Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering

Office: (852) 3943 4340
Email: ypho@cuhk.edu.hk
Address: Rm 208, Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building, CUHK

Research Interests

1. Lab-on-a-Chip: Making the Small
2. Molecular Imaging: Reading from the Small
3. Cell Manipulation and Analysis: Learning from the Small

Selected Publications

1. O Franch, H Xiao, LB Marcussen, A Givskov, MB Andersen, A Godbole, C Harmsen, CA Guerrero, GF Hatfull, N Nørskov-Lauritsen, J Thomsen, FS Pedersen, Y Wang, D Shi, C Wejse, L Pødenphant, V Nagaraja, M Stougaard, YP Ho, MS Hede, BR Knudsen, “New DNA Sensor System for Specific and Quantitative Detection of Mycobacteria,” Nanoscale, 2019; 11(2):587-597.
2. MH Rahman, Q Xiao, S Zhao, F Qu, C Chang, AC Wei, YP Ho*, “Demarcating the Membrane Damage for the Extraction of Functional Mitochondria,” Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2018; 4(1):39.
3. J Li, F Xue, F Qu, YP Ho, T Blu, “On-the-fly estimation of a microscopy point spread function,” Optics Express, 2018; 26:26120-26133.
4. MS Hede, S Fjelstrup, F Lötsch, RM Zoleko, A Klicpera, M Groger, J Mischlinger, L Endame, L Veletzky, R Neher, AKW Simonsen, E Petersen, G Mombo-Ngoma, M Stougaard, YP Ho, R Labouriau, M Ramharter, BR Knudsen, “Detection of the Malaria causing Plasmodium Parasite in Saliva from Infected Patients using Topoisomerase I Activity as a Biomarker,” Scientific Reports, 2018; 8(1):4122.
5. JG Keller, C Tesauro, A Coletta, AD Graversen, YP Ho, P Kristensen, M Stougaard, BR Knudsen. “On-slide detection of enzymatic activities in selected single cells,” Nanoscale, 2017; 9(36), 13546-13553.
6. X Ma, ML Jepsen, A Ivarsen, BR Knudsen, YP Ho*. “Molecular and functional assessment of multicellular cancer spheroids produced in double emulsions enabled by efficient airway resistance based selective surface treatment,” Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2017; 27(9):095014.
7. EL Kristoffersen, A Givskov, LA Jørgensen, PW Jensen, W Byl, J Ann, N Osheroff, AH Andersen, M Stougaard, BR Knudsen*, YP Ho*. “Interlinked DNA nano-circles for measuring topoisomerase II activity at the level of single decatenation events.” Nucleic Acids Research, 2017; 45(13):7855-7869.
8. C Tesauro, B Ferrando, X Ma, ML Jepsen, AKR Ivarsen, R Frøhlich, T Stevnsner, BR Knudsen, YP Ho*. “Isolation of functional mitochondria by inertial microfluidics – a new method to sort intracellular organelles from a small scale biological sample.” RSC Advances, 2017; 7:23735-23741.
9. S Fjelstrup, MB Andersen, J Thomsen, J Wang, M Stougaard, FS Pedersen, YP Ho, MS Hede, BR Knudsen. “The Effects of Dithiothreitol on DNA.” Sensors, 2017; 17(6):1201.
10. MB Andersen, C Tesauro, M Gonzalez, EL Kristoffersen, C Alonso, G Rubiales, A Coletta, R Frøhlich, M Stougaard, YP Ho, F Palacios, BR Knudsen. “Advantages of an optical nanosensor system for the mechanistic analysis of a novel topoisomerase I targeting drug: a case study.” Nanoscale, 2017; 9:1886-1895.