Kin-Ming (Clement) Tsui

University: The University of Hong Kong

Type: PhD student

Course: PhD (Ecology & Mycology)

Year of graduation or arriving at the University: 2000

Dissertation title: Biodiversity and longitudinal distribution of fungi on submerged wood, with reference to human disturbance

Advisers and supervisors: Kevin Hyde, John Hodgkiss

Publications:

  • Tsui CKM, Hyde KD, Hodgkiss IJ (2000) Biodiversity of fungi on submerged wood in Hong Kong streams. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 21:289-298.
  • Tsui CKM, Hyde KD, Hodgkiss IJ (2001) Colonization pattern of wood-inhabiting fungi on baits in Hong Kong river, with reference to the effects of organic pollution. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 79:33-38.
  • Tsui CKM, Hyde KD, Hodgkiss IJ (2001) Longitudinal and temporal distribution of freshwater ascomycetes and dematiaceous hyphomycetes on submerged wood in the Lam Tsuen River. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 20:533-549.
  • Tsui CKM, Fukushima K, Hyde KD (2003) Fungi on submerged wood in the Koito River, Japan. Mycoscience 44: 55-59.
  • Tsui CKM, Berbee ML, Jeewon R, Hyde KD (2006) Phylogeny of Dictyosporium and allied genera inferred from rDNA. Fungal Diversity 21:157-166.
  • Tsui CKM, Berbee ML (2006) Phylogenetic relationships and convergence of helicosporous fungi. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39:587-597.
  • Tsui CKM, Sivichai S, Berbee ML (2006) Molecular systematics of Helicoma, Helicomyces and Helicosporium and their teleomorphs inferred from rDNA sequences. Mycologia 98: 100-110.
  • Tsui CKM, Daniel HM, Robert V, Meyer W (2008) Reexamination the evolution of medically important Candida species and allied genera using multigene analyses. FEMS Yeast Research 8: 651-659.
  • Tsui CKM, Marshall W, Yokoyama R, Honda D, Craven KL, Peterson PD, Lippmeier JC, Berbee ML (2009) Labyrinthulomycetes phylogeny and its implication for the evolutionary loss of chloroplasts and gain of ectoplasmic gliding. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 50: 129-140.
  • Tsui CKM, Roe A, El-Kassaby YA, Rice A, Sperling FAH, Alamouti SM, Bohlmann J, Cooke J, Hamelin RC (2012) Population structure and migration pattern of a conifer pathogen, Grosmannia clavigera, as influenced by its symbiont, the mountain pine beetle. Molecular Ecology 21:71-86.
  • Tsui CKM, DiGuistini S, Wang Y, Feau N, Dhillon B, Bohlmann J, Hamelin RC (2013) Unequal recombination and evolution of the mating type loci in the pathogenic fungus Grosmannia clavigera and relatives. G3: Genes, Genomics, Genetics 3:465-480.
  • Tsui CKM, Farfan L, Roe A, Rice AV, Cooke J, El-Kassaby Y, Hamelin RC (2014) Population structure of mountain pine beetle symbiont Leptographium longiclavatum and the implications for the multipartite beetle-fungi relationships. PLoS ONE 9: e105455.
  • Ojeda DI, Tsui CKM (co-1st author), Feau N, Capron A, Dhillon B, Zhang Y, Alamouti S, Boone C, Carroll A, Cooke J, Roe A, Sperling FAH, Hamelin RC (2017) Genetic and genomic evidence of niche partitioning and adaptive radiation in mountain pine beetle fungal symbionts. Molecular Ecology 26:2077-2091.
  • Tsui CKM, Miller R, Uyaguari-Diaz M, Tang P, Chauve C, Hsiao W, Isaac-Renton J, Prystajecky N (2018) “Beaver fever” Whole Genomic Sequencing of Giardia isolates reveal zoonotic transmission in giardiasis outbreaks. mSphere 3(2): e00090-18.
  • Tsui CK, Beauseigle S, Ojeda Alayon DI, Rice AR, Cooke JE, Sperling FAH, Roe AD, Hamelin RC (2019) Fine-scale genetic diversity and relatedness of in fungi associated with the mountain pine beetle. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 48: 933-941.
  • Huang C, Tsui CKM, Chan M, Pan K, Li X, Wang L, Zheng Y, Zheng D, Chen X, Huang M, Jiang L, Wei L, Liao W, Cao C (2020) Emerging Cryptococcus gattii species complex infections in Guangxi, southern China. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Award:

  • 2002. Croucher Postdoctoral Fellowship (Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong)

Experiences at the University

Lots of wonderful experience at Eliot Hall, HKU. Everyone is nice and helpful to each other. I treasure the opportunity to work with friends and colleagues from different countries. We learn from each other.

Work experience and present expertise since leaving the University.

I am passionate about fungal ecology and evolution. I have been studying the evolutionary genetics of fungal pathogens in postdoctoral research.
Now I am a Molecular Scientist in Sidra Medicine, a children hospital in Qatar, where I am using a whole genome approach for infectious disease diagnosis and epidemiology. Happy to connect.

Alumni wisdom

Enjoy the student life

Personal details

I am not a morning person and enjoy working at night.
Kevin was mad, saying ” I am his first graduate student not coming to work at 9am.”  hahaha