2013 UST-UCSD I-RICE Symposium and
The 7 Joint Symposium between National Yang-Ming University
(NYMU), and University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
th
Date: 2013.11.10 - 11
Location: 1st Conference Room, Convention Center, National Yang-Ming University
Sunday, November 10 , 2013
Program
Time
Speaker
Dr. Kung-Yee Liang, President, NYMU
AM
09:30-09:40
Opening Remarks
Dr. Shu Chien, Professor, UCSD
09:40-10:05
10:05-10:30
Origin and Fate of Myofibroblasts in
Liver Fibrosis
Role of Endocannabinoids in the
Pathophysiology of Cirrhosis with Portal
hypertension
Dr. Ying-Ying Yang, Associate Professor, School of
Medicine, NYMU
10:30-10:40
Discussion
10:40-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-11:25
CNS injury and repair: focusing on
axonal growth
Dr. Bihai Zheng, Associate Professor, Department of
Neuroscience, UCSD
Role of CISD2 in Aging and
Dr. Ting-Fen Tsai, Professor, Department of Life
Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, NYMU
11:25-11:50
Mitochondria Associated Diseases
PM
Dr. David Allen Brenner, Dean, School of Medicine,
UCSD
11:50-12:00
Discussion
12:00-13:30
Lunch
01:30-01:55
Single-cell sequencing
Dr. Kun Zhang,
Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering,
UCSD
01:55-02:20
Efficient Promotion of Cellular
Reprogramming and iPSC Generation by
Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase 1 without
c-Myc
Dr. Shih-Hwa Chiou, Professor, Institute of Clinical
Medicine, NYMU
02:20-02:30
Discussion
02:30-02:55
02:55-03:20
Immune tolerance of cells derived from
human pluripotent stem cells
IKKα and autophagy are required for
KRAS-induced pancreatic cancer
through fatty acid oxidation
Dr. Yang Xu, Professor, Division of Biological
Sciences, UCSD
Dr. Chih-Hong Wang, Assistant Professor,
Department of Biological Science and Technology,
NCTU
03:20-03:30
Discussion
03:30-03:50
Coffee Break
03:50-04:15
Atomic force microscopy for
Nanomedicine
Dr. Ratneshwar Lal, Professor, Departments of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and
Bioengineering, UCSD
04:15-04:40
Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
(SERS) using Three-Dimensional
DNA-Nanoparticle Nanostructures
Dr. Yi Fan Chen, Assistant Professor, Institute of
Biophotonics, NYMU
04:40-05:05
Discussion
Monday, November 11, 2013
Program
Time
Speaker
Moderator
Distinct Biophysical Mechanisms of
AM
09:30-09:55
FAK Mechanoactivation by Different
Dr. Yingxiao Wang, Associate Professor, Department
of Bioengineering, UCSD
Extracellular Matrix Proteins
The role of protein tyrosine
09:55-10:20
phosphatase Shp2 in
mechanotransduction
10:20-10:30
Discussion
10:30-10:50
Coffee Break
10:30-10:55
10:55-11:20
11:20-11:30
11:30-13:00
PM
01:00-01:25
Cloaking Nanoparticles with Natural
RBC Membranes for Biomimetic Drug
Delivery and Biodetoxification
Synthesis of apolipoprotein B
lipoparticles to deliver
hydrophobic/amphiphilic materials
Dr. Liangfang Zhang, Associate Professor,
Department of Nanoengineering, UCSD
Dr. Chia-Ching Chang, Professor, Department of
Biological Science and Technology, NCTU
Discussion
Lunch
Bioinformatics, Epigenomics, Stem Cell
Biology
01:25-01:50
Stem cell epigenetics and bioinformatics:
discovering the role of
5-hydoxymethylcytosine in mESC
pluripotency
01:50-02:00
Discussion
02:00-02:40
Coffee Break
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of
02:40-03:05
Dr. Hsiao-Hui Lee, Assistant Professor, Department
of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences,
NYMU
cholinergic synapse formation:
development and diseases
Dr. Sheng Zhong, Associate Professor, Department
of Bioengineering, UCSD
Dr. Jui-Hung Hung, Assistant Professor, Department
of Biological Science and Technology, NCTU
Dr. Kuo-Fen Lee, Professor, The Clayton Foundation
Laboratories for Peptide Biology, The Salk Institute,
La Jolla, CA, UCSD
Mechanobiology of neural stem cell
03:05-03:30
migration in live brain tissue: An optical
approach
03:30-03:40
Discussion
Dr. Jin-Wu Tsai, Assistant Professor, Institute of
Brain Science NYMU