| No. | Date | Name of Speaker | Affiliation | Title | ||
| Title | Given name | Surname | ||||
| 1 | Jan 5 - 6, 2011 | Croucher ASI: Fundamental Biology of Aging and Aging Disorders | ||||
| Prof | Antoine | Danchin | AMAbiotics SAS | |||
| Dr | Jingdong | Han | Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences | System Biology of Aging | ||
| Prof | Matt | Kaeberlein | University of Washington, USA | Yeast and Nematodes as Model Systems for Aging-Related Research | ||
| Prof | Brian | Kennedy | Buck Institute for Aging Research, USA | Resveratrol and Rapamycin, the Slowing-down of Aging | ||
| Prof | Chul Park | Sang | Seoul National University, Korea | The Nuclear Barrier Hypothesis of Aging as Mechanism for Tradeoff Growth to Survival | ||
| Prof | Yousin | Suh | Albert Einstein School of Medicine, USA | Functional Approaches to the Genetics of Human Aging | ||
| Prof | Randy | Strong | Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, USA | Pharmacological Intervention in the Aging Process | ||
| Dr | Xianmin | Zeng | Buck Institute for Aging Research, USA | Human Pluripotent Stem cells and their Therapeutic Potentials in the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease | ||
| Dr | Zhongjun | Zhou | The University of Hong Kong | Epigenetic Control of Accelerated Aging | ||
| 2 | Jan 17, 2011 | Dr | Don | Newgreen | The Embryology Laboratory, Early Development and Disease, The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Australia | Neural Progenitor Cell Transplantation into Post-natal Colon: Towards a Cell Therapy to Asist in Treatment of Hirschsprung’s Disease |
| 3 | Jan 27, 2011 | Prof | Philip W | Ingham FRS | Deputy Director Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology Singapore |
Origins, Mechanisms and Functions of Hedgehog Signalling |
| 4 | Feb 12, 2011 | Symposium on "How Do We Manage Subfertility in Queen Mary Hospital?" | ||||
| Dr | Raymond | Li | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | First Visit at Subfertility Clinic and the Treatment Plan | ||
| Dr | Tracy | Yeung | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Ovarian Stimulation and Intrauterine Insemination | ||
| Dr | Ernest | Ng | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer | ||
| Dr | Ernest | Ng | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis | ||
| Dr Dr | Raymond Ernest | Li Ng | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Discussion | ||
| 5 | Apr 15, 2011 | Prof | Chi-Chung | Hui | Visiting Professor, Department of Biochemistry, The University of Hong Kong; Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto; Head, Program in Development & Stem Cell Biology The Hospital of Sick Children Canada |
Limb and Ventral Neural Patterning in the Absence of Sonic Hedgehog Morphogen |
| 6 | Apr 19, 2011 | Prof | Chi-Chung | Hui | Visiting Professor, Department of Biochemistry, The University of Hong Kong; Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto; Head, Program in Development & Stem Cell Biology The Hospital of Sick Children Canada |
A Workshop on Research Grant Writing |
| 7 | Apr 20, 2011 | Prof | Sjaak | Philipsen | Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus University, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands | Developmental Regulation of Fetal to Adult Haemoglobin Switching |
| 8 | May 6, 2011 | Joint Symosium with Peking Union Medical College in Shenzhen | ||||
| Prof | Depei | Liu | President, PUMC | Protective Roles of Sirt1 in Cardiovascular Diseases | ||
| Prof | Xue | Zhang | Vice Director, State Key Lab of Medical Molecular Biology | Genomic Basis of Congenital Hypertrichosis Syndrome | ||
| Prof | Limin | Li | Head, Department of Pathology | Identification of Disease Relevant Pathways by Random Genome-Wide Mutagenesis Screening | ||
| Dr | Danny | Chan | Department of Biochemistry | Cellular Adaptation to Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress | ||
| Dr | Wanling | Yang | Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medcine | Using Whole Exome Sequencing and Haplotype-Sharing IBD to Search for Disease Genes | ||
| Dr | Calvin | Lee | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Roles of Wnt-Signaling Molecules on Regulating Human Endometrial Receptivity | ||
| Dr | Elly | Ngan | Department of Surgery | Lineage Determining Factors in Enteric Nervous System Development | ||
| Prof | Chengyu | Jiang | Head, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | Inhibition of Autophagy Ameliorates Acute Lung Injury caused by Avian Influenza A H5N1 in Mice | ||
| Prof | Daishu | Han | Head, Department of Cell Biology | Testicular Innate Immunity | ||
| Prof | KSE | Cheah | Department of Biochemistry | Framework of the State Key Lab & Skeletal Development and Disorders | ||
| Prof | Paul | Tam | Department of Surgery | Neural Crest Disorders | ||
| Prof | Pak | Sham | Department of Psychiatry | Enabling Technologies | ||
| Prof | PC | Ho | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Translational Medicine | ||
| 9 | Jun 20 - 24, 2011 | HKU- University of Toronto Stem Cell Course (June 20-24, 2011) in University of Toronto | ||||
| Dr | Andras | Nagy | Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute Mount Sinai Hospital | Sources of Pluripotent Stem Cells | ||
| Dr | Ian | Rogers | Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute Mount Sinai Hospital | Sources for Lineage Restricted “Pre-/Perinatal Embryo-derived” Stem Cells | ||
| Choosing the Right Animal Model: Direct and Indirect Mechanisms of Tissue Repair | ||||||
| Dr | Freda | Miller | University of Toronto | Sources for Adult Lineage Restricted Stem Cells | ||
| Dr | Stephanie | Ma | Department of Pathology | Cancer Stem Cells: Concepts, Methods and Implications in Carcinogenesis | ||
| Dr | Amy | Wong | PDF, University of Toronto | Challenges in Vitro Differentiation of Stem Cells | ||
| Dr | Ray | Ng | Department of Pathology | Epigenetic Regulation in Stem Cells | ||
| Dr | Samer | Hussein | PDF, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital | Biology of Reprogramming to iPS Cells | ||
| Prof | KSE | Cheah | Department of Biochemistry | The Origin and Fate of Stem Cells/Progenitors – Experimental Approaches | ||
| Dr | Ricardo | Baptista | PDF, University of Toronto | Bioreactors in Stem Cell Production | ||
| Dr | Qizhou | Lian | Department of Medicine | Animal Models for Preclinical Testing of Stem Cell: Cardiac Models | ||
| Dr | James | Ellis | University of Toronto | Modeling Autism Disorders Using Patient Specific iPS Cells | ||
| 10 | Jul 18, 2011 | The 5th Clinical Genetics Round | ||||
| Dr | Hon-Yin | Chung | Clinical Associate Professor Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medcine Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology |
Current and Future Perspectives on the Prenatal Diagnosis of Skeletal Dysplasias | ||
| Dr | Tiong-Yang | Tan | Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medcine |
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| 11 | RGC General Research Fund Workshop | |||||
| Aug 25, 2011 | Prof | Frank | Grosveld | Chairman, Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam | Writing Grants | |
| Aug 26, 2011 | Prof | Frank | Grosveld | Chairman, Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam | Transcription Factor Networks and Hematopoietic Development | |
| 12 | Sep 26, 2011 | The 6th Clinical Genetics Round | ||||
| Dr | Tiong-Yang | Tan | Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medcine |
Pathway Genetics and the Unification of Noonan, Costello and CFC Syndromes | ||
| Dr | Brian Hon-Yin | Chung | Clinical Associate Professor Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medcine Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology |
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| 13 | Sep 30, 2011 | Prof Dr. med. | Karl-Herbert | Schäfer | University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern Life Science Department Faculty of Computer Sciences and Microsystems Technology Amerikastraße, Zweibrücken, Germany |
Neurodegeneration, Diabetes, Cancer or Inflammation: the Enteric Nervous System Suffers Just as Well! |
| 14 | Oct 25, 2011 | Advances in Mass Spectrometry 2011 | ||||
| Prof | Ching-Wan | Lam | Dept of Pathology, The University of Hong Kong | Accurate Mass-Q-TOF for Toxicological Research | ||
| Dr | Stephanie | Lee | Agilent Technologies | From Data to Meaningful Results | ||
| Prof | Zhi-Hong | Jiang | State Key Lab for Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau University of Sciene and Technology | Porfiling of IgG Glycan Pattern with HPLC-Chip and Q-TQF Technology | ||
| Prof | Long-Sheng | Sheng | China Pharmaceutical University | LC/TOF MS for TCM Analysis | ||
| Prof | Yong-Yu | Zhang | Centre for Traditional Chinese Medicine and Systems Biology, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine | Application of Metabolomics Studies to Clinical Research in Chinese Medicine | ||
| Dr | Kim-Chung | Lee | Agilent Technologies | Tea Analysis by Q-TQF Technology | ||
| 15 | Nov 14, 2011 | The 7th Clinical Genetics Round | ||||
| Dr | Brian Hon-Yin | Chung | Clinical Associate Professor Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medcine Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology |
The (epi)genetics of in Utero Growth | ||
| Dr | Tiong-Yang | Tan | Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medcine |
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| 16 | Nov 22 2011 | Dr | Myles | Axton | Editor, Nature Genetics | Publishing your Research in Nature Journals |
| 17 | Master Class Lectures on Stem Cells | |||||
| Nov 21, 2011 | Prof | Robin | Lovell-Badge | Distinguished Visiting Professor, HKU & Head, Division of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London | Pluripotency, Multipotentcy and Stem Cell Genes in Normal Development and Cancer | |
| Nov, 25, 2011 | Prof | Robin | Lovell-Badge | Distinguished Visiting Professor, HKU & Head, Division of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London | Adult Tissue-Specific Stem Cells and Their Niches in the CNS and Pituitary | |
| 18 | Nov 30, 2011 | Prof | Vasso | Episkopou | Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Neuroscience, Imperial College, London | Arkadia Supports the Tumour Suppressing Properties of TGF-beta Signalling in Colorectal Cancer |
| 19 | Dec 1, 2011 | Prof | Vasso | Episkopou | Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Neuroscience, Imperial College, London, UK | BMP-Arkadia2 Signalling is Required for Moto Neuron Axon Elongation |
| 20 | Dec 3,2011 | Joint Research Retreat for Centre for Reproduction, Development and Growth and Strategic Research Theme of Development and Reproduction | ||||
| Dr | Chengmin | Qian | Department of Biochemistry | New CRDG Membes: Presentation on Research Interests | ||
| Dr | Chuan-Hai | Fu | Department of Biochemistry | New CRDG Membes: Presentation on Research Interests | ||
| Dr | Chengfei | Zhang | Department of Dentistry | New CRDG Membes: Presentation on Research Interests | ||
| Dr | Tiong-Yang | Tan | Department of Biochemistry & Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine | New CRDG Membes: Presentation on Research Interests | ||
| Dr | Cheuk-Luk | Lee | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Research Presentation by CRDG Members | ||
| Dr | Philip | Chiu | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Research Presentation by CRDG Members | ||
| Dr | Miaoxin | Li | Department of Psychiatry | Research Presentation by CRDG Members | ||
| Dr | Baohua | Liu | Department of Biochemistry | Research Presentation by CRDG Members | ||
| Prof | William SB | Yeung | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Update and Report from Research Themes: Reproduction | ||
| Dr | MH | Sham | Department of Biochemistry | Update and Report from Research Themes: Developmental & Functional Genomics | ||
| Dr | MM | Garcia-Barcelo | Department of Biochemistry | Update and Report from Research Themes: Genetics of Disorders | ||
| Dr | Anskar | Leung | Department of Medicine | Update and Report from Research Themes: Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine | ||
| Prof | Hongzhe | Sun | Department of Chemistry | Interdisciplinary Research under SRT of D&R - Tracking Key Metals in Cells and Tissues: Implication to Reproduction | ||
| Prof | Dan | Yang | Department of Chemistry | Interdisciplinary Research under SRT of D&R | ||
| Dr | ZJ | Zhou | Department of Biochemistry | Experience Sharing in How to Access Mainland Research Funding | ||
| Dr | DY | Jin | Department of Biochemistry | Experience Sharing in How to Access Mainland Research Funding | ||
| Open Floor Discussion | ||||||
| 21 | Dec 12, 2011 | Prof | Robin | Lovell-Badge | Distinguished Visiting Professor, HKU & Head, Division of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK | The Initiation and Maintenance of Male and Female Development in Mammals |