School of Life Sciences

Seminar

2014

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)

Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Seminar Title	Organizer	iCalendar File


Nov 28, 2014	1230 - 1315	SC L2	Professor Chris CK Wong Department of Biology Hong Kong Baptist University	Endocrine disrupting chemicals, the effects of exposure on metabolic disorders	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

Nov 26, 2014	1500 - 1600	SC 297	Prof. Julia Chekanova School of Biological Sciences University of Missouri, USA	The Role of the Arabidopsis Exosome Complex in Regulation of Gene Expression Through ncRNAs	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

Nov 17, 2014	1230 - 1315	Lady Shaw Building, LT1	Professor Donald Grierson, Division of Plant & Crop Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom	Molecular & Hormonal Control of Gene Expression and Ripening in Tomato	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

Nov 13, 2014	1230 - 1315	Lady Shaw Building LT2	Professor Liu Hongbin, Associate Professor, Division of Life Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	High diversity of picocyanobacteria Synechococcus in Hong Kong estuarine and coastal waters	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

Nov 6, 2014	1230-1315	Lady Shaw Building LT2	Professor Dong-Yan Jin Department of Biochemistry The University of Hong Kong	Fire and counter-fire in the battle between virus and host: Using PACT as an example	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

Nov 5, 2014	1200 - 1300	SC 297	Dr Hanne Løvlie, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden Dr Alex Hayward, Researcher, Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Uppsala, Sweden	The Life of Chickens: Sexual Selection and Animal Personality Causes and Consequences of Parasite Attack: A Phylogenetic Approach	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

Nov 4, 2014	1430	SC 297	Dr. Chris Wing-cheung LEE, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic Florida, USA	Targeting Frontotemporal Dementia - a neurodegenerative disease second to Alzheimer's disease	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

Oct 30, 2014	1230 - 1315	LSB LT2	Professor Edwin Ho-Yin Chan Associate Professor School of Life Sciences The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Developing a multi-disciplinary platform for Spinocerebellar Ataxia research	School of Life Sciences, Molecular and Cellular Function Focus Group	iCal File

Oct 27, 2014	1200 - 1300	SC 297	Professor Peter Pimpl, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Germany	Receptor-mediated Vacuolar Sorting: How Much Guidance is Needed?	School of Life Sciences, RGC AoE Centre for Organelle Biogenesis and Function, Centre for Cell & Developmental Biology, Cell & Molecular Biology (CMB) Program	iCal File

Oct 27, 2014	1600	SC 297	Dr Clement M Lee, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Oncological Sciences, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA	The role of the motor protein KIF5B and the scaffolding protein JLP in proteasomal degradation of the oncoprotein c-MYC	School of Life Sciences/ Cell and Molecular Biology Program/Centre for Cell & Developmental Biology/Centre for Organelle Biogenesis and Function	iCal File

Oct 16, 2014	1230-1315	Lady Shaw Building, LT2	Professor Hon-Ming Lam School of Life Sciences The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Genomic and Molecular Biology Studies of Stress Tolerance in Soybean	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

Oct 9, 2014	1230-1315	Lady Shaw Building, LT2	Professor Yvonne Sadovy School of Biological Sciences The University of Hong Kong	Seafood Profile of Asia's 'World City'; past, present and possible future	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

Oct 7, 2014	1200 - 1315	SC L2	Professor Knud J. Jensen, Nano Science Center and Center for Synthetic Biology, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen	Cyclic and bicyclic peptides as therapeutic inhibitors	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

Sept 25, 2014	1230-1315	Lady Shaw Building, LT2	Professor Huating WANG Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Identification and Functional Characterization of Long non-coding RNAs in Skeletal Muscle Cells and Muscle Regeneration	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

Sept 18, 2014	1230-1315	Lady Shaw Building, LT2	Professor M. James C. Crabbe Executive Dean Faculty of Creative Arts, Technologies & Science Professor of Biochemistry University of Bedfordshire Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford United Kingdom	Marine Biodiversity; coral reefs and environmental stressors	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

Sept 11, 2014	1230-1315	Lady Shaw Building LT2	Dr. Terrence C.K. Lau, Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong	Small RNA in Pathogen	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

Sept 8, 2014	1100-1200	SC297	Dr. Keith Crandall, Director, Computational Biology Institute George Washington University, Virginia, USA	Computational Approaches to Biodiversity Informatics	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

Sept 5, 2014	1230-1315	SC L2	Professor Sanwen Huang, Deputy Director General Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences & Institute of Vegetables and Flowers Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences	Big Data and Cucumber Biology	School of Life Sciences

July 7, 2014	1000-1100	SC 297	Professor Staffan Persson, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany	A mechanism for sustained cellulose synthesis during salt stress	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

July 4, 2014	1230-1330	SC L4	Professor Yijuang Chem, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan	A_2A adenosine receptor, iPSC, and neurodegenerative diseases	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

April 14, 2014	1230 - 1315	MMW LT2	Professor Po Keung WONG, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Advances in Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Inactivation of BacteriaSeminar	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

April 3, 2014	1230 - 1315	MMW LT2	Professor PCK Wong, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Advances in Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Inactivation of Bacteria	School of Life Sciences

Mar 15, 2014			Li Xiangdong, State Laboratory of Argobiotechnolog, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, PRC		School of Life Sciences

Mar 14, 2014	1430 - 1600	SC 297	Professor Ming LUO, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama Birmingham, USA	Nucleocapsid of Negative Strang RNA Viruses	Biochemistry Program, School of Life Sciences	iCal File


Mar 13, 2014	1030 - 1130	SC 297	Professor Xuemei CHEN, Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Gordon and Betty Moore Foundatio Investigator, Furuta Chair Professor and Professor of Plant Cell and Molecular Biology, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California at Riverside, USA	Plant MicroRNAs: Biogenesis, Turnover, and Modes of Action	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

Mar 11, 2014	1230 - 1315	BMS_G18	Professor Guo Dianjing, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Probing the role of H202 in plant development	School of Life Sciences	iCal File

Mar 5, 2014	1100-1200	SC 297	Prof. Yunde Zhao Division of Biological Sciences University of California at San Diego, US	Auxin Biosynthesis and Signal Transduction	RCG AoE Centre For Organelle Biogenesis and Function, Centre for Cell & Developmental Biology, Cell & Molecular Biology Programme	iCal File
Feb 20, 2014	1230-1315	MMW LT2	Dr. Rita P.Y. Chen Associate Research Fellow Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwan	Protein Misfolding: Amyloid, Prion, and Neurodegenerative Diseases	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Feb 17, 2014	1400-1500	SC 297	Dr. Michael Griffin Research Fellow in Medicine Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA	Role of Early B-cell Factor-1 (Ebf1) in Adipocyte Inflammation	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Jan 29, 2014	1630-1730	Lady Shaw Building LT1	Prof. Martin Chalfie Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2008	Green Fluorescent Protein: Lighting Up Life	School of Life Sciences, Department of Chemistry	iCal File
Jan 22, 2014	1100-1200	SC 297	Dr. Kang, Byung-ho Associate Professor, and Director of Electron Microscopy and Bioimaging Laboratory, University of Florida, USA	Electron Tomography Analyses of Organelle Biogenesis	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Jan 21, 2014	1230-1315	BMSB G18 (Ching Kai Hall)	Prof. Lee Ming Ming Marianne School of Life Sciences, CUHK	The Long and Short of Improving Distant Homology Detection	School of Life Sciences	iCal File
Jan 14, 2014	1400-1445	Lady Shaw Building LT5	Dr. Luo Haiwei Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, USA	The Use of Phylogenomics and Population Genetics to Make Sense of Marine Microbial Diversity	School of Life Sciences	iCal 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