2015 Seminars

Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Seminar Title	Organizer	iCalendar File
Dec 29, 2015	1430 – 1530	SC 297	Professor Edward Yu, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, USA	Toxic metal ion export in bateria	School lf Life Sciences	iCal File
Dec 17, 2015	1200 – 1300	SC 297	Prof Keqiang WU Institute of Plant Biology National Taiwan University	Epigenetic regulation of gene expression by histone deacetylases in plants	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Dec 16, 2015	1430 – 1530	SC 297	Professor Eastwood Leung Assistant Professor Baylor College of Medicine USA	The Potential Contributions of Protein Science to Biotechnology	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Dec 10, 2015	1030 – 1130	SC 297	Prof. Federica BRANDIZZI MSU Foundation Professor Department of Plant Biology MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory Michigan State University	The plant endoplasmic reticulum: A vital network in harmony and defense	RGC-AoE Centre for Organelle Biogenesis and Function/Centre For Cell & Developmental Biology/Cell & Molecular Biology (CMB) Program	iCal File
Dec 10, 2015	0930 – 1030	SC 297	Prof Juan S Bonifacino, Cell Biology and Neurobiology Branch (CBNB), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child health and Human Development (NICHD), National Insitutes of Health (NIH)	Mechanisms and Functions of Lysosome Positioning	RGC-AoE Centre for Organelle Biogenesis and Function/Centre For Cell & Developmental Biology/Cell & Molecular Biology (CMB) Program	iCal File
Dec 8, 2015	1400 – 1715	LSB_LT1	Dr. Chun Kit KWOK Croucher Fellow, Group of Prof. Shankar Balasubramanian FRS FMedSci University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry and Cancer Research UK(CRUK)	Deciphering the hidden codes in RNA: Transcriptome-wide structure profiling reveals novel regulatory features in plants and humans	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Dec 9, 2015	1630 – 1730	SC L2	Professor KANG Shaozhong Academician Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)	西北旱区流域尺度水资源转化规律与节水调控模式 —以河西走廊石羊河流域为例	School of Life Sciences & Office of Academic Links, China	iCal File
Dec 4, 2015	1430 – 1530	LT5, LSB	Professor Hongwei Guo Professor of College of Life Sciences Peking University, China	Ethylene signaling, RNA decay and gene silencing	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Dec 4, 2015	1230 – 1315	SC L2	Professor Cahir J O’Kane, Departmental of Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK	Roles spastic paraplegia genes in organisation of axonal endoplasmic reticulum: Relevance of a forgotten compartment to neurodegeneration?	School of Life Sciences – Polyglutamine Disease Collaborative Research Group Seminar Series	iCal File
Dec 3, 2015	1230 – 1315	SC L5	Dr Xiaoxue Wang, Professor, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences	Environmental adaptation of marine bacteria mediated by DNA mutation and recombination	School of Life Sciences – Marine & Environmental Sciences Focus Group	iCal File
Nov 26, 2015	1230 – 1315	LHC Rm103	Dr Aixin Yan, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong	Functional Characterization of Bacterial Multi-Drug Efflux Pumps: Understanding Their Ubiquitousness in Bacterial Genomes	School of Life Sciences – Marine & Environmental Sciences Focus Group	iCale File
Nov 24, 2015	1230 – 1315	SC L2	Professor Jörg Kreuter, Institut für Pharmazeutische Technologie, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany	Brain Delivery of Drugs and Transport Across the BBB by Nanoparticles: Application to Anticancer drugs, NGF for Stroke Treatment and Alzheimer/Parkinson Models	School of Life Sciences – Polyglutamine Disease Collaborative Research Group Seminar Series	iCal File
Nov 4, 2015	1230 – 1315	SC L2	Dr. Karina Hall Fisheries Resource Assessment Scientist New South Wales Department of Primary Industries	Determining the status of eastern Australian cephalopod stocks	School of Life Sciences – Marine & Environmental Sciences Focus Group	iCal File
Nov 3, 2015	1200 – 1300	SC L1	Professor Chad A MIRKIN Department of Chemistry and International Institute for Nanotechnology Northwestern University, USA	A Chemist’s Approach to Nanofabrication: Towards a ‘Desktop Fab’	Sunny I and Irene Chan Lecture in Chemical Biology 2015	iCal File
Oct 29, 2015	1500 – 1600	SC L2	Dr. Joanna C. Chiu Assistant Professor Department of Entomology and Nematology University of California	Post-translational regulation of animal circadian clock	School of Life Sciences – Food & Plant Sciences Focus Group	iCal File
Oct 29, 2015	1230 – 1315	LHC Rm 103	Dr. Sibum Sung Associate Professor Department of Molecular Biosciences College of Natural Sciences University of Texas at Austin	Coordinated epigenetic silencing by long noncoding RNAs	School of Life Sciences – Molecular & Cellular Function Focus Group	iCal File
Oct 15, 2015	1230 – 1315	LHC Rm103	Professor Rudolf Wu, Honorary Professor, Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong	Marine conservation and environmental management: A paradigm shift	School of Life Sciences in Marine & Environmental Sciences Focus Group	iCal File
Oct 8, 2015	1230 – 1315	LHC Rm103	Dr Zhao Yanxiang, Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Modulation of Autophagy by the Beclin1-VPS34 Complex	School of Life Sciences in Molecular and Cellular Function Fonus Group	iCal File
Sept 25, 2015	1230 – 1315	SC L4	Professor M James C Crabbe, Senior Research Associate, Department of Zoology, Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom	How fragile is our planet? The impact of climate change on coral reefs and the people who depend on them	School of Life Sciences in Marine & Environmental Sciences Focus Group	iCal File
Sept 24, 2015	1230 – 1315	LHC 103	Professor Li Ning, Professor, Division of Life Sciences, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Functional and quantitative phosphoproteomics in study of plant cell signaling	School of Life Sciences in Food & Plant Sciences Focus Group	iCal File
Sept 17, 2015	1230 – 1315	LHC Rm 103	Dr Chih-Horng Kuo, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sincia, Taiwan	Genome evolution in symbiotic bacteria: Insights from arthropod-associated Sprioplasmasem	School of Life Sciences in Marine & Environmental Sciences Focus Group	iCal File
Sept 10, 2015	1230 – 1315	LHC Rm 103	Professor Liyuan Chen, Research Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Arabidopsis BPM Proteins Function as Substrate Adaptors to a CULLIN3-Based E3 Ligase to Affect Fatty Acid Metabolism in Plants	School of Life Sciences in Molecular and Cellular Function Focus Group	iCal File
Sept 8,2015	1100 – 1200	Rm G02, Lo Kwee-Seong Integrated Biomedical Sciences Bldg. Area 39, CUHK	Professor Margareta Hammarlund-Udenaes Professor of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences Head, Translational PKPD Research Group Uppsala University, Sweden	Challenges in Brain Drug Delivery – Pharmacokinetic and Methodological Aspects	School of Life Sciences & School of Pharmacy Polyglutamine Disease Collaborative Research Group Seminar Series	iCal File
June 9,2015	1100 – 1200	SC 297	Dr. Manda YU Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology,Academia Sinica, Taiwan	Shoveling “SNO”- Protein S-nitrosylation as the Key Regulatory Mechanism in Plant Immunity	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
June 1,2015	1630 – 1730	Conference Room, 3/F, MMW	Dr. Ying-Ping Wang Chief research scientist and team leader of land surface modeling Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization	Global Nutrient Limitation on Terrestrial Biosphere and its Implications	Food and Plant Science Focus Group & Earth System Science Joint Seminar	iCal File
May 19,2015	1230 – 1330	SC L2	Professor Gianni Panagiotou Systems Biology & Bioinformatics Group School of Biological Sciences The University of Hong Kong	The Interplay Between Genome, Metagenome and Exposome	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
May 18,2015	1100 – 1200	SC 297	Dr Cheng Tat Cheung Post-doctoral Boston University USA	Apoptosome structure and procaspase activation: a Cryo-EM perspective	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
May 7, 2015	1430 – 1630	SC L3	Professor Leung, Thomas Yun-chung The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Development of Arginine-depleting Enzymes as Anti-cancer Drugs	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Apr 24, 2015	1630 – 1800	SC L2	Professor Yigong Shi Dean of the School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, China	Mechanisms of Programmed Cell Death through Structural Biology	Department of Physics and School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Apr 23, 2015	1630 – 1730	LT1, Lady Shaw Building	Professor Yigong Shi Dean of the School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, China	The Beauty of Life Sciences	CN Yang Lecture in Physics	iCal File
Apr 16, 2015	1230 – 1315	SC L2	Professor Ho Kin Chung Dean, School of Science & Technology, The Open University of Hong Kong	Micro-algae: From Harmful Algal Blooms To Beneficial Algal Biomass	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Apr 9, 2015	1230 – 1315	SC L2	Professor Anderson O.L. Wong School of Biomedical Sciences The University of Hong Kong	Novel Pituitary Actions of TAC3 Gene Products in Fish Model	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Apr 2, 2015	1230 – 1315	SC L2	Professor Kwan Yiu Wa, School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Mechanistic studies of the pleiotropic effects of simvastatin	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Mar 26, 2015	1230 – 1315	SC L2	Professor Lo Clive SC, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong	Recruitment of Cytochrome P450 enzymes for flavonoid biosynthesis in grasses	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Mar 19, 2015	1230 – 1315	SC L2	Professor David Banfield, Division of Life Sciences, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Mechanisms of membrance protein retention in the Golgi	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Mar 12, 2015	1230 – 1315	SC L2	Professor Pei-Yuan Qian, Chair Professor, Division of Life Sciences, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Marine omics from microbes to invertebrates	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Mar 6, 2015	1230 – 1315	SC L4	Professor Ng Wang Kit, Danny Department of Biology Hong Kong Baptist University	Genome hybridization and regulatory interactions in Arabidopsis polyploids	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Feb 26, 2015	1230 – 1315	SC L2	Dr Lau On Sun, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Biology, Stanford University, USA	Stomatal development: from cell specification, environmental signaling to crop improvement	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Feb 12, 2015	1230 – 1315	SC L2	Professor Boon Leong Lim, Wallace, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong	How does energy supply affect plant physiology?	Food and Plant Sciences Focus Group	iCal File
Feb 5, 2015	1230 – 1315	SC L2	Dr Doris W T Au, Associate Head & Associate Professor, Department of Biology and Chemistry, CIty University of Hong Kong	The Story of Medaka: A Cross Disciplinary Model for Biomedical and Environmental Research	Marine and Environmental Sciences, SLS	iCal File
Jan 22, 2015	1230 – 1315	SC L2	Dr Roger Wong, Research Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong	The Ying and Yang of Energy Balance	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Jan 15, 2015	1230 – 1315	SC L2	Professor Kenneth M Y Leung, The Swire Institute of Marine Science & School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong	Temperature-dependent chemical toxicity models and their implications on derivation of water quality criteria and ecological risk assessment	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Jan 8, 2015	1230 – 1315	SC L2	Dr Shang-Te Danny Hsu, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwan	Structural insights into co-translational folding on the ribosome and ribosome-associated molecular chaperone	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

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)
YIA (Yasumoto International Academic Park)