Dr. Karina Yew-Hoong Gin

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Associate Professor

Email: ceeginyh@nus.edu.sg

Qualifications

1996 Doctor of Science Degree, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

1991 Master degree in Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

1988 Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia

Publications (Selected)

1. Aw, T. G. and Gin, K.Y.H., Prevalence and Genetic Diversity of Waterborne Pathogenic Viruses in Surface Waters of Tropical Urban Catchments. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 110(4): 903-914 (2010)
2. Aw, T. G. and Gin, K. Y. H., Environmental surveillance and molecular characterization of human enteric viruses in tropical urban wastewaters. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 109(2):716-730 (2010)
3. Aw, T. G., Gin, K. Y. H., Oon, L.L.E., Chen, E.X. and Woo, C.H., Prevalence and genotypes of human noroviruses in tropical urban surface waters and clinical samples in Singapore, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75(15):4984-4992 (2009)
4. Sachidanandham, R. and Gin, K.Y.H., A dormancy state in non-spore forming bacteria. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnolog, 81 (5): 927-941 (Jan 2009)
5. Sachidanandham, R. and Gin, K.Y.H., Flow cytometric analysis of prolonged stress-dependent heterogeneity in bacterial cells. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 290 (2): 143-148 (Jan 2009)
6. Gin, K Y H and S Y Neo, Analysis of microbial populations in tropical reservoirs using flow cytometry, Journal of Environmental Engineering, 131(8) (Aug 2005):1187-1193
7. Qin, Q W, Gin, K Y H, Lee, L Y, Gedaria, A I, Zhang, S, Development of a flow cytometry based method for rapid and sensitive detection of a novel marine fish iridovirus in cell culture. Journal of Virological Methods, 125(1): 49-54 (Apr 2005)
8. Tang, Y Z, K Y H Gin and T H Lim, High Temperature Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization (FISH) for Detecting Escherichia coli in Seawaters Using rRNA-targeted Oligonucleotide Probes and Flow Cytometry. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71 (12): 8157-8164 (Dec 2005)
9. Sachidanandham, R, K Y H Gin and C L Poh, Monitoring of active but non-culturable bacterial cells by flow cytometry. Biotechnology and Bioengineering), 89(1): 24-31 (2005)

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