Principle Investigator
Chaogu Zheng, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Biological Science, The University of Hong Kong
WORK EXPERIENCES
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University (2015-2018)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, City University of New York (2016-2017)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, Columbia University (2015)
M.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biophysics, CAS (2009)
B.S. in Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology of China (2006)
Postdoctoral Fellows
Fuqiang Ma
Ph.D. at Beijing Institute of Genomics, CAS (2018)
Dr. MA works on identifying the genetic mechanism of the evolution of neuronal diversity and the genomic basis of adaptation in C. elegans wild-isolates.
Chenyin (Cherry) Wang
Ph.D. at University of Macau (2018)
Dr. Wang works on modeling neurodegenerative diseases, such as AD and PD, in C. elegans with a specific focus on microbe-neuron interaction.
Graduate Students
Wing Yan Alice Leung
B.S. at The University of Hong Kong
Alice works on the role of Hox genes in neuronal differentiation.
Yuming Lu
B.S. at South China Agricultural University
Yuming works on the effects of tubulin post-translational modifications on axonal development and regeneration.
Research Assistant
Ho Ming Terence Lee
B.S. at King's College London
Terence works on investigating alternative mRNA splicing in regulating neurite growth.
Kam Ue Roy Li
B.S. at The University of Hong Kong
Roy works on the regulation of lipid metabolism by bacterial diet in C. elegans
Undergraduate Students
Dion Yelim Do
Dion works on the role of tubulin polyglutamylation in neuronal differentiation
Peter Yu-Po Huang
Peter is making constructs to express innexins in the touch circuit
Kailee Hoikiu Poon
Kailee is mapping mutations that affect neuronal migration
Sehong Kim
Sehong works on the function of MAP1 homologs in C. elegans