Department of Biology

Projects

Projects per year 2007 2019 2023 2026

• 1 Curtailed
• 28 Not started
• 43 Active
• 89 Finished

Projects per year

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• Active

  Development of Integrated Catalytic Processes for the Conversion of Waste Biomass to Hydrogen

  ZHAO, J.

  1/10/23 → 30/09/26

  Project: Research project

• Reconstruction of Food Web in the Southern Marine Waters of Hong Kong using Gut Content Metabarcoding

  CHIU, M. Y. & QIU, J.

  1/09/23 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research project

  • food web 100%
  • conservation management 50%
  • fishery management 47%
  • marine environment 38%
  • DNA 36%

• Applicability of eDNA metabarcoding in fish community monitoring: Case study in Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park

  QIU, J., IP, C. H., Chan, L. L. & Lai, C. S. V.

  1/09/23 → 31/08/25

  Project: Research project

  • marine park 100%
  • fish 56%
  • DNA 45%
  • rocky shore 34%
  • monitoring 30%

• Advanced processing of food waste digestate for hydrogen production and nutrients recovery based on catalytic wet oxidation: a zero-waste strategy contributing to Hong Kong's decarbonization goals

  ZHAO, J. & WONG, J. W. C.

  1/09/23 → 31/08/25

  Project: Research project

• Development of Super-Resolution Imaging and Automated Fluorescence Labeling System for Study of Abnormal Chromatin Structure

  ZHAO, Z.

  3/07/23 → 30/06/25

  Project: Research project

• Assessment of eDNA for monitoring fish and shrimp diversity and distribution in Hong Kong’s western waters: comparison with trawling

  QIU, J., IP, C. H., Leung, M. Y. & Yan, M.

  1/07/23 → 30/06/25

  Project: Research project

  • trawling 100%
  • fish 66%
  • DNA 41%
  • monitoring 40%
  • water 33%

• Development of an automated system for super resolution microscopy and image processing with enhanced sensitivity

  ZHAO, Z.

  1/07/23 → 30/06/25

  Project: Research project

• Climate- and environment-conscious urban growth in the Guangdong-Hong Kong- Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA): solutions and co-benefits

  GAO, M., CHEN, B., HUANG, B., Jin, L. & YUNG, K. L.

  30/06/23 → 29/06/26

  Project: Research project

• Genomic Insights into Environmental Adaptation and Diversity of Deep-sea Siboglinidae

  QIU, J., IP, C. H., Lan, Y., Jose, M., Qian, P. Y., Geg, R. & XU, J.

  1/06/23 → 31/05/26

  Project: Research project

  • Siboglinidae 100%
  • Annelida 56%
  • genomics 31%
  • genetic databases 19%
  • phylogeny 18%

• A novel TCM-based network pharmacology framework to human diseases and drug-disease relationship

  TIAN, L., LYU, A., TANG, L. H., Zhang, Q., Zhong, L., Yang, X. & YANG, Z.

  1/06/23 → 31/05/26

  Project: Research project

  • Pipeline 100%
  • Drug 45%

• Development of a novel combined thermal and biological strategy for food waste digestate disposal

  WONG, J. W. C., ZHAO, J. & MATHIKERE KRISHNEGOWDA, M.

  15/05/23 → 14/11/24

  Project: Research project

• End of life scenarios assessment of bioplastics and biomass-based disposable bags/tableware available in Hong Kong: biodegradability and environmental impact

  MATHIKERE KRISHNEGOWDA, M. & WONG, J. W. C.

  15/05/23 → 14/01/25

  Project: Research project

• NAD capping of RNA: mechanism and functions

  XIA, Y., AIK, W. S., CAI, Z., Jiang, L., Wong, K. B. & XIONG, L.

  1/05/23 → 30/04/26

  Project: Research project

  • NAD 100%
  • Arabidopsis 73%
  • RNA 58%
  • Molecular Biology 45%
  • Biological Phenomena 27%

• Prime Biosensing Technology Limited

  CHEN, L.

  1/04/23 → 31/03/24

  Project: Knowledge transfer project

• Discovery of a sex pheromone from Origanum vulgare

  LIAO, P.

  1/04/23 → 31/03/24

  Project: Research project

  • sex pheromones 100%
  • Origanum vulgare 93%
  • pest management 73%
  • biochemistry 64%
  • transcriptomics 61%

• Comprehensive metabolite profiling of soybeans for identifying high-quality and potentially insect-resistant soybean germplasm resources

  LIAO, P., Zhang, X. & Lam, H.

  1/04/23 → 31/03/24

  Project: Research project

  • Terpene 100%
  • Flavonoid 83%
  • Fatty Acid 70%
  • Metabolite 61%

• Mapping, molecular cloning and functional characterization of an autosome-linked locus that leads to 100% lethality of the hybrid embryos between two closely related nematodes

  ZHAO, Z.

  1/01/23 → …

  Project: Research project

  • abortion (animals) 100%
  • loci 84%
  • Caenorhabditis briggsae 72%
  • embryo (animal) 49%
  • genes 47%

• Understanding the molecular mechanism linking mRNA decay and capping with post-transcriptional gene silencing

  XIA, Y.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/26

  Project: Research project

• NAD-capped RNAs in Arabidopsis may link gene regulation and energy metabolism

  XIA, Y.

  1/01/23 → …

  Project: Research project

  • RNA 100%
  • energy metabolism 72%
  • eukaryotic cells 32%
  • Arabidopsis 28%
  • gene expression 22%

• 孤獨症社會行爲的神經機制及診療策略研究

  Shi, L., YUNG, K. L. & Zhang, S.

  1/01/23 → 31/12/25

  Project: Research project

  • Social Behavior 100%
  • Therapeutics 28%

• Role of OsABA8ox2 in the regulation of seedling establishment and grain filling in rice

  ZHANG, J.

  1/01/23 → …

  Project: Research project

  • abscisic acid 100%
  • filling period 65%
  • plant establishment 58%
  • rice 27%
  • metabolism 20%

• Shell DNA as an archive of phylogenetics, population genetics, and symbiosis in deep-sea clams

  QIU, J.

  1/01/23 → …

  Project: Research project

  • clams 100%
  • shell (molluscs) 89%
  • DNA 52%
  • population genetics 39%
  • endosymbionts 33%

• Hydrogen production in two-phase food waste anaerobic digestion with acidogenic gas diversion: mechanism and control

  WONG, J. W. C.

  1/01/23 → …

  Project: Research project

  • food waste 100%
  • anaerobic digestion 64%
  • methane 33%
  • electron 15%
  • decarboxylation 15%

• Constraint-based genome-scale computational modeling of human enterotype-associated gut commensal metabolism: Focus on the systems metabolic picture of bacterium Prevotella copri

  PRADHAN, N., YANG, Z. & MACKIE , R. I.

  1/11/22 → 31/10/25

  Project: Research project

  • Genomics 100%
  • Metabolism 91%
  • Bacteria 80%
  • Metabolic Networks and Pathways 66%
  • Substrates 33%

• Investigation on removal of the microplastics in food waste digestate for safer organic fertilizers

  ZHAO, J.

  1/09/22 → 31/08/24

  Project: Research project

• A pilot study of fish diversity in Hong Kong waters using environmental DNA metabarcoding

  QIU, J., IP, C. H., Leung, M. Y., Chan, L., Yan, M. & Cheng, J.

  1/06/22 → 31/05/24

  Project: Research project

  • DNA 100%
  • fish 60%
  • bioinformatics 54%
  • amplification 42%
  • water 24%

• Understanding the roles of Arabidopsis DXO1 in mRNA capping and transcriptional pausing

  XIA, Y.

  1/01/22 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research project

  • Arabidopsis 100%
  • RNA Caps 85%
  • NAD 78%
  • Messenger RNA 72%
  • RNA Polymerase II 59%

• Regulation of plant drought tolerance by AT-rich Interaction domain (ARID) proteins

  XIONG, L.

  1/01/22 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research project

  • transpiration 100%
  • protein domains 89%
  • stomatal movement 56%
  • guard cells 48%
  • drought tolerance 39%

• The effects of introgressive hybridization on the specialization and evolution of apple snails (Ampullariidea: Pomacea)

  Yang, Q. & IP, C. H.

  1/01/22 → 31/12/25

  Project: Research project

  • Ampullariidae 100%
  • Pomacea 93%
  • introgression 65%
  • population genetics 17%
  • genomics 12%

• A study of the genomic basis of symbiosis in a deep-sea tubeworm

  QIU, J.

  1/01/22 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research project

  • symbiont 100%
  • genome 69%
  • symbiosis 65%
  • chemosynthesis 58%
  • deep sea 51%

• Translating Disease-Mechanism Discoveries to Improve Treatment of Biliary Atresia, an Intractable Newborn Liver Disease

  CHEUNG, K. L. A.

  1/01/22 → 31/12/26

  Project: Research project

  • Cytomegalovirus 100%
  • HIV-1 87%
  • Urine 71%
  • DNA 27%
  • Virus Diseases 26%

• Effects of the sunscreen UV filter, benzophenone, on marine invertebrates

  CHIU, M. Y.

  1/01/22 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research project

  • invertebrate 100%
  • filter 38%
  • coral 34%
  • skin 34%
  • exposure 33%

• Diversity, abundance and distribution of epifauna from southern Hong Kong waters

  QIU, J.

  1/12/21 → 30/11/24

  Project: Research project

• Gamma-delta T cells as immunotherapy against mesothelioma

  CHEUNG, K. L. A.

  1/05/21 → 30/04/24

  Project: Research project

  • mesothelioma 100%
  • immunotherapy 65%
  • T-lymphocytes 60%
  • therapeutics 44%
  • liver neoplasms 25%

• Cloning and functional analysis of the main QTL gene qBGW1 that controls rice grain width

  ZHANG, J.

  1/01/21 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research project

  • rice 100%
  • trichomes 42%
  • transcriptomics 41%
  • Lycoris 36%
  • seed germination 31%

• Characterizing the in vivo functions of cyclin L and its binding partners in pre-mRNA splicing and cell cycle control

  ZHAO, Z.

  1/01/21 → 30/06/24

  Project: Research project

  • Cyclins 100%
  • Cyclin-Dependent Kinases 58%
  • Cell Cycle 39%
  • RNA Precursors 28%
  • Caenorhabditis elegans 27%

• 基於CXCR7/beta-catenin信號通路探索補骨脂定抑制肝癌幹細胞及轉移的作用機制

  YUNG, K. L.

  1/01/21 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research project

• Molecular Mechanisms for LOT1 Regulation of Plant Drought Stress Tolerance

  XIONG, L.

  1/12/20 → 31/05/24

  Project: Research project

  • abscisic acid 100%
  • transpiration 78%
  • ubiquitination 61%
  • temperature 49%
  • proteins 24%

• Understanding roles of NAD-capped RNAs in regulating virulence of the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae

  XIA, Y.

  1/11/20 → 31/10/23

  Project: Research project

  • virulence 100%
  • RNA 93%
  • Pseudomonas syringae 83%
  • plant pathogens 33%
  • pathogens 31%

• Breaking the barriers of grain-filling using novel mutant resources

  ZHANG, J.

  1/01/20 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research project

  • filling period 100%
  • spikelets 51%
  • mutants 49%
  • rice 49%
  • source-sink relationships 26%

• Center for Genomic Studies on Plant-Environment Interaction for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

  XIA, Y.

  1/06/17 → 31/05/25

  Project: Research project

• Center for Genomic Studies on Plant-Environment Interaction for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

  ZHANG, J.

  1/06/17 → 31/05/25

  Project: Research project

  • flood irrigation 100%
  • nutritive value 86%
  • irrigation 86%
  • drying 84%
  • rice 72%

• Center for Genomic Studies on Plant-Environment Interaction for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

  NG, D. W. K.

  1/06/17 → 31/05/25

  Project: Research project

• Not started

  Defining the mechanism and function of Arabidopsis mRNA capping enzymes

  XIA, Y.

  1/01/24 → 31/12/26

  Project: Research project

  • RNA Caps 100%
  • Messenger RNA 91%
  • Arabidopsis 78%
  • NAD 61%
  • RNA 55%

• RNA cap modifications and gene regulation (RNA端帽的修饰和基因表达)

  XIA, Y.

  1/01/24 → 31/12/25

  Project: Research project

  • Hong Kong 100%
  • regulation 71%

• Development of an oxidant-free catalytic system for one-pot synthesis of 2,5-diformylfuran from fructose and the catalytic mechanism study

  ZHAO, J. & GAN, L. L.

  1/01/24 → 31/12/26

  Project: Research project

  • 2,5-diformylfuran 100%
  • Fructose 65%
  • One Pot Reaction 54%

• Symbiotic zooxanthellae diversity and stability during coral bleaching in a marginal subtropical reef: A meta-haplotype approach

  IP, C. H. & QIU, J.

  1/01/24 → 31/12/25

  Project: Research project

  • coral 100%
  • bleaching 60%
  • symbiont 33%
  • field survey 26%
  • coral reef 26%

• Role of OsTPP3 in the regulation of hypoxic germination in rice

  ZHANG, J. & Ye, N.

  1/01/24 → 31/12/26

  Project: Research project

  • germination 100%
  • rice 84%
  • seed germination 54%
  • trehalose 41%
  • plant establishment 27%

• Understanding the biosynthesis of irregular monoterpenes for their heterologous production

  LIAO, P.

  1/01/24 → 31/12/26

  Project: Research project

  • Lavandulol 100%
  • Monoterpene 11%
  • Acetate 9%
  • Perfume 9%
  • Metabolic 8%

• Water stress responses and water-saving production of crops 作物水分胁迫和节水栽培

  ZHANG, J.

  1/01/24 → 31/12/25

  Project: Research project