Professor LIM, Wallace Boon Leong

Teaching Areas

• Biotechnology Industry and Entrepreneurship
• Immunology
• Virology
• Biochemistry
• Plant Cell Biology

Research Interests

• Plant Energy
• Photosynthesis
• Chloroplast Biology
• Mitochondrial Biology
• Omics
• Biosensors

Current Research

• Plant Growth Technology
• Energy Flow
• Chloroplast Biology
• Mitochondrial Biology
• Guard Cell Biology

Research Team

• Dr. Sheyli Lim
• Dr. Jinhong Liu
• Ms. Gale Lee
• Ms. Danying Lu
• Ms. Zhizhu Zhao

News

• How plants save energy (Asian Scientist)
• How chloroplasts maintain energy efficiency (Science Daily)
• Revisiting energy flow in photosynthetic plant cells (PHYS.ORG)
• How guard cell chloroplasts obtain energy (PHYS.ORG)
• HKU biologists unveil bioenergetics behind rapid pollen tube growth (Mirage News)
• Hong Kong scientists engineer plants for a warmer planet (Nikkei Asian Review)

• A plant growth technology invented by Prof B L Lim