Name : CHU Ka HouPosition : Research Professor, School of Life SciencesSchool : School of Life Sciences The Chinese University of Hong KongEducation :1984 Ph. D. (Biological Oceanography), Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography, USA1976 A. B. (Biological Sciences, with specialisation in Marine Biology), University of California at Berkeley, USARepresentative Publictions : Zhang X, Yuan J, Sun Y, Li S, Gao Y, Yu Y, …… Chu KH, Liu B, Li F, Xiang J: Penaeid shrimp genome provides insights into benthic adaptation and frequent molting. Nature Commun 2019, 10:356.Leung NYH, Wai CYY, Ho MHK, Liu RW, Lam KS, Wang JJ, Shu SA, Chu KH, Leung PSC: Screening and identifying mimotopes of the major shrimp tropomyosin using one-bead-one-compound combinatorial peptide libraries. Cell Mol Immunol 2017, 14:308-318.Liao Y, De Grave S, Ho TW, Ip BHY, Tsang LM, Chan T-Y, Chu KH: Molecular phylogeny of Pasiphaeidae (Decapoda, Caridea) reveals systematic incongruence of the current classification. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2017, 115:171-180.
Name : KWAN Hoi ShanPosition : Emeritus ProfessorSchool : School of Life Sciences The Chinese University of Hong KongEducation :1982 PhD (Microbiology), University of California, Davis, USA1978 MPhil, The Chinese University of Hong Kong1977 PG Dip Microbiol Biotech (Microbiology and Biotechnology), Osaka & Kyoto University, Japan1975 BSc (Hon.) (Biology), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong KongRepresentative Publictions : Chum WW, Kwan HS, Au CH, Kwok IS, Fung YW. 2011. Cataloging and profiling genes expressed in Lentinula edodes fruiting body by massive cDNA pyrosequencing and LongSAGE. Fungal Genetics and Biology48:359-369.Stajich JE, Wilke SK, Ahrén D, Au CH, Birren BW, Borodovsky M, Burns C, Canbäck B, Casselton LA, Cheng CK, Deng J, Dietrich FS, Fargo DC, Farman ML, Gathman AC, Goldberg J, Guigó R, Hoegger PJ, Hooker JB, Huggins A, James TY, Kamada T, Kilaru S, Kodira C, Kües U, Kupfer D, Kwan HS, Lomsadze A, Li W, Lilly WW, Ma LJ, Mackey AJ, Manning G, Martin F, Muraguchi H, Natvig DO, Palmerini H, Ramesh MA, Rehmeyer CJ, Roe BA, Shenoy N, Stanke M, Ter-Hovhannisyan V, Tunlid A, Velagapudi R, Vision TJ, Zeng Q, Zolan ME, Pukkila PJ. 2010. Insights into evolution of multicellular fungi from the assembled chromosomes of the mushroom Coprinopsis cinerea (Coprinus cinereus).Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107:11889-11894.Cheung MK, Au CH, Chu KH, Kwan HS, Wong CK. 2010. Composition and genetic diversity of picoeukaryotes in subtropical coastal waters as revealed by 454 pyrosequencing.The ISME Journal 4:1053-1059.
Name : CHAN King MingPosition : Associate ProfessorSchool : School of Life Sciences The Chinese University of Hong KongEducation :1991 Ph. D. Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada1984 M. Phil. Biology Division, CUHK1982 B. Sc. (Major in Biology, minor in Geography), CUHKRepresentative Publictions : Chen, Y.Y., and Chan, K.M. (2018) Transcriptional inhibition of TCDD induced gene expression and protein expression profiles in zebrafish following the administrations of TCDD and cadmium. Toxicology Letters 282:121-135.Yang, J., Zhao, H., and Chan, K.M. (2017) Toxic effects of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (BDE 47, and 99) and localization of BDE-99 induced cyp1 mRNA in zebrafish larvae. Toxicology Reports 4: 614-624.Zhou, Z., Yang, J., and Chan, K.M. (2017) Toxic effects of triclosan on a zebrafish (Danio rerio) liver cell line, ZFL. Aquat. Toxicology 191: 175-188.
Name : CHAN Ting FungPosition : Associate ProfessorSchool : School of Life Sciences The Chinese University of Hong KongEducation :2003 Ph. D. Washington University School of Medicine1997 B. Sc. University of Wisconsin-MadisonRepresentative Publictions : Levy-Sakin M, Pastor S, Mostovoy Y, Li L, Leung AK, McCaffrey J, Young E, Lam ET, Hastie AR, Wong KH, Chung CY, Ma W, Sibert J, Rajagopalan R, Jin N, Chow EY, Chu C, Poon A, Lin C, Naguib A, Wang WP, Cao H, Chan TF#, Yip KY#, Xiao M#, Kwok PY#. (2019) Genome maps across 26 human populations reveal population-specific patterns of structural variation. Nat Commun (in press).Li L, Leung AK, Kwok TP, Lai YYY, Pang IK, Chung GT, Mak ACY, Poon A, Chu C, Li M, Wu JJK, Lam ET, Cao H, Lin C, Sibert J, Yiu SM, Xiao M, Lo KW, Kwok PY, Chan TF*, Yip KY*. (2017) OMSV enables accurate and comprehensive identification of large structural variations from nanochannel-based single-molecule optical maps. Genome Biol. 18(1):230.Wang SY, Lau K, Lai KP, Zhang JW, Tse AC, Li JW, Tong Y, Chan TF, Wong CK, Chiu JM, Au DW, Wong AS, Kong RY, Wu RS. (2016) Hypoxia causes transgenerational impairments in reproduction of fish. Nat Commun. 7:12114.
Name : HUI Ho Lam JeromePosition : Associate ProfessorSchool : School of Life Sciences The Chinese University of Hong KongEducation :2008 DPhil, University of Oxford2005 MPhil, The University of Hong Kong2003 BSc, The University of Hong KongRepresentative Publictions : Hui JHL* (2018). Copepod incompatibilities. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2(8). 1203-1204.Qu Z, Bendena WG, Nong WY, Siggins KW, Noriega F, Kai ZP, Zang YY, Koon AC, Chan HY, Chan TF, Chu KH, Lam HM, Akam M, Tobe SS, Hui JHL* (2017). MicroRNAs regulate the sesquiterpenoid hormonal pathway in Drosophila and other arthropods. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 284, 1869.Sun J, Zhang Y, Xu T, Zhang Y, Mu H, Zhang Y, Lan Y, Fields CJ, Hui JHL, Zhang W, Li R, Nong WY, Cheung FK, Qiu JW, Qian PY (2017). Adaptation to deep-sea chemosynthetic environments as revealed by mussel genomes. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1, 0121.
Name : QIN JingPosition : Research Assistant ProfessorSchool : School of Life Sciences The Chinese University of Hong KongEducation :2013 PhD (Biochemistry(Bioinformatics)) The University of Hong Kong2009 MPhil (Biology) The Chinese University of Hong Kong2006 BSc (Biological Science) Zhejiang UniversityRepresentative Publictions : Qin, J., Li, M.J., Wang, P., Zhang, M.Q., and Wang, J. (2011). ChIP-Array: combinatory analysis of ChIP-seq/chip and microarray gene expression data to discover direct/indirect targets of a transcription factor. Nucleic acids research 39, W430-436.Wang, L.Y., Wang, P., Li, M.J., Qin, J., Wang, X., Zhang, M.Q., and Wang, J. (2011). EpiRegNet: constructing epigenetic regulatory network from high throughput gene expression data for humans. Epigenetics 6, 1505-1512.Qin, J., Li, M.J., Wang, P., Wong, N.S., Wong, M.P., Xia, Z., Tsao, G.S., Zhang, M.Q., and Wang, J. (2013). ProteoMirExpress: inferring microRNA and protein-centered regulatory networks from high-throughput proteomic and mRNA expression data. Molecular & cellular proteomics 12, 3379-3387.