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Prof. Alice S.T. Wong
Interim Director and 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
Endocrinology of brain-gut peptides, pleiotropic activities of secretin in our body, evolution of GHRH/PACAP peptides and receptors.
Prof. M.L. Chye
Endowed Professor
Stress-tolerant crops, plant bioreactors, plant lipids & isoprenoids, agricultural biotechnology, plant molecular biology.
Prof. Richard M.K. Saunders
Professor
Systematics, phylogenetics and reproductive biology of flowering plants.
Prof. Gray A. Williams
Professor
Intertidal ecology, herbivore-autotroph interactions, behaviour and ecophysiology of intertidal species, especially molluscs.
Prof. Anderson O.L. Wong
Professor
Neuroendocrine regulation and signal transduction mechanisms for pituitary hormone expression in fish models.
Prof. David Dudgeon
Emeritus Professor
Freshwater ecology and biodiversity conservation.
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.
Dr. David M. Baker
Associate Professor
Coral Reef Ecology, Stable Isotope Ecology, Evolution & Extinction of Symbiosis, Global Change, Marine Pollution, Conservation Forensics.
Dr. Timothy C. Bonebrake
Associate Professor
Global Change, Conservation Biology, Tropical Ecology, Natural History, Urban Ecosystems, Climate, Biogeography, Lepidoptera.
Dr. Stefano Cannicci
Associate Professor
Mangrove ecology and conservation, crabs-trees interactions in mangrove systems, behavioural ecology of intertidal crabs, evolutionary biology of intertidal and terrestrial crabs.
Dr. Hani S. El-Nezami
Associate Professor, Associate Director (Molecular & Cell Biology Area)
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. Benoit Guénard
Associate Professor
Biodiversity & Biogeography, Community Ecology, Biological Invasions, Urban Ecology, Insect Ecology, Paleoentomology, Taxonomy, Foraging Ecology and Ants!
Dr. 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.
Dr. Wallace B.L. Lim
Associate Professor
Agricultural Biotechnology; Plant Energy and Carbon Metabolism; Plant Organelle Biology
Dr. Clive S.C. Lo
Associate Professor
Biosynthesis and metabolic engineering of natural products in crop plants (rice, sorghum, tomato), plant biochemistry and molecular biology.
Dr. 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.
Dr. 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.
Dr. ThiyagaRajan Vengatesen
Associate Professor
Ocean acidification; Environmental proteomics; Biofouling: Larval Biology; Oyster Fishery and Aquaculture; and Ecological and economic consequences of larval exposure to environmental stressors.
Dr. Aixin Yan
Associate Professor
Microbial Stress Response, Antimicrobial Resistance, CRISPR-Cas, Host-Pathogen Interface.
Dr. Moriaki Yasuhara
Associate Professor
Paleoecology and macroecology, biodiversity patterns, climatic impacts, deep-sea biology, human-induced ecosystem degradation.
Dr. Karen W.Y. Yuen
Associate Professor
Cell Division, Chromosome Segregation, Centromere/Kinetochore Formation and Propagation, Genome Instability in Cancers, Epigenetics, Cell Cycle Regulation.
Dr. 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.
Dr. Louise Amy Ashton
Assistant Professor
Tropical rainforest, canopies, food webs, insects, climate change, processes and patterns of biodiversity.
Dr. C.B. Chan
Assistant Professor
Molecular mechanisms of obesity-induced diabetes, Body weight regulation, Identification of small molecular weight compounds with therapeutic potentials against metabolic syndrome.
Dr. 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
Dr. Juan D. Gaitan-Espitia
Assistant Professor
Evolutionary ecology, Eco-physiology, Functional and comparative genomics, Quantitative genetics, Climate change biology
Dr. Olivier Habimana
Assistant Professor
Food Microbiology, Food Safety, Biofilms, Biofouling and Microbial ecology.
Dr. Heath Johnson
Assistant Professor
Mechanisms of signaling encoding of cell and tissue fates, developmental biology, optogenetics
Dr. Jimmy C.Y. Louie
Assistant Professor
Carbohydrate metabolism, diet and metabolic health, dietary management of diabetes, nutritional epidemiology.
Dr. Eduardo Eiji Maeda
Assistant Professor
Remote sensing, land changes, microclimate, tropical forests, deforestation
Dr. 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.
Dr. 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.
Dr. Mathew Seymour
Assistant Professor
will join us in February 2022
Molecular ecologist focusing on biodiversity dynamics and environmental assessment using environmental DNA (eDNA)
Dr. 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.
Dr. Jin Wu
Assistant Professor
Plant physiology ecology, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, global change, vegetation spectroscopy, and earth system science.
Dr. Yuanliang Zhai
Assistant Professor
Regulation of DNA replication in eukaryotes, cryo-electron microscopy in structure determination, and optical super-resolution imaging
Dr. 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. Terry S C Lung
Research Assistant Professor
Lipid biochemistry and plant biology
Dr. Shelby McIlroy
Research Assistant Professor
Molecular Ecology, Ecology and Evolution of Coral Symbiosis, Biodiversity and Marine Ecosystems, Population connectivity and range expansion
Dr. Kerry Reid
Research Assistant Professor
Evolutionary processes facilitating adaptation in stickleback
Dr. Billy C.H. Hau
Principal Lecturer
Ecological restoration of degraded tropical landscape, environmental impact assessment, biodiversity assessment.
Dr. Caroline Dingle
Senior Lecturer
Global Change Ecology, Behavioral Ecology, Animal Communication, Conservation Genetics, Evolution, Tropical Biodiversity, Urban Ecology, Birds.
Dr. Jetty C.Y. Lee
SENIOR LECTURER
Lipid Oxidation Biomarkers.
Antioxidant and Oxidative Stress in Human Nutrition.
Fatty Acid Metabolites and Lipidomics.
Dr. Janet K.Y. Chan
Lecturer
Waste management, environmental pollution and health risk assessment, environmental education
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. Thomas C.S. Lam
Assistant Lecturer
Functional food; Pathophysiology (Neurodegeneration, Diabetes); Gut microbiota
Dr. Sam K.S. Leung
Assistant Lecturer
G/F
Fatty acids, oxidative stress and lipid oxidation. Lipidomic analysis and application on biological systems.