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2013 Spring Seminar Series – Friday 4:30pm

Seminars are held in LT-G unless otherwise noted

 

January 18   Polyglutamine RNA toxicity: where, how, and then...
Abstract
Prof. Edwin Chan, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Venue: LT G Time: 4:00 pm
January 25   Dysregulated Translational Control in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Prof. Eric Klann, Ph.D. Center for Neural Science, New York University, USA
Venue: LT F Time: 11:30am
 
    Epigenetic Control of Muscle Gene Expression in Embryonic Stem Cells
Prof. Pier Lorenzo Puri
Venue: LT G Time: 4:00 pm
February 1   Joint Development of Perception and Active Eye Movements
Prof. Bert Shi, ECE, HKUST
Venue: Classroom 4334 (Lift 3)  Time: 3:00pm
February 5
(Tuesday)
  Functional regeneration beyond the glial scar
Abstract
Prof. Jerry Silver, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Venue: Room 2404 (Lifts 17/18)  Time: 4:00pm
February 8   Marine invertebrate larvae in the changing ocean: individual-based physiological and behavioral responses and their population-level implications
Dr. Karen Chan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
Venue: Room 3301A (Lifts 17/18)  Time: 3:00pm
February 15   Structural Biological Studies on Potassium Transporter TRK System
Dr. Yu CAO, Postdoctoral Fellow, Pfizer Inc, USA
Venue: Room 3301A (Lifts 17/18)  Time: 3:00pm
March 8   Immune paralysis and infections after spinal cord injury – the relevance of ‘disease modifying factors’ for functional neurological recovery  ** CANCELLED **
Prof. Jan Schwab, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
March 15   Mechanism and Function of Spindle Orientation in Drosophila Neural Progenitors
Prof. Chris Doe
Venue: LT-E  Time: 4:30pm
March 22   Optical Deconstruction of Fully-assembled Biological Systems ** CANCELLED **
Prof. Karl Deisseroth (IAS)
Venue: LT-E  Time: 4:30pm
April 2   Stem Cells and their Niche Activity
Dr. Cai Yu, Principal Investigator, TEMASEK Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore
Venue: LT-F  Time: 4:00pm
April 12   The Road to Pluripotency
Prof. Ping Yuan, Department of Chemical Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Venue: LT G Time: 4:30 pm
April 19   Epigenetic basis in Neurodegeneration of Ataxia-telangiectasia
Dr. Jiali Li, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University
Venue: Room 2405 (Lifts 17/18)  Time: 3pm
May 3   Novel signaling paths regulating synaptic acetylcholine receptor clustering at the neuromuscular junction
Prof. Hans Rudolf Brenner, University of Basel
May 10   Center for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Research: Group Research Studies
Prof. Maria Lung, HKU
May 24   [Title to be informed]
Stanley Lau, LIFS
May 31   Bioprobes Based on AIE Fluorogens
Prof. Benzhong Tang, Chemistry, HKUST
     
    *Note: Titles of seminars are tentative

Other Events

15-19.07.2013
Summer Camp 2013

10.06.2013
Seminar
Regulation of Membrane Receptor Activation by Phospholipids

by Chenqi Xu, PhD, Principle Investigator, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

16.04.2013
Seminar
From TNF to TLRs: How the Innate Immune System Senses Infection

by Prof Bruce Beutler

16.04.2013
Seminar
Eph Receptors and Diagnostic Implications for Breast Cancer

by Raj Kandpal, PhD, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Western University of Health Sciences

27.03.2013
Seminar
Pathological angiogenesis in cancer and tissue metabolism

by Dr Yuan Xue, Post-doctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

04.03.2013
Seminar
Viral exploitation of host intracellular trafficking pathways

by Dr Sumana Sanyal, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, USA

25.02.2013
Seminar
Slugging Through: When RNA Polymerase Collides with a Nucleosome

by Dr Toyotaka, Ishibashi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, USA

06.02.2013
Seminar
The Physical Basis of Complex Behaviors of Multi-domain Proteins

by Dr Pilong Li, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, USA

30.01.2013
Seminar

The Science of translation Research: Back to the Basics? Case examples from oncology to neuroscience

by Prof. Daniel Lee, Honorary Professor, The University of Hong Kong

23.01.2013
Seminar

Impact of heavy metals on phytoplankton diversity and carbon transfer in tropical coastal systems

by Dr. Emma Rochelle-Newall, Research scientist, French Institute de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)

16.01.2013
Seminar
A Tale of Two Insulin Signaling: DNA-PK and aPKC
by Dr. Roger H.F. Wong, PhD in Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley

10.12.2012
The 1st HKUST Symposium on Neurodegenerative Disease Alzheimer’s Disease 2012 New Advances & New Challenges
Hosted by Prof. Karl Herrup
Venue: LT C      Time: 2:00 - 5:00 PM

06.11.2012
Seminar

Golgi Biogenesis, Function, and Defects in Diseases

by Dr. Yanzhuang Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

05.11.2012
Seminar

Neuregulin1/ErbB4 Signaling in Parvalbumin Interneurons: Implications for Schizophrenia and Epilepsy

by Prof. Xiao-Ming LI, Professor and Principle Investigator of Neurobiology Zhejiang University School of Medicine

01.11.2012
Seminar

mRNA Processing, Degradation and Quality Control in Eukaryotes

by Prof. Liang Tong, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, USA

28.09.2012
Seminar

Unfolding of acetylcholinesterase: stabilization of intermediate states by chemical and pharmacological chaperons

by Dr. Lev Weiner, Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

21.09.2012
Seminar

The human amygdala and social cognition

by Prof. Ralph Adolphs, Bren Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, California Institute of Technology, USA

24-27.07.2012
Summer Camp 2012

Summer Camp 2012 for Prospective Research Postgraduate Students

25.07.2012
Seminar

Vulnerability and responses of biological systems to global change

by Dr. William CHEUNG, Assistant Professor, Fisheries Centre, The University of British Columbia, Canada

19.07.2012
Seminar

Metabolic regulation by the TGF-b superfamily receptor ALK7 and its ligands

by Prof. Carlos Ibanez, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

05.07.2012
Seminar

Wnt signaling pathway, intestinal stem cells and cancer

by Dr. Vivian LI, Postdoctoral Fellow, Hubrecht Institute, The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Utrecht, The Netherlands

03.07.2012
Seminar

Discovery of Native Long Non-coding RNAs and Their Functions in Neurologic Disorders

by Dr. Yuan-Xiang TAO, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

19.06.2012
Seminar

The self-tuning neuron: synaptic homeostasis and ion channel compensation

by Dr. Lamont Tang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, USA

18.06.2012
Seminar

Post-transcriptional regulation of stem cell quiescence

by Dr. Tom H.Cheung, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA

12.06.2012
Seminar

The Molecular Switches Determining Membrane Dynamics In Autophagy and Their Disease Relevance

by Dr. Qing ZHONG, Assistant Professor, Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, The University of California, Berkeley, USA

09.06.2012
2012 Hong Kong Inter-University Postgraduate Symposium on Life Science

04.06.2012
Seminar

Hijacking of the carbon metabolism and signal transduction networks of the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus by cyanophages

by Dr. Qinglu ZENG, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

30.04.2012
Seminar

Structural Biology of Small RNA-mediated Gene Regulation and Methylation-mediated Epigenetic Regulation

by Prof Dinshaw Patel, Cornell University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

28.02.2012
Seminar

System biology of the brain: a neuroproteomics approach

by Dr. Ka Wan Li, Assistant Professor, Centre for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands