GROUP MEMBERS

CAROLINE LEI WEE
Principal Investigator
Ph.D. in Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (2016)
B.A. Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences, Ithaca, NY (2009)
Double Major in Biological Sciences (Neurobiology and Behavior) & Psychology
Distinction in all subjects
Summa cum laude
Caroline's research interest is in understanding the mechanisms governing motivated behaviors such as feeding and stress, with the goal of improving human health and well-being. Towards this goal, she has won several significant fellowships and grants, including the A*STAR National Science Scholarship (NSS BS-PhD, 2006, 2010), National Medical Research Council Young Individual Research Grant (2020) and National Research Foundation Fellowship (Class of 2021).

RUEY-KUANG CHENG
Senior Research Fellow (from April 2021)
Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (2010)
M.S. National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan (2002)
B.S. National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan (1999)
Ruey has more than 10 years of experience in both zebrafish and rodent behavioral neuroscience research, and trained in the lab of Dr. Suresh Jesuthasan (NTU-LKC, Singapore). His expertise includes behavioral and in vivo calcium imaging, electrophysiology, and hardware/software development for animal behavior analysis. His research interests include timing and time perception, learning and memory, decision making, and emotional control of behavior.

GUAN ZHEN
Research Officer (Software Engineering)
Co-supervised by Dr. Cheng Li (Assoc. Prof., University of Alberta, Adjunct Prof., Bioinformatics Institute A*STAR)
B.Sc. in Mathematical Sciences (Statistics), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Past projects:
Collaborated with Dr Huang Weimin’s team from I2R (A*STAR) and GE Japan on segmenting coronary artery from 3D heart CT images. Developed a reconstruction algorithm which improves recall, precision and f1 score by 9.5%, 1.6% and 5% respectively.
Research interests:
Machine/deep learning application on biomedical data
Action recognition & action detection

YEO HUI LI
Research Officer (Biology)
B.S. (Hons) in Biotechnology, First Class Honours, Northumbria University (2016)
Huili trained in the lab of Dr. Sudipto Roy (IMCB). She has more than 4 years of zebrafish research experience and extensive expertise in molecular biology, genetics, and microscopy. She also manages daily lab operations.
CHERYL TAN
Research Assistant (SGUnited Traineeship)
B.Sc. (Hons) in Pharmacology, Newcastle University, UK (2020)
Research Experience:
University summer placement at NTU [GEM Trailblazer Research Programme] aiding Research Fellow Dr. Serafino Teseo in investigating the effect of gut microbes on the eusocial behavior of ants
Thesis under Professor Jonathan MG Higgins and Dr. Tyrell Cartwright investigating role of VRK1 in Histone H3 phosphorylation
Research Interests:
Drug interactions and drug resistance

DINAH YUSOFF
Research Assistant (SGUnited Traineeship)
B.Sc. in Pharmacology, Monash University, Australia (2020)
Research experience:
Tableting trials to determine appropriate quality parameters for Diana Food (nutraceutical)
Handling of mice in effects of centrally acting drugs on mice behaviour, and neurological and autonomic functions under the Department of Pharmacology, Monash University
Research interests:
Drug interactions and Neuropharmacology

DANIAL ASRI
Research Assistant (SGUnited Traineeship)
Diploma in Biotechnology, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore (2020)
Research Experience:
Attached to the Microbiology Department in Temasek Polytechnic to conduct a study on microbiological indoor air quality in campus facilities
Research study under Dr Amaladoss Anburaj to analyse the metabolism of a V. parahaemolyticus strain that causes Early Mortality Syndrome in shrimp
Research Interests:
Proteomics and Bacteriology
ALUMNI
JERRICK KWAN
Student Intern (Republic Polytechnic, A*STAR Science Awardee)
JERRYL TAN
Student Intern (Republic Polytechnic, A*STAR Science Awardee)