2014 Activities

 

Date Event
2014.12.29 Seminar: New concepts in genetically encoded biosensors: Infrared fluorogenic protease reporters and singlet oxygen triplet energy transfer
2014.12.15-19 Annual Conferene of SKL Agrobiotechnology and Student Exchange Program
2014.12.11-12

Mini-Symposium on Soybean Genomic Research

2014.10.23-25

Conference cum Visit: Biotechnology Committee of Chinese Grassland Society

2014.10.11 Seminar: SKL/IPMBAB Seminar Series 2014
2014.9 and 10 Training workshop: Digital PCR
2014.7.22 Press conference: CUHK Prof. Lam Hon-Ming Finds Salt Tolerance Gene from Wild Soybeans A Possible Way to Alleviate Salinization Problem of Farm Land
2014.7.15 Award: Prof. Zhang Jianhua - Honorary Doctor of Science degree, Lancaster University
2014.6.12 Seminar: Next Generation Sequencing Applications for Crop Improvement
 2014.3.25 Visit: Tai Lung Experimental Station

Last update: 13/1/2015

 

 

 

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2014.12.29
Seminar: New concepts in genetically encoded biosensors: Infrared fluorogenic protease reporters and singlet oxygen triplet energy transfer
Speaker: Dr. Tsz-Leung TO
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California San Franciso (UCSF), USA

Dr. Tsz-Leung TO

 

 

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2014.12.15-19
Annual Conferene of SKL Agrobiotechnology and Student Exchange Program

 

2014 SKL Annual Conference on Agrobiotechnology at BeijingSKL conference

Professor Zhang Jianhua speech
Prof. JH Zhang, Director of SKL (CUHK)

SKL conference professor presentation
Reprentative presentations from CUHK.
First row from left to right: Prof. HM Lam, Prof. Jerome Hui, Prof. Faye Tsang, Prof. Danny Ng, Prof. JX He, Prof. SL Zhong

Exchange Souvenir
Partner SKL Director Prof. ZZ Gong (The China Agricultural Univeristy, CAU) and Prof. JH Zhang (CUHK)

Round table discussion
Round table discussion between members of Partner State Key Laboratory from CAU and CUHK

SKL conferene group photo

Group photo at National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing
Delegation visit to the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing

Group photo at Institute of Genetics and Development Biology Chinese Academy of Sciences
Delegation visit to Institute of Genetics and Development Biology Chinse Academy of Sciences

 

Student Exchange ProgramRepresentatives of student presentation
Student representatives from SKL of CUHK and CAU presented their research projects

Students visited the history museum of CAU

Student presentation and visit to laboratory
Students visited to the greenhouse and laboratories of China Agricultural University

Student cultural activities
Cultural exchange activities

 

 

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2014.12.11-12
Mini-Symposium on Soybean Genomic Research

Organizer: Center for Soybean Research of the Partner State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, CUHK
Co-organizers: Peacock Program, Shenzhen Research Institute and New Asia College, CUHK
Group photo

Keynote speaker
Keynote speakers
From left: Dr. Brett Ferguson, Prof. Hon Ming Lam, Prof. Junyi Gai, Prof. Scott Jackson, Dr. Xun Xu and Prof. Sachiko Isobe

 

 

 

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2014.10.23-25
Conference cum Visit : Biotechnology Committee of Chinese Grassland Society

Organizer: Chinese Grassland Society, Biotechnology Committee of Chinese Grassland Society
Co-organizer: The Chinese Univerisity of Hong Kong

 

 

 

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2014.10.11
Seminar: SKL/IPMBAB Seminar Series 2014


Best presentation award

 

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2014.9-10
Training workshop: Digital PCR

Date: 2014.9.19
Topic: The Application of Next Generation PCR ­ Droplet Digital PCR

Date: 2014.9.22
Topic: QS3D Digital PCR technology and application

Date: 2014.10.7
Title: Pico-Liter Droplet-based RainDrop Digital PCR Enables Multiplexed Genetic End Point Detection with Unprecedented Dynamic Range and Sensitivity

 

 

 

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2014.7.22
Press conference: Finding a Major Salt Tolerance Gene in Wild Soybean


Prof. Hon-Ming Lam, Director of the Center for Soybean Research at CUHK, and his team successfully cloned the salt tolerant gene from wild soybeans. This finding was just recently published in Nature Communications, a famous multi-disciplinary scientific journal.

CUHK Press Release: http://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press_detail.php?id=1847

 


Ta Kung Pao http://news.takungpao.com.hk/paper/q/2014/0723/2619997.html


Sing Tao Daily http://std.stheadline.com/yesterday/edu/0723go03.html


Ming Pao Daily News http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/dailynews3b.cfm?File=20140723/nalgh/ghb1.txt


Hong Kong Commerical Daily http://www.hkcd.com.hk/content/2014-07/23/content_3362376.htm


Apple Daily http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/news/art/20140723/18808850


Wen Wei Po http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2014/07/23/a15-0723.pdf


AM730 http://www.am730.com.hk/article-218104


Oriental Daily News http://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/news/20140722/bkn-20140722172110385-0722_00822_001.html


The Sun http://the-sun.on.cc/cnt/news/20140723/00407_059.html

 

 

 

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2014.7.15
Award: Prof. Zhang Jianhua - Honorary Doctor of Science degree, Lancaster University


http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/articles/2014/honorary-degree-for-crop-scientist-zhang-jianhua/

 

 

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2014.6.12
Seminar: Next Generation Sequencing Applications for Crop Improvement

Speaker: Dr. Michiel J.T. van Eijk
Chief Scientific Officer, Keygene N.V. Wageningen, The Netherlands

 

 

 

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2014.3.25
Visit: Tai Long Experimental Station


Delegation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences visited Tai Long Experimental Station