Speaker: Dr Paul Baum
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine, University of California San Francisco, USA
Knowledge Exchange
Impact of HIV on T Cell Repertoire
2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Date: Monday, July 21, 2008
Seminar Room 5, LG1/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Advance in DNA and siRNA Delivery in vitro & in vivo
4:00 - 5:00 p.m., Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008
Seminar Room 3, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Alain Cuzange
R&D and Business Manager, Polyplus-transfection Company, France
Polyplus-transfection Company is a French life science company dedicated to the development and marketing of transfection reagents. Its technology focuses on linear jetPEI, which is non-toxic and highly efficient, and can be used in protein, antibody as well as gene, siRNA delivery. In vivo jetPEI is widely used in clinical trials for gene therapy.
Facilitated Antigen Presentation in Electroporation-mediated DNA Vaccination
2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Prof Yuhong Xu
Associate Dean, School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
About the speaker: Professor Yuhong Xu obtained her BS in Electrical Engineering from Peking University in 1990, and PhD in Biophysical Sciences from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1996. She had been a postgraduate researcher at the School of Pharmacy in University of California San Francisco, a post-doctoral researcher at Chrion Corporation (now part of Novartis AG), and a senior scientist at Merck Research Laboratories, before returning to China in 2000. She joined Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) and was appointed as the Assistant Dean and then the Associate Dean of its newly founded School of Pharmacy. Currently she is Head of the Molecular Pharmaceutics Lab in the School of Pharmacy and the Director of Molecular Imaging in SJTU Med-X Research Institute.
HIV and the Brain
2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Date: Friday, April 25, 2008
Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Ian Everall
Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, USA
The Natural History of Dendritic Cells in Peripheral Lymphoid Organs of Mice
2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Seminar Room 3, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Kang Liu
Research Associate, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University, USA About the speaker: Dr Kang Liu obtained her PhD from the Rockefeller University with Dr Ralph Steinman in 2004. She then joined the University's Laboratory of Molecular Immunology as a post-doctoral associate and became a research associate in 2007 working with Dr Michel Nussenzweig in the field of dendritic cells' interaction with T cells and natural history of dendritic cells respectively. Dr Liu has published many papers in renowned journals including the Nature Immunology.
