Lianghui Ji
Senior Principal Investigator
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Biography
Lianghui Ji got his first degree in 1984 in China before joining China National Rice Research Institute. He obtained his Ph.D under the supervision of Dr Peter Langridge at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He moved to Singapore in 1997 to take up a research fellowship working on plant-virus interaction with Dr Ding Shou-Wei and then briefly on functional genomics of Ustilago maydis with Dr Zhang Lian-Hui. He joined TLL in 2003 starting as a research associate and was promoted to Laboratory Manager shortly after. He became an Assistant Director in 2005. He is currently Director (SRP).
Research Interest
Synthetic biology and bioprocess for the production of biosurfactant, specialty fat, and flavor and fragrance, Nitrogen-fixation in non-legume plants and development of biofertilizer , Genetic engineering of oil palm, Jatropha curcas, cotton and soybean , Development of bioresource and technology for bioresin production