My research
Invited talks
2023
"Using enterprise education to enhance university chemistry teaching". Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) conference 2023, Aston University, Birmingham, November 7-10, 2023 (Accepted)
“Eating souls: the curious case of information transfer from the eaten to the eater”. Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science conference, Malta, September 27-29, 2023 (Accepted)
"Navigating the Human Protein Atlas to map the composition of extracellular matrix proteins in normal and cancer tissues". Northern Bioinformatics User Group meeting, University of Liverpool, June 16, 2023
"Nothing short of EPIC: introducing “Entrepreneurial Programme in Chemistry”. Advanced HE Flexible Learning Symposium: Co-creating a flexible learning model. The Studio, Leeds, UK. June 14, 2023
“Cells in search of the body: How tissue microenvironment influences cell functions”. Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College, UK. February 21, 2023
“Searching for new antimicrobials from natural biologics”. Bionow Bioinfect conference 2023. Alderney Park Conference Centre, UK. February 1, 2023
2022
Senior Scholars Roundtable: Innovative teaching. Online lecture. Organised by Talent and Education Development Office, City University of Hong Kong. November 30, 2022.
“Fish blood proteomics: A tale of Sex, Death and Potential therapeutics”. Invited departmental seminar. University of Huddersfield, UK. May 10, 2022
“Eating souls: the curious case of information transfer from the eaten to the eater”. Online lecture. Shared Campus Summer School 2022, “Food for the Future – Cooking, Eating and Crafting Hospitality”. July 4, 2022
2021
“Life is a mess: Towards a “gene-eccentric” and post-teleological discourse in bio-art”. Plenary lecture. Artmachines, international conference on machine learning and art, Hong Kong. June 12, 2021. Featured in Citylink, the CityU magazine
2019
“Estrogen accelerates heart regeneration by promoting inflammatory responses in zebrafish”. School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. August 19, 2019.
“Endocrine disruption from within: Feminisation of male zebrafish triggered by tissue injury”. Department of Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle, Australia. August 16, 2019.
“Endocrine disruption from within: Feminisation of male zebrafish triggered by tissue injury”. Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia. July 18, 2019.
“Planaria as a research tool” in “Planaria Regeneration Educational Workshop”, X-lab, Charles Perkins Centre University of Sydney, July 16-17, 2019
“Deconstructing, replicating and engineering instructive niches for stem cell differentiation”. Department of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. July 3, 2019
“Life is a mess: Towards a “gene-eccentric” and post-teleological discourse in bio-art”. SymbioticA, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. June 28, 2019
“Cells in search of the body: evoking the haptic memory of cultured cells” in 21st International Consciousness Reframed Conference, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto. June 8, 2019
2018
“To mend a broken heart, thou shalt learn from the ladies”. Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Chiina. October 28, 2018
“To mend a broken heart, thou shalt learn from the ladies”. Department of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. October 16, 2018
"Zebrafish and medaka plasma proteomics: from innate immunity to regenerative biology". Department of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Japan. Febuary 23, 2018
2017
“Subcellular redistribution of mature microRNAs: A new dimension of regulation?” Department of Biological Sciences, Xian-Jiatong Liverpool University, Suzhou, China. July 21, 2017.
“Nowhere like home: characterisation and reconstructing tissue microenvironment”. The Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Melbourne, Australia. May 5, 2017.
2015
“Zebrafish heart regeneration: What is the blood telling us?” One-day Symposium- Healing: a three way dialogue between doctors, biologists and engineers, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 9 June 2015
“Nowhere like home: characterisation and reconstructing tissue microenvironment”. EMN Meeting on Biomaterials, Beijing, China, April 10, 2015
2014
“Nowhere like home: characterisation and reconstructing tissue microenvironment”. Department of Orthopedics, Mayo Clinics, February 6, 2014
2013
“What Exactly Does My Compound Bind to in a Cell? Hunting for the Protein Targets of Fluorescent and Luminescent Biological Dyes”. ABCT Symposium Series 1 “Luminescent Materials for Molecular Imaging”, Polytechnical University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, March 26, 2013
“Nowhere like home: characterisation of the microenvironmental niches in tissues”. Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technologies. Polytechnical University of Hong Kong. May 31, 2013
2012
“The use of metabolic isotopic labelling in proteomics: from cells to organisms”. The Interdisciplinary Symposium on Ocean Acidification and Climate Change, Hong Kong, December 11-14, 2012.
"Nowhere like home: characterisation and mimicking of the tissue microenvironment". Annual Conference of Hong Kong Institution of Science, 2012, “Biological Advances Made in Hong Kong”. November 3, 2012.
“Novel method for zebrafish blood collection allows deep analysis of the plasma proteome”. SETAC Asia Pacific 2012, Kumamoto, Japan, September 24-27, 2012.
“Teaching death: a case study”. General Education and University Curriculum Reform: An International Conference in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 12 -14, 2012.
“Nowhere like home: characterisation and mimicking of the tissue niches of tendon”. 1st China-HK Clinically Oriented Orthopaedic Biomaterials Symposium, Hong Kong, May 24, 2012
2011
"Studying Planarian regeneration by using time-lapse imaging and proteomics". July 13, 2011. Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
“A biologist’s ode to chemical dyes”. 2nd UK-Hong Kong Frontier of Science Symposium, London, September 5-8, 2011
2010
“Characterisation of carbon nanotube-binding proteins using quantitative proteomics". 6th International Conference on Toxicogenomics (ICT), Korean Society of Toxicogenomics and Toxicoproteomics (KSTT), Incheon, November 4-5, 2010
“Using wide field deconvolution fluorescence microscopy to study nucleolar dynamics in living human cells". In “Live cell imaging and confocal microscopy – advances and applications”. University of Hong Kong, August 23, 2010
“The applications of SILAC-based proteomics in cell biology”. Croucher Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on systems biology, January 4th -8th, 2010. Baptist University, Hong Kong
2009
“Functional organization of the cell nucleus”. The 1st HKU-Pasteur Cell Biology Course. March 30th – April 10th, 2009. HKU-Pasteur Institute, HKU, Hong Kong
“Beyond Ki67: hunting for nucleolar protiens as cancer biomarkers”. Croucher Advanced Study Institute, Biomarkers for early detection of cancers. April 5th, 2009. LKS Faculty of Medicine, HKU, Hong Kong
2008
“New tricks from an old organelle: learning from the nucleolus using live cell imaging and quantitative proteomics”. May 21st, 2008. HKU-Pasteur Research Centre, HKU, Hong Kong
“Timelapse Proteomics: Towards the marriage between proteomics and live-cell microscopy”. April 9th 2008. State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, China.
“Using quantitative proteomics to study protein-material interaction”. Departmental seminar. April 5th 2008. Department of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China.
2007
“Understanding nucleolar functions and organization using quantitative proteomics and microscopy”. May 31st 2007. Department of Pathophysiology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China.
“The nucleolus: in the core of eukaryotic life”. Frontiers in Biomedical Research HKU 2007. December 8th, 2007. LKS Faculty of Medicine, HKU, Hong Kong
“The secret life of the cell nucleus: insights on the functional organization of human nucleus from live cell imaging” in Symposium on Chemical sensing and Molecular Imaging. March 2007. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Pre-2007
“Quantitative analysis of the temporal flux of proteins through the nucleolus using proteomics and in vivo imaging” in From proteins to systems: The British Society for Proteomics Research (BSPR) annual meeting. July 2005. Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.Highlighted in the meeting report by McIntyre SF, published in Proteomics 2005 Oct 10; 5(15): 3828 - 3830.
“Quantitative proteomics of the human nucleolus” in Symposium of the German society for cell biology. March 2004. Berlin, Germany.
“Quantitative proteomics of the human nucleolus” in Communication and Gene Regulation at the Nuclear Envelope: Annual meeting of Society of Experimental Biology (SEB). July 2003. Durham, UK.
“Nucleolar Dynamics: Transcription-dependent nucleolar cap structures” in Minisymposium on The Functional Organization of the Nucleus. May 2003. EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany.