Yee Liu, lab manager & previous PhD student:
Our undergraduate team during semester 1 of Academic Year 2025/26: Jelena, Zitong and Giselle:
Hong Xi, who is doing his PhD in the Department of Ophthalmology, but who is still regularly visiting our lab since I am his co-supervisor:
ALUMNI (PhD students)
NG Mei Ying
PhD Project: Development of novel agents and tools for drug discovery for the treatment of obesity and diabetes
Mei Ying has just graduated and is now working as a postdoc in Ed Chouchani’s lab at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40209947/; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38750619/; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38418847/; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29848489/; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28166272/
HONG Shin Yee
PhD Project: Investigation of mechanisms underlying the cellular response to changing glucose concentrations and stress signals; Role of mitochondrial stress in ageing
Currently: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) Singapore
Michelle FONG Hei Tung
PhD Project: LDB-1 and SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex participate in transcriptional activation by C. elegans BLIMP1/PRDM1
Currently: Field Application Scientist, Veredus Laboratories Singapore
BOH Boon Kim
PhD Project: Regulation of Cullin E3 ubiquitin ligases
Currently: Prudential, Malaysia
Daphne Pei Wen WONG
PhD Project: The Regulation of the NRF2 transcription factor in the phase 2 response
Currently: Technology Development Manager at NTUitive Pte Ltd
Christine Zhi Wen, HU
PhD Project: Regulation and function of Cullin RING E3 ubiquitin ligases
Currently: Assistant Safety & Health Manager, NUS Office of Safety, Health & Environment
CHOO Yin Yin
PhD Project: Characterization of the function and regulation of Cullin E3 ubiquitin ligases
Currently: Agilent Technologies Singapore
TAN Chia Yee
PhD project: Characterization of the cellular response to hypoxia
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, NUS
