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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

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Education

Position

• 2023 -              Research Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, CUHK
• 2015 - 2023     Research Associate

Research Interests

• Organelle dynamics in developing pollens;
• Plastid transformation in Arabidopsis cotyledon;
• 3D electron microscopy, cryo-electron microscopy

Representative Publications

1. Liang, Z.*, Yeung, W.T., Ma, J., Mai, K.K.K., Liu, Z., Chong, Y.L.F., Cai, X. and Kang, B.H.*, 2022. Electron tomography of prolamellar bodies and their transformation into grana thylakoids in cryofixed Arabidopsis cotyledons. The Plant Cell. 34(10), pp.3830-3843.
2. Liang, Z., Zhu, N., Mai, K.K., Liu, Z., Tzeng, D., Osteryoung, K.W., Zhong, S., Staehelin, L.A. and Kang, B.H., 2018. Thylakoid-bound polysomes and a dynamin-related protein, FZL, mediate critical stages of the linear chloroplast biogenesis program in greening Arabidopsis cotyledons. The Plant Cell, 30(7), pp.1476-1495. (Highlighted by F1000 Prime as 2 stars article)
3. Zeng, Y. ¹, Liang, Z. ¹, Liu, Z. ¹, Li, B. ¹, Cui, Y., Gao, C., Shen, J., Wang, X., Zhao, Q., Zhuang, X., Erdmann, P.S., Wong, K.B., and Jiang, L., 2023. Recent advances in plant endomembrane research and new microscopical techniques. New Phytologist, 240(1), pp.41-60.
4. Qin, Z. ¹, Liang, Z. ¹, Wu, Y. ¹, Zhou, X., Xu, M., Jiang, L., Li, S. and Zhang, Y., 2023. Embryo sac development relies on symplastic signals from ovular integuments in Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal, 116(1), pp.161-172.
5. Gu, Y., Zebell, S.G., Liang, Z., Wang, S., Kang, B.H. and Dong, X., 2016. Nuclear pore permeabilization is a convergent signaling event in effector-triggered immunity. Cell, 166(6), pp.1526-1538.
6. Liang, Z., Zhang, T., Zhang, X., Zhang, J. and Zhao, C., 2015. An alkaloid and a steroid from the endophytic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. Molecules, 20(1), pp.1424-1433.
7. Ma, J., Liang, Z., Zhao, J., Wang, P., Ma, W., Mai, K.K., Andrade, J.A.F., Zeng, Y., Grujic, N., Jiang, L. and Dagdas, Y., 2021. Friendly mediates membrane depolarization-induced mitophagy in Arabidopsis. Current Biology, 31(9), pp.1931-1944.
8. Wang, P., Liang, Z. and Kang, B.H., 2019. Electron tomography of plant organelles and the outlook for correlative microscopic approaches. New Phytologist, 223(4), pp.1756-1761.
9. Ye, H., Gao, J., Liang, Z., Lin, Y., Yu, Q., Huang, S. and Jiang, L., 2022. Arabidopsis ORP2A mediates ER-autophagosomal membrane contact sites and regulates PI3P in plant autophagy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(43), p.e2205314119.
10. Niu, F., Ji, C., Liang, Z., Guo, R., Chen, Y., Zeng, Y. and Jiang, L., 2022. ADP-ribosylation factor D1 modulates Golgi morphology, cell plate formation, and plant growth in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology, 190(2), pp.1199-1213.

(¹co-first author, *co-corresponding author)

Patents

China National Invention Patent:

1. ZL 201510405970.4;
2. ZL 201410022432.2;
3. ZL 201410022718.0;
4. ZL 201210039269.1;
5. ZL 201410022573.4.

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Education

Position

Research Interests

• Fluorescence microscopy
• Fluorescent materials
• Spectroscopy
• Optical Instrumentation
• Cellular Structures

 
Representative Publications

1. Lao ¹, Y. Bao ¹, S. Xu, Impact of excitation energy on the excitonic luminescence of cesium lead bromide perovskite nanosheets, Optics Letters 2020, 45, 3881.
2. Lao ¹, W. Zhou ¹, Y. Bao, X. Wang, Z. Yang, M. Wang, S. Xu, Photoluminescence signatures of thermal expansion, electron-phonon coupling and phase transitions in cesium lead bromide perovskite nanosheets, Nanoscale 2020, 12, 7315.
3. Lao, Z. Yang, Z. Su, Y. Bao, J. Zhang, X. Wang, X. Cui, M. Wang, X. Yao and S. Xu,Anomalous Temperature-Dependent Exciton-Phonon Coupling in Cesium Lead BromidePerovskite Nanosheets, J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123, 5128.
4. Lao, Z. Yang, Z. Su, Z. Wang, H. Ye, M. Wang, X. Yao and S. Xu, Luminescence and Thermal Behaviors of Free and Trapped Excitons in Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanosheets, Nanoscale 2018, 10, 9949.
5. M Mao, TL Lam, WP To, X Lao, W Liu, S Xu, G Cheng, CM Che, Stable, High-Efficiency Voltage-Dependent Color-Tunable Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with a Single Tetradentate Platinum (II) Emitter Having Long Operational Lifetime, Advanced Materials 2021, 33, 2004873.
6. Tang, Z. Su, X. Lao, Y. Bao, D. Zhu, S. Xu, The key roles of 4f-level splitting and vibronic coupling in the high-efficiency luminescence of Ce³⁺ ion in LuAG transparent ceramic phosphors, Journal of Luminescence, 2020, 225, 117360.
7. J Zhang, L Yang, Y Cui, YL Tang, JY Xu, ZC Su, XZ Lao, YT Bao, XR Wang, SJ Xu, The role of luminescence self-absorption in photocatalytic properties of self-assembled ZnS nanocrystals, AIP Advances 2020, 10, 105314
8. Su, Z. Ren, Y. Bao, X. Lao, J. Zhang, J. Zhang, D. Zhu, Y. Lu, Y. Hao, and S. Xu. Luminescence landscapes of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond: quasi-localized vibrational resonances and selective coupling. J. Mater. Chem. C 2019, 7, 8086.
9. Zhang, Z. Su, Y. Cui, G. Hu, Y. Tang, Z. Gan, L. Yang, X. Lao, Y. Bao, S. Xu, The roles of self–absorption and radiative energy transfer in photoluminescence of N–doped carbon nanodots in solution, AIP Advances 2019, 9, 035135.
10. Yang, M. Wang, H. Qiu, X. Yao, X. Lao, S. Xu, Z. Lin, L. Sun and J. Shao, Engineering the Exciton Dissociation in Quantum-Confined 2D CsPbBr₃ Nanosheet Films, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1705908.

Professional Activities

Consultant, Yale University
Guest editor and Topical Advisory Panel Member of Micromachines

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Research Interests

• Spectral biology in coastal health and food security
• Precision agriculture and plant physiology
• Ecological remote sensing
• Coastal algal blooms and fecal pollution

 
Representative Publications

1. Lin, Z., Cheng, K. H., Yang, D., Xu, F., Song, G., Meng, R., ... & Wu, J. (2024). Ecoregion-wise fractional mapping of tree functional composition in temperate mixed forests with sentinel data: Integrating time-series spectral and radar data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 304, 114026.
2. Cheng, K. H., Luo, X., Jiao, J. J., & Yu, S. (2023). Storm accelerated subsurface Escherichia coli growth and exports to coastal waters. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 441, 129893.
3. Cheng, K. H., Jiao, J. J., Luo, X., & Yu, S. (2022). Effective coastal Escherichia coli monitoring by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) thermal infrared images. Water Research, 118900.
4. Cheng, K. H., Luo, X., Jiao, J. J., & Yu, S. (2022). Delineating E. coli occurrence and transport in the sandy beach groundwater system by radon-222. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 431, 128618.
5. Cheng, K. H., Luo, X., & Jiao, J. J. (2020). Two-decade variations of fresh submarine groundwater discharge to Tolo Harbour and their ecological significance by coupled remote sensing and radon-222 model. Water research, 178, 115866.
6. Cheng, K. H., Chan, S. N., & Lee, J. H. (2020). Remote sensing of coastal algal blooms using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Marine Pollution Bulletin, 152, 110889.