Yuning Hong

Professor & ARC Future Fellow

Yuning obtained her PhD from HKUST under the mentorship of Prof Ben Zhong Tang. She then held positions including as a postdoctoral researcher at Dartmouth College, a Research Assistant Professor at HKUST, and a McKenzie Fellow at The University of Melbourne. Yuning joined La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science (LIMS) in late 2016, where she currently holds the position of Professor & ARC Future Fellow. She was awarded an ARC DECRA fellowship (2017-2020) and has received many prestigious awards including the recent McAulay-Hope Prize for Original Biophysics and the Le Fèvre Medal for outstanding basic research in chemistry from Australian Academy of Science.

Bio: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/yhong

Siyang Ding

Postdoctoral Researcher

Tze Cin Owyong

Postdoctoral Researcher

Nicolau Saker Neto

Postdoctoral Researcher

Xavier Shouxiang Zhang

Postdoctoral Researcher

Karren Jiamin Zhao

PhD Student

Peimin Huang

PhD Student

Christopher Conci

Joint PhD student with Wren Greene

Jason Yiteng Hou

Master Intern Student

Mandy Zhuomin Wan

Master Intern Student


Alumni

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2017 – current

Marie-Claire Giel, Postdoc 2020-2022, Current - Patent scientist

Bicheng Yao, Postdoc 2019-2022, Current - Industry

Oscar Liu, Postdoc 2017-2019, Current - Industry

Jianbing Shi, Visiting Professor, 2024

Karren Jiamin Zhao, PhD student graduated in 2025

Soheila Sabouri, PhD student graduated in 2022, Current - Postdoc at WPI

Siyang Ding, PhD student graduated in 2022, Current - Postdoc at LIMS

Xavier Zhang, PhD student graduated in 2021, Current - Postdoc at LIMS

Tze Cin Owyong, joint PhD student with Wallace Wong, UniMelb, graduated in 2023, Current - Postdoc at LIMS

Laura E. Shippey, joint PhD student with David Smith, Andy Hill and Susan Campbell, LTU-SHU Joint Program, graduated in 2025, Current - RA in Cambridge

Timothy Gialelis, PhD student 2020-2022, Current - Industry

Claire Storey, Research Assistant 2019-2020, Current - WEHI

Chris Conci, Master by Research student graduated in 2025, Current - PhD student at La Trobe

Lachlan Wakeling, Master of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics student graduated in 2025

Harneet Saini, Master of Chemical Science student graduated in 2021, Current - Industry

Varsha Raj, Master of Chemical Science student graduated in 2020

Maryam Zaheer, Master of Chemical Science student graduated in 2019

Tze Cin Owyong, joint Master of Chemical Science student with Wallace Wong, UniMelb, graduated in 2019

Lewis Tan, Master of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics student graduated in 2017, Current - Industry

Liang Tan, Honours student graduated in 2022, Current - UniMelb

Jason Yiteng Hou, Visiting Master student from MIPS 2025

Mandy Zhuomin Wan, Visiting Master student from MIPS 2025

Tracey Luu, Visiting Master student from UniMelb 2017-2021, Current - MIPS

Kori Sawaros Onchaiya, Visiting undergraduate student from Mahidol University 2017

Lachlan Ridgway, LIMS Summer student 2023/2024

Thi Quyuh Nhu Pham, LIMS Summer student 2022/2023

Henry Bellette, LIMS Summer student 2021/2022

Louis Schobben, LIMS Summer student 2020/2021