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.

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.

Our Research Assistant Professor Man Tong (Carol) gave a summary of her past and current work on novel therapeutic strategies to target dysregulated signaling pathways in HCC at the School of Biomedical Sciences RAP/PDF Seminar Series on January 27, 2021.

Our postdoc Tin Lok Wong (Eric) gave a seminar on his latest work on modeling liver cancer and therapy response using driver-dependent tumor organoids derived from primary mouse liver tumors at the School of Biomedical Sciences RAP/PDF Seminar Series on January 6, 2021.