Activities > lectures and Seminars > 2008

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1 Jan 21, 2008 Prof Lorna Casselton Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society Meeting with Prof Cheah and her team
2 Jan 24, 2008 Dr Keith Leung Department of Biochemistry, HKU Technology  Seminar Series I: “Animal Models in Biomedical Research – The A,B,Cs”
Seminar 1: Getting The Most Out Of Your Mice and Research Dollars  
3 Feb 22, 2008 Dr TJ Yao Clinical Trials Centre, HKU A New Faculty Initiative – Development of a Collaborative Core Facility in Medical Statistics
4 Apr 11, 2008 Dr Martin CH Cheung Department of Biochemistry, HKU The Chick-a Great Model System for Analyzing Mechanisms of Development
5 May 02, 2008 Dr Anskar YH Leung Department of Medicine, HKU Getting the most from the zebrafish model
6 May 5 2008 Prof Sir Walter Bodmer Oxford University Genetics and epigenetics of colorectal cancer
7   Prof Allan Bradley Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK The Quest for Homozygosity
8   Prof Henry Kronenberg Harvard University Osteoblasts:  Their early development and regulation by G proteins
9   Dr Shiro Ikegawa RIKEN University From Human, from Mouse: Integrated approach of human and mouse genetics toward the gene for bone and joint diseases
10   Prof Bjorn Olsen Harvard University Molecular mechanisms of hemangioma-the most common tumor of infancy
11 May 28, 2008 Prof Ching-Wan Lam Department of Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Genome-based diagnosis of genetic diseases 
12 Jun 17, 2008 Dr Maria M Garcia-Barcelo Department of Surgery and Genome Research Centre, HKU Genetic studies of Hirschsprung’ disease and other congenital disorders of the digestive track
13 Jun 19, 2008 Dr Ray Ng The Babraham Institute, Cambridge                           Epigenetic regulation of pluripotency and cell differentiation
14 Aug 20, 2008 Prof Norman Rosenblum Professor of Paediatrics and Canada Research Chair in Developmental Nephrology, Division of Nephrology & Program in
Developmental & Stem Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children & University of Toronto
Pallister-Hall Syndrome: A Window into HH-GLI-Dependent Control of Kidney Development
15 Sep 24, 2008 Prof Richard Behringer Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA Stem Cell Seminar Series:
1.  Stem Cells and Organogenesis
16 Sep 24, 2008 Dr Robin Lovell-Badge, FRS Division of Developmental Genetics, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, UK 2.  Intrinsic and extrinsic factors controlling stem cell
properties in the CNS; a tale of two Sox genes
17 Oct 09, 2008 Prof Sir Martin Evans Winner of The Nobel Prize in Medicine 2007
Director of the School of Biosciences and Professor of Mammalian Genetics Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Embryonic Stem Cell Homology with Embryonic Epiblast: Stem Cells and their Potential and Limitations in Therapy
18 Nov 12, 2008 Prof Quan Hao Dept of Physiology Structural Biology in Medicine
19 Nov 22, 2008         CRDG Retreat
20 Dec 05, 2008 Dr Zhong Wang Cardiovascular Research Centre, Massachusetts General Hospital  ATP-dependent Chromatin Remodeling in Embryonic and Cardiac Stem Cell Development