[Symposium] HKU Mechanobiology Initiative

School of Biomedical Engineering, School of Biomedical, Sciences and Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy symposium: HKU Mechanobiology Initiative

Date: Wednesday October 08th, 1 pm-7pm

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

Open to everyone - Free admission

The mechanics of the extracellular matrix and cell adhesion

• Mingxi YAO (SUSTech) - Molecular mechanisms underlying mechanosensitive proteins in focal adhesion

• Nan HUANG (CUHK) - Multiphoton microfabrication and micropatterning based 4D cell niches for high precision single cell mechanobiology studies

The mechanobiology of bone regeneration

• CHAO LIU (SUSTech) - Harnessing macrophage mechanobiology: New therapeutic strategies for bone regeneration

• Baile WANG (HKU) - Mechanoinflammatory regulation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell differentiation via Piezo1-Ccl2-Lcn2 axis

Force sensing in the cardiovascular system

• Jie XU (SYSU) - Mechanical signaling in the circulatory system

• Lily XIANG (SYSU) - Mechanobiology in cardiac fibrosis development

• Yu HUANG (CityU) - A new mechanosensitive GPCR associated with atherogenesis

• Jing LI (Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine) - The basic understanding of Piezo1 in cardiovascular health and disease

Contact: sbms@hku.hk or lily46@hku.hk or honore@ipmc.cnrs.fr