March 2010

>> 6th Croucher-Pasteur Exchange Programme
- Pasteur Lectures Series, March 29, 2010, HKU-Pasteur Research Centre -
The 6th Croucher-Pasteur Exchange Programme will host the seminars of three Pricnicpal Investigators from Institut Pasteur: Dr Pascale Cossart (Department of Cell Biology and Infection), Dr Pierre-Marie Lledo (Department of Neuroscience) and Dr Marco Vignuzzi (Department of Virology).
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).

'The fascinating strategies used by the bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes during infection’
Dr Pascale COSSART
Institut Pasteur, France

Date: Monday, 29 Mar 2010

Time: 09:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

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

>> 2nd HKU-Pasteur Cell Biology Course
- March 18 - 1 April, 2010, HKU-Pasteur Research Centre -
The 2nd HKU-Pasteur Research Centre has started on 18th of Marc, 2010.
Please check the programme and for public lectures.

Public lectures on March 19, 2010:

'Journey of the SARS coronavirus within the host cell'
Dr Beatrice NAL
HKU-Pasteur, HK
09:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

'The Golgi apparatus: the ultimate nano-scale assembly line’
Dr Frederic BARD
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

'Identification of a new Golgi compartment and of a new mechanism to regulate O-GalNac glycosylation’
Dr Frederic BARD
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore
13:30 a.m. – 14:30 p.m.

1. Mechanism of cargo sorting and loading into transport carriers during protein secretion
2. Mechanism of unconventional protein secretion.
Dr Vivek MALHOTRA
Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain
15:00 p.m. – 17:30 p.m.

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

Public lectures on March 22, 2010:

'Signaling of infection: Shigella'
Dr Tran Van Nhieu GUY
College de France, France
09:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Venue: Mrs Chen Yan Foo Oi Telemedicine Centre,
2/F, William M W Mong Block
Faculty of Medicine Building
21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

'Mitosis I'
Dr Conly L RIEDER
Wadsworth Centre, New York State Dept of Health, USA
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Venue: HKU-Pasteur Research Centre
Conference Room, 1/F Dexter H.C. Man Bldg.,
8 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Public lectures on March 23, 2010:

'Mitotis II'
Dr Conly L RIEDER
Wadsworth Centre, New York State Dept of Health, USA
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

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

Public lectures on March 24, 2010:

‘Fundamentals of fluorescence microscopy / Using optics to manipulate cells’
Dr Alexey KHODJAKOV
Wadsworth Centre, New York State Department of Health, USA
09:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

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

Public lectures on March 24, 2010:

'Centrosomes. Role in mitosis and mechanisms of duplication’
Dr Alexey KHODJAKOV
Wadsworth Centre, New York State Dept of Health, USA
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

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

February 2010

>> European Higher Education Fair
- European Higher Education Fair, March 13-14, 2009, Hong Kong Central Library, Causeway Bay -
The European Higher Education Fair 2010 where around 15 French institutions participate to meet Hong Kong students will be held on March 13-14, 2010.

This year, CampusFrance has put up a special website where students can register online and put up their CV. This procedure will indeed reduce time related issues to all administrative process as the French participants will already know the students before they come to Hong Kong and will be able to counsel the students properly during the 20 minutes face-to-face individual interview sessions organized thanks to the this website.

More information available here.

>> City of Paris Research Scholarship 2010 programme
- 2010 Call for applicants, January 18-22, 2010, Mairie de Paris, France -
Since 2003, the city of Paris has set up a programme for hosting foreign researchers within French laboratories so as to facilitate new sustainable cooperation and strengthen existing cooperations between research centers abroad and in Paris. This year, about 70 researchers, from all disciplines, should benefit from this program.

This program is only opened to foreign researchers (post-docs and seniors), in all discipline, who wish to work in public research laboratories in Paris (Paris intra muros) for a limited period (3 to 12 months for junior researchers and 2 to months for senior researchers).

Call for on-line application is now open and the deadline is on March 8, 2010.

More information about this programme here.

January 2010

>> French International School
- Victor Segalen French International School studentship, January 18-22, 2010, HKU-Pasteur Research Centre -
HKU-Pasteur Research Centre welcomed Ms Leyla Lodge and Mr Elliot Belime, students from the French International School for a one-week studentship (January 18-22). They interacted closely with their tutors and the HKU-PRC's staff and discovered various aspects of virology.