Research Team

Prof. Samuel Sai-Ming Sun    (Director)
      plant gene isolation, transformation, expression and regulation; plant bioreactor; rice genomics and molecular approaches to improve the yield and quality of important crop (rice)

Prof. Hon-Ming Lam    (Deputy Director)
      molecular regulation of amino acid metabolism in plant; functional analysis of stress tolerance genes in plants

Prof. Liwen Jiang
      plant cell biology; protein targeting; organelle biogenesis and biotechnology

Prof. Ming-Chiu Fung　
      molecular immunology, haematology, parasitology                  

Prof. Dianjing Guo
      plant secondary metabolism; bioinformatics, system biology and plant stress response        

Prof. Sai-Ming Ngai
      proteomics and bioinformatics; protein/peptide structural and functional studies; research and development on Modern Chinese Medicine

Prof. Vincent Eng Choon Ooi
      plant natural products: anti-cancer, immunomodulating and antiviral activities
 
Prof. Bao-Cai Tan
      plant genomics, and nutrition

Prof. Junxian He
     plant stress tolerance and signaling

Prof. Weichang Yu
     plant artificial chromosomes and crop improvement

Dr. Lucia Pui-Shan Liu 　     (Manager)
      administration and management 
                            

Major local collaborators 

Prof. Jianhua Zhang
      Hong Kong Baptist University

Prof. Mee-len Chye    and   Prof. Wing-Kin Yip
      University of Hong Kong

Major national/international collaborators  

Prof. Minghong Gu    and Prof. Qiaoquan Liu
      Yangzhou University

Prof. Anthony Huang
      University of California at Riverside, USA 

Prof. Maurice Ku
      National Chia-yi University, Taiwan
       Previously at Washington State University, Pullman, USA

        
Prof. Jiayang Li
      Chinese Academy of Sciences

Prof. Xueyi Liu
      Shanxi Academy of Agriculture 

Prof. Guihua Shao, Prof. Ruzhen Chang, Prof. Qi Zhang, Prof. Kaijun Zhao, Prof. Cailin Lei
      Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences  

Prof. Longping Yuan  and Prof. Xiaojin Wu
      China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center

         
Prof. Zongxiu Sun  
      China National Rice Research Institute