2013 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Seminar Title | Organizer | iCalendar File |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 2014 |
1230 – 1315 |
MMW LT2 |
Dr. Vengatesen Thiyagarajan School of Biological Sciences The University of Hong Kong |
Will the Pacific oysters invade and attack Hong Kong by 2100? | School of Life Sciences |
iCal File |
| Jan 3, 2014 | 1100 – 1200 | SC 297 | Dr Li Meng, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA | Microbes drive marine biogeochemical cycles: from single gene to the whole community | School of Life Sciences | iCal File |
| Dec 9, 2013 | 1400 – 1500 | SC 297 | Professor Sheng YE, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou | Structural mechanism of hydrolysis-mediated conformational change of bacterial FtsZ protofilaments | School of Life Sciences | iCal File |
| Nov 28, 2013 | 1230 – 1315 | LHC 103 | Dr Shih Yu-Ling, Associate Research Fellow, National Taiwan College of Physical Education, Taichung, Taiwan | Spatiotemporal organization of the MinCDE complex during cell division in E. coli | School of Life Sciences | iCal File |
| Nov 25, 2013 | 1100 – 1200 | SC 297 | Dr Alaa El-Din Bekhit (PhD) Senior Lecturer, Department of Food Science, University of Otago, New Zealand |
In vitro meat: Is this the next big thing? | School of Life Sciences | iCal file |
| Nov 19, 2013 | 1230 – 1315 | SC L3 | Dr Guang-Chao CHEN, PhD, Associate Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Taipei, Taiwan | Regulation and function of autophagy – insights from Drosophila | School of Life Sciences | |
| Nov 11, 2013 | 1400 – 1500 | SC 297 | Professor Hong MA, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, China | Transcriptional networks important for Arabidopsis another development | Centre for Cell & Developmental Biology, Cell & Molecular Biology (CMB) Program | iCal file |
| Nov 4, 2013 | 1100 – 1200 | SC 297 | Professor Jia LI, Director of School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University | BAK1 directly regulates brassinolide perception and BRI1 activation | School of Life Sciences | iCal file |
| Nov 2, 2013 | 0855 – 1300 | MMW LT1 | See the attached seminar title | SKL/IPMBAB Seminar Series 2013 | State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology (SKL)/Institute of Plant Molecular Biology and Agricultural Biotechnology (IPMBAB) | iCal file |
| Nov 1, 2013 | 1100 – 1200 | SC 297 | Dr Yansong MIAO, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley | Cell cycle regulation of actin cable dynamics | School of Life Sciences | iCal file |
| Oct 31, 2013 | 1230 – 1315 | LHC 103 | Professor Wing Ngor Shannon Au, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Bacterial flagellar motor – a superb natural engine | School of Life Sciences | iCal file |
| Oct 25, 2013 | 1400 – 1630 | SC 297 | Professor Alan McHughen, UC Riverside, USA | GMOs: Assessing their Safety | Special SKL/IPMBAB | iCal file |
| Oct 8, 2013 | 1230 – 1315 | SC L1 | Professor Liwen JIANG, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Plant endocytosis and exocytosis | School of Life Sciences | |
| Sept 26 (Thu) | 1230 – 1330 | SC 297 | Dr Qiu Jian Wen, Associate Professor, Baptist University of Hong Kong | Diving with Jiao Long (蛟龍號) to the Depth of South China Sea | School of Life Sciences | |
| Sept 24 (Tue) | 1230 – 1315 | SC L1 | Professor Zhong Silin, Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences | Tissue specific hormone response and epigenome reporgramming | School of Life Sciences | |
| Sept 19 (Thu) | 1500 – 1630 | Rm 128 |
Mini-symposium on New Technologies for Fuel Production in the 21st Century 1) Professor Sunney I Chan 2) Professor James C Liao 3) Professor Sunney I Chan and James C Liao |
1) Catalysts for effecient oxidation of methane under ambient conditions: From enzymes to biommics 2) A tale of two butanols 3) Student Question and Answer: Future opportunities and careers for fuel production in the 21st Century. |
School of Life Sciences 1) 1500 – 1530 2) 1530 – 1600 3) 1600 – 1630 |
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| Sept 19 (Thu) | 1230 – 1330 | SC 297 | Professor Ding Lanping, 海洋生物研究所, 汕頭大學 | The reproductive diversity and environmental adaptability of two Codium species from China Sea | School of Life Sciences | |
| Sept 17 (Tue) | 1600 – 1700 | SC297 | Professor Bo LIU, Department of Plant BIology, College of Biological Sciences, University of California at Davis | Cytokinesis in Plants: When Microtubules are In Charge | School of Life Sciences | |
| Sept 12 (Thu) | 1230 – 1315 | LHC 106 | Dr David M Baker, Assistant Professor, The Swire Institute of Marine Science, School of Biological Sciences & Department of Earth Science, The University of Hong Kong | Nitrogen sources from developed shores cause coral reef decline | School of Life Sciences | |
| Sept 4 (Wed) | 1100 – 1200 | SC297 | Dr Regina Choy Wai Yan, University of California at San Francisco, USA | Retromer mediates a discrete route of local membrane delivery to dendrites | Centre for Cell & Developmental Biology | |
| July 31 (Wed) | 1600 – 1700 | SC297 | Professor Sheng Luan, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA | Regulation of membrane transport by signaling networks in plants | Centre for Cell & Developmental Biology, Cell & Molecular Biology (CMB) Program | |
| July 16 (Tue) | 1415 – 1615 | SC297 | Dr Hongbing Yao, Research Scientist, Department of Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern, Medical Center Dallas, Texas, USA | Saturated Fatty Acid-Induced Lipotoxicity | Biochemistry Programme | |
| July 9 (Tue) | 1100 – 1200 | SC297 | Professor Zheng-Hui He, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, USA | Vitamin B6 in Ultraviolet B Signaling in Plants | Centre for Cell & Developmental Biology, Cell & Molecular Biology (CMB) Program | |
| May 22 (Wed) | 1050 – 1815 | YIA LT3 | Prof Paul BUT, Dr Joseph KL YIP, Prof De-yuan HONG, Dr David BOUFFORD, Prof De-zhu LI, Dr Qin-er YANG and Dr Gunter FISCHER | Wu Jieh Yee Symposium | School of Life Sciences | |
| May 20 (Mon) | 1100 -1300 | SC 297 | Dr Calvin Yip, Assistant Professor, The University of British Columbia, Canada | Structural studies of membrane tethering complexes from major secretory pathways to autophagy | School of Life Sciences | |
| Apr 29 (Mon) | 1430 – 1630 | SC 297 | Professor Eastwood, Hon-Chiu LEUNG, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine; Director, Mass Spectrometry Proteomics Core Facility, Baylor College of Medicine | Deep and Wide Applications of Mass Spectrometry in Proteomics Discovery | Center for Soybean Research, SKL Agrobiotechnology Program, School of Life Sciences | |
| Apr 24 (Wed) | 1100 – 1200 | SC 297 | Dr Enrique Rojo, National Center for Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain | Characterization of the IYO-ART Cell Differentiation Switch | Cell & Molecular Biology (CMB) Program | |
| Apr 23 (Tue) | 1230 – 1315 | SC 297 | Professor Ting Fung CHAN, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | RNAomics in biology and human diseases | School of Life Sciences | |
| Apr 11 (Thu) | 1430 – 1530 | SC 297 | Professor Qifa ZHANG, National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhang, China | Understanding reproductive isoloation based on the rice model | Cell & Molecular Biology (CMB) Program | |
| Apr 10 (Wed) | 1400 – 1641 | SC 297 | Clink a link of the Seminar Title at the right next column | Centre for Soybean Research – First Meeting | Sate Key Laboratories | |
| Apr 9 (Tue) | 1230 – 1315 | MMW LT2 | Professor Tan Baocai, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Cracking the codes of making a seed in maize | School of Life Sciences | |
| Mar 18 (Mon) | 1200 – 1245 | SC L1 | Professor Sir Tom Blundell FRS, FMedSci, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK and Honorary Professor, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Genomes, Structural Biology and Drug Discovery | School of Life Sciences | |
| Mar 15 (Fri) | 1100 – 1150 | SC 297 | Professor Inhwan Hwang, Department of Life Science, POSTECH, Korea | Adaptors for clathrin-coated vesicles in post-Golgi trafficking in plant cells | Cell & Molecular Biology (CMB) Program | |
| Mar 11 (Mon) | 1430 – 1614 |
LHC 104 |
Dr Silin Zhong, HFSP Research Fellow, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University | Epi-genomics, a new opportunity for plant bioengineering: “A case study of tomato fruit development and epigenome reprogramming” | School of Life Sciences | |
| Mar 5 (Tue) | 1230 – 1315 | MMW LT2 | Professor Michael Kenneth Chan, Director, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | New Technologies for Engineering Proteins and Micromolecular Assemblies | School of Life Sciences | |
| Feb 19 (Tue) | 1230 – 1315 | MMW LT2 | Dr Tsoi Ho, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Polyglutamine Diseases: From basic research to therapeutic development | School of Life Sciences | |
| Jan 31 (Thu) | 1230 – 1315 | SC L1 | Professor Jerome Hui Ho Lam, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | How organisms evolve? A story on homebox genes and microRNAs regulation | School of Life Sciences | |
| Jan 11 (Fri) | 1230 – 1315 | SC L2 | Professor Gourisankar Ghosh, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, USA | Mechanism of IkappaB Kinase (IKK) Activation | School of Life Sciences |
Building Abbreviations
- BMS (Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building)
- LHC (Y.C. Liang Hall)
- LSB (Lady Shaw Building)
- MMW (Mong Man Wai Building)
- SC (Science Centre)