LIU Mei Hui 刘美慧
Senior Lecturer
Department of Food Science & Technology
Associate Director
Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology
Tel: (65) 6516 3523
Fax: (65) 6775 7895
Room: S14-06-04
Email: fstlmh@nus.edu.sg
- Visiting Fellow, Cornell University, USA, 2010
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, 2007-2013
- Doctor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore (Molecular Biology), 2007
- Bachelor of Science (Honours), National University of Singapore (Food Science & Technology), 2003
- 2024 National Day Award, The Commendation Medal
- 2022, 2023, 2024 Annual Teaching Excellence Award
- 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
- 2023 FoS Academic Mentorship Award
- 2018, 2023 Long Service Award
- Mechanisms of Individual Variability:
- Clinical studies on personalised nutritional strategies to control glycemic response
- Modulation of individual susceptibility to insulin resistance using human myotube models
- Mechanisms of bioactives in food products:
- Effects of bioactives eg. anthocyanins in clinically or physiologically relevant pathways using genomics and molecular approaches
- Novel food products and technologies:
- Validation of efficacy in clinical trials
- Microfludics for food production
- Teaching Pedagogies
- Peer Feedback mechanisms
- Learning in blended environments
- Assistant Dean (Undergraduate Studies & Student Life)
- Zhang Z, Chng KR, Lingadahalli S, Chen Z, Liu MH, Do HH, Cai S, Rinaldi N, Poh HM, Li G, Sung YY, Heng CL, Core LJ, Tan SK, Ruan X, Lis JT, Kellis M, Ruan Y, Sung WK, Cheung E. An AR-ERG transcriptional signature defined by long-range chromatin interactomes in prostate cancer cells. Genome Research. 2019 Feb;29(2):223-235.
- Tan ALM, Langley SR, Tan CF, Chai JF, Khoo CM, Leow MK, Khoo EYH, Moreno-Moral A, Pravenec M, Rotival M, Sadananthan SA, Velan SS, Venkataraman K, Chong YS, Lee YS, Sim X, Stunkel W, Liu MH, Tai ES, Petretto E. Ethnicity-Specific Skeletal Muscle Transcriptional Signatures and Their Relevance to Insulin Resistance in Singapore. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 2019 Feb 1;104(2):465-486.
- LoKA, Huang S, Walet ACE, Zhang Z, Leow MK, Liu MH, Sun L. Adipocyte Long Noncoding RNA Transcriptome Analysis of Obese Mice Identified Lnc-leptin Which Regulates Leptin. Diabetes 2018 67(6): 1045-1056
- Liu MH, Cheung E. Estrogen receptor-mediated long-range chromatin interactions and transcription in breast cancer. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 2013; doi:pii: S0303-7207(13)
- Mason CE, Shu FJ, Wang C, Session RM, Kallen RG, Sidell N, Yu T, Liu MH, Cheung E, Kallen CB. Location analysis for the estrogen receptor-alpha reveals binding to diverse ERE sequences and widespread binding within repetitive DNA elements. Nucleic Acids Research. 2010; 38(7):2355-2368
- Fullwood MJ, Liu MH, Pan YF et al. The Estrogen Receptor a-bound Human Chromatin Interactome. Nature. 2009; 462(7269): 58-64
- Pan YF, Wansa KD, Liu MH, Zhao B, Hong SZ, Tan PY, Lim KS, Bourque G, Liu ET, Cheung E. Regulation of estrogen receptor-mediated long range transcription via evolutionarily conserved distal response elements. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2008; 283(47): 32977- 32988
- Yong EL, Li J, Liu MH. Single gene contributions: genetic variants of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (isoforms alpha, beta/delta and gamma) and mechanisms of dyslipidemias. Current Opinion in Lipidology. 2008; 19(2): 106- 112
- Liu MH, Li J, Shen P, Tai ES, Yong EL. A natural polymorphism in peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-alpha hinge region attenuates transcription due to defective release of nuclear receptor corepressor from chromatin. Molecular Endocrinology. 2008; 22(5):1078-1092
- Shen P, Liu MH, Ng TY, Chan YH, Yong EL. Differential effects of isoflavones, from Astragalus membranaceus and Pueraria thomsonii, on the activation of PPARα, PPARγ, and adipocyte differentiation in vitro. Journal of Nutrition. 2006; 136(4):899-905