School of Life Sciences

Seminar

2017

Building Abbreviations

Area 39 (Lo Kwee-Seong Integrated Biomedical Sciences Building)
BMS (Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building)
CKH (Ching Kai Hall, Basic Medical Sciences Building)
ELB (Esther Lee Building, Sin Wai Kin Hall)
LHC (Y.C. Liang Hall)
LSB (Lady Shaw Building)
MMW (Mong Man Wai Building)
SC (Science Centre)
YIA (Yasumoto International Academic Park)

Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Seminar Title	Organizer
Dec. 15, 2017	1130 - 1230	MMW 622	Professor Yonggui Gao School of Biological Sciences Nanyang Technological University Singapore	Protein biosynthesis with EF-G and its paralogs EF4(LepA)/BioA, and photosynthesis with LCIB in CO2-concentrating mechanism	School of Life Sciences

Dec. 12, 2017	1430 - 1530	SC L4	Dr. Erik Wong Consultant Principal, Innovation and Program Management EW Consulting Ann Arbor, USA	Careers in Biomedicine: do you have the right stuff	School of Life Sciences

Nov. 22, 2017	1230 - 1330	LSB LT5	Professor Winnie Wan-yee Tang Department of Environmental Health and Engineering Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University	Maternal Exposure to Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers: Changes in Offspring Phenotype and Epigenome	School of Life Sciences

Nov. 16, 2017	1230 - 1330	LSB LT5	Professor Akbar John International Islamic University Malaysia	Impact of captivity on Asian horseshoe crabs - Problems faced and trouble shooting	School of Life Sciences

Nov. 14, 2017	1630 - 1730	LHC 103	Professor Mathew White Senior Lecturer in Psychology Applied to Health & the Environment European Centre for Environment & Human Health University of Exeter Medical School	Risks and benefits to health and wellbeing from Hong Kong waters: Preliminary results of collaborative research between the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Exeter	School of Life Sciences

Oct. 25, 2017	1630 - 1715	SC L2	Professor Daniel Schlenk Professor Aquatic Ecotoxicology Department of Environmental Sciences University of California, Riverside	Integration of microRNA and messenger RNA networks in early life stages of mahi-mahi (Coryphaena hippurus) to determine mechanisms of developmental toxicity caused by Deepwater Horizon oil	School of Life Sciences

Oct. 25, 2017	1230 - 1330	CKH	Professor Xiaohong ZHUANG Research Associate School of Life Sciences The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Mechanism of Autophagosome Biogenesis in Plant	School of Life Sciences

Oct. 20, 2017	1230 - 1315	SC L2	Professor Elaine, Lai-Han Leung SKL of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine Macau University of Science and Technology	Modulation of cancer metabolism and Redox balance using Chinese herbal medicine	School of Life Sciences

Sept. 28, 2017	1030	MMW 710	Dr. Laura Falkenberg Post Doctoral Research Associate Section for Marine Biogeochemistry and Oceanography Norwegian Institute for Water Research	Acidifying oceans: How environmental change may affect marine ecosystems	School of Life Sciences

Sept. 21, 2017	1230 - 1315	CKH G18	Dr. Sascha Offermann Institute for Botany Faculty of Science Leibniz University Hannover (LUH)	The single-cell C4 paradoxon: How can functionally and morphologically different types of chloroplasts develop and coexist within individual cells	School of Life Sciences

Sept. 12, 2017	1630	LSB LT6	Professor Gerard Evan, FRS Chairman Department of Biochemistry University of Cambridge UK	How Ras and Myc Cooperate to drive cancer	School of Life Sciences

Sept. 11, 2017	1630 - 1715	SC L4	Dr. Andrew J Murray Senior Lecturer Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience the WYNG Fellow in Natural Sciences at Trinity Hall Cambridge University	Nitrate, Hypoxia and the Control of Oxygen Supply and Demand	School of Life Sciences

Sept. 8, 2017	1000	SC L1	Professor Sibum SUNG Associate Professor Department of Molecular Biosciences Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology University of Texas at Austin USA	Mechanisms underlying temperature-triggered responses in plants	School of Life Sciences

Aug. 30, 2017	1100	MMW 703	Professor NG, Wang Kit Danny Assistant Professor Department of Biology Hong Kong Baptist University	How plant hybrids balance growth and defense? Insights from Arabidopsis polyploid studies	School of Life Sciences

June 21, 2017	1500	SC L1	Professor Jeng-Jiann CHIU,	Roles of Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Vascular Repair and Hepatocarcinoma Intrahepatic Metastasis	School of Life Sciences co-organized by the School of Biomedical Sciences (Faculty of Medicine) & RGC AoE Centre for Organelle Biogenesis and Function

May 31, 2017	1100	SC 297	Dr Hsu Ching-Lung, Research Scientist, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States	Beyond action potentials: roles of voltage-gated sodium channels in neuronal input-output transformation across multiple timescales for hippocampal memory system	School of Life Sciences

May 11, 2017	1100	SC L3	Professor Tsang, Ling Ming, Associate Professor, Institute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan	Diversity and Evolution of Marine Symbiotic Fauna	School of Life Sciences

May 10, 2017	1430	SC 297	Mr Tinyi Chu, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, USA	Chromatin run-on reveals nascent RNAs that differentiate normal and malignant brain tissue	BCH program, School of Life Sciences

Apr 27, 2017	1430	SC L2	Professor Anderson Wong, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong	Dual Role of Insulin in Spexin Regulation: Functional Link between Food Intake and Spexin Expression in Fish Modelseminar	School of Life Sciences

Apr 20, 2017	1230 - 1315	SC L2	Professor Hongtao Liu, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China	Evironmental signaling and plant development	School of Life Sciences

Apr 10, 2017	1030 - 1130	SC L1	Professor Chen Xuemei HHMI investigator Member of NAS (USA) Department of Botany and Plant Sciences Institute for Integrative Genome Biology University of California, Riverside	Mechanism of microRNA Degradation - an Unusual Role of an Argonaute Protein	School of Life Sciences RGC-AOE Centre for Organelle Biogenesis and Function Centre for Cell & Developmental Biology

Apr 7, 8 and 10, 2017			Professor Peter WH Holland, Linacrre Professor of Zoology, Former Head of Department of Zoology, The University of Oxford	1st Lecture The Power of Evolution and the Path to Scientific Discovery 2nd Lecture The Tree of Life: an Idea that Changed the World 3rd Lecture Embryos, Evolution and the Homeobox: Why Animals are Similar and Different Yen Kwo Yung Lecture in Life Sciences	Jointly organized by New Asia College and School of Life Sciences, CUHK

Mar 30, 2017	1230 - 1315	SC L2	Professor Xuelu Wang, Dean of School of Life Sciences, Huazhong Agriculture University, China	Brassinosteroid signaling network and plant development	School of Life Sciences

Mar 23, 2017	1230 - 1315	SC L2	Professor Kenneth MY Leung, Professor, School of Biological Sciences, HKU	Something about a predatory gastropod: from eating soup to changing sex	School of Life Sciences

Mar 16, 2017	1230 - 1315	SC L2	Professor Alex Sai-Kit Law, Professor, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore	The Origins of Death and Sex	School of Life Sciences

Mar 14, 2017	1000 - 1100	SC L5	Professor Sabeeha Merchant, Professor of Biochemistry, Director, Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Editor-in-Chief, The Plant Cell, Editor, Annual Review of Plant Biology, Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), Member of Leopoldina	A Day in the Life of Chlamydomonas	School of Life Sciences

Mar 9, 2017	1230 - 1315	SC L2	Professor Jonathan M Adams, Seoul National University, Korea	The hidden effects of tropical forest logging and conversion: a view from soil DNA	School of Life Sciences

Mar 8, 2017	1430 - 1700	SC297	Professor Michael Rychlik, Chair of Analytical Food Chemistry Technical University of Munich, Germany	Using Stable Isotopes in Quantitation and Assessing Activity of Trace Compounds in Foods	School of Life Sciences

Feb 23, 2017	1430	LHC G03	Dr Simon Yung Wa Sin, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University	Behavioural ecology of two highly olfactory species	School of Life Sciences

Feb 22, 2017	1530 - 1700	MMW706	Prof Cao Xiaofeng, Division of Life Sciences and Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences	Dynamic Histone Methylation in Higher Plants	School of Life Sciences

Feb 9, 2017	1230 - 1315	SC L2	Professor John Giesy, PhD. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, University of Saskatchewan, Canada	Chemistry and Toxicology of Oil Sands Process Affected Water	School of Life Sciences

Jan 20, 2017	1430	SC 297	Dr Nicholas Ching-Hai WU, Croucher Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute	Studying influenza A virus via high-throughput genetics	School of Life Sciences

Jan 19, 2017	1100	Rm G02, Lo Kwee-Seong Integrated Biomedical Sciences Building, Area 39	Professor Elizabeth De Lange, Leiden University, Netherlands	Predicting human brain pharmacokinetics and effects using translational modeling of rat microdialysis data	School of Life Sciences

Jan 12, 2017	1230 - 1315	SC L2	Professor Timothy BONEBRAKE, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, HKU	Climate change, illegal wildlife trade and cumulative threats to tropical biodiversityseminar	School of Life Sciences