Dr Lianghui Ji, Associate Director, SRP

Dr 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.

You may wish to contact Dr Lianghui JI at:
Tel: (65) 6872 7000, 6872 7483 (DID) or 6872 7484 (lab) Email: jilh@tll.org.sg

For information on PhD studies at TLL, click HERE

1. Design, high efficiency expression and application of peptide material
2. Enzymes and technologies for biomass-energy and biomass-organic acids conversions
3. Genetic engineering and fermentative production of biosurfactants
4. Somatic embryogenesis of Jatropha curcas, cotton and soybean
5. Platform technologies for plants and microbial biotechnology

Research Projects

Started as a small team for technology development in cotton transformation, currently our group is undergoing multi-discipline research to help address the dwindling supply of fossil fuel and fast-worsening problems of environmental pollution and global warming. Research projects are centered on developing novel as well as improved technologies for production of biodiesel and biomaterials. Organisms ranging from bacteria, fungi, microalgae to plants are being studied. Another aspect of the research focuses on value extraction in agricultural and industrial by-products through cost-effective enzymes production and improvement of microbes for energy conversion from biomass and production of organic acids