9:00 - 9:15 | Opening Ceremony Prof. Jack Wong (School of Life Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
Chairperson: Prof. Kunfu Ouyang (School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School) | |
9:15 - 10:00 |
Keynote Speech Calcium signaling and mitochondrial biomedicine Prof. Heping (Peace) Chen Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University |
10:00 - 10:25 | Intracellular calcium homeostasis in cardiac cells and diseases Prof. Jie Liu (School of Medicine, Shenzhen University) |
10:25 - 10:50 | Cardiometabolic Syndrome: Role of Endothelial Dysfunction Prof. Yu Huang (School of Biomedical Sciences, CUHK) |
10:50 - 11:15 | Coffee break & Poster Viewing |
11:15 - 11:40 | Physiological role of IP3Rs in cardiovascular system Prof. Kunfu Ouyang (School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School) |
11:40 - 12:05 | Cyclic Adenosine Diphosphoribose (cADPR) Targets GAPDH to Initiate Ca2+ Release from ER via Ryanodine Receptors. Prof. Jianbo Yue (School of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong) |
12:05 - 12:30 | Essential role of RNA binding Protein RBFox2 in cardiac Excitation-Contraction Coupling Prof. Chaoliang Wei (School of Medicine, Shenzhen University) |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
Chairperson: Prof. Gary Tse (Faculty of Medicine, CUHK) | |
14:00 - 14:45 |
Keynote Speech Calcium signaling during the embryonic development of striated muscle Prof. Miller AL ( Division of Life Science, HKUST) |
14:45 - 15:10 | Calcium signaling in the cardiovascular diseases and skeletal muscle weakness Prof. Wenjun Xie (School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University) |
15:10 - 15:35 | To be confirmed |
15:35 - 16:20 | Coffee break & Outstanding Poster Oral Presentation Competition |
16:20 - 16:45 | Abnormal Ca2+ handling in atrial fibrillation Prof. Tong Liu (Tianjin Medical University) |
16:45 - 17:10 | Calcium and cardiovascular diseases Prof. Xiyuan Lu (Suzhou University) |
17:10 - 17:35 | DNA nanostructures for cardiovascular applications Prof. Jonathan Choi (Department of Biomedical Engineering, CUHK) |
17:35 - 18:00 | Circadian rhythm and calcium oscillations Prof. Tian Xiao Yu (School of Biomedical Sciences, CUHK) |
Chairperson: Dr. Tian Xiao Yu, School of Biomedical Sciences, CUHK | |
09:00 - 10:00 | Young Investigator Award Oral presentation |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break & Poster Viewing |
10:30 - 11:15 |
Keynote Speech Intracellular calcium signaling in stem cell differentiation Prof. Huangtian Yang (Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences) |
11:15 - 11:40 | Stem Cells and Cardiovascular Translational Medicine Prof. Shijun Hu (Institute for Cardiovascular Science, Soochow University) |
11:40 - 12:05 | Role of Transient Receptor Potential Channels in Regulating the Functions of Embryonic Stem Cell-derived Cardiomyocytes Prof. Faye Suk-Ying Tsang (School of Life Sciences, CUHK) |
12:05 - 12:30 | Heart Regeneration Prof. Ronald Adolphus Li (Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, HKU) |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
Chairperson: Prof. Jack Wong, School of Life Sciences, CUHK | |
14:00 - 14:45 |
Keynote Speech Role of TRPC5 in multidrug resistanceProf. Xiaoqiang Yao (School of Biomedical Sciences, CUHK) |
14:45 - 15:10 | Energy balance and homeostasis in human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes Prof. Wendy Keung (Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, HKU) |
15:10 - 15:35 | Orai3 exacerbates apoptosis of lens epithelial cells by disrupting Ca2+ homeostasis in diabetic cataract Prof. Bing Shen (Anhui Medical University) |
15:35 - 16:20 | Coffee break & Outstanding Poster Oral Presentation Competition |
16:20 - 16:45 | Toxicity beyond the lung: connecting PM2.5 and diabetes Prof. Cuiqing Liu (Zhejiang Chinese Medical University) |
16:45 - 17:10 | Characterization of cardiac ryanodine receptor (RyR2) by nuclear membrane electrophysiology Prof. King-Ho Cheung (School of Chinese Medicine, HKBU) |
17:10 - 17:30 |
Electrophysiological determinants of cardiac arrthythmogenesis: from animal models to humans Prof. Gary Tse (Department of Medicine and Therapeutic, CUHK) |
17:30 - 17:50 | Type 2 Innate immunity signal and Cardiovascular regeneration Prof. Jack Wong (School of Life Sciences, CUHK) |
17:50 - 17:55 |
Best YIA and Outstanding Poster Presentation awards pressentation |
17:55 - 18:00 |
Closing Remarks |