Rate My Professor Lisa Fan

Lisa Fan is the Research Laboratory Manager for the Kemp Laboratory and an Assistant Research Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Health Sciences Division, at the University of Otago. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy and previously served as a PhD student under Associate Professor Grant Butt in the Department of Physiology around 2013, funded in part by the Otago Medical Research Foundation. Her research has centered on intestinal epithelial ion transport, membrane transporters, inflammation, and models relevant to Crohn's disease. She has contributed to projects such as the Health Research Council-funded study on immune cells, bacteria, and epithelium in Crohn's disease patients, where she is listed as a principal investigator alongside Professor Robin Turner. Fan has also provided reagents and technical advice on human intestinal organoid cultures, as acknowledged in publications on source materials for organoid research.

Fan possesses expertise in techniques including in vitro electrophysiology, confocal fluorescence microscopy, protein expression, cell culture, immunofluorescence, membrane transporters, Western blot analysis, transfection, and RNA isolation. Her key publications include 'Molecular and functional characterization of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator from the Australian common brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula' (2009), 'The distribution and expression of CFTR restricts electrogenic anion secretion to the ileum of the brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula' (2011), 'The effect of Helicobacter typhlonius infection on colonic ion transport in the IL10 knockout mice' (2012), 'CFTR is restricted to a small population of high expresser cells that provide a forskolin-sensitive transepithelial Cl⁻ conductance in the proximal colon of the possum, Trichosurus vulpecula' (2012), 'Inflammation reduces the response to forskolin and expression of the NaHCO₃ cotransporter, NBCe1, in the proximal colon of IL10⁻/⁻ mice' (2013), and 'Understanding human Crohn’s disease: T cell immunoprofiling and in vitro primary intestinal epithelial monolayer models' (2020). She has supervised student theses, including 'Modulation of Lineage Development in the Colonic Epithelium' and work on immune cell activation in Crohn's disease. Her work has garnered 16 citations on ResearchGate.