Programme

The tentative programme run down of “9th Macau Symposium on Biomedical Sciences 2023” as follows:

This year’s symposium will be held in a format that combines online (via ZOOM) and in-person elements, in order to allow participants from around the world to participate in the event.

Participants who are unable to attend the symposium in person can join the meeting on ZOOM. ZOOM ID and password will be provided after registration.

13 Jun 2024 (THU)

13 Jun 2024 (THU) Venue: N2 – University Hall, University of Macau Day 1 – PM
14:00 – 18:00
14:00 – 15:30	Joint session with Dept of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore – Part 1 Session Chair: Hanming SHEN
15:30 – 16:30	Coffee Break & POSTER REVIEW
16:30 – 18:00	Joint session with Dept of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore – Part 2 Session Chair: Hanming SHEN

14 Jun 2024 (FRI)

14 Jun 2024 (FRI) Venue: N2 – University Hall, University of Macau Day 2 – AM
08:30 – 09:00	Registration
09:00 – 12:30
09:00 – 09:30	OPENING CEREMONY
09:30 – 10:00	PLENARY SESSION – Part 1 Session Chair: Chuxia DENG
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break & Poster Session
10:30 – 12:30	PLENARY SESSION – Part 2 Session Chair: Chuxia DENG
12:30 – 14:30	Luncheon & Poster Session

14 Jun 2024 (FRI) Venue: N2 – University Hall, University of Macau Day 2 – PM
14:30 – 18:00
14:30 – 16:00	Session 1 – Stem Cell, Gene & Cell Therapy Session Chairs: Ren-He XU and Guokai CHEN
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break & Poster Session
16:30 – 18:00	Session 2 – Fungal Biology, Infection and Application Session Chair: Chris, Koon Ho WONG
18:00 – 21:00	GALA DINNER Venue: TBC

15 Jun 2024 (SAT)

15 Jun 2024 (SAT) Venue: N2 – University Hall, University of Macau Day 3 – AM
08:30 – 09:00	Registration
09:00 – 12:30
09:00 – 10:30	Session 3 – Bioimaging and Biomaterials Session Chairs: Tzu-Ming LIU and Yunlu DAI
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break & Poster Session
11:00 – 12:30	Session 4 – Chromatin and Transcription Regulation in Disease Session Chair: Edwin CHEUNG
12:30 – 14:30	Luncheon & Poster Session

15 Jun 2024 (SAT) Venue: N2 – University Hall, University of Macau Day 3 – PM
14:30 – 18:30
14:30 – 16:00	Session 5 – Cancer Research Session Chair: Elaine LEUNG
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break & Poster Session
16:30 – 18:00	Session 6 – Technology Development and Cancer Research Session Chair: Kai MIAO
18:00 – 18:30	BEST POSTER AWARD CLOSING CEREMONY

DATE

2024/6/13 – 2024/6/15

LOCATION

University Hall (N2)

LANGUAGE

English

BOOKLET

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Day 1

Session ONE

Joint session with Dept of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

Session Chair

Hanming SHEN
University of Macau

14:00 – 14:20	BRD4 in Rhabdomyosarcoma Reshma TANEJA National University of Singapore
14:20 – 14:40	Deciphering TDP-43 Functions in Health and Diseases Shuo-Chien LING National University of Singapore
14:40 – 15:00	Uncovering Novel Glioblastoma Dependencies for Mechanism-guided Therapies Derrick Sek-Tong ONG National University of Singapore
15:00 – 15:20	Understanding Protein Homeostasis – Improving Protein Metabolism and Reducing Sarcopenia Shih-Yin TSAI National University of Singapore
15:20 – 16:40	Coffee Break & Poster Review
16:40 – 17:00	Understanding How Triple-negative Breast Cancer Cells Become More Metastatic by Interacting with Macrophages Kathy Qian LUO University of Macau
17:00 – 17:20	Enhancement of Macrophage Efferocytosis as a New Strategy for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Jiahong LU University of Macau
17:20 – 17:40	Molecular Basis of Antifolate Resistance via FPGS Inactivation: Towards Targeted Precision Medicine Yehuda ASSARAF Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
17:40 – 18:00	Intrinsic and Extrinsic Regulations of Migratory Cell Polarity in Aging Wakam CHANG University of Macau

Day 2

08:30 – 09:00

Registration / Guest Reception

Opening Ceremony of
the 10^th Macau Symposium on Biomedical Sciences

09:00 – 09:30

Welcome Remarks delivered by

Prof. Wei GE
Vice Rector (Research) of the University of Macau

Programme Introduction delivered by

Prof. Chuxia DENG
Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Macau

Group Photo

Plenary Session

Session Chair

Chuxia DENG
University of Macau

09:30 – 10:10	Discovery of Novel Mechanisms to Enhance Efficacy for Anti-cancer Immunotherapy Xiao-Fan WANG Duke University
10:10 – 10:40	Strategies to Challenge Brain Metastasis Lethality and to Improve Quality of Life in Mice and Human Manuel VALIENTE Brain Metastasis Group of National Cancer Research Center
10:40 – 11:10	Detection, Function, and Regulation of Chromatin Loops Keji ZHAO National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
11:10 – 11:40	Coffee Break & Poster Review
11:40 – 12:10	The Interaction between Systemic Metabolism and Ferroptosis Shapes T Cell Function in Immunity Di YU University of Queensland
12:10 – 12:40	Reconstituting Human Axial Development & Disease in Vitro Cantas ALEV Kyoto University

12:40 – 13:30

Luncheon (by invitation)

N1 – G006 Grand Plaza 萬豪軒

13:30 – 14:30

Poster Session

Session TWO

Stem Cell, Gene & Cell Therapy

Session Chair

Ren-He XU
University of Macau

Guokai CHEN
University of Macau

14:30 – 14:52	Hair follicle Stem Cells: From Basic Research To Clinical Trial Jinyu LIU Jilin University
14:52 – 15:14	Deciphering Single-cell m6A Methylome Landscape in Cell Fate Identity Jonathan Yuin-Han LOH A*STAR
15:14 – 15:36	Regenerative Medicine for Newborn Diseases Paul Kwong-Hang TAM Macau University of Sciences and Technology
15:36 – 16:00	hESC Derived MSCs for Therapeutic Application, Chimeric Study, and Cancer Research Ren-He XU University of Macau

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee Break & Poster Review

Session THREE

Fungal Biology, Infection and Application

Session Chair

Chris Koon Ho WONG
University of Macau

16:30 – 16:48	Sexual Development and Ascospore Formation of Aspergillus Nidulans Kap-Hoon HAN Woosuk University
16:48 – 17:06	Unveiling the Extended Phenotype: Linking Genes to Secondary Metabolites and Pathogen-host Interactions Yit Heng CHOOI The University of Western Australia
17:06 – 17:24	What Does a Fungal Pathogen Do to Survive and Grow inside a Macrophage? Chris Koon Ho WONG University of Macau
17:24 – 17:42	The Fungus Lurking inside Tumour Ningning LIU Shanghai Jiao Tong University
17:42 – 18:00	The Impact of Fungi in Space Exploration – Insights on Astromycology Marta Filipa SIMÕES Macau University of Science and Technology

19:00 – 21:00

Gala Dinner (by invitation)

Tromba Rija, Macau Tower 澳門旅遊塔會展娛樂中心地下皇家葡萄餚

Day 3

Session FOUR

Bioimaging and Biomaterials

Session Chair

Tzu-Ming LIU
University of Macau

Yunlu DAI
University of Macau

09:00 – 09:18	Nanoimmunochemistry: Modulating Tumour Immunosuppressive Microenvironment for Boosting Cancer Immunotherapy Michael Chengzhong YU University of Queensland
09:18 – 09:36	Innovative Formulation Engineering for Clinical Translation Wei WEI Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
09:36 – 09:54	Short-wavelength Excitation Two-photon Microscopy of Endogenous Fluorophores in Biological Sample Wei ZHENG Shenzhen institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
09:54 – 10:12	Head-mounted Photoacoustic Fiberscopes for Cerebral Imaging on Freely Moving Mice Long JIN Jinan University
10:12 – 10:30	Label-free Diagnosis of Diabetes with Multiphoton Metabolic Imaging of Adipose Tissues Tzu-Ming LIU University of Macau

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break & Poster Review

Session FIVE

Chromatin and Transcription Regulation in Disease

Session Chair

Edwin Chong Wing CHEUNG
University of Macau

11:00 – 11:18	Histone Lysine Acylations and Their Critical Roles in Transcriptional Regulation and Diseases Jiemin WONG East China Normal University
11:18 – 11:36	Investigating the 3D Genome Organization of Super-silencers in the Human Genome Melissa Jane FULLWOOD Nanyang Technological University
11:36 – 11:54	Unraveling the Role of Non-canonical NF-ĸB Signalling in the Cancer Epigenome Yinghui LI Nanyang Technological University
11:54 – 12:12	New roles of Transcription Factors in Prostate Cancer Progression Revealed by Epigenetics and Liquid-liquid Phase Separation Analyses Satoshi INOUE Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology
12:12 – 12:30	Androgen Receptor Coregulator Function in Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer Edwin Chong Wing CHEUNG University of Macau

12:30 – 13:30

Luncheon (by invitation)

N1 – G006 Grand Plaza 萬豪軒

13:30 – 14:00

Poster Session

14:00 – 14:30

Short Talks for Best Poster Awards

Session SIX

Cancer Research

Session Chair

Elaine Lai Han LEUNG
University of Macau

14:30 – 14:48	New Solutions for Lung Cancer Early Management Wenhua LIANG The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University
14:48 – 15:06	Precision Engineering of the Human Gut Microbiome Lei DAI Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
15:06 – 15:24	Deregulation of RNA m6A Modification in Liver Cancer and its Therapeutic Potential Jack Chun Ming WONG University of Hong Kong
15:24 – 15:42	DRNPC: Natural Product-based Drug Combination and its Disease-specific Molecular Regulation Xueni SUN Hangzhou Normal University
15:42 – 16:00	Targeting Gut Microbiota and Application of Natural Product for Cancer Therapy Elaine Lai Han LEUNG University of Macau

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee Break & Poster Review

Session SEVEN

Technology Development and Cancer Research

Session Chair

Kai MIAO
University of Macau

16:30 – 16:48	Decoding RNA Dynamics and DNA (De)methylation: One Cell at a Time Peng HU Shanghai Ocean University
16:48 – 17:06	Knowledge-informed Deep Learning for Accurate Cell Status Annotation and Disease Diagnosis Xiang YU Shanghai Jiao Tong University
17:06 – 17:24	Trained Immunity in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases/Comorbidities and Tumours Xiaofei LI Shanghai Jiao Tong University
17:24 – 17:42	Impaired Endolysosomal Functions in Lewy Body Disorders Qihui WU Tongji University
17:42 – 18:00	Single Cell Lineage Tracing in Cancer Research Kai MIAO University of Macau