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Lecture Theatre 1, G/F, William MW Mong Block, Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

14 December 2018 (Friday)
Time Event
09:15 – 09:30 Welcoming address
Professor Danny Chan
Acting Director, School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU
  Session Chair: Dr. Ralf Jauch, School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU
09:30 – 10:00 Tipping the balance: the regulation of Sox9 in sex determination
Professor Robin Howard Lovell-Badge
Visiting Research Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU
Division of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
10:00 – 10:30 Mouse gastrulation: Attributes of regionalized signaling activity for tissue patterning
Professor Patrick Tam
Mok Hing-Yiu Distinguished Visiting Professor, HKU
Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia
10:30 – 10:50 Recruitment of distinct subcellular complexes by RhoGAP DLC1 in governing cranial neural crest specification and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition
Dr. Martin CH Cheung
School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU
10:50 – 11:10 Break
  Session Chair: Dr. Wilson YP Ching, School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU
11:10 – 11:30 Understanding synapse development and function of neuron: from the perspectives of RNA
Dr. Kwok On Lai
School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU
11:30 – 12:00 Irx3 and Irx5 in obesity and eating disorder
Professor Chi-Chung Hui
Visiting Research Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU
The Hospital of Sick Children, Canada
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Poster Session
  Session Chair: Dr. Stephanie KY Ma, School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU
14:30 – 15:00 The origin of MLL-rearranged human AML stem cells and mechanisms of treatment resistance
Professor Eric CW So
Visiting Research Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU
Department of Haematological Medicine, King’s College London, UK
15:00 – 15:30 Synthetic genomics: from genetic parts to genomes
Professor Patrick Yizhi Cai
Visiting Research Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU
Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, UK
15:30 – 15:50 Unleashing the power of combinatorial genetics
Dr. Alan SL Wong
School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU
15:50 – 16:10 Break
  Session Chair: Dr. Joshua WK Ho, School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU
16:10 – 16:30 Characterization of a novel protein complex in rRNA transcription
Dr. Chengmin Qian
School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU
16:30 – 16:50 Podosome formation promotes membrane deformation, dynamin activation, and integrin endocytosis
Dr. Cheng-Han Yu
School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU
16:50 – 17:20 Dynamic and hierarchical scaffolds for cell signaling
Professor Samuel Stupp
Distinguished Visiting Professor, HKU
Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology, Northwestern University, USA
17:20 – 17:30 Poster Prizes Presentation

Last updated: November 30, 2018