Hong Kong Society for Developmental Biology Symposium – From Embryology to Disease Mechanisms

Brief Symposium Programme:
This symposium will cover the following specific topics:-
Gastrulation, Organogenesis, Progenitor & Stem Cells & Cell Fate, Development & Diseases.

In addition to plenary lectures and invited talks, 8 abstracts will also be selected for short oral presentations. Other submitted abstracts will be presented at the poster sessions.
See http://www.biochem.hku.hk/hksdb/events/nov_2012.html

Confirmed Key Speakers:

Richard Behringer (The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA)
Kathryn Cheah (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Sally Dunwoodie (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Hiroshi Hamada (Osaka University, Japan)
Kat Hadjantonakis (Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA)
Richard Harvey (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Hisato Kondoh (Osaka University, Japan)
Peter Koopman (The University of Queensland, Australia)
Heiko Lickert (Institute of Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany)
Robin Lovell-Badge (MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, UK)
Andras Nagy (Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada)
Shinichi Nishikawa (Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN, Japan)
Marilyn Renfree (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Jamie Rivera (University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA)
Janet Rossant (The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada)
Hiroshi Sasaki (Kumamoto University, Japan)
Phil Soriano (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA)
Claudio Stern (University College London, London, UK)

Andrea Streit (King’s College London, UK)

Patrick Tam (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Seong-Seng Tan (Howard Florey Institute, Florey Neuroscience Institutes, Australia).
Paul Trainor (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA)
Carol Wicking (The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)

Preliminary registration for the symposium is now invited.

Registration fee: USD350 (non HKSDB member); USD250 (HKSDB member); USD150 (HKSDB student member).

Special reduction of registration fee for Early Bird registration: USD300 (non HKSDB member); USD200 (HKSDB member); USD100 (HKSDB student member).

Deadline for Early Bird registration: 31^st July 2012

The organizing committee is looking forward to seeing you at the symposium.

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