A pleasure to participate and give a talk at this year’s Cold Spring Harbor Asia – Liver Development, Metabolism, Disease & Cancer held in hybrid mode from Dec 7 to 10, 2021. Stephanie shared the team’s latest research work on Prom1/CD133 tracing in HCC. Thank you and I hope to join the conference in person next year!

Stephanie’s PhD students Jia Jian and Huajian as well as Carol’s MPhil student Yunong presented at the annual HKUMed Research Postgraduate Symposium that was held Dec 1-2, 2021. Huajian and Yunong were awarded Best Poster Awards. Well done to all and keep up the good work!

Thank you for the invitation to speak at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Cancer Prevention. Good to see old friends (though virtually) and learn about new cancer studies. Hope to visit and attend the conference in person next time! Program here.

Stephanie gave a virtual talk on “Cancer stem cell niche in hepatocellular carcinoma” at the monthly Lowy Cancer Seminar Series, Lowy Cancer Research Centre at the University of South Wales in Sydney on September 29, 2021. Thank you for the invitation. Hope there are opportunites to collaborate in the future! Details of the seminar series can be found here.

Happy to have the opportunity to participate in the 10th International Workshop on Cancer Systems Biology (ICSB2021) hosted by Jilin University from July 31 to August 1, 2021. The workshop gathered 20 chinese academics working in different parts of the world. I was told the presentations attracted over 10,000 audience on various social platforms. The power of virtual conferences!

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.

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!

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.

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.