System Microbiology & Antimicrobial Resistance @Tun (SMART) Lab
Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hein Tun is a public health veterinarian, currently an Associate Professor at the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Nanjing Medical University and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests range from studies on the mechanistic and functional roles of microbiome in health and diseases to One Health surveillance of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria and resistome. His major research focused on the impact of early-life exposome on the development of gut microbiome and associated risks for allergic, metabolic and immune-mediated diseases. He is the young scientist member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Pasteur Network. He has published more than 75 original peer-reviewed articles in high impact journals such as Gut, Gastroenterology, Nature Communication, Microbiome, JAMA Pediatrics, Journal of Travel Medicine, Environment International, Gut Microbes etc.  Moreover, he received several international research awards and fellowships including the Gold Medal at 2021 Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days, Canadian Institute of Health Research Fellowship and Dik Zwart Award.

Xi received her bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University majoring in Veterinary Medicine, and then she obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Microbiology, the University of Hong Kong in 2021. She joined the HKU-Pasteur Research Pole, School of Public Health, as a Post-doctoral Fellow in 2021. Her current research focuses on the early-life microbiome and the microbiota determinants in association with the development of metabolic illnesses.

Hilda graduated from the Higher Diploma student in Biotechnology at the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE).
She was a summer intern in HKU-Pasteur Research Pole, during which she was in charge of a project for sample collection and laboratory tests. After graduation, she joined the Tun Lab as a research assistant.

Rista is a graduate of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a bachelor’s degree majoring in Biotechnology. She is also currently enrolled in the higher certificate in medical laboratory science programme offered by HKUSPACE. She is involved in an antimicrobial resistance project in the Tun lab.

Shilin graduated with a master in Public Health at the University of Hong Kong and a
bachelor in Health Inspection and Quarantine at Guangdong Medical University. He
worked as a data analyst before joining the Tun lab. His research focus is in
epidemiological methods and mental health.

Gary obtained his Bachelor's degree in Food Safety and Technology from Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2020. He is now working on an antimicrobial resistance project in the Tun lab.

Daniel received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Durham, UK, where he majored in Biosciences. He previously joined the Tun Lab as a student intern during Summer 2019, where he studied the acquisition of antimicrobial resistance genes during travel abroad HK. After receiving his Bachelor’s degree, he has returned to the Lab as a full-time Research Assistant. His research interests include the biochemical mechanisms that drive commensal persistence in gut microbiota.

Suisha received her Bachelor's degree in Biomedical engineering in Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan; Master's degree in Bioengineering in South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou. she worked as an intermediate bioinformatics analysis engineer at BGI-Research for more than 9 years before joining the Tun lab. Now she is a Ph.D. student studying the correlation between mental health and microbiome.

Darren received the degree of Bachelor of Science in the University of Hong Kong with Chemistry and Food & Nutritional Science as his majors. Afterwards, he received his M.Phil. degree in the University of Hong Kong. He studied the antimicrobial activities of natural antioxidants extracted from edible plants against different bacteria, including some common food-borne pathogenic bacteria.

Ye received his Bachelor's degree in Pharmaceutical Engineering (Biopharmaceutics), and Master's degree in Biochemistry and molecular biology in South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou. He had joined a SCUT-BGI joint-training project in his junior year, and been an intern in bioinformatics research of microbiome in health and disease at BGI-Research for more than 4 years. He is now Ph.D. student in the Tun Lab, majoring in microbiome bioinformatics.

Hogan received his MSc Biochemical & Biomedical Sciences degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include skin and gut microbiota in the development of allergic diseases.