Professor LUO Haiwei
Address
(Office): Marine Science Laboratory
(Lab): Marine Science Laboratory


Phone
(Office):(852) 3943 6121
(Lab): (852) 3943 6774

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Lab Website www.luolab.net


Education2010 Ph.D (Molecular Evolution), University of South Carolina
2008 MSc (Marine Microbiology), University of South Carolina
2004 BSc (Environmental Science), Xiamen University
Positions2021.1 Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, CUHK
2015.1-2020.12 Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, CUHK
2010-2014 Postdoctorial Research Associate, University of Georgia
Research InterestsMicrobial evolution and ecology, genomics, bioinformatics
Representative Publications
X. Chu, S. Li, S. Wang, D. Luo, H. Luo^*. 2020. Gene loss through pseudogenization contributes to the ecological diversification of a generalist Roseobacter lineage. The ISME Journal (in press)
X. Wang, Y. Zhang, M. Ren, T. Xia, X. Chu, C. Liu, X. Lin, Y. Huang, Z. Chen, A. Yan, H. Luo^*. 2020. Cryptic speciation of a pelagic Roseobacter population varying at a few thousand nucleotide sites. The ISME Journal (in press)
M. Ren, X. Feng, Y. Huang, H. Wang, Z. Hu, S. Clingenpeel, B.K. Swan, M.M. Fonseca, D. Posada, R. Stepanauskas, J.T. Hollibaugh, P.G. Foster, T. Woyke, H. Luo^*. 2019. Phylogenomics suggests oxygen availability as a driving force in Thaumarchaeota evolution. The ISME Journal 13 (9):2150-2161
F.L. Hellweger^*, Y. Huang, H. Luo^*. 2018. Carbon limitation drives GC content evolution of a marine bacterium in an individual-based genome-scale model. The ISME Journal 12 (5):1180-1187
H. Luo*, Y. Huang, R. Stepanauskas, and J. Tang. 2017. Excess of non-conservative amino acid changes in marine bacterioplankton lineages with reduced genomes. Nature Microbiology 2:17091
Y. Sun, K.E. Powell, W. Sung, M. Lynch, M.A. Moran, and H. Luo*. 2017. Spontaneous mutations of a model heterotrophic marine bacterium. The ISME Journal 11(7):1713-1718
H. Luo*, L. Thompson, U. Stingl, and A.L. Hughes. 2015. Selection maintains low genomic GC content in marine SAR11 lineages. Molecular Biology and Evolution 32 (10): 2738-2748
H. Luo*. 2015. Evolutionary origin of a streamlined marine bacterioplankton lineage. The ISME Journal 9(6):1423-1433
H. Luo*, B.B. Tolar, B.K. Swan, C.L. Zhang, R. Stepanauskas, M.A. Moran, and J.T. Hollibaugh*. 2014. Single cell genomics shedding light on marine Thaumarchaeota diversification. The ISME Journal 8: 732-736
H. Luo, B.K. Swan, R. Stepanauskas, A.L. Hughes, and M.A. Moran*. 2014. Evolutionary analysis of a streamlined lineage of surface ocean Roseobacters. The ISME Journal 8:1428-1439
Research Grants01/2021-12/2023. Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF), “Reconstructing the evolutionary history of flavobacteria” (14110820), PI, HK$1,131,260
01/2021-12/2022. the Open Collaborative Research Fund (OCRF), Hong Kong Branch of the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, “A correlated evolutionary history between the deep sea animals and their associated microbial lineages”, PI, HK$700,000
03/2019-09/2022. 深圳市科技创新委员会 (Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission), 基础研究学科布局项目, “深圳海域造礁石珊瑚共生细菌基因组学研究 (Genomic study of stony coral symbiotic bacteria in Shenzhen coastal waters)” (基20180279), PI, RMB￥3,000,000
07/2018-12/2021. 国家重点研发计划 (National Key R&D Program of China), “海斗深渊环境特征与生命演化过程 (Environmental features and biological evolution in hadopelagic waters)” (2018YFC0309800), co-I, RMB￥1,453,600 (my allocation)
01/2018-12/2020. Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF), “Roseobacter genome content diversification in a heterogeneous ocean” (14163917), PI, HK$848,714
01/2018-12/2021. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), “Evolution of anaerobic metabolic genes in marine Roseobacters” (41776129), PI, RMB￥680,000
06/2017-05/2025. UGC-AoE, “Center for genomic studies on plant-environment interaction for sustainable agriculture and food security”, co-PI, HK$1,000,000 (my allocation in the first four years)
06/2017-11/2019. Hong Kong Environment and Conservation Fund (ECF), “Genomic analysis of coral associated bacteria in Hong Kong waters” (15/2016), PI, HK$998,673
01/2016-12/2019. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), “Genomic diversity of marine planktonic Roseobacters and the underlying ecological and evolutionary mechanisms” (41576141), PI, RMB￥816,000
01/2016-12/2018. Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) Early Career Scheme (ECS), “Metabolism and evolution of uncultivated members of a generalist marine bacterial lineage” (24101015), PI, HK$1,067,343
Award2017. Young Researcher Award, CUHK
Professional Activities
Editorship
Editorial Board member, The ISME Journal, 05/2020+
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Microbiology, 09/2017+
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Marine Science, 08/2017+

Panel Member
National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2017-2019

Research Proposal Review
Member of "ESF College of Expert Reviewers" for European Science Foundation, 05/2020+
The European Science Foundation (ESF) 2019+
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) 2018
The UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Council (BBSRC) 2018
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) 2013, 2015
The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 2017+
Manuscript Review (selected)
Science
Nature Microbiology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Science Advances
Elife
The ISMEJournal
Genome Biology
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Environmental Microbiology
mBio