Dr. Michael KH Ling is a developmental neurogeneticist and a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Michael has an interest in the field of neurogenetics, genomics and bioinformatics. With a BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Sciences and an MSc in Genetics (with distinction) from Universiti Putra Malaysia, he went on to pursue his PhD in Neurogenetics at Prof. Hamish Scott’s laboratory, University of Adelaide, Australia. He won a Dean’s Commendation for An Outstanding Thesis Award and the CCB Award for his doctoral dissertation entitled, “Identification of transcripts involved in differentiation, proliferation and developmental networks of the mouse cerebral cortex”. He has published various articles in peer-reviewed journals of high impact factor (H-index=14) such as Genome Research, Genome Biology and Cerebral Cortex. He has been invited to deliver various talks as an invited speaker in national as well as international conferences or meetings. He has also won various research (UPM R&D Silver Medal, best poster and oral prensentations and travel grants) and academic (NSF, MIFRS, AFSI, UPMSTS, IBRO/ISN Research Fellowship) awards throughout his early career as a scientist. Of these, the most prestigious award that he has ever received is the Young Scientist Fellowships (2011) from both the Academy of Science Malaysia and Lindau Foundation, which allowed him to attend the world’s most esteemed meeting in Lindau, Germany, with 23 Nobel Laureates as well as 550 finely selected young scientists of various nationalities. Michael is a current life member of Genetics Society of Malaysia and Malaysian Society of Neurosciences. HE is also an appointed member of Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia. He is also the Malaysian representative in the Governing Councils of International Brain Research Organisation (2013-present) and the past representative to Federation of Asian-Oceanian Neuroscience Societies (2013-2017). His full profile is accessible from his research group website at www.neurosains.org.

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