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Prof. Alice S.T. Wong
Interim Director and Chair Professor
Molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate normal ovarian function and the development of ovarian cancer.
Prof. Juha K.K. Merilä
Chair Professor, Associate Director (Ecology & Biodiversity Area)
Local adaptation, evolution in small populations, determinants of genetic diversity, relative roles of natural selection, genetic drift and phenotypic plasticity in explaining population differentiation, evolution in response to climate change
Prof. Billy K.C. Chow
Chair Professor, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR (MOLECULAR & CELL BIOLOGY AREA)
Endocrinology of brain-gut peptides, pleiotropic activities of secretin in our body, evolution of GHRH/PACAP peptides and receptors.
Prof. Qiang Zhou
Chair Professor
Mechanisms of HIV gene expression, transcriptional elongation of RNA polymerase II, Phase-separation mechanisms, Epigenetic control of gene transcription
Prof. Timothy C. Bonebrake
Professor
Global Change, Conservation Biology, Tropical Ecology, Natural History, Urban Ecosystems, Climate, Biogeography, Lepidoptera.
Prof. Wallace B.L. Lim
Professor
Agricultural Biotechnology; Plant Energy and Carbon Metabolism; Plant Organelle Biology
Prof. ThiyagaRajan Vengatesen
Professor
Ocean acidification; Environmental proteomics; Biofouling: Larval Biology; Oyster Fishery and Aquaculture; and Ecological and economic consequences of larval exposure to environmental stressors.
Prof. Gray A. Williams
Professor
Intertidal ecology, herbivore-autotroph interactions, behaviour and ecophysiology of intertidal species, especially molluscs.
Prof. Aixin Yan
Professor
Microbial Stress Response, Antimicrobial Resistance, CRISPR-Cas, Host-Pathogen Interface.
Prof. M.L. Chye
EMERITUS PROFESSOR
Stress-tolerant crops, plant bioreactors, plant lipids & isoprenoids, agricultural biotechnology, plant molecular biology.
Prof. David Dudgeon
Emeritus Professor
Freshwater ecology and biodiversity conservation.
Prof. Anderson O.L. Wong
EMERITUS PROFESSOR
Neuroendocrine regulation and signal transduction mechanisms for pituitary hormone expression in fish models.
Prof. Xiang David Li
Professor (by courtesy)
Epigenetics, chromatin biology, histone modifications, Protein-protein interaction, cell-type and tissue-specific protein labeling, Chemical proteomics, Drug target identification.
Prof. Louise Amy Ashton
Associate Professor
Tropical rainforest, canopies, food webs, insects, climate change, processes and patterns of biodiversity.
Prof. David M. Baker
Associate Professor
Coral Reef Ecology, Stable Isotope Ecology, Evolution & Extinction of Symbiosis, Global Change, Marine Pollution, Conservation Forensics.
Prof. C.B. Chan
Associate Professor
Molecular mechanisms of obesity-induced diabetes, Body weight regulation, Identification of small molecular weight compounds with therapeutic potentials against metabolic syndrome.
Prof. Benoit Guénard
Associate Professor
Biodiversity & Biogeography, Community Ecology, Biological Invasions, Urban Ecology, Insect Ecology, Paleoentomology, Taxonomy, Foraging Ecology and Ants!
Prof. Alice C. Hughes
Associate Professor
Dr Hughes' research attempts to understand patterns of biodiversity and drivers of biodiversity change to inform more effective conservation across scales.
Prof. Jetty C.Y. Lee
Associate Professor of Teaching (Senior Lecturer)
Lipid Oxidation Biomarkers.
Antioxidant and Oxidative Stress in Human Nutrition.
Fatty Acid Metabolites and Lipidomics.
Prof. Clive S.C. Lo
Associate Professor
Biosynthesis and metabolic engineering of natural products in crop plants (rice, sorghum, tomato), plant biochemistry and molecular biology.
Prof. Wing Yee Lui
Associate Professor
Cytokine-mediated cell-cell adhesion, regulation of cell junction restructuring, transcription regulation of E3 ligases, ubiquitin-dependent protein degradation in the testis.
Prof. Bayden Russell
Associate Professor
Marine Ecology (particularly subtidal), Climate Change and Nutrient Pollution impacts in marine ecosystems, herbivore and algal ecophysiology, Ecosystem Phase-shifts, Sustainable Aquaculture Production.
Prof. Moriaki Yasuhara
Associate Professor
Paleoecology and macroecology, biodiversity patterns, climatic impacts, deep-sea biology, human-induced ecosystem degradation.
Prof. Karen W.Y. Yuen
Associate Professor
Cell Division, Chromosome Segregation, Centromere/Kinetochore Formation and Propagation, Genome Instability in Cancers, Epigenetics, Cell Cycle Regulation.
Prof. Yuanliang Zhai
Associate Professor
DNA replication and human diseases, Chromatin dynamics, Epigenetic Inheritance, Protein structure and function, and Cryo-EM in structure determination
Prof. Jiangwen Zhang
Associate Professor
Integrated analysis of epigenetic regulation, gene regulatory network, and signaling pathway in stem cells, development, and tumorigenesis with high through-put 'omics' and systems biology.
Prof. Gary Y.W. Chan
Assistant Professor
Interplay between DNA repair, chromosome segregation and genome instability, Mechanism of homologous recombination, Mechanism of nucleases involved in DNA repair and segregation
Prof. Juan D. Gaitan-Espitia
Assistant Professor
Evolutionary ecology, Eco-physiology, Functional and comparative genomics, Quantitative genetics, Climate change biology
Prof. Heath Johnson
Assistant Professor
Mechanisms of signaling encoding of cell and tissue fates, developmental biology, optogenetics
Prof. Andy K.M. Lam
Assistant Professor
Cryo-Electron Microscopy, Electrophysiology, Membrane Transport, Ion Channel Structure and Mechanism
Prof. Nan LIU
Assistant Professor
Cryo-Electron Microscopy, Protein Structures and Dynamics, In-Situ Structural Analysis, AI for Structural Biology
Prof. Hannah Mumby
Assistant professor
Behavioural ecology and life histories of large mammals; human and animal dimensions of conservation; qualitative methods; African elephants, Asian elephants and wild boar.
Prof. Celia Schunter
Assistant Professor
Ecological genomics, transcriptomics & epigenomics of adaptation, response to environmental change, transgenerational inheritance, and environmental effects on behaviour and the brain in marine organisms.
Prof. Mathew Seymour
Assistant Professor
Molecular ecologist focusing on biodiversity dynamics and environmental assessment using environmental DNA (eDNA)
Prof. Simon Y.W. Sin
Assistant Professor
Animal coloration, behavioural ecology, conservation genomics, evolutionary biology, gene family evolution, genotype-phenotype association, host-pathogen co-evolution and mate choice.
Prof. Peng Wang
Assistant Professor
Molecular regulation of photosynthesis and chloroplast biogenesis, Photosynthetic pigment metabolism, Plastid proteostasis, Plastid signaling, Adaption of plants to climate change.
Prof. Jin Wu
Assistant Professor
Plant physiology ecology, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, global change, vegetation spectroscopy, and earth system science.
Prof. Chaogu Zheng
Assistant Professor
Neuronal cell fate determination and subtype differentiation, microtubule dynamic and neuronal morphogenesis, neurodegeneration and axon regeneration, genomics and the evolution of neuronal diversity.
Dr. Hani S. El-Nezami
Principal Lecturer
Food safety and toxicology with special focus on natural carcinogens; Transplacental transfer of toxins and disease development later in life; Probiotics and the prevention of liver and metabolic syndrome diseases.
Dr. Billy C.H. Hau
Principal Lecturer
Ecological restoration of degraded tropical landscape, environmental impact assessment, biodiversity assessment.
Dr. Janet K.Y. Chan
Senior Lecturer
Waste management, environmental pollution and health risk assessment, environmental education
Dr. Ibis K.C. Cheng
Lecturer
Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics, Chemistry, Nutrition and Metabolism, Nutrigenomics, Research Methodology, Cytogenetics and Cancer research
Dr. Daphne M Y Wu
Lecturer
Public Health Nutrition, Nutrition and Life Cycle, Nutrition and Sports Performance, Functional Foods, and Food Security
Dr. L. Zhang
Lecturer
Application of time-domain NMR and MRI in food analysis, postharvest quality of fruit and vegetable, chemometrics for food quality control.
Dr. Sam K.S. Leung
Assistant Lecturer
Fatty acids, oxidative stress and lipid oxidation. Lipidomic analysis and application on biological systems.
