Prof. Dr. Yeo Chew Chieng obtained his B.Sc. (Honours in Microbiology) and Ph.D. (Microbiology) from the National University of Singapore. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Microbiology, NUS, from 1999 to 2003 after which he took up an academic position as an Assistant Professor at Malaysia University of Science and Technology in Petaling Jaya, Selangor. He then moved to the Faculty of Agriculture and Biotechnology at Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA) before joining the Faculty of Medicine, UniSZA, as a Professor in Microbiology in 2014, where he remains until now. Prof Yeo always had an abiding interest in bacteria. His final year undergraduate project was on clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and his Ph.D. was on the soil bioremediation bacterium, Pseudomonas alcaligenes. His current interest is on the genomics of multidrug-resistant pathogens, focusing on Acinetobacter and Staphylococcus species.
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