Team:Hong Kong HKUST/alfiteam

Division of Life Science, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Professor King L. Chow earned his PhD in Cell Biology from the Baylor College of Medicine. After spending some years as a Belfer Center Fellow in the Molecular Genetics Department at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he returned to Hong Kong to assume an Assistant Professorship at HKUST. Professor Chow is now concurrently holding the position of Professor of Life Science, Associate Director of the Bioengineering Program, Director of the Molecular Biomedical Sciences Program and Associate Dean of Students. Professor Chow’s research work spans a broad spectrum of biological sciences, including molecular genetics, genomics, neural developmental biology, the evolution of behavior and synthetic biology.

Division of Life Science, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

This is the fourth year that she has been an instructor for the HKUST iGEM team. She is satisfied seeing everyone working as a team. She thinks that is it great because although the members are under pressure to get the results, everyone can still remain calm and happy!