Metabolism in Health and Disease
Program
FORUM PROGRAM UPDATE for 16 December 2022 (Fri)
- Kannie CHAN’s talk is rescheduled to 11:45
- Dr. Li WANG’s talk is rescheduled to 17:10
| Day 1: 15 December 2022 (Thursday) | |
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| 09:15 - 09:30 | Opening Ceremony |
| Session Chair: Kwan Ting CHOW | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Feature Speaker: Gregg
SEMENZA (Nobel Laureate 2019, Johns Hopkins University, USA) Regulation of Metabolism by Hypoxia-Inducible Factors |
| 10:30 - 11:25 | Keynote Speaker: Nieng
YAN (Founding President of Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research & Translation) How is electrical signal generated? Structural and mechanistic investigations of Nav channels |
| 11:25 - 11:45 | Tea break I |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Invited Speaker: Xingguo
LIU (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Mr. & Mrs. mitochondria and nucleus in cell reprogramming |
| 12:15 - 12:40 | Liang ZHANG (City University of Hong Kong, China)
Harnessing osmotic force in adipocyte dedifferentiation |
| 12:40 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| Session Chair: Wenjun XIONG | |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Keynote Speaker: Peng LI (Zhengzhou University, China) Regulation of lipid droplet fusion and Storage |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Invited Speaker: Carmen
WONG (The University of HK, China) The ever-growing roles of hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) in hepatocellular carcinoma development |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Tea break II |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Invited Speaker: Kathy
LUI (The Chinese University of HK, China) T cell regulation of cardiovascular disease and repair: action mechanism and therapeutic implication |
| 16:45 - 17:15 | Christoph SCHMITT (Nature Metabolism, Germany) |
| 17:15 | End of Day 1 |
| Day 2: 16 December 2022 (Friday) | |
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| Session Chair: Kui Ming CHAN | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Invited Speaker: Evan
ROSEN (Harvard University, USA) Human adipose tissue at single cell resolution |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Kingston MAK (City University of Hong Kong, China)
Skeletal biology and Energy Metabolism |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Tea break I |
| 10:45 - 11:45 | Keynote Speaker: Bao-liang
SONG (Wuhan University, China) Nutritional Regulation of Cholesterol Metabolism |
| 11:45 - 12:10 | Kannie CHAN (City University of Hong Kong, China)
CEST imaging of molecules in the brain: applications in brain cancer and neurodegenerative disease |
| 12:10 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| Session Chair: Jilin ZHANG | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Keynote Speaker: Rui-ping
XIAO (Peking University, China) Role of MG53 in Cardiometabolic Diseas |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Lei CHENG (Cell Research, USA) |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Tea break II |
| 15:45 - 16:45 | Keynote Speaker: Zihe
RAO (Tsinghua University, China) Living of SARS-CoV-2 inside the cell: Understand SARS-CoV-2 replication and transcription from structures |
| 16:45 - 17:10 | Akos KENEZ (City University of Hong Kong, China) Metabolic Inflammation in Dairy Cattle: A One Medicine Approach |
| 17:10 - 17:35 | Li WANG (City University of Hong Kong, China) Atherosclerosis: from mechanism to therapy |
| 17:35 - 17:40 | Closing remarks by Yu HUANG (City University of Hong Kong, China) |