
Research Staff and Graduate Students - Alumni
Sabrina PETER, MSc
Research Scientist
September 2023 • March 2025
Christopher NAH
Research Assistant
May 2023 • February 2025
Stella Yue Ting LEE, BSc
Project Officer / PhD Student
October 2020 • January 2024
Aishah Abdul KHALID, BSc
Research Assistant
March 2021 • February 2024
Ana Sze Qi HO, BSc
Research Assistant
February 2023 • January 2024
Cenk CELIK, PhD
Research Fellow
March 2021 • May 2023
Raphael BECQUART, MSc
Visiting Scholar
August 2022 • January 2023
Syed AHMAD-ALBUKHARI, BSc
Research Assistant
May 2021 • October 2022
Wei Sheng YAP, BSc
Research Assistant
May 2019 • July 2022
Kim Mei LOH, MSc
Research Associate
April 2021 • April 2022
Jhee Hong KOH, PhD
PhD Student • Successfully defended his PhD thesis in Sep. 2021
August 2016 • April 2021
(Undergraduate attachments) May 2014 • June 2016
Thesis • Dissecting the role of the unfolded protein response during lipid perturbation in C. elegans
Caroline BEAUDOIN-CHABOT, MSc
Research Associate
October 2013 • July 2021
Norrapat SHIH, PhD
Research Fellow
September 2020 • April 2021
Shiyi XU, BSc
Research Assistant
March 2020 • April 2021
Anna Chia Yin CHEW, BSc
Project Officer
February 2020 • October 2020
Xiu Hui FUN, PhD
PhD Student • Successfully defended her PhD thesis in April 2020
January 2016 • April 2020
(Final Year Project / Project Officer) January 2015 • December 2015
Thesis • Adaptor protein WDFY3 is neuroprotective by counteracting age-dependent decline in proteostasis
Nurulain HO, PhD
PhD Student • Successfully defended her PhD thesis in March 2020
August 2015 • March 2020
Thesis • An intact IRE1 transmembrane domain is necessary for UPR activation upon lipid bilayer stress in S. cerevisiae
Subhash THALAPPILLY, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
February 2019 • February 2020
Zulaiha BEEVI, BSc
PhD Student
January 2019 • January 2020
(Final Year Project / Research Experience) May 2016 • May 2017
Peter Jr. SHYU, PhD
PhD Student • Successfully defended his PhD thesis in January 2019
August 2014 • January 2019
Thesis • Yeast FIT2 homologs mediate the crosstalk between stress response pathways and cellular proteostasis
Eric Lei WANG, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
April 2015 • August 2018
Megha UPADYA, MSc
Research Associate
August 2016 • July 2018
Benjamin Si Han NG, PhD
PhD Student • Successfully defended his PhD thesis in April 2018
August 2013 • April 2018
Thesis • Lipid perturbation compromises UPR-mediated ER homeostasis
Betsi KÖSE, MSc
Visiting Scholar
August 2016 • July 2017
Alisha CHAKRABARTI, PhD
Project Officer
August 2014 • August 2015
Bhawana GEORGE, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
April 2014 • March 2015
Haoxi WU, PhD
Undergraduate Student (Exchange from Sichuan University)
October 2013 • May 2014