Dr. TSE Ka Fai William Postdoc

Dr. TSE Ka Fai William
Postdoc:
1) Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
2) Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo, Japan
3) Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR, Singapore
Ph.D:
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
d. Our group has four major research themes
1) Developmental functions of deubiquitylating enzyme
2) Disease model and mechanism
3) Osmoregulation
4) Developmental toxicity
Major Publications
(*Corresponding author)
[1] WKF. Tse*, J. Sun, H. Zhang, AYS. Law, BHY. Yeung, SC. Chow, J. Qiu, CKC. Wong.
Transcriptomic and iTRAQ proteomic approaches reveal novel short-term hyperosmotic
stress responsive proteins in the gill of the Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica). J Proteomics.
2013. 89: 81-94.
[2] KP. Lai, AYS. Law, MCC. Lau, Y. Takei, WKF. Tse*, CKC. Wong. Osmotic stress
transcription factor 1b (Ostf1b) promotes migration properties with the modulation of
Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) phenotype in human embryonic kidney cell. Int J
Biochem Cell Biol. 2013. 45: 1921-1926.
[3] WKF. Tse*, YJ. Jiang, and CKC. Wong. Zebrafish transforming growth factor- β stimulated clone 22 domain 3 (TSC22D3) plays critical roles in Bmp-dependent dorsoventral
patterning via two deubiquitylating enzymes Usp15 and Otud4. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2013.
1830: 4584-4593.
[4] WKF. Tse*, BHY. Yeung, HT. Wan, and CKC.Wong. Early embryogenesis in zebrafish
is affected by bisphenol A exposure. BiO. 2013. 2: 466-471.
[5] WKF. Tse, B. Eisehaber, SHK. Ho, QM. Ng, F. Eisehaber, and YJ. Jiang. Genome-wide
loss-of-function analysis of deubiquitylating enzymes for zebrafish development. BMC
Genomic. 2009. 10: 637.
Awards, honours or other membership
[1] The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009 –
2011)
[2] The Asia-Pacific Developmental Biology Network (APDBN),Travel Award (2009)
[3] 7th International Congress on the Biology of Fish, Student Travel Award (2006)
Personal Webpage
http://wkftselab.webs.com/