Melissa Yit Yee Kam

Contact

• workRoom BA50 Block B
  Malaysia Campus
  Jalan Broga
  43500 Semenyih
  Selangor Darul Ehsan
  Malaysia
• Melissa.Kam@nottingham.edu.my

Biography

Dr Melissa Kam Yit Yee serves as an Assistant Professor within the School of Biosciences. She completed her undergraduate degree in Plant Biotechnology in 2015 and received her doctorate degree in Biosciences in 2021, both of which conferred upon her by the University of Nottingham Malaysia. Her PhD research focused on plant secondary metabolite enhancement, specifically on the compound artemisinin produced almost exclusively by the herb Artemisia annua that has long been used as a treatment for malaria. In addition to her work on artemisinin, she also studies ornamental aquatic plants, with a particular emphasis on Aponogeton ulvaceus.

Expertise Summary

Plant tissue culture, plant secondary metabolism, plant natural products

Teaching Summary

Dr Melissa is a module contributor for the following modules:

1. Introduction to Biotechnology (BIOS1051)
2. Molecular Biology of the Cell (BIOS2059)

Selected Publications

• WINNIE YAP SOO PING and MELISSA KAM YIT YEE, 2021. Not one for all: the interwoven relationship between morphophysiology and secondary metabolite production in plant cell cultures. In: SONIA MALIK, ed., Exploring Plant Cells for the Production of Compounds of Interest Springer, Cham. 77-94
• MELISSA KAM YIT YEE and WINNIE YAP SOO PING, 2021. Effects of UV-B and DMSO treatments on the production of artemisinin in low-artemisinin producing Artemisia annua cell cultures Journal of Tropical Plant Physiology. 31(1), 26-39
• MELISSA KAM YIT YEE and WINNIE YAP SOO PING, 2020. An oxidatively stressful situation: a case of Artemisia annua L. Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews. 36(1), 1-31
• KAM, MELISSA YIT YEE, CHAI, LI CHIN and CHIN, CHIEW FOAN, 2016. The biology and in vitro propagation of the ornamental aquatic plant, Aponogeton ulvaceus. SpringerPlus. 5(1), 1657

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• WINNIE YAP SOO PING and MELISSA KAM YIT YEE, 2021. Not one for all: the interwoven relationship between morphophysiology and secondary metabolite production in plant cell cultures. In: SONIA MALIK, ed., Exploring Plant Cells for the Production of Compounds of Interest Springer, Cham. 77-94
• MELISSA KAM YIT YEE and WINNIE YAP SOO PING, 2021. Effects of UV-B and DMSO treatments on the production of artemisinin in low-artemisinin producing Artemisia annua cell cultures Journal of Tropical Plant Physiology. 31(1), 26-39
• MELISSA KAM YIT YEE and WINNIE YAP SOO PING, 2020. An oxidatively stressful situation: a case of Artemisia annua L. Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews. 36(1), 1-31
• KAM, MELISSA YIT YEE, CHAI, LI CHIN and CHIN, CHIEW FOAN, 2016. The biology and in vitro propagation of the ornamental aquatic plant, Aponogeton ulvaceus. SpringerPlus. 5(1), 1657