Use the Search Filter to find the various members of the Research Faculty below.
Prof. Timothy C. Bonebrake
Professor, Director
Global Change, Conservation Biology, Tropical Ecology, Natural History, Urban Ecosystems, Climate, Biogeography, Lepidoptera.
Prof. Jetty C.Y. Lee
Associate Professor, Associate Director (Teaching)
Lipid Oxidation Biomarkers.
Antioxidant and Oxidative Stress in Human Nutrition.
Fatty Acid Metabolites and Lipidomics.
Prof. Bayden Russell
Associate Professor, Associate Director (Ecology & Biodiversity)
Marine Ecology (particularly subtidal), Climate Change and Nutrient Pollution impacts in marine ecosystems, herbivore and algal ecophysiology, Ecosystem Phase-shifts, Sustainable Aquaculture Production.
Prof. Aixin Yan
Professor, Associate Director (Molecular & Cell Biology)
Microbial Stress Response, Antimicrobial Resistance, CRISPR-Cas, Host-Pathogen Interface.
Prof. Billy K.C. Chow
Chair Professor
Endocrinology of brain-gut peptides, pleiotropic activities of secretin in our body, evolution of GHRH/PACAP peptides and receptors.
Prof. Juha K.K. Merilä
Chair Professor
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. Alice S.T. Wong
Chair Professor
Molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate normal ovarian function and the development of ovarian cancer.
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. David M. Baker
Professor
Coral Reef Ecology, Stable Isotope Ecology, Evolution & Extinction of Symbiosis, Global Change, Marine Pollution, Conservation Forensics.
Prof. Shifeng Cheng
Professor
Plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics; Crop population quantitative genetics; Origins of evolutionary novelties and phenotypic diversity; Gene cis-/trans-regulation and evolution; Development of enabling technologies to understand traits
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. 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. 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. Janet K.Y. Chan
Associate Professor of Teaching
Waste management, environmental pollution and health risk assessment, environmental education
Prof. Juan D. Gaitan-Espitia
Associate Professor
Evolutionary ecology, Eco-physiology, Functional and comparative genomics, Quantitative genetics, Climate change biology
Prof. Benoit Guénard
Associate Professor
Biodiversity & Biogeography, Community Ecology, Biological Invasions, Urban Ecology, Insect Ecology, Paleoentomology, Taxonomy, Foraging Ecology and Ants!
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. Celia Schunter
Associate 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. Simon Y.W. Sin
Associate Professor
Animal coloration, behavioural ecology, conservation genomics, evolutionary biology, gene family evolution, genotype-phenotype association, host-pathogen co-evolution and mate choice.
Prof. Jin Wu
Associate Professor
Plant physiology ecology, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, global change, vegetation spectroscopy, and earth system science.
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. 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. Chaogu Zheng
Associate Professor
Neuronal cell fate determination and subtype differentiation, microtubule dynamic and neuronal morphogenesis, neurodegeneration and axon regeneration, genomics and the evolution of neuronal diversity.
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. 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. Mathew Seymour
Assistant Professor
Molecular ecologist focusing on biodiversity dynamics and environmental assessment using environmental DNA (eDNA)
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.
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. Ibis K.C. Cheng
Lecturer
Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics, Chemistry, Nutrition and Metabolism, Nutrigenomics, Research Methodology, Cytogenetics and Cancer research
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. Helen H.T. Cheung
Assistant Lecturer
Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition Care Process, Nutritional Management of Chronic Diseases, Nutrition and Life Cycle, Human Physiology, Public Health Nutrition and Nutrition Counseling Skills
Dr. Jonathan D. Cybulski
ASSISTANT LECTURER
Biogeochemistry
Stable Isotope Ecology
Coral Reef Ecology
Historical Ecology
Global Change
Anthropogenic Impacts
Dr. Ada C. Y. Lee
ASSISTANT LECTURER
Mangrove ecology
Grapsoid crabs
Herbivory
Dr. Sam K.S. Leung
Assistant Lecturer
Fatty acids, oxidative stress and lipid oxidation. Lipidomic analysis and application on biological systems.
