Undergraduate Education
Postgraduate Education
Certificate Course in Medical Microbiology
 
 
 
 
 
 
Conference Presentations and Awards
Supervisor: Prof. Paul KS Chan
 
Student Name Study Degree Paper Title Conference Name Location and Year
Chuqing ZHANG MPhil Multicountry analysis on risk and distribution of HPV52 variant lineage Emerging Oncogenic Viruses Italy, 2014
Chuqing ZHANG MPhil Distribution and risk association of HPV52 variant lineages worldwide EUROGIN 2013 Italy, 2013
Alfred CS LUK MPhil Sequence variation of HPV58 E5 ORF worldwide The 6th International Conference of HPV, Polyomavirus and Ultraviolet Radiation in Skin Cancer Germany, 2012
Jo LK CHEUNG PhD Mismatch of commonly used primers for HPV58 sequences collected worldwide The 27th International Papillomavirus Conference and Clinical Workshop Germany, 2011
 
 
Supervisor: Prof. Margaret Ip
 
Student Name Study Degree Paper Title Conference Name Location and Year
Ying YANG PhD Virulence of group B Streptococcus serotype III subtype 4 (III-4) in a mouse model Wellcome Trust Conference United Kingdom, 2016
Reema SUBRAMANIAN PhD Emerging MDR Acinetobacter baumanii clusters in Hong Kong 10th International Symposium on Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance Korea, 2015
Veranja LIAYNAPATHIRANA PhD Genetic diversities of whole genomes of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 3 from paired blood-respiratory isolates of patients with complicated bacteraemic pneumonia 25th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Denmark, 2015
Application of a target enrichment based next generation sequencing protocol for identification and sequence based prediction of pneumococcal serotypes 9th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases India, 2014
Adult pneumococcal infections in the era of persistent antimicrobial non-susceptibility 9th International Symposium on Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance Malaysia, 2013
Mingjing LUO PhD Subinhibitory concentrations of cefotaxime on biofilm formation in Streptococcus pneumoniae 6th Congress of European Microbiologists Netherlands, 2015
Changing trends In paediatric pneumococcal carriage In Hong Kong 9th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases India, 2014
Zheng Wang PhD Evolution and OrthoMCL analysis of hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST239 lineage in Hong Kong and Beijing 1st ASM Conference on Experimental Microbial Evolution USA, 2014
Molecular typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in infection control 6th International Infection Control Conference Hong Kong, 2014
 
Award
 
Student Name Study Degree Award Conferring Body Year
Veranja LIAYNAPATHIRANA PhD Travel Grant 9th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases 2014
 
 
Supervisor: Prof. Mamie Hui
 
Student Name Study Degree Paper Title Conference Name Location and Year
Andy CHEUNG PhD Molecular detection of fks mutations in Candida glabrata 13th Annual Scientific Meeting of Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases Hong Kong, 2016
Echinocandin resistance in Candida glabrata 12th Annual Scientific Meeting of Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases Hong Kong, 2015
Stability and fitness cost of fks mutation in Candida glabrata 25th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Denmark, 2015
Correlating echinocandin MIC and Candida glabrata fks1 Mutations. 15th Asia Pacific Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Malaysia, 2014
 
 
Supervisor: Dr. Martin Chan
 
Student Name Study Degree Paper Title Conference Name Location and Year
Jenny CHAN MPhil Norovirus-induced immune response in human intestinal enteroids [poster] 7th International Calicivirus Conference Australia, 2019
Establishment of three human intestinal enteroid lines to study human norovirus infection [poster] INFECTION 2019 Hong Kong, 2019
Kirsty KWOK MPhil Rapid re-emergence and geographic transmission dynamics of a recombinant GII.P16-GII.2 norovirus in the winter of 2016/17 [poster] Epidemics6 Spain, 2017
Close genetic relatedness between human and swine hepatitis E viruses in Hong Kong [poster] 6th European Congress of Virology Germany, 2016
Continuous emergence and disappearance of sub-lineages of norovirus GII.4 Sydney 2012 during 2012-2016 in Hong Kong [poster]
 
Award
 
Student Name Study Degree Award Conferring Body Year
Jenny CHAN MPhil Travel Grant 7th International Calicivirus Conference 2019