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Education

Position

• Lecturer, School of Life Sciences

Research Interests

• soil biodiversity
• myriapod, arthropod and invertebrate biology
• invertebrate endocrinology
• evolutionary biology and genomics

Representative Publications 

Full publication list: https://scholar.google.no/citations?user=kJs-ObcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

• So WL^, Nong WY^, Xie Y^, Baril T, Ma HY, Qu Z, Haimovitz J, Swale T, Gaitan-Espitia JD, Lau KF, Bendena WG, Kai ZP, Hayward A*, Hui JHL*. (2022). Myriapod genomes reveal ancestral horizontal gene transfer and hormonal gene loss in millipedes. Nature communications, 13(1), 3010.
• So WL^*, Ting KW^, Lai SY^, Huang EYY^, Ma Y, Chong TK, Yip HY, Lee HT, Cheung BCT, Chan MK, Hong Kong Soil Biodiversity Consortium, Nong WY, Law MMS*, Lai DYF*, Hui JHL*. (2022). Revealing the soil biodiversity in Hong Kong using a citizen science approach. Biodiversity Data Journal, 10.
• So WL^, Kai ZP^, Qu Z, Bendena WG, Hui JHL*. (2022). Rethinking Sesquiterpenoids: A Widespread Hormone in Animals. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(11), 5998.
• So WL^, Leung TCN^, Nong WY, Bendena WG, Ngai SM*, Hui JHL*. (2021). Transcriptomic and proteomic analyses of venom glands from scorpions Liocheles australasiae, Mesobuthus martensii, and Scorpio maurus palmatus. Peptides, 146, 170643.
• Qu Z^, Nong WY^, So WL^, Barton-Owen T^, Li Y^, Leung TCN, Li C, Baril T, Wong AYP, Swale T, Chan TF, Hayward A, Ngai SM, Hui JHL*. (2020). Millipede genomes reveal unique adaptations during myriapod evolution. PLoS Biology, 18(9), e3000636
• Lee IHT^, Nong WY^, So WL^, Cheung CKH, Xie Y, Baril T, Yip HY, Swale T, Chan S, Wei YY, Lo N, Chan TF, Hayward A, Lam HM, Hui JHL*. (2023). Sex-dependent responses to temperature in the common yellow butterfly Eurema hecabe. BMC Biology, 21(1), 200.
• Shum CWY^, Nong WY^, So WL^, Li Y^, Qu Z, Yip HY, Swale T, Ang PO, Chan KM, Chan TF, Chu KH, Chui APY, Lau KF, Ngai SM, Xu F, Hui JHL*. (2022). Genome of the sea anemone Exaiptasia pallida and transcriptome profiles during tentacle regeneration. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 10, 1558.
• Law STS^*, Nong WY^, So WL, Baril T, Swale T, Chan CB, Tobe SS, Kai ZP, Bendena WG, Hayward A, Hui JHL*. (2022). Chromosomal-level reference genome of the moth Heortia vitessoides (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), a major pest of agarwood-producing trees. Genomics, 114(4), 110440.
• Nong WY^, Yu Y^, Aase-Remedios M^, Xie Y, So WL, Li Y, Wong CF, Baril T, Law STS, Lai SY, Haimovitz J, Swale T, Chen SS, Kai ZP, Xi S, Wu Z, Hayward A, Ferrier DEK*, Hui JHL*. (2022). Genome of the ramshorn snail Biomphalaria straminea - an intermediate vector of schistosomiasis. GigaScience, 11, giac012.
• Yu Y^, Nong WY^, So WL, Xie Y, Yip HY, Haimovitz J, Swale T, Baker DM, Bendena WG, Chan TF, Chui APY, Lau KF, Qian PY, Qiu JW, Thibodeau B, Xu F, Hui JHL*. (2022). Genome of elegance coral Catalaphyllia jardinei (Euphylliidae). Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 991391.

^ = contributed equally; * = corresponding author

Awards

• 2023, RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme 2023/24, Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee Secretariat HKSAR
• 2022, Postgraduate Students Publication Award 2021-2022, School of Life Sciences, CUHK
• 2022, Selected Young Scientist Participant (among a total of 200 international young scientists) of the 1^st Hong Kong Laureate Forum (the HKLF), HKLF
• 2019-2020, The Postgraduate Teaching Award 19/20, School of Life Sciences, CUHK
• 2019-2020, Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship for Postgraduate Research Students 2019/20, Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund
• 2019-2020, Dr. Walter Szeto Memorial Scholarship 2019/20
• 2018-2019, Kam Ngan Stock Exchange Scholarship 2018/19, The Kam Ngan Stock Exchange Limited
• 2016-2017, The Cheng Foundation Scholarship, The Incorporated Trustees of The Cheng Foundation
• 2016-2017, Biology Alumni of CUHK Prize, Biology Alumni of CUHK
• 2016-2017, CUHK1981 Biology Alumni Scholarship, 1981 Biology Alumni of CUHK
• 2016-2017, HSBC Hong Kong Scholarship, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
• 2016-2017, The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Scholarship, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government
• 2015-2016, New Asia 66’ Biology Alumni Scholarship, New Asia 66’ Biology Alumni (Professor Sun Sai-Ming Samuel)
• 2013-2017, Dean’s Honours List, Faculty of Science, CUHK
• 2013-2017, Master’s List for excellent academic performance, Wu Yee Sun College, CUHK

Professional Activities

• 2023.3, Delivery of lecture to selected students in International Biology Olympiad 2022
  Lecture title: Molecular Techniques i.e. DNA extraction, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) & gel electrophoresis
• 2022.8, Delivery of public talk on the Symposium on EarthBioGenome Project Hong Kong: Current Progress and Roadmap 2022
  Talk title: Understanding biological phenomena of myriapods from genomic studies
• 2022, Organizing committee, Annual Biological Science Colloquium, co-organized by the Biodiversity Research Center of Academia Sinica (BRCAS) and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Others

Hong Kong Biodiversity Genomics Consortium
Hong Kong Soil Biodiversity Consortium