Prof. LUO Haiwei

• Next-generation probiotics for marine wildlife conservation and aquaculture safety and productivity

• Adaptive evolution of genome-reduced marine bacterioplankton

• New strategies to calibrate molecular clocks of bacterial evolution

• Ecology and evolution of free-living diazotrophic bacteria in soils and application in green agriculture

New Asia College 

Editor, Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 2569, Environmental Microbial Evolution: Methods and Protocols, 2022, Humana Press

• T. Liao, S. Wang, H. Zhang, E.E. Stüeken, and H. Luo. 2024. Dating ammonia-oxidizing bacteria with abundant eukaryotic fossils. Molecular Biology and Evolution (in press)
• H. Zhang, F.L. Hellweger, and H. Luo. 2024. Genome reduction occurred in early Prochlorococcus with an unusually low effective population size. The ISME Journal (in press)
• T. Liao, S. Wang, E.E. Stüeken, and H. Luo. 2022. Phylogenomic evidence for the origin of obligately anaerobic Anammox bacteria around the Great Oxidation Event. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39(8): msac170
• Z. Chen, X. Wang, Y. Song, Q. Zeng, Y. Zhang, and H. Luo. 2022. Prochlorococcus have low global mutation rate and small effective population size. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6(2): 183-194
• H. Zhang, Y. Sun, Q. Zeng, S.A. Crowe, and H. Luo. 2021. Snowball Earth, population bottleneck and Prochlorococcus evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288(1963): 20211956
• X. Feng, X. Chu, Y. Qian, M.W. Henson, V.C. Lanclos, F. Qin, S. Barnes, Y. Zhao, J.C. Thrash, and H. Luo. 2021. Mechanisms driving genome reduction of a novel Roseobacter lineage. The ISME Journal 15(12): 3576-3586
• S. Wang and H. Luo. 2021. Dating Alphaproteobacteria evolution with eukaryotic fossils. Nature Communications 12: 3324
• D. Luo, X. Wang, X. Feng, M. Tian, S. Wang, S-L. Tang, P. Ang, A. Yan, and H. Luo. 2021. Population differentiation of Rhodobacteraceae along coral compartments. The ISME Journal 15(11): 3286-3302
• J. Tao, S. Wang, T. Liao, and H. Luo. 2021. Evolutionary origin and ecological implication of a unique nif island in free-living Bradyrhizobium lineages. The ISME Journal 15(11): 3195-3206
• J. Gu, X. Wang, X. Ma, Y. Sun, X. Xiao, and H. Luo. 2021. Unexpectedly high mutation rate of a deep-sea hyperthermophilic anaerobic archaeon. The ISME Journal 15(6): 1862-1869 
• X. Chu, S. Li, S. Wang, D. Luo, and H. Luo. 2021. Gene loss through pseudogenization contributes to the ecological diversification of a generalist Roseobacter lineage. The ISME Journal 15 (2): 489-502

• H. Luo. 2025. How big is big? The effective population size of marine bacteria. Annual Review of Marine Science (in press)

• C.R. Voolstra, J.B. Raina, M. Dörr, A. Cárdenas, C. Pogoreutz, C.B. Silveira, A.R Mohamed, D.G Bourne, H. Luo, S.A. Amin, R.S. Peixoto. 2024. Coral bacterial microbiome in sickness, in health, and in a changing world. Nature Reviews Microbiology (in press)

• 01/2024-12/2026. Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF), “Understanding biological nitrogen cycle evolution through new molecular clock approaches” (14107823), PI, HK$1,374,820

• 01/2023-12/2024. Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF), “Timing the bacterial tree of life based on host-bacteria co-evolution” (14116922), PI, HK$1,081,749

• 01/2023-06/2024. Marine Conservation Enhancement Fund (MCEF), “Population genomics of coral-associated denitrifying bacteria along nitrate gradients in Hong Kong waters” (MCEF21101), PI, HK$790,650

• 01/2021-12/2023. Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF), “Reconstructing the evolutionary history of flavobacteria” (14110820), PI, HK$1,131,260

• 01/2021-12/2022. the Open Collaborative Research Fund (OCRF), Hong Kong Branch of the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, “A correlated evolutionary history between the deep sea animals and their associated microbial lineages” (HKB_L20200007), PI, HK$700,000

• 01/2018-12/2020. Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF), “Roseobacter genome content diversification in a heterogeneous ocean” (14163917), PI, HK$848,714

• 06/2017-05/2025. Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) Area of Excellence Scheme (AoE), “Center for genomic studies on plant-environment interaction for sustainable agriculture and food security” (AoE/M-403/16), co-PI

• 06/2017-11/2019. Hong Kong Environment and Conservation Fund (ECF), “Genomic analysis of coral associated bacteria in Hong Kong waters” (15/2016), PI, HK$998,673

• 01/2016-12/2018. Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) Early Career Scheme (ECS), “Metabolism and evolution of uncultivated members of a generalist marine bacterial lineage” (24101015), PI, HK$1,067,343