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CHEW S. F.

 
Current Appointment Associate Professor
 
Office NIE7-03-84
 
Telephone (65) 6790 3829 (Office)
(65) 6790 3942 (Biochemistry Lab)
Fax (65) 6896 9414
 
Email sfun.chew@nie.edu.sg
   
Academic Background BSc (Honours); PhD NUS
PGDipTHE NTU
 
Professional Organisations The New York Academy of Sciences, Member
European Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, Member
Zoological Society of Japan, Member
Singapore Institute of Biology, Member
 
       
  Courses AAB102 Cell Structure and Function
AAB206 General Physiology
AAB301 Biochemistry
AAB302 Animal Physiology
QSS502/ASK301/DSS100 Topics in Primary Science for Primary Teaching
MLS828 Environmental Health & Toxicology
MLS865 Comparative Environmental Physiology
QUB512 Biochemical & Physiological Basis of Life
  		 
  Research Interests Ammonia detoxification in air-breathing fish (lungfish, mudskippers, catfish, snakehead, weatherloach, swamp eel) and aquatic fish (marble goby and sleeper); Anaerobic metabolism in mudskippers, climbing perch and  weatherloach; Osmoregulation in Sipunculids, Onchidium, marble goby, stingray and climbing perch
  		 
 

Selected Publications

    
       
 
  1. Randall, D J, J M Wilson, K W Peng, T W K Kok, S S L Kuah, S F Chew, T J Lam, and Y K Ip, The mudskipper, Periophthalmodon schlosseri, actively transports NH4+ against a concentration gradient. American Journal of Physiology, 1999. 272(2):R1562-1567.
  2. Chew, S F, Y Jin and Y K Ip, The loach Misgurnus angullicaudatus reduces amino acid catabolism, and accumulate alanine and glutamine during aerial exposure. Physiological & Biochemical Zoology, 2001. 74 (2): 226-237.
  3. Chew, S F, M Y Wong, W L Tam and Y K Ip, The snakehead Channa asiatica accumulates alanine during aerial exposure, but is incapable of sustaining locomotory activities on land through partial amino acid catabolism. Journal of Experimental Biology, 2003. 206 (5): 693-704.
  4. Chew S F, N K Y Chan, A M Loong, K C Hiong, W L Tam, and Y K Ip, Nitrogen metabolism in the African lungfish (Protopterus dolloi) aestivating in a mucus cocoon on land. Journal of Experimental Biology, 2004, 207: 777-786.
  5. Chew, S F, J Gan and Y K Ip, Nitrogen metabolism and excretion in the swamp eel, Monopterus albus, during 6 or 40 days of aestivation in mud. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 2005, 78:620-629.
  6. Chew S F, N K Poothodiyil, W P Wong and Y K Ip, Exposure to brackish water, upon feeding, leads to enhanced conservation of nitrogen and increased urea synthesis and retention in the Asian freshwater stingray Himantura signifer. Journal of Experimental Biology, 2006, 209: 484-492.
  7. Chew, S F, J M Wilson, Y K Ip and D J Randall, Nitrogen excretion and defence against ammonia toxicity. In Fish Physiology Vol. 23, The Physiology of Tropical Fishes, edited by A Val, V Almedia-Val and D J Randall, pp. 307-395. New York: Academic Press, 2006.
  8. Chew, S F, M Y Sim, Z C Phua, W P Wong and Y K Ip, Active ammonia excretion in the giant mudskipper, Periophthalmodon schlosseri (Pallas), during emersion. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology, 2007, 307A: 357-369.
  9. Loong, A M, C Y M Pang, K C Hiong, W P Wong, S F Chew and Y K Ip, Increased urea synthesis and/or suppressed ammonia production in the African lungfish, Protopterus annectens, during aestivation in air or mud Journal of Comparative Physiology B-Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology, 2008, 178:351-363.
  
     

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