchawan and Dr.Thanin Chantarachot received a SCI-SUPER VIII research grant to conduct the “NICE-WORK: New Integrative Core-Microbiome Effort for Well-founded Organic Rice Knowledge” project. We have initiated the NICE-WORK project along with other related project involving organic fertilizer and microbes. ห้องปฏิบัติการ NatPombubpa ร่วมกับ ดร.ศุภจิตรา ชัชวา...
First Gel Electrophoresis in our lab!!!
First Gel Electrophoresis in our lab!!! @Bell and @Saint run the very first gel elcetrophoresis in our lab.😁 We are checking our equipments and procedures as we prepare the pipeline for next generation amplicon sequencing. @Bell และ @Saint ทำ Gel electrophoresis ครั้งแรกในห้องปฏิบัติการของเรา😁 เรากำลังตรวจสอบอุปกรณ์และขั้นตอนของเราเพื่อเตรียมกระบวนกสรสำหรับการทำ next generation amplicon sequencing
NatPombubpa Lab First meeting!!!
NatPombubpa Lab First meeting!!! Although COVID-19 is still here, we manage to have our first ever on-site lab meeting on Tuesday, February, 15, 2022. Our first on-site lab meeting focuses on building basic Unix understanding for lab members and learning how Unix can be used for basic bioinformatics. Welcome everyone to NatPombubpa Lab 😁 แม้ว่า COVID-19 จะยังคงอยู่ แต่เราจัดการให้มีการประชุมของห้องปฏิบัติการในสถานที่เป็นครั้งแรกในวันอังคารที่ 15 กุมภาพันธ์ 2022 การประชุมห้องปฏิ...
2021
Chula Radio: Science รายการทันโลกวิทยาศาสตร์
Chula Radio: Science รายการทันโลกวิทยาศาสตร์ รายการทันโลกวิทยาศาสตร์ พบกับ อ.ดร.ณัฐภณ ป้อมบุบผา จากภาควิชาจุลชีววิทยา คณะวิทยาศาสตร์ จุฬาฯ 🧬ตอน “ราในดินแห้งแล้ง คำตอบเชิงนิเวศวิทยา และการใช้ประโยชน์” วันเสาร์ที่ 9 ต.ค. 64 🧫 ตอน “คุณค่าของเห็ดรารอบตัว” วันเสาร์ที่ 16 ต.ค. 64 📱รับฟังทางวิทยุจุฬาฯ FM 101.5 MHz เวลา 10.00-10.30 น. และ online / on demand ทาง www.curadio.chula.ac.th – รายการทันโลกวิทยาศาสตร์ –
COVID-19 field survey ลงพิ้นที่ตรวจเชื้อโควิด-19
COVID-19 field survey at Nonthaburi market by Chulalongkonrn University อาจารย์คณะวิทยาศาสตร์ จุฬาฯ ลงพื้นที่ตรวจเชื้อโควิด-19 แก่ประชาชนที่ตลาดนนทบุรี Nat Pombubpa (in blue shirt) was part of Chulalongkorn University team during COVID-19 field survey at Nonthaburi market. อ.นัด (เสื้อสีฟ้า) ร่วมเป็นส่วนหนึ่งในการลงพื้นที่ตรวจเชื้อโควิด-19 แก่ประชาชนที่ตลาดนนทบุรี “ผศ.ดร.ชฎิล กุลสิงห์ ภาควิชาเคมี คณะวิทยาศาสตร์ จุฬาฯ ผู้พัฒนาเครื่องตรวจเชื้อโควิดจากกลิ่นเหงื่อ พร้อมด้วย น.ส.อิ...