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Asst Prof Kim Hie Lim
Assistant Professor, Asian School of the Environment
Assistant Professor, Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering
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Hie Lim Kim specializes in population genomics which study genetic variations within or between populations to understand their demographic history. She received her Ph.D. training in population genetics from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Japan and continued her postdoctoral research at Pennsylvania State University starting 2009. Later, She served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) at Nanyang Technological University from 2014. In 2016, Hie Lim Kim was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Asian School of the Environment and SCELSE at Nanyang Technological University. Currently, she is leading the GenomeAsia 100K project, a massive research initiative aimed at generating and analyzing population genome datasets from diverse ethnicities in Asia to reveal the genetic diversity and population history of Asian populations. In addition, she is conducting the population genomic study of sea turtles nesting in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
• The impact of environmental change on genome evolution.
• Genetic characteristics and population history of diverse human populations.
• Diversity of the human immune system and disease risks shaped by pathogens and the environment.
• Conservation genetics and biodiversity in the face of climate change, focusing on species such as sea turtles, rainforest trees, and environmental microbiome.
Prehistoric human migration between Sundaland and South Asia was driven by sea-level rise (Kim et al, 2023) Video 1 Video 2
Sea turtle population genomic project Video
Conservation genetics Video
• Genetic characteristics and population history of diverse human populations.
• Diversity of the human immune system and disease risks shaped by pathogens and the environment.
• Conservation genetics and biodiversity in the face of climate change, focusing on species such as sea turtles, rainforest trees, and environmental microbiome.
Prehistoric human migration between Sundaland and South Asia was driven by sea-level rise (Kim et al, 2023) Video 1 Video 2
Sea turtle population genomic project Video
Conservation genetics Video
- Climate Transformation Programme
- Climate Transformation Programme - Cluster 2 (Eleanor Slade)
- Climate Transformation Programme - Cluster 2 (Kim Hie Lim)
- Climate Transformation Programme - Cluster 2 (Ryan Chisholm)
- Genomic insights into Sea Turtles: Understanding population dynamics and climate change
- Revealing the genetic diversity of threatened peat swamp tree species in Singapore and neighbouring regions
Awards
Venus International Women Awards, Outstanding Woman Researcher in Population Genomics (2024)
Courses Taught
Supervision of PhD Students
Lim Ye Joon (2024 - 2028)
Faith, Sim Chin Yee (2023 - 2027)
Nguyen Tran The Hung (2022 - 2026)
Regine Tiong Hui Yi (2020- 2024)
Sam Spence (2019 -2023)
Amit Gourav Ghosh (2019 - 2023)
Faith, Sim Chin Yee (2023 - 2027)
Nguyen Tran The Hung (2022 - 2026)
Regine Tiong Hui Yi (2020- 2024)
Sam Spence (2019 -2023)
Amit Gourav Ghosh (2019 - 2023)