Pre-Conference Lecture
DAY 1 Wednesday, May 25, 2016
16:30-18:00 Pre-Conference Lecture
Introduction course for conference
Session Chair:Sookja K. Chung
The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Sookja K. Chung is currently a Professor at the School of Biomedical Sciences & also hold the Honorary Professor position at the department of Ophthalmology at HKU. She is a member of State Key Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. In addition, she is a Visiting Professor at 4th Military Med Sch. Xian. She received her B.A. degree double majoring in Biology and Chemistry, then M.A at the Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A. She received her Ph.D degree at the Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago. She then work as a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University Medical Center, Chicago. Afterward she moved to The Rockefeller University in New York, where she received a fellowship from the Norman and Rosita Winston Foundation. Since 1991, she has been with The University of Hong Kong as Research Officer at Institute of Molecular Biology to Professor in the Department of Anatomy and School of Biomedical Sciences. Her main research approaches are to generate transgenic and knockout mouse models with altered osmotic, oxidative and ischemia related gene to advance our understanding of disease process and potential drug discovery.
Speaker:Arne Schousboe
University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
Topic: Neuron-Glia interactions in neurotransmission:
Roles of oxidative and glycolytic ATP as energy source
Arne Schousboe obtained his M.Sc. in biochemistry from The University of Copenhagen in 1968 at a time where an M. Sc. was considered equivalent to a Ph.D. He subsequently (1978) earned his Doctor of Science (D. Sc.) degree also from University of Copenhagen. After a post-doc period with Dr. Eugene Roberts at the Department of Neuroscience, City of Hope National Medical Center in Los Angeles 1972-1973 he came back to the University of Copenhagen to resume a tenured position as Assoc. Prof. at the Medical Faculty. In 1990 he moved to the Royal Danish School of Pharmacy, Copenhagen as a Full Professor of Biochemistry and has remained in this position also when this Institution changed to become an independent University and subsequently a Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Copenhagen which lately was incorporated in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences still at the University of Copenhagen . He has served as the Department Chair from 2005 to 2010 and is now part time Professor of Neuropharmacology in Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology at University of Copenhagen. He has been working on astrocyte function focusing on amino acid neurotransmission during the past more than 4o years and is currently engaged in studies of glutamate and GABA homeostasis and metabolism. He has published over 550 papers on these and related topics. He has served on the Editorial Board on numerous neuroscience journals over the years and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Neurochemical Research and Editor of the book series Advances in Neurobiology.