Department of Chemical Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Department of Chemical Pathology hosts weekly seminars during the academic terms, providing an opportunity to learn about exciting research both locally and internationally.

One CME point is accredited per seminar for attendance pre-approved by the Hong Kong College of Pathologists and one CPD credit point is accredited per seminar by the MLT Board.

Date	Topic	Speaker
19 March 2021 9:15 am - 10:30 am via Zoom	Sensitive Detection of Hepatitis B Virus DNA in Patients with Occult Hepatitis B	Mr CHEUNG Wai Fung Jack MPhil student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
12 March 2021 9:15 am - 10:30 am via Zoom	The Anti-inflammatory Mechanism of Interleukin-37 in Atopic Dermatitis	Mr HOU Tianheng PhD student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
5 March 2021 9:15 am - 10:30 am via Zoom	Jagged Ends of Urinary Cell-Free DNA: Characterization and Feasibility Assessment in Bladder Cancer Detection	Mr ZHOU Ze PhD student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
22 January 2021 9:15 am - 10:30 am via Zoom	Investigation of the role of RNA m6A reader YTHDC1 in skeletal muscle stem cells & single cell ATAC-seq using split-pool method	Mr QIAO Yulong PhD student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
11 December 2020 9:15 am - 10:30 am via Zoom	YY1 regulates insulin production and glucose metabolism in pancreatic beta cell	Ms LIU Di PhD student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
4 December 2020 9:15 am - 10:30 am via Zoom	Regulatory role of interleukin-38 in the immunopathology of respiratory viral infections	Ms GAO Xun PhD student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
27 November 2020 9:15 am - 10:30 am via Zoom	Analysis of 3D genome structure in aging skeletal muscle stem cells	Ms LYU Anqi MPhil student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
20 November 2020 9:15 am - 10:30 am via Zoom	The antiviral and antitumor activities of human gammadelta-T cells	Prof TU Wenwei Antony and Nina Chan Professor in Paediatric Immunology Professor, Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine The University of Hong Kong
13 November 2020 9:15 am - 10:30 am via Zoom	Developing next generation histology technologies for better tissue diagnostics	Dr LAI Hei Ming Clinical Lecturer Department of Psychiatry The Chinese University of Hong Kong
6 November 2020 9:15 am - 10:30 am via Zoom	Extracellular vesicles of hepatocellular carcinoma: Functions and clinical implications	Dr YAM Wai Ping Judy Associate Professor Department of Pathology Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine The University of Hong Kong
30 October 2020 9:15 am - 10:30 am via Zoom	Second-generation combinatorial genetics technologies for therapeutic target discovery and protein engineering	Dr WONG Siu Lun Alan Assistant Professor Laboratory of Combinatorial Genetics and Synthetic Biology School of Biomedical Sciences The University of Hong Kong
23 October 2020 9:15 am - 10:30 am via Zoom	A new characteristic of plasma DNA fragmentomics: Jagged ends	Ms DING Chen Spencer PhD student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
9 October 2020 9:15 am - 10:30 am via Zoom	Statistical Genomics: From Bulk Tissue to Single Cell	Prof WEI Yingying Associate Professor Department of Statistics The Chinese University of Hong Kong
25 September 2020 9:15 am - 10:30 am via Zoom	Topologic analysis of circulating mitochondrial DNA in plasma	Ms MA Lizhen Mary PhD student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
20 December 2019 9:15 am - 10:30 am Room 33017 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Generation of human pancreatic beta like cells from pluripotent stem cells	Mr LI Xisheng PhD student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
29 November 2019 9:15 am - 10:30 am Room 33017 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Drug Development in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma	Dr YAU Chung Cheung Thomas Clinical Associate Professor Department of Medicine The University of Hong Kong
8 November 2019 9:15 am - 10:30 am Room 33017 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Specialized regulatory T cells in human tolerance	Prof Luis Graca Associate Professor University of Lisbon Medical School
1 November 2019 9:15 am - 10:30 am Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Zonation-dependent single-endothelial cell transcriptomic changes in the aged brain	Dr KO Owen Clinical lecturer Department of Medicine and Therapeutics The Chinese University of Hong Kong
25 October 2019 10:30 am - 11:45 am Rooms 407 and 408, 4/F, Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital	The processing of primary microRNA transcripts by human Microprocessor	Prof NGUYEN Tuan Anh Assistant Professor Division of Life Science The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
11 October 2019 9:15 am - 10:30 am Room 33017 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Leveraging big data and artificial intelligence to facilitate clinical translation of cancer classification	Dr WANG Xin Associate Head Department of Biomedical Sciences City University of Hong Kong
20 September 2019 9:15 am - 10:30 am Room 33017 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Delineating the interplay between the epigenome and genome architecture	Prof LEUNG Chi Yeu Danny Assistant Professor Division of Life Science Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
6 September 2019 9:15 am - 10:30 am Room 33017 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Computational and experimental technologies for cancer omics	Prof YIP Yuk Lap Kevin Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong
29 July 2019 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm Rooms 407 and 408, 4/F, Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital	(Epi)Genomic Predictors of Disease Biology in Gastrointestinal Cancer	Prof TAN Boon Ooi Patrick Executive Director, Genome Institute of Singapore Director, SingHealth / Duke-National University of Singapore, Precision Medicine Institute Singapore
31 May 2019 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Integrated bioinformatics analysis of cell-free DNA in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)	Mr JIAO Yinming PhD student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
17 May 2019 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Ultra-sensitive detection of copy number aberrations using plasma DNA size-banded patterns	Mr ZHANG Haiqiang PhD student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
8 May 2019 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Rooms 407 and 408, 4/F, Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital	Highlights of Findings from Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC) Studies in Taiwan and China	Prof Allan HILDESHEIM Senior Investigator Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics National Cancer Institute
7 May 2019 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Rooms 407 and 408, 4/F, Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital	Use of high sensitivity cardiac troponin	Prof Allan S JAFFE Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, USA
3 May 2019 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Application of Direct Whole blood Assay for leukocyte single subpopulation gene expression in an elderly exercise program	Ms WU Junyi Jenny PhD student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
26 April 2019 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	The skin as an orchestrator of influenza immunity	Prof HUNG Fan Ngai Ivan Clinical Professor Department of Medicine The University of Hong Kong
12 April 2019 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Artificial Intelligence in Ophthalmology: Where are we now?	Dr CHEUNG Yim Lui Carol Assistant Professor Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences The Chinese University of Hong Kong
11 March 2019 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Rooms 407 and 408, 4/F, Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital	The surgical techniques and clinical application of nasal endoscopic nasopharyngectomy in nasopharyngeal carcinoma	Prof CHEN Ming Yuan Professor Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
1 March 2019 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Pathway to "Precise" Head and Neck Cancer Drugging	Prof LUI Wai Yan Vivian Associate Professor School of Biomedical Sciences The Chinese University of Hong Kong
25 January 2019 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Epigenetic regulation of small and long non-coding RNAs in cancer	Prof CHEN Yangchao Associate Professor School of Biomedical Sciences The Chinese University of Hong Kong
11 January 2019 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Dysregulation of molecular targets involved in developmental process – its role in hepatocellular carcinoma	Dr LO Cheuk Lam Regina Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology The University of Hong Kong
21 December 2018 10:00 am - 11:00 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Uncovering drug targets and paired markers in cancers	Dr Grace S SHIEH Institute of Statistical Science Academia Sinica Taiwan
14 December 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Applications of stem cell platform for cardiovascular disease	Prof TSE Hung Fat Chair Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine Department of Medicine The University of Hong Kong
6 December 2018 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Rooms 407 and 408, 4/F, Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital	Prenatal Genetic Testing: What Patients Need to Know	Prof Mary NORTON Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences David E. Thorburn, M.D. and Kate McKee Thorburn Endowed Chair in Perinatal Medicine and Genetics University of California, San Francisco
30 November 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Understanding severe respiratory virus infection	Dr TO Kelvin Kai Wang Clinical Associate Professor Department of Microbiology The University of Hong Kong
9 November 2018 11:00 am - 12:00 noon Room 301, 3/F, Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital	PREDICT: a Breast Cancer Prognostication and Treatment Benefit Model	Prof Paul PHAROAH Professor of Cancer Epidemiology Strangeways Research Laboratory University of Cambridge United Kingdom
9 November 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Reproductive tract secretory proteins regulate sperm function and fertility	Prof FOK Kin Lam Ellis Assistant Professor School of Biomedical Sciences The Chinese University of Hong Kong
26 October 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Regulatory T-cells are required for neonatal heart regeneration	Mr LI Jiatao PhD student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
5 October 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Molecular regulation of somatic stem cell quiescence and activation	Dr CHEUNG Hiu Tung Tom S H Ho Assistant Professor Division of Life Science The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
28 September 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Towards personalised treatment for acute myeloid leukaemia - from zebrafish research to biomarker driven clinical trial	Prof LEUNG Yu Hung Anskar Li Shu Fan Medical Foundation Professor in Haematology Department of Medicine The University of Hong Kong
21 September 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Applications of CRISPR technology in EBV research and antiviral therapy	Prof JIN Dong Yan Clara and Lawrence Fok Professor in Precision Medicine School of Biomedical Sciences The University of Hong Kong
25 May 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Genomic Classification and Precision Oncology in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia	Dr IP Ho Wan Resident Specialist Division of Haematology Department of Pathology Queen Mary Hospital
18 May 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Directed evolution of reprogramming factors by cell selection and sequencing	Prof Ralf JAUCH School of Biomedical Sciences Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine The University of Hong Kong
11 May 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Study of lncRNA and enhancer regulation in skeletal muscle stem cells and muscle regeneration	Prof WANG Huating Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
8 May 2018 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm Rooms 407 and 408, 4/F, Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital	Ras GTPase-activating-like protein (IQGAP1) scaffolds intracellular signaling pathways - science and clinical implications	Prof David Barry SACKS Senior Investigator, National Institutes of Health Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University Clinical Professor of Pathology, George Washington University Honorary Professor of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Cape Town
4 May 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Insight into RNA-protein interaction: from cell fate to human disease	Dr BAO Xichen Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health Chinese Academy of Sciences
27 April 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Polygenic testing and complex disease profiling in omics data	Prof WANG Haitian Maggie Centre for Clinical Research and Biostatistics The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care The Chinese University of Hong Kong
13 April 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Knock-in of Large DNA via CRISPR/Cas9-induced Homology Independent DNA Repair	Prof FENG Bo School of Biomedical Sciences The Chinese University of Hong Kong
6 April 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Effects of Huangbo and its small compounds and Sinomenine on Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic lupus Erythematosus	Ms CHAN Yau Tsz Helen MPhil Student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
23 March 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	IL-37-mediated anti-inflammatory activity by suppressing the activation of eosinophils on allergic asthma	Ms ZHU Jing PhD Student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
16 March 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Profiling of the alternative splicing in normal tissue and cancer	Ms HUANG Dan PhD Student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
13 March 2018 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm Rooms 407 and 408, 4/F, Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital	Human gene regulation: A journey from basic research to biomedical applications	Prof Richard M MYERS President, Science Director and Faculty Investigator HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
9 March 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	To Genome-wide investigate the hierarchical structure of super enhancers and their functional implications	Mr DING Yingzhe MPhil Student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2 February 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Screening of key transcription factors regulating satellite cell quiescence and activation	Mr HE Liangqiang PhD Student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
26 January 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Combinatorial Genetics Platforms for Discovery of New Therapeutic Combinations	Dr WONG Alan Siu Lun School of Biomedical Sciences The University of Hong Kong
19 January 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Nucleic acid aptamers – versatile tools for a new bionanomedicine	Dr TANNER Julian Alexander School of Biomedical Sciences The University of Hong Kong
12 January 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	NT-proBNP testing in heart failure	Prof FUNG Erik Yee Mun George Department of Medicine and Therapeutics The Chinese University of Hong Kong
5 January 2018 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	A multidimensional network approach reveals microRNAs as determinants of the mesenchymal colorectal cancer subtype	Prof WANG Xin Department of Biomedical Sciences City University of Hong Kong
15 December 2017 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Deciphering the evolutionary history of brain tumors	Prof WANG Jiguang Division of Life Science Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
8 December 2017 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Innate Immunity in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus	Prof Vera Chan Department of Medicine and School of Biomedical Sciences Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine The University of Hong Kong
1 December 2017 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	CYP450 gene polymorphisms and clinical response to cholinesterase inhibitors in Alzheimer's disease	Prof MA Suk Ling Department of Psychiatry The Chinese University of Hong Kong
17 November 2017 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Gut microbiota in diseases - the gastrointestinal tract and beyond	Prof Sunny Wong Department of Medicine & Therapeutics The Chinese University of Hong Kong
10 November 2017 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	The study of eRNA subcellular localization and functional association by mining the high-throughput sequencing data	Ms HUANG Yile MPhil Student Department of Chemical Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
3 November 2017 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Medical Image Analysis and Surgical Simulation - AI and VR Applications for Medicine	Prof HENG Pheng Ann Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong
27 October 2017 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Targeting vascular endothelium in cardio-metabolic diseases	Prof HUANG Yu School of Biomedical Sciences The Chinese University of Hong Kong
20 October 2017 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Neural circuitry underlying sensory perception and motor function	Dr Owen Ko Department of Medicine and Therapeutics The Chinese University of Hong Kong
6 October 2017 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Is preeclampsia predictable and preventable?	Prof Liona CY Poon Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
29 September 2017 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Biotechnologies Using Nanoliter Droplets	Prof ZHENG Bo Department of Chemistry The Chinese University of Hong Kong
8 September 2017 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Combinatorial Blockade of Tumor-intrinsic Signaling in Boosting Liver Cancer Immunotherapy	Prof Alfred CHENG School of Biomedical Sciences The Chinese University of Hong Kong
21 July 2017 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	There will be blood - a journey through genetics and epigenetics	Prof Alexander DOBROVIC Head, Translational Genomics & Epigenomics Laboratory Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute
17 July 2017 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Rooms 407 and 408, 4/F, Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital	Scientific and political aspects of the Introduction of NIPT in the Netherlands: the TRIDENT-studies	Dr Erik SISTERMANS Head of Genome Diagnostics VU University Medical Center
29 May 2017 11:00 am - 12:00 noon Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Extending the scope of a prenatal diagnostic service for monogenic disorders	Prof Lyn CHITTY Professor of Genetics and Fetal Medicine Chair, Institute of Child Health University College London
26 May 2017	Discovery of novel pluripotency genes in stem cells and fusion genes in breast cancer by Third Generation Sequencing	Dr AU Kin Fai Assistant Professor University of Iowa
19 May 2017	Dawn of the RNA structurome and interactome	Dr KWOK Chun Kit Department of Biology and Chemistry City University of Hong Kong
10 May 2017 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Rooms 407 and 408, 4/F, Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital	"Treasure Hunt" for the Next Big Winner: Proteomics Biomarkers for Clinical Unmet Needs	Prof Daniel W CHAN Professor of Pathology, Oncology, Radiology & Urology Director, Clinical Chemistry Division & Center for Biomarker Discovery and Translation Co-Director, Pathology Core Laboratories, Department of Pathology Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
5 May 2017	Non-invasive assessment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease	Prof Vincent WONG Department of Medicine & Therapeutics The Chinese University of Hong Kong
21 April 2017	Mechanosensitive TRP channels	Prof YAO Xiaoqiang School of Biomedical Sciences The Chinese University of Hong Kong
7 April 2017	SKmDB: a skeletal muscle gene regulatory information database	Mr YUAN Jie MPhil Student Department of Chemical Pathology
31 March 2017	The role of regulatory T cells in transplantation tolerance to human pluripotent stem cell-derived pancreatic beta cells for T1D	Ms LEUNG She Ting Cherry MPhil Student Department of Chemical Pathology
17 March 2017	Development of a Database Management System for a 20,000-subject NPC Screening Study	Mr CHU Weng In Sam MPhil Student Department of Chemical Pathology
10 March 2017	Unique mechanism of Biodegradable Metal Magnesium for fixation of bone fracture and regeneration of skeletal tissues during fracture repair	Prof QIN Ling Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
24 February 2017	CD4 blockade promotes vascular regeneration in type-2 diabetes	Mr LEUNG Man Long Oscar MPhil Student Department of Chemical Pathology
17 February 2017	Universal approach for noninvasive prenatal testing of single gene diseases	Ms HUI Wai In Winnie MPhil Student Department of Chemical Pathology
10 February 2017	A Genetic Perspective on Biliary Atresia	Prof Merce Garcia-Bacello Department of Surgery The University of Hong Kong
3 February 2017	Investigation on the effect of a triterpenoid actein from Cimicifuga foetida on human metastatic breast cancer	Ms WU Xiaoxiao PhD student Department of Chemical Pathology
20 January 2017	Chondrocyte plasticity, adaptation and survival under ER stress	Prof Kathy Cheah School of Biomedical Sciences The University of Hong Kong
13 January 2017	Quantifying Influenza Virus Sequence Diversity Using Deep Sequencing Approaches	Prof Leo Poon School of Public Health The University of Hong Kong
6 January 2017	Prevention and Immunotherapy against HIV / AIDS	Prof Zhiwei Chen Department of Microbiology / AIDS Institute The University of Hong Kong
20 December 2016 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Room 301, 3/F, Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital	Reversible DNA and RNA methylation in gene expression regulation	Prof Chuan He John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The University of Chicago
16 December 2016	Tracing the Origin of Human Sperm and Eggs: from Specification to Epigenetic Reprogramming	Dr Walfred Tang Postdoctoral Fellow University of Cambridge
9 December 2016	The PI3K//mTORC1 pathway is indispensable for injury-induced quiescence exit in adult muscle stem cells	Prof Zhenguo Wu Division of Life Science The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
25 November 2016	Tumour suppressor genes methylation as a biomarker for head and neck cancers	Mr FUNG Yan Ho Sherwood MPhil Student Department of Chemical Pathology
18 November 2016	Metabolic reprogramming and microenvironment formation in liver cancer	Dr Carmen Wong Department of Pathology The University of Hong Kong
11 November 2016	The Genomic Landscape of EBV-associated Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma	Prof Kwok Wai Lo Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
4 November 2016	Exploring the Regulation of Mammalian Non-Coding DNA	Dr Danny Leung Division of Life Science The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
13 October 2016 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Rooms 407 and 408, 4/F, Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital	CUHK Medicine 35th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture Series Research in the Genetics of Pituitary Tumors; An Update on GPR101	Prof Constantine STRATAKIS Scientific Director National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) National Institutes of Health (NIH) USA
7 October 2016	Genome and Metagenome Research in Colon Cancer	Prof Jun Yu Department of Medicine and Therapeutics The Chinese University of Hong Kong
30 September 2016 10:00 am - 11:00 am	Harnessing microfluidics in few-cell and single-cell manipulations for biological discovery	Dr Angela Wu Division of Life Science The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
25 July 2016 11:00 am - 12:00 noon Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Amniotic Fluid Transcriptomics: A Window into Fetal Development	Prof Diana W. Bianchi Executive Director, Mother Infant Research Institute Vice Chair for Research & Academic Affairs Department of Pediatrics Floating Hospital for Children
21 July 2016 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Rooms 407 and 408, 4/F, Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital	The oxygen paradox: a novel approach to treating neurodegenerative diseases	Dr Charles Cantor Retired Chief Scientific Officer, Seqeunom, Inc, USA Executive Director, Retrotope, Inc, USA
20 May 2016	Chronic Hepatitis B: 1. Depletion of cccDNA with long-term therapy 2. Occult hepatitis B in hepatocellular carcinoma	Prof LAI Ching Lung Department of Medicine The University of Hong Kong
15 April 2016	An integrated gene regulatory network approach for functional long noncoding RNA identification	Mr ZHOU Jiajian PhD Student Department of Chemical Pathology
11 April 2016 11:00 am - 12:00 noon	Impact of Test Analytic Performance on Patient Outcomes	Prof Mitchell G. Scott Professor of Pathology and Immunology Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine Co-Medical Director, Clinical Chemistry Washington University School of Medicine, USA
5 April 2016 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Rooms 407 and 408, 4/F, Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital	Epigenetic and genetic fields for cancerization: towards precision cancer risk diagnosis	Prof Toshikazu Ushijima Chief of the Division of Epigenomics Senior Deputy Director National Cancer Center Research Institute Japan
1 April 2016 9:15 am - 10:30 am Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	New insights into the cell adhesion dynamics in ovarian cancer metastasis	Prof Alice S. T. Wong School of Biological Sciences The University of Hong Kong
18 March 2016	Search for Prognostic gene expression markers in early lung adenocarcinoma	Ms HUANG Dan PhD Student Department of Chemical Pathology
11 March 2016	Roles of B cells in Autoimmunity	Prof LU Liwei Department of Pathology The University of Hong Kong
26 February 2016	Diabetes and Cancer – what is the missing link	Prof Juliana Chan Department of Medicine & Therapeutics The Chinese University of Hong Kong
19 February 2016	Role of BRE in Acute Myeloid Leukemia	Ms PUN Cheuk Man Charmaine PhD student Department of Chemical Pathology
5 February 2016	Digital PCR analysis of mutations in the plasma of cancer patients	Ms GAI Wanxia PhD Student Department of Chemical Pathology
22 January 2016	Using Whole-Exome Sequencing Approach to Identify Somatic Mutations in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma	Prof Maria Lung Department of Clinical Oncology Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine The University of Hong Kong
8 January 2016	Functional study of long noncoding RNA GM11974 in skeletal muscle stem cells and muscle regeneration	Ms LI Yuying PhD Student Department of Chemical Pathology
18 December 2015 11:00 am - 12:00 noon	Reconfigurable acceleration of genomic data analysis and compression	Prof Wayne Luk Department of Computer Engineering Imperial College London
18 December 2015 9:15 am - 10:30 am	Mapping cellular hierarchy by single cell gene expression analysis	Prof Guo Guoji School of Medicine Zhejiang University
2 December 2015 11:00 am - 12:00 noon	NIPT in the Netherlands	Prof GCML Page-Christiaens University Medical Center Utrecht University Obstetrics Center Utrecht, Netherlands
27 November 2015	Exploring the functional significance of intergenic variants by DNA long-range interactions and enhancer targeting	Prof Kevin Yip Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong
20 November 2015	Epigenetics in gene regulation and human disease	Prof Kui Ming Chan Department of Biomedical Sciences City University of Hong Kong
13 November 2015	Clinical application of cfDNA-based molecular diagnostic in management of lung cancer	Prof MOK Shu Kam Tony Department Clinical Oncology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
30 October 2015	MRI Research in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS)	Prof Chu Chiu Wing Winnie Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology The Chinese University of Hong Kong
23 October 2015	Probabilistic Detection of Differentially Methylated Regions from Paired Methylation Array Data	Dr Xiaodan Fan Department of Statistics The Chinese University of Hong Kong
14 October 2015 10:00 am - 11:00 am Room 407-408, 4/F Li Ka Shing Medical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Circulating Tumour Cells in Lung Cancer - Biomarkers, Biology, Mouse Models and Drug Development	Prof Caroline Dive BPharm, PhD, FMedSCi Deputy Director & Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology Group Leader Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
25 September 2015	Integrative analysis of multi-dimensional OMICs data for regulatory function inference	Prof John Junwen WANG Centre for Genomic Sciences The University of Hong Kong
23 September 2015 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Pathology Conference Room 38069 1/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building Prince of Wales Hospital	Unexpected Maternal Incidental Findings Following Noninvasive Prenatal DNA Sequencing	Prof Diana W. Bianchi Executive Director, Mother Infant Research Institute Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pediatrics, Floating Hospital for Children Natalie V Zucker Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology Tufts University School of Medicine
18 September 2015	Inducing female germ lineage cells from Oct4-GFP embryonic stem cells	Mr MA Xin MPhil Student Department of Chemical Pathology
11 September 2015	The dark side of NPC pathogenesis	Prof Tao Qian Department of Clinical Oncology The Chinese university of Hong Kong