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Dr. David Dudgeon
DIRECTOR & Chair Professor
Freshwater ecology and biodiversity conservation.
Dr. Kenneth M. Y. Leung
Deputy Director & Professor
Aquatic toxicology and ecophysiology, ecological risk assessment and quantitative ecology.
Dr. 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.
Dr. M.L. Chye
Endowed Professor
Stress-tolerant crops, plant bioreactors, plant lipids & isoprenoids, agricultural biotechnology, plant molecular biology.
Dr. Matthew Evans
Professor & Dean
Climate change impacts, Computational ecology, Behavioural ecology, Evolutionary biology, Conservation biology.
Dr. Will W.M. Lee
Professor
Molecular biology of reproductive growth factors and cell junction dynamics.
Dr. Yvonne Sadovy
Professor
Ichthyology, fisheries management and conservation of reef fishes, reproductive biology of fishes especially in respect of hermaphroditism.
Dr. Richard M.K. Saunders
Professor
Systematics, phylogenetics and reproductive biology of flowering plants.
Dr. Nagendra P. Shah
Professor
Probiotics, prebiotics, and functional foods; ACE-Inhibitory peptides and blood pressure; functionality of dairy foods; EPS stater cultures; biotransformation of isoflavones.
Dr. Gray A. Williams
Professor
Intertidal ecology, herbivore-autotroph interactions, behaviour and ecophysiology of intertidal species, especially molluscs.
Dr. Anderson O.L. Wong
Professor
Neuroendocrine regulation and signal transduction mechanisms for pituitary hormone expression in fish models.
Dr. Alice S.T. Wong
Professor
Molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate normal ovarian function and the development of ovarian cancer.
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
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. Ji-Dong Gu
Associate Professor
Environmental microbiology, and environmental toxicology, bacterial metabolic pathways, plasmid biology of Vibrio species, biochemical processed of phytoremediation.
Dr. Wallace B.L. Lim
Associate Professor
Agricultural biotechnology and biofuels; Carbon and phosphorus metabolisms of plants and microbes; Plant and microbial phosphatases.
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. V. ThiyagaRajan
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. Jennifer M.F. Wan
Associate Professor
Chinese medicine, dietary lipids and cancer, antioxidants and immune function, proteomics & nutrigenomics.
Dr. M.F. Wang
Associate Professor
Functional foods, natural products, Maillard reaction, natural product chemistry, instrumental analysis, food chemistry.
Dr. Aixin Yan
Associate Professor
Microbial Stress Response, Origin of Antibiotic and Multidrug Resistance During Stress Response.
Dr. Moriaki Yasuhara
Associate Professor
Paleoecology and macroecology, biodiversity patterns, climatic impacts, deep-sea biology, human-induced ecosystem degradation.
Dr. W.K. Yip
Associate Professor
Plant biochemistry, regulation of plant hormone ethylene biosynthesis, co-product cyanide detoxification, ethylene signal transduction.
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. David M. Baker
Assistant Professor
Coral Reef Ecology, Stable Isotope Ecology, Evolution & Extinction of Symbiosis, Global Change, Marine Pollution, Conservation Forensics.
Dr. Timothy C. Bonebrake
Assistant Professor
Global Change, Conservation Biology, Tropical Ecology, Natural History, Urban Ecosystems, Climate, Biogeography, Lepidoptera.
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. Juan D. Gaitan-Espitia
Assistant Professor
Evolutionary ecology, Eco-physiology, Functional and comparative genomics, Quantitative genetics, Climate change biology
Dr. Benoit Guénard
Assistant Professor
Biodiversity & Biogeography, Community Ecology, Biological Invasions, Urban Ecology, Insect Ecology, Paleoentomology, Taxonomy, Foraging Ecology and Ants!
Dr. Olivier Habimana
Assistant Professor
Food Microbiology, Food Safety, Biofilms, Biofouling and Microbial ecology.
Dr. Jetty C.Y. Lee
Assistant Professor
Lipid Oxidation Biomarkers.
Antioxidant and Oxidative Stress in Human Nutrition.
Fatty Acid Metabolites and Lipidomics.
Dr. Jimmy C.Y. Louie
Assistant Professor
Carbohydrate metabolism, diet and metabolic health, dietary management of diabetes, nutritional epidemiology.
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. Tanja Sobko
Assistant Professor
Nutrition, Sports Nutrition. Lifestyle modifications with special emphasis on childhood obesity; wellness/health enhancement and communication.
Dr. Karen W.Y. Yuen
Assistant Professor
Cell Division, Chromosome Segregation, Centromere/Kinetochore Formation and Propagation, Genome Instability in Cancers, Epigenetics, Cell Cycle Regulation.
Dr. Yuanliang Zhai
Assistant Professor
Regulation of DNA replication in eukaryotes, cryo-electron microscopy in structure determination, and optical super-resolution imaging
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. Janet K.Y. Chan
Lecturer
Waste management, environmental pollution and health risk assessment, environmental education
Dr. K.W. Cheng
Lecturer
Phytochemicals and their derivatives for prevention of lung cancer and skin cancer; local delivery of phytochemicals for chemoprevention of lung cancer and skin cancer in animal models.
Dr. Jimmy S.H. Tsang
Lecturer
The genetics and proteomic analysis of haloacid-degrading bacteria, molecular analysis of the regulation of a haloacid dehalogenase operon in Burkholderia cepacia, heterologous expression using yeast systems.
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.