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Research Interest

Sustainable aquaculture, aquaculture feeds and nutrition, disease resistance and resilience, captive breeding programs

Professional Experience

Program Chair, Republic Polytechnic — 2018–2022 

Senior Lecturer, Republic Polytechnic — 2015–2018 

Chief Operating Officer, Phaedrus Aquatech — 2012–2015 

Senior Research Fellow, IMCB, A*STAR — 1999–2011

Education

National University of Singapore — PhD, 2005

Grants and Publications

1. SPRING Singapore Capability Development Grant – Technology Innovation, May 2013; SGD96,993.00 to Phaedrus Aquatech Pte Ltd; for the design and development of a Recirculating Aquaculture System. Fong SH, Chia PS, Tay HB. Application Number G/TE/13/00150

2. Context-dependent DNA methylation signatures in animal livestock. Geetha Venkatesh, Sina Tönges, Katharina Hanna, Yi Long Ng, Rose Whelan, Ranja Andriantsoa, Annika Lingenberg, Suki Roy, Sanjanaa Nagarajan, Steven Fong, Günter Raddatz, Florian Böhl, and Frank Lyko. Environmental Epigenetics, Volume 9, Issue 1, 2023, dvad001, https://doi.org/10.1093/eep/dvad001 Published: 23 January 2023

3.  tbx2a regulates the specification of endodermal pouches during the development of pharyngeal arches. Hang Nguyen TT, Fong SH, Loh SL, So BY, and Korzh V. PLoS One, 2013.http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077171

4.  Yolk syncytial layer formation is a failure of cytokinesis mediated by ROCK1 function in the early zebrafish embryo. Chu LT, Fong SH, Kondrychyn I, Loh SL, Ye ZR, Korzh V. Biology Open. 2012; doi: 10.1242/ bio.20121636

5.  In vivo analysis of choroid plexus morphogenesis in zebrafish. García-Lecea M, Kondrychyn I, Fong SH, Ye ZR, Korzh V. PLoS One. 2008; 3(9):e3090.

6.  Wnt signalling mediated by Tbx2b regulates cell migration during formation of the neural plate.  Fong SH, Emelyanov A, Teh C, Korzh V. Development. 2005; 132(16):3587-3596. 

7. BWMK1, a novel MAP Kinase induced by fungal infection and mechanical wounding in rice. He C, Fong SH, Yang D, and Wang GL.  Molecular Plant – Microbe Interactions. 1999; 12, pp 1064-1073