Postgraduates Studies


Research Postgraduate Positions

  1. Research Postgraduates for the Area of Excellence (AoE) in Developmental Genomics and Skeletal Research
  2. PhD Studentship Position in Systems Genetics of Human Disease
  3. PhD Positions in Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics
  4. PhD Position to Study the Extracellular Matrix and Stem cell “Niche” in the Regenerative Planaria

In addition, our staff may have positions still available in the following areas:

Supervisor Project Titles
Chan, Danny
  • Generation and analysis of mouse models with specific skeletal defects or intervertebral disc degeneration
  • Molecular controls for skeletal patterning: Joint formation and digit patterning
  • Role of cellular stress signals in cellular-decision making
  • Extracellular matrix niche in stem cell maintenance and differentiation
Cheah, Kathryn S.E.
  • Regulatory determinants mediating the role of Sox2 as a regulator of sensory organ development in the inner ear
Cheng, Lydia Y.L.
  • Evolutionary analysis based on study of haplotype variations in human mitochondrial DNA
Cheung, Martin C.H.
  • Transcriptional control of neural crest formation and delamination
  • Investigating the role of SoxE genes in tumor metastatsis
  • Dissecting the molecular mechanism of osteo-chondroprogenitors formation
Fu, Chuanhai
  • Characterization of a novel microtubule plus end tracking protein ase2p.
  • Purification and identification of spindle associated proteins.
Huang, Jian-Dong
  • Molecular mechanisms of intracellular transportation and diseases
  • Recombineering: mechanisms and applications.
  • Helicases and diseases
Huang, Wei
  • Molecular mechanisms of intracellular transportation and diseases
  • Recombineering: mechanisms and applications.
  • Helicases and diseases
Jin, Dong-Yan
  • Cellular targets of viral oncoproteins and oncomirs
  • Mechanism of genome instability: cell cycle checkpoints and centrosome
  • Molecular mechanism of innate antiviral immunity
Qian, Chengmin
  • Structure and mechanism of protein module in epigenetics
Sham, Mai Har
  • Irx genes and their genetic interaction pathways in inner ear development and hearing disorders
  • The role of Sox10 in enteric neural crest cell migration
  • Sonic hedgehog signaling genes in hindbrain facial branchial motorneuron development
  • Niche factors for mobilization of endogenous adult spinal cord neural stem cells for injury repair
Shum, Daisy K.Y.
  • Growing new nerves in glycosaminoglycan-modified environments
  • Lung inflammation - control of matrix turnover
Song, You-Qiang
  • Genetic linkage study of Degenerative disc disease (DDD) and Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC)
  • Genetic study of Alzheimer's disease
Tanner, Julian A.
  • Proteomics of Skeletal Disease
  • Target Identification and Drug Development for Infectious Disease
Wong, Nai Sum
  • The role of post-transcriptional regulation in cellular stress response
  • Kappa-opioid receptor and the regulation of apoptosis
Yao, Kwok Ming
  • Investigating the role of FOXM1 in the maintenance of human embryonic stem cell pluripotency and genome stability
Zhou, Zhongjun
  • Genomic Instability in Premature aging and Cancer
  • MT1-MMP in growth factor signaling, angiogenesis and tumorigenesis
  • Stem cell self-renewal in cancer and aging
  • Regulation of DNA-damage checkpoint response and repair by lamin A/C