| November 2002 - now | Croucher Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow Bauer Center for Genomics Research & Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University Research interest: Genome scale pathway reconstruction by microarray expression profiling: from simple yeast to complex zebrafish model. |
| October 1998 - October 2002 | Research Assistant Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Chinese University of Hong Kong -conducted genetic and microarray researches on eye diseases including glaucoma, age related macular degeneration, myopia, cataract and aniridia -established Molecular Genetics and Genomic Laboratory for microarray analysis, automated sequencing, whole genome mapping, linkage analysis, mutation study. |
| 1999-2002 | PhD in Ophthalmology and Visual Science Department of Opthalmology and Visual Science Chinese University of Hong Kong Thesis title: Hereditary Primary Open Angle Glaucoma: From Molecular Genetics to Genomics |
| 1996-1998 | MPhil in Biochemistry Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Thesis title: Baculovirus co-expression and purification of CDK5 and p35nck5a |
| 1993-1996 | Bsc in Biochemistry (First Class Honours) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 2004 |
Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 8th edition |
| 2004 |
Student Scholarship Neural Development and Genetics of Zebrafish Marine Biological Laboratory |
| 2002-2004 | Croucher Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 2002 |
Action
for Vision Young Researcher of the Year |
| 2001 | Action for Vision Green Researcher of the Year |
| September 1996-August 1998 | Postgraduate Studentship Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Spring 1996 | Dean's List Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Fall 1993 | Parfums Christian Dior Skincare Scholarship in Biochemistry Christian Dior Co. Ltd. |
| 15 July 2004 |
A Biologist’s Guide to
Microarray Data Analysis with Bioconductor (invited) CGR, Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA |
| 15 June 2004 |
A Biologist’s Guide to
Microarray Data Analysis with Bioconductor (invited) CGR, Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA |
| 16 October 2003 |
“Fundamentals of microarray
analysis” (invited) Genome Research Centre University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China |
| 13 October 2003 |
“Microarray Mutation Analysis”
(invited) Clinical Genetics Service Center Department of Health Hong Kong, China |
| 7 October 2003 |
“Fundamentals of cDNA
microarray analysis” (invited) Prince of Wales Hospital Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China |
| 6 October 2003 |
“In vino veritas - acetic acid
stress response of natural wine yeasts” (invited) Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China |
| 2-5 October 2002 | "Microarray Analysis of Glaucoma Genes - The dual role of
dexamethasone on anti-inflammation and outflow resistance in trabecular
meshwork " (Invited) Joint European Research Meetings in Ophthalmology and Vision European Association for Vision and Eye Research Alicante, Spain |
| 21-26 April 2002 | "Microarray Analysis of Glaucoma Genes" XXIXth International Congress of Ophthalmology Sydney, Australia |
| 5-8 March 2002 | "Microarray Softwares Review" (Invited) EMBnet DNA Microarrays course 2002 Swiss European Molecular Biology Network (EMBnet) Node Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 4 July 2001 | "Eye diseases research - from genes to genome" Division of Nephrology; Department of Medicine McMaster University Ontario, Canada |
| 17 October 2000 | "Molecular Genetics of Glaucoma" Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics Shanghai, China |
2002 Academic Research Fund, University Research Committee, National University of Singapore
Ad hoc reviewer
for the book proposal from the following publisher:
2004 Wiley, New York
Ad hoc reviewer for the following journals:
2004 Bioinformatics, BMC
Bioinformatics, IEEE
Transactions on Image Processing, Molecular Biotechnology,
Physiological Genomics
2003 Journal of VLSI Signal Processing
- Special Issue on Genomic Signal Processing, Molecular Vision
2002 Briefings in Bioinformatics, IEEE Computer on
bioinformatics software systems, Thrombosis Research
2001 Journal of Real Time Imaging -
Special Issue on Imaging in Bioinformatics
Ad hoc reviewer for the following software:
2001 Database Referencing of Genes
ONline (DRAGON), Wiley, New York
| 13 June 2000 - now | yfleung's functional genomics home http://genomicshome.com; http://ihome.cuhk.edu.hk/~b400559 -a functional genomics portal focuses on genomics, microarray technologies, bioinformatics, proteomics and complex disease trait mapping. -provided a comprehensive archive of related journal publications -provided a comprehensive microarray software listing -reviewed by Science Magazine 2001 Oct;294:483. |
| 15-28 August 2004 |
Neural
Development & Genetics of Zebrafish Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, MA, USA |
| 28-29 June 2004 |
Bioconductor training Boston 2004 Channing Lab, Harvard University Longwood Medical Area, Boston, MA, USA |
| 2 June 2004 |
Promoter Analysis Computational Biology Group, CGR, Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA |
| Advanced Rosetta Training. Computational Biology Group, CGR, Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA |
|
| 28 July 2003 |
Introduction to Microarray
Analysis and Rosetta Resolver. Computational Biology Group, CGR, Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA |
| 10 June 2003 |
A Field Guide to GenBank and
NCBI Molecular Resources. NCBI, Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA |
| 29 May 2003 |
Introduction to EMBOSS. Computational Biology Group, CGR, Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA |
| 15 May 2003 |
Functional Discovery. Computational Biology Group, CGR, Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA |
| 2 May 2003 |
Biocomputing on the web. Computational Biology Group, CGR, Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA |
| 18-20 April 2002 | Design
and Analysis of DNA Microarray Studies Rockefeller University New York, USA |
| 4-8 March 2002 | DNA
microarrays 2002 European Molecular Biology Network (Swiss node) Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Switzerland |
| 13-14 December 2000 | Two Dimensional Electrophoresis & Image Analysis Workshop
Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Ltd. Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine,The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| 12 December 2000 | Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM) Workshop: LM200 -
Introduction and application Arcturus & Olympus Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| 24-28 July 2000 | Linkage
Lab Course - An introduction to genotyping and linkage analysis UK Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge |
| 10- 12 July 2000 | Introductory
Molecular Biology Computing UK Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre London |
| Operating system | Windows, Linux/ UNIX, MacOS |
| Bioinformatics tools | basic EMBOSS |
| Statistic programs | R, Excel, SPSS |
| Microarray analysis | Bionconductor, Statistics for Microarray Analysis (SMA)
package, Rosetta Resolver, TIGR TM4, Cluster,
Treeview, Expression Profiler, GenePix Pro, QuantArray, ImaGene, BRB
ArrayTools |
| Computing language | R, html, basic C, PERL and SQL |
| Database |
basic Access and MySQL |
3. Professor Dennis S.C. Lam
Chairman, Department of
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Chinese
University of Hong Kong
Honorary Chief-of-Service, Hong
Kong Eye Hospital
E-mail : dennislam@cuhk.edu.hk
Phone : (852) 2762 3157
webpage: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/medint/ovs/dl.htm
4. Professor Calvin C.P. Pang
Director of Laboratory Research, Department of
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Chinese
University of Hong Kong
E-mail : cppang@cuhk.edu.hk
Phone : (852) 2762 3129
webpage: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/medint/ovs/cp.htm
5. Professor Jerry H.C. WANG
Former Department Head, Department of
Biochemistry, Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology
E-mail : jerwang@ust.hk
Phone: (852) 2358 8701
webpage: http://www.ust.hk/~webbich/profiles/jhwang.html