2014 Activities
Last update: 13/1/2015
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 

2014.12.15-19
    Annual Conferene of SKL Agrobiotechnology and Student Exchange Program 
2014 SKL Annual Conference on Agrobiotechnology at Beijing

    Prof. JH Zhang, Director of SKL (CUHK) 

    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 

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

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


    Delegation visit to the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing 

    Delegation visit to Institute of Genetics and Development Biology Chinse Academy of Sciences
Student Exchange Program
  Student representatives from SKL of CUHK and CAU presented their research projects


    Students visited to the greenhouse and laboratories of China Agricultural University 

    Cultural exchange activities 
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
       
 

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

2014.10.11
  Seminar: SKL/IPMBAB Seminar Series 2014




  Best presentation award 

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

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

2014.3.25
    Visit: Tai Long Experimental Station 

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