Activities > lectures and Seminars > 2010
No. Date Name of Speaker Affiliation Title
Title Given name Surname
1 Feb 01, 2010 A Cell Technology Seminar Co-organized by Strategic Research Theme of Development & Growth and Centre for Reproduction, Development and Growth
Dr Wei Huang Departments of Biochemistry and Physics, HKU The Potential Landscape of Cell State Transitions under the Influence of Noise and Cell Proliferation
Prof Hongzhe Sun Department of Chemistry, HKU Metallomics and Metalloproteomics in Biomedical Research
Prof Rudolf Wu School of Biological Science, HKU Hypoxia is an Endocrine Disruptor and a Teratogen in Fish: Will the same also happen in human?
2 Mar 03, 2010 Dr Jeffrey Thomas Jensen Director in Women's Health Research Unit and Vulvar Pain Clinic Oregon, USA Abortion, Counseling, Family Planning and Intrauterine System
3 Mar 15, 2010  Prof Chi-Chung Hui Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto
Head, Program in Developmental & Stem Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children
Regulators of Gli Transcription Factors in Development and Cancer 
Prof Naihe Jing Professor and Deputy Director, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences A Novel Crosstalk Mechanism between BMP and Wnt Pathways during Neuronal Differentiation of Spinal Cord 
4 Mar 29, 2010 Prof Wim JM Van de Ven Director, Laboratory for Molecular Oncology, Department of Human Genetics
University of Leuven, Belgium
Versatile PLAG1 oncogene-induced mouse tumor models and repression of PLAG1-induced tumorigenesis by concomitant inactivation of the proprotein convertase encoding fur gene
5 May 10, 2010 Prof Howard D Lipshitz Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Canada Post-transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression During Early Drosophila Development
6 May 19, 2010 Dr Michael To Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology Long Bone Deformity Correction Using Shape Memory Alloy Plate
Dr Wing-Yee Lui School of Biological Sciences Junction Restructuring in the Testis
Dr Tiong Yang Tan Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne YPEL1 in Craniofacial Development and Human Disease
7 May 24, 2010 Dr Bo  Feng Genome Institute of Singapore  Conversion of Somatic Cells to
Pluripotent Stem Cells by Reprogramming 
8 Jun 05, 2010 Update on Assisted Reproduction
Prof PC Ho Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Management of poor ovarian responders
Dr Calvin KF Lee Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Ovarian stimulation and endometrial receptivity
Dr Ernest HY Ngan Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Luteal phase support in assisted reproduction
treatment
Prof Song Quan Center for Reproductive Medicine, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China Management of repeated implantation failure
Prof Paul Devroey Centre for Reproduction Medicine, UZ Brussel, Belgium Pre-implantation genetic screening – past, present
and future
        Approaches to improve the diagnosis and management
of subfertility
Dr Kersti Lundin Unit of Reproductive Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gateborg, Sweden Assessment of embryo quality and its impact on the
success rate of IVF
9 Jun 08, 2010 Dr Kwok-Keung Ken Chan Research Scientist, Stem Cell Group,
Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Singapore 
Understanding the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Regulatory Mechanism of Pluripotency in Human Embryonic Stem Cells 
10 Jun 25, 2010 Prof Yupo Ma Haematopathologist and Medical Director of Flow Cytometry, Department of Pathology
Stony Brook University Medical Center, USA
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapy for
Human Diseases, Are We There Yet?
11  Jun 29, 2010  Dr Ray  Ng Department of Pathology, HKU Epigenetic Regulation in the Reprogramming of Stem Cell Fate 
Dr  Zuping  He Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC Signaling Molecules and Pathways Regulating the Proliferation and Differentiation of Spermatogonial Stem Cells 
12 Jul 14, 2010 Dr M Jill Saffrey  Senior Lecturer, Department of Life Sciences, Open University,
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Ageing of the Enteric Nervous System 
13 Aug 30, 2010 Prof Alister C Ward Director of Pre-Clinical Studies & Associate Head of School (Research), Deakin Medical School, Co-Director, Molecular and Medical Research Strategic
Research Centre, Deakin University
Fishing for Function: Analysis of Cytokine Receptor Signalling using Zebrafish