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<strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong> <strong>Society</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Immunology</strong><br />
2010 Annual General Meeting and Scientific Meeting<br />
Date: 17 April 2010 (Saturday)<br />
Time: 12: 00 pm – 6: 00 pm<br />
Venue: Lecture <strong>The</strong>ater 2<br />
Faculty <strong>of</strong> Medicine Building<br />
G/F, William MW Mong Block, University <strong>of</strong> <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong><br />
21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong> SAR<br />
PROGRAMME<br />
12: 00 pm – 12: 30 pm Registration & Poster set-up<br />
Exhibition area in Media Room, Faculty <strong>of</strong> Medicine Building, G/F,<br />
William MW Mong Block, University <strong>of</strong> <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong>)<br />
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Buffet lunch & Poster section I<br />
Scientific Meeting:<br />
Opening remarks<br />
2:00 pm – 2:05 pm Dr. Liwei Lu<br />
Keynote speech Chairperson: Dr. Wenwei Tu<br />
2:05 pm – 2: 35 pm Dr. Garnet Suck<br />
Senior Scientist, Head, Cell Processing Laboratory, Health Sciences<br />
Authority (HSA), Blood Services Group (BSG), Singapore<br />
IL-15 as a potent cytokine <strong>for</strong> long-term expansion <strong>of</strong> clinical grade<br />
natural killer cells <strong>for</strong> treatment <strong>of</strong> haematological malignancies<br />
2: 35 pm – 3: 05 pm Dr. Zhiwei Chen<br />
AIDS Institute <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> University <strong>of</strong> <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong> LKS Faculty <strong>of</strong><br />
Medicin.<br />
Control <strong>of</strong> a pathogenic SIVmac239 infection by a heterologous<br />
mucosal prime and intramuscular boost vaccination strategy<br />
3:05 pm – 3:35 pm Dr. Eric YT Chan<br />
Division <strong>of</strong> Clinical <strong>Immunology</strong>, Department <strong>of</strong> Pathology and<br />
Clinical Biochemistry, Queen Mary Hospital.<br />
Anti-Ro, Ro52 and Ro60 in Rheumatic Diseases<br />
3: 35 pm – 4: 05 pm Tea Break and Poster Section II
Keynote speech Chairperson: Dr. Chun-Kwok Wong<br />
4:05 pm – 4:35 pm Dr. LS Tam<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Medicine and <strong>The</strong>rapeutics, <strong>The</strong> Chinese University <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong><br />
SLE and HPV infection - the role <strong>of</strong> innate immunity<br />
Oral presentations<br />
4: 35 pm – 4: 50 pm Shuiqing Hu<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Chemical Pathology, <strong>The</strong> Chinese University <strong>of</strong> <strong>Hong</strong><br />
<strong>Kong</strong><br />
Thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) induces chemotactic and prosurvival<br />
effects in eosinophils: Implications in allergy<br />
4: 50 pm – 5: 05 pm Huawei Mao<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty<br />
<strong>of</strong> Medicine, <strong>The</strong> University <strong>of</strong> <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong>,<br />
Inhibition <strong>of</strong> human natural killer cell activity by influenza virion<br />
and hemagglutinin<br />
5:05 pm – 5: 20 pm Jingping Li<br />
Periodontology, <strong>The</strong> Prince Philip Dental Hospital, Faculty <strong>of</strong> Dentistry,<br />
<strong>The</strong> University <strong>of</strong> <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong><br />
Lipopolysaccharide Causes Hypoxia-inducible Factor 1 alpha<br />
Accumulation in Gingival Fibroblasts<br />
5:20 pm – 5: 35 pm Kin-Yi Au<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, LKS Faculty<br />
<strong>of</strong> Medicine, <strong>The</strong> University <strong>of</strong> <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong><br />
HIV Tat modulation <strong>of</strong> IFN-γ-induced expression <strong>of</strong><br />
autophagy-associated genes in primary human blood<br />
macrophages<br />
Annual General Meeting<br />
5: 35 pm – 6: 05 pm All members<br />
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm <strong>Society</strong> Banquet (invited speakers and all council members)<br />
Sponsored by Miltenyi Biotec Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (Singapore), BD Asia Ltd., Bio-Gene Technology<br />
Ltd., Life Technologies, Beckman Coulter <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong> Ltd., Tin Hang Technology Ltd., Bio-Rad<br />
Pacific Ltd., CK Life Sciences Int’l (Holdings) Inc., Gene Co. Ltd. and Millipore China Ltd<br />
All Interested are Welcome
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