SBMS Newsletter Issue 03

School Highlights New Faces

In my postdoctoral work, developed in Kausik Si’s laboratory at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, I have implemented the structural view in the study of functional amyloids extracted from their native environment. Specifically, I have characterized the function and structure of the aggregated state, isolated from the Drosophila brain, of the synaptic protein synthesis regulator CPEB, which across animal species plays a causal role in transforming a short-term memory to a long-lived one. Now I am poised to use this knowledge to elucidate the structure and function of biologically active amyloids isolated from their physiological environment, implicated in memory consolidation in humans and animal development. I hope to accomplish this ambitious goal at the HKU. Dr. Hervas Millan, Rubén BSc (Autonomous U of Madrid), MSc (U of Zaragoza), PhD (cum laude, CSIC-Cajal Institute) (will join our school as Assistant Professor on 12 April 2021)

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HKU Biomed Entrepreneurship Talk Series

The 2021 Hong Kong Inter-University Postgraduate Symposium in Biochemical Sciences

Apr 7, 2021

Prof. Renchen Liu | Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen (RITS) Dr. Kelsey Zhong | ImmunoDiagnostics Limited

Date: Jun 12, 2021 Time: 9am – 6pm

May 12, 2021

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Date: Apr 9, 2021 Time: 4pm – 5pm

Teaching Chalk Talk by Dr. Tomasz Cecot, School of Biomedical Sciences

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Date: Mar 31, 2021 Time: 1pm – 2pm

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