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