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December 2009
>> AIDS World Day 2009
- Victor Segalen French International School, December 1, 165 Blue Pool Road, Happy Valley, Hong Kong -
Ms Nadège Lagarde, Research Technician at HKU-Pasteur Research Centre will present to students of the French International School the molecular biology of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
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October 2009
>> Doctoral Studies with France, matchmake your PhD project
- December 4, 2009, 1:30-5:30 pm, Cliftons Central Training Facility, Level 33, 9 Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong -
The 4th of December, fifteen senior research scholars, heads of 15 French Doctoral Departments, will come to our city to meet master students who are eager to carry out a PhD abroad.
On this occasion, the French Consulate General & Campus France organize an event entitled as "Doctoral Studies With France" with the support of The Croucher Foundation.
Individual interviews will be held for PhD candidates to present their research projects.
Possibilities of scholarships will also be showcased by these Doctoral Departments and the Croucher Foundation.
CampusFrance will answer your queries regarding the French eductional system.
For event registration, you need to provide the following document to phdfrance@consulfrance-hongkong.org:
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List of maximum 3 doctoral Departments (in order of priority) you desire to meet
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CV/Resume, including your academic background and research interests, your current university, etc.
Shortly following your application, you will receive an email of confirmation.
Registration is mandatory and on a first come first served basis.
A round trip bus service will be provided from your University to Central.
For more details, visit the Consulate General of France's website.
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September 2009
>> Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme 2010/11: there is still time to apply for RGC PhD fellowships and pursue a PhD degree programmes in Hong Kong's institutions!
- Hong Research Grant Council, 2010/11 Academic Year -
The Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) has released the criteria of the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme which aims to attract the outstanding students in the world to pursue their PhD degree programmes in Hong Kong's institutions including the University of Hong Kong. 135 PhD Fellowships will be awarded for the 2010/11 academic year.
The Fellowship provides a monthly stipend of HK$20,000 (approximately US$2,600) and a conference and research-related travel allowance of HK$10,000 (approximately US$1,300) per year for a period of three years.
For awardees who need more than three years to complete the PhD degree, additional support may be provided by the chosen institutions. For details, please contact the institutions concerned directly.
Registration process is entirely online and the deadline is the 1st December 2009.
For more information about this programme, please click here.
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>> 5th Croucher-Pasteur Exchange Programme: there is still time to apply for Croucher fellowships and work at Institut Pasteur in Paris!
- Pasteur lectures Series, September 18, 2009, HKU-Pasteur Researtch Centre -
The Pasteur Lecture series held on September 18, 2009 hosted the seminars of three Prinicpal Investigators from Institut Pasteur: Dr Mathieu Picardeau (Department of Microbiology), Dr Spencer L. Shorte (Department of Cell Biology and Infection) and Dr Mustapha Si-Tahar (Department of Infection and Epidemiology).
Students and post-doctoral fellows wishing to perform research work at Institut Pasteur are also encouraged to search the Pasteur website to identify additional host laboratories of interest. Prospective candidates are invited to contact Anne Li to prepare the Croucher application (please check the Croucher site for eligibility criteria).
Abstract of Dr M Picardeau's presentation is available here.
Abstract of Dr S L Shorte's presentation is available here.
Abstract of Dr M Si-Tahar's presentation is available here.
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From left to right, Dr M Picardeau (Department of Microbiology), Dr S L Shorte (Department of Cell Biology and Infection), Dr M Si-Tahar (Department of Infection and Epidemiology) and Dr B Nal-Rogier (HKU-PRC) |
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July 2009
>> 16th HKU-Pasteur Virology Course
- July 7- 24, 2009, HKU-Pasteur Research Centre -
A public lecture entitled “Transneuronal spread of viruses 1” will be given by Dr Lynn ENQUIST (Princeton,USA).
All are welcome.
Date:
Tuessday, 9 July 2009
Time:
9:00 – 10:30
Venue:
Seminar Room 6, Laboratory Block
Faculty of Medicine Building
21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
A public lecture entitled “Transneuronal spread of viruses 2” will be given by Dr Lynn ENQUIST (Princeton,USA).
All are welcome.
Date:
Tuessday, 9 July 2009
Time:
11:00 – 12:30
Venue:
Seminar Room 6, Laboratory Block
Faculty of Medicine Building
21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
A public lecture entitled “Axonal transport” will be given by Dr Eric KREMER (Institut de Genetique Moleculaire de Montpellier, France). CANCELLED
Date:
Tuessday, 9 July 2009
Time:
14:00 – 16:00
Venue:
Seminar Room 6, Laboratory Block
Faculty of Medicine Building
21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
A public lecture entitled “Re-emergent Chikungunya virus” will be given by Dr Matthew L. ALBERT (Institut Pasteur, France). CANCELLED
All are welcome.
Date:
Friday, 17 July 2009
Time:
10:00 – 12:00
Venue:
Seminar Room 7, Laboratory Block
Faculty of Medicine Building
21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
A public lecture entitled “Viruses in bats” will be given by Dr Lin-fa WANG (CSIRO Livestock Industries , Australia).
All are welcome.
Date:
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Time:
9:00 am – 11:00
Venue:
Seminar Room 6, Laboratory Block
Faculty of Medicine Building
21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
A public lecture entitled “Rabies” will be given by Dr Nöel TORDO (Institut Pasteur, France).
All are welcome.
Date:
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Time:
11:30 – 13:30
Venue:
Seminar Room 6, Laboratory Block
Faculty of Medicine Building
21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
A public lecture entitled “West Nile” will be given by Dr Kenneth TYLER (University of Colorado, USA).
All are welcome.
Date:
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Time:
14:30 – 16:00
Venue:
Seminar Room 6, Laboratory Block
Faculty of Medicine Building
21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
A public lecture entitled “JC virus and Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy” will be given by Dr Kenneth TYLER (University of Colorado, USA).
All are welcome.
Date:
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Time:
16:30 – 18:00
Venue:
Seminar Room 6, Laboratory Block
Faculty of Medicine Building
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March 2009
>> 1st HKU-Pasteur Cell Biology Course
- March 30 - April 10, 2009, HKU-Pasteur Research Centre -
A public lecture entitled “The Cell: organelle positioning and polarity” will be given by Dr Michel Bornens (Institut Curie, France).
All are welcome.
Date:
Thursday, 9 April 2009
Time:
9:00 – 12:30
Venue:
Mrs Chen Yang Foo Oi Telemedicine Centre,
2/F, William M W Mong Block
Faculty of Medicine Building
21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
A public lecture entitled “Imaging prions, the site of conversion and mechanism of spreading” will be given by Dr Chiara Zurzolo (Institut Pasteur, France).
All are welcome.
Date:
Wednesday, 8 April 2009
Time:
9:00 – 11:00
Venue:
Mrs Chen Yang Foo Oi Telemedicine Centre,
2/F, William M W Mong Block
Faculty of Medicine Building
21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
A public lecture entitled “The cell biology of Shigella invasion” will be given by Dr Philippe Sansonetti (Institut Pasteur, France).
All are welcome.
Date:
Monday, 6 April 2009
Time:
11:00 – 13:00
Venue:
Mrs Chen Yang Foo Oi Telemedicine Centre,2/F, William M W Mong Block, Faculty of Medicine Building,21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
>> 6th HKU-Pasteur Virology Course
- July 7 - 24, 2009, HKU-Pasteur Research Centre -
Topic:
Neurotropic viruses
Date:
July 7 - 24, 2009
Deadline for application:
April 30,2009
More details about the course and applications in our teaching's page.
>> Bioinformatics and Comparative Genome Analysis course
- August 16 - 29, 2009, HKU-Pasteur Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU -
Aim of the course:
The main objectives of the course are to familiarize young scientists (Biologists/Computer Scientists/Mathematicians) with bioinformatics and genome data analysis skills and to encourage multi-disciplinarity by introducing:
- advanced fundamental algorithms in bioinformatics,
- their application in genome analyses,
- and recent knowledge acquired from genomes studies and perspectives.
The course is aimed for motivated Ph.D and Post-doctoral students, as well as young assistant professors and junior scientists in Public Institutions particularly from Asia, Africa and South Ameria, with background in Mathematics, Statistics, Biology or Computing, who are involved in Bioinformatics and Genomes studies.
Organizers:
Roberto Bruzzone, HKU-Pasteur Research Centre - Hong Kong.
Si Lok, Genome Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong - Hong Kong.
Tin Wee Tan, National University of Singapore - Singapore.
Ueng-Cheng Yang, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei - Taiwan.
Fredj Tekaia, Institut Pasteur Paris - France.
Speakers:
Sonia Abdelhak (Institut Pasteur Tunis - Tunisia)
Guillaume Bourque (Genome Institut of Singapore - Singapore)
Inna Dubchak (Genomics Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA)
Bernard Dujon (Institut Pasteur, France)
Anne Estreicher (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva - Switzerland)
Anne Friedrich (IGBMC Strasbourg - France)
Toni Gabaldón (CRG-Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona - Spain)
André Goffeau (Universite Catholique Louvain, Belgium)
Leo Goodstadt (University of Oxford - UK)
Simonetta Gribaldo (Institut Pasteur, France)
Quang Tru Huynh (Institut Pasteur, France)
Gregory Nuel (Universite Paris-Descartes, Paris - France)
John Quackenbush (Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA)
Miria Ricchetti (Institut Pasteur, France)
Hugues Roest Crollius (Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris, France)
Pak Sham (HKU - Hong Kong)
Gavin Smith (HKU - Hong Kong)
Tin Wee Tan (National University of Singapore - Singapore)
Fredj Tekaia (Institut Pasteur, France)
David Wang (Washington University, St Louis, USA)
Ueng-Cheng Yang (National Yang Ming University, Taipei - Taiwan)
Deadline for application: April 15, 2009
With financial support from:
Insitut Pasteur - EMBO
More information and application available here.
Download the flyer here.
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>> French International School
- Victor Segalen French International School Scientific workshop, March 18, 2009, HKU-Pasteur Research Centre -
On March 18, students of the "seconde" class visited HKU-Pasteur Research Centre. Dr Roberto Bruzzone, HKU-PRC's CEO, presented the Centre's history, mission, research and teaching activities. He also guided the students during their tour of the laboratory. Ms Isabelle Dutry, MPhil student introduced good laboratory practice in biosafety level 2 facilities and Dr François Kien presented our imaging facility and how to vizualise virus-host interactions. This visit stimulated students' curiosity with lots of questions about biology, virology and science careers.
- Victor Segalen French International School studentship, March 2-6, 2009, HKU-Pasteur Research Centre -
HKU-Pasteur Research Centre welcomed Mr Damien Bobillier and Mr Augustin Lalo, French students from the French International School for a one-week studentship (March 2-6). They interacted closely with their tutors and the HKU-PRC's staff and discovered various aspects of virology. |
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