Tit-Yee Wong
Professor
Office
UofM Central Campus, Life Sciences 523
Office Hours
By appointment
About Dr. Wong
Tit-Yee Wong was born in Hong Kong. He received his BS (1974) and MS (1975) at Murray State University, KY and Ph.D. (1981) at the University of Houston, TX. He moved on to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and then to Johns Hopkins University Biology Department for Postdoctoral studies in Biochemistry, Cell Biology, and Microbiology. He joined the faculty at the University of Memphis since 1985. He is currently teaching general microbiology, microbial ecology, and bacterial physiology.
Education
Research Interests
- Bioenergetics
- Sugar metabolisms
- Toxicology
- Bacterial nucleoid organization and stop signals
- Motif analysis