Curriculum Vitae

DR. CHUA KAH OOI

Senior Lecturer
  • Institute of Biological Sciences
    Faculty of Science
  • kahooi
  • +603-7967 6990

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Chua Kah Ooi is now a lecturer in the Centre for Research in Biotechnology for Agriculture (CEBAR), Universiti Malaya. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Microbiology and Ph.D. in Molecular Microbiology from the same university. He was awarded the MyBRAIN15 (MyPhD) Scholarship Award from the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) in 2016 for his Ph.D. study. In year 2021, he was appointed as a postdoctoral research fellow in CEBAR. His research interest focuses on bacterial genomics and microbiome study on a variety of biological and environmental samples. He has experience in taxonomic characterization of novel bacterial species including symbionts of insects and environmental bacteria. Currently, he is committed to research on bioinformatics analysis of plant and animal organelle genomes, plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal interaction and halotolerant plant growth promoting rhizobacteria from Malaysian mangroves.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • ECOSYSTEM DIVERSITY
    Microbiome study
  • GENOMIC
    Bacterial genomics
  • MICROBIAL SYSTEMATIC
    Bacterial taxonomy

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

  • PHD, (Molecular Microbiology)
    Universiti Malaya (UM)
  • BSC, (MICROBIOLOGY)
    Universiti Malaya (UM)

PUBLICATIONS

Article in Journal
WoS
  1. Chua, Kah-Ooi; Liew, Yvonne Jing Mei; See-Too, Wah-Seng; Tan, Jia-Yi; Yong, Hoi-Sen; Yin, Wai-Fong; Chan, Kok-Gan (2022). Formicincola oecophyllae gen. nov. sp. nov., a novel member of the family Acetobacteraceae isolated from the weaver ant Oecophylla smaragdina, ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY. . doi:10.1007/s10482-022-01750-8
  2. Kaleh, Abdussabur M.; Singh, Pooja; Mazumdar, Purabi; Chua, Kah Ooi; Harikrishna, Jennifer A. (2022). Halotolerant rhizobacteria isolated from a mangrove forest alleviate saline stress in Musa acuminata cv. Berangan, MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH. 265. doi:10.1016/j.micres.2022.127176
Scopus
  1. Liew Y.J.M., Chua K.-O., Yong H.-S., Song S.-L., Chan K.-G. (2022). Complete chloroplast genome of Boesenbergia rotunda and a comparative analysis with members of the family Zingiberaceae, Revista Brasileira de Botanica. 45(4), 1209-1222. doi:10.1007/s40415-022-00845-w
Others
  1. Chua, K. O., See-Too, W. S., Yong, H. S., Song, S. L., Yin, W. F., & Chan, K. G. (2021) Plasmid localization of sole rrn operon in genomes of Oecophyllibacter saccharovorans (Acetobacteraceae). Plasmid, 102559.
  2. Yong, H. S., Chua, K. O., Song, S. L., Liew, Y. J. M., Eamsobhana, P., & Chan, K. G. (2021). Complete mitochondrial genome of Dacus vijaysegarani and phylogenetic relationships with congeners and other tephritid fruit flies (Insecta: Diptera). Molecular Biology Reports, 1-10
  3. Yong, H. S., Song, S. L., Chua, K. O., Suana, I. W., Eamsobhana, P., Tan, J., ... & Chan, K. G. (2021). Complete mitochondrial genomes and phylogenetic relationships of the genera Nephila and Trichonephila (Araneae, Araneoidea). Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-13.
  4. Chua, K.O., See-Too, W.S., Tan, J.Y., Song, S.L., Yong, H.S., Yin, W.F., & Chan, K.G. (2020). Oecophyllibacter saccharovorans gen. nov. sp. nov., a bacterial symbiont of the weaver ant Oecophylla smaragdina. Journal of Microbiology, 58(12), 988-997.
  5. Chan, K. G., See Too, W. S., Chua, K. O., Peix, ., Goh, K. M., Hong, K. W., ... & Lee, L. S. (2019). Aquella oligotrophica gen. nov. sp. nov.: A new member of the family Neisseriaceae isolated from laboratory tap water. MicrobiologyOpen, 8(7), e00793.
  6. Chua, K. O., See-Too, W. S., Ee, R., Lim, Y. L., Yin, W. F., FASc, C., & Gan, K. (2019). In silico analysis reveals distribution of quorum sensing genes and consistent presence of LuxR solos in the Pandoraea species. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, 1758.
  7. Yong, H. S., Song, S. L., Chua, K. O., Lim, P. E., & Eamsobhana, P. (2019). Microbiota and potential opportunistic pathogens associated with male and female fruit flies of Malaysian Bactrocera carambolae (Insecta: Tephritidae). Meta Gene, 19, 185-192.
  8. Chua, K. O., Song, S. L., Yong, H. S., See-Too, W. S., Yin, W. F., & Chan, K. G. (2018). Microbial Community Composition Reveals Spatial Variation and Distinctive Core Microbiome of the Weaver Ant Oecophylla smaragdina in Malaysia. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 1-11.
  9. Yong, H. S., Song, S. L., Chua, K. O., & Lim, P. E. (2017). Predominance of Wolbachia endosymbiont in the microbiota across life stages of Bactrocera latifrons (Insecta: Tephritidae). Meta Gene, 14, 6-11.
  10. Chan, X. Y., Chua, K. O., How, K. Y., Yin, W. F., & Chan, K. G. (2014). Global genome comparative analysis reveals insights of resistome and life-style adaptation of Pseudomonas putida strain T2-2 in oral cavity. The Scientific World Journal, 2014.

RESEARCH PROJECT

National
  1. 2022 - 2024, Partnership Grant
    The Exploration of Microbial Diversity of Aquaponics and Aeroponics System and its Association with Dwarf Pakchoy Growth and Phytochemical Accumulation ( Co-Researcher)
  2. 2022 - 2024, Others MOHE - Top 100 (IIRG)-FNW
    Wp1: Developing Next-generation Microbiome-based Biostimulant For Sustainable Crop Production In A Changing Climate ( Co-Researcher)
Private
  1. 2023 - 2023, Private Funding
    Evaluating The Phyllosphere Microbiome Shift To Tomato Plants Infected Byk Xanthomonas Gardneri ( Principal Investigator(PI))

TEACHING

Bachelor
  1. (2023) SIR2004 - General Microbiology
  2. (2023) SIE1004 - Introductory Microbiology
  3. (2023) SIL3001 - Research Project in Genetics and Molecular Biology
  4. (2022) SIR2004 - General Microbiology
  5. (2022) SIL3013 - Genetics and Biotechnology of Viruses