Stephanie shared the team’s latest work on liver cancer stem cell niche at the FASEB The Liver Biology Conference: Fundamental Mechanisms and Translational Applications held virtually on June 16-17, 2021. Huge thanks to organizers Stacey Huppert, Gen-Sheng Feng, Lijian Hui and Lars Zender for putting a great program together and also for the invitation to speak. The abstract submitted by Carol, RAP in the lab, was also selected for a flash talk at 5AM in the morning 🙂 It was great seeing old friends again at the meeting.
Conference agenda can be found here. 
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HK Inter-U Postgraduate Symposium in Biochemical Sciences 2021
PhD student Huajian gave an oral presentation on her research work at the HK Inter-U Postgraduate Symposium in Biochemcial Sciences held virtually on June 12, 2021 and secured one of the three Best Oral Presentation Awards!
PhD students JJ, Matthew and Jane also presented their work in the form of posters.
Day well spent learning about research postgraduate projects going on at HKU, CUHK and HKUST.
Well done everyone!
SKLLR Symposium 2021
PhD student Jia Jian and Reseach Assistant Professor Carol shared their recent research stories at the 2021 SKLLR Symposium held on June 5th 2021. Click here for the program.
Our new publication in J Clin Invest
Thrilled to announce our new paper published in the June 1 2021 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Read about our findings on how FUT1 mediates fucoyslation of membrane-bound proteins, including CD147, EGFR, ICAM-1 and EPHA2, to drive cancer stemness in a glucose-deprived HCC microenvironment. Congrats to Jane and the team! Link to full article here.
Keystone eSymposia – Cancer Stem Cells
Ecstatic to have the opportunity to participate at the Keystone eSymposia on Cancer Stem Cells: Advances in Biology and Clinical Translation held May 19-21, 2021. Shared my group’s recent research progress on how the non-cellular components of the tumor microenvironment shapes cancer stemness in the liver; and learnt about the exciting new projects from others! Postdoc Lena and PhD student Huajian in the lab also shared their recent research findings in a short talk and poster abstract. Link to full program can be found here.
A symposia report is also now published:
Cable J, Pei D, Reid LM, Wang XW, Bhatia S, Karras P, Melenhorst JJ, Grompe M, Lathia JD, Song E, Kuo CJ, Zhang N, White RM, Ma S, Ma L, Chin YR, Shen MM, Ng IOL, Kaestner KH, Zhou L, Sikandar S, Schmitt CA, Guo W, Wong CC, Ji J, Tang DG, Dubrovska A, Yang C, Wiedemeyer WR, Weissman IL. Cancer stem cells: advances in biology and clinical translation-a Keystone Symposia report. Ann NY Acad Sci 2021; 1506:142-63. PMID: 34850398.
Lab Retreat 2021
Our lab retreat was successfully held May 14-15 at HK Science Park’s InnoCell. The past year had been particularly challenging for everyone. It was a great opportunity to come together to share ideas, brainstorm, reflect, relax and socialize. I hope everyone enjoyed the time together. Thankful for my great team! #stayfocused #keeppushing 
And together with Terence’s team …
YS and Christabel Lung Postgraduate Scholarship 2020/21
Congrats to Hua-Jian and Jane on receiving the 2020/21 YS and Christabel Lung Postgraduate Scholarship from HKU! Hard work pays off 🙂
SBMS PDF Seminar – Lei Zhou
Our PDF Lena sharing her latest findings on Prom1/CD133 heterogeneity in HCC at the School’s PDF Seminar Series held on March 31, 2021.
SBMS RPG Seminar – Jia Jian Loh
Our PhD student JJ shared our latest research on using organoids to understand gastric cancer chemoresistance at the recent School of Biomedical Sciences RPG Seminar on March 12, 2021.
Our team is growing!
A very belated but warm welcome to our two new postdocs Ianto and Sara 🙂
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