Professor HUI Ho Lam Jerome
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(Office): Rm 603A, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK
(Lab): Rm 619, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

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(Office): (852) 3943 6316
(Lab): (852) 3943 6115

Fax (852) 2603 7246
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Web http://sites.google.com/site/huijerome/

http://biodiversity.sls.cuhk.edu.hk/ebphk/


Education2008 DPhil, University of Oxford
2005 MPhil, The University of Hong Kong
2003 BSc, The University of Hong Kong
PositionAssociate Professor, School of Life Sciences
Director, Biology Programme
Affiliated Staff, Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, School of Life Sciences
Investigator, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology
Member, iTERM
Assembly of Fellows, New Asia College

Research Interests
Insect and arthropod biology, cnidarians, invertebrates, insect-plant interactions
Marine biotechnology, molecular ecology and conservation of biodiversity
Evolutionary biology, genomics
Representative PublicationsFull publication list

Nong WY^, Yu Y^, Aase-Remedios M^, Xie Y^, So WL^, Li Y^, Wong CF^, Baril T^, Law ST^, Lai SY, Haimovitz J, Swale T, Chen SS, Kai ZP, Sun X, Wu Z, Hayward A*, Ferrier DE*, Hui JHL*. (2022). Genome of the ramshorn snail Biomphalaria staminea - an obligate intermediate host of schistosomiasis. GigaScience.
Nong WY^, Qu Z^, Li YQ^, Barton-Owen T^, Wong AY^, Yip HY, Lee HT, Narayana S, Baril T, Swale T, Cao J, Chan TF, Kwan HS, Ngai SM, Panagiotou G, Qian PY, Qiu JW, Yip KY, Ismail N, Pati S, John A, Tobe SS, Bendena WG, Cheung SG, Hayward A,Hui JHL*. (2021). Horseshoe crab genomes reveal the evolutionary fates of genes and microRNAs after three rounds (3R) of whole genome duplication. Communications Biology, 4, 83.
Qu Z^, Yiu WC^, Yip HY^, Nong WY^, Yu CW, Lee IH, Wong AY, Wong NW, Cheung FK, Chan TF, Lau KF, Zhong S, Chu KH, Tobe SS, Ferrier DE, Bendena WG,Hui JHL*. (2020). MicroRNA clusters integrate evolutionary constraints on expression and target affinities: the miR-6/5/4/286/3/309 cluster in Drosophila.Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37(10), 2955-2965.
Qu Z^, Nong WY^, So WL^, Barton-Owen T^, Li YQ^, Leung TC, Li C, Baril T, Wong AY, Swale T, Chan TF, Hayward A, Ngai SM, Hui JHL*. (2020). Millipede genomes reveal unique adaptation of genes and microRNAs during myriapod evolution. PLOS Biology, 18(9), e3000636.
Nong WY^, Cao JQ^, Li YQ^, Qu Z^, Leung TC, Sun J, Swale T, Yip HY, Qian PY, Qiu JW, Kwan HS, Bendena WG, Tobe SS, Chan TF, Yip KY, Chu KH, Ngai SM, Tsim KY, Holland PW*, Hui JHL*. (2020). Jellyfish genomes reveal distinct homeobox gene clusters and conservation of small RNA processing. Nature Communications, 11, 3051.
Nong WY^, Law ST^, Wong AY,Baril T, Swale T, Chu LM, Hayward A, Lau DT, Hui JHL*. (2020). Chromosomal-level reference genome of the incense tree Aquilaria sinensis. Molecular Ecology Resources, 20(4), 971-979.

Hui JHL* (2018). Copepod incompatibilities. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2(8). 1203-1204.
Qu Z, Bendena WG, Nong WY, Siggins KW, Noriega F, Kai ZP, Zang YY, Koon AC, Chan HY, Chan TF, Chu KH, Lam HM, Akam M, Tobe SS, Hui JHL* (2017). MicroRNAs regulate the sesquiterpenoid hormonal pathway in Drosophila and other arthropods. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 284, 1869.
Kenny NJ, Sin YW, Hayward A, Paps J, Chu KH, Hui JHL*. (2015). The phylogenetic utility and functional constraint of microRNA flanking sequences. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 282(1803), 2014983.

Research Grants2022-2025, NSGC/RGC, Population genomics of a freshwater snail and risk assessment of imported schistosomiasis transmission, $1,185,561
2021-2024, RGC CRF, EarthBioGenome Project: Hong Kong, $3,250,000
2021-2023, RGC GRF, Sesquiterpenoids in insects: MicroRNA cluster co-operation? $1,081,443
2020-2021, SADF, Agricultural pests commonly found in Hong Kong, $2,512,026
2019-2022, RGC GRF, Sesquiterpenoids in non-insect arthropods: Farnesoic acid and methyl farnesoate as major hormones in millipedes? $1,099,558
2019-2020, ECF, Working out the soil biodiversity of millipedes in Hong Kong, $1,121,500
2019-2020, RGC PROCORE, Tissue regeneration in invertebrate animals under climate change, $45,000
2018-2019, ECF, Development of environmental DNA (eDNA) protocol for horseshoe crabs, $499,680
2016-2019, RGC GRF, MicroRNA flanking sequence: a novel target for studying microRNA arm switching?, $651,203
2015-2016, HMRF, Distribution and current infection status of African schistosomiasis transmitting snails in Hong Kong, $99,799
2015-2018, RGC ECS, Regulation of the biosynthesis of sesquiterpenoid hormones by microRNAs in arthropods, $600,000
Awards2014, 2018, The Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award, CUHK

OthersEditorial board - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Frontiers in Endocrinology, Frontiers in Genetics, Frontiers in Physiology, Frontiers in Plant Science, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Guest Editor - General and Comparative Endocrinology
Reviewer for journals - Nature Ecology and Evolution, Molecular Biology and Evolution, PLoS Genetics, Science Advances
IUCN SSC horseshoe crab specialist group
The International Barcode of Life (iBOL) Consortium