Center Director Prof HM Lam’s research on stress tolerant soybean cultivars have been featured in the “「時代精神耀香江」之百年中國科學家主題展 from Jun 27 to Jul 9 at Exhibition Hall 3D of Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.
CUHK has officially joined the International Barcode of Life (iBOL) Consortium and its global research program, BIOSCAN. Our AoE member Prof. JHL Hui will represent Hong Kong on iBOL’s Science Committee. Read more about the news here.
Agrobiotechnology talk (8) – Intangible Assets of Agrobiotechnology was delivered online by lawyer Dr Albert Wai‐Kit Chan from International Intangible Asset Institute on 18 June 2021, which was attended by 36 participants. In the talk, Dr Chan introduced the interactions of intangible assets of agrobiotechnology, including Intellectual Property Rights (IPR),…
To kick-start Phase 2 of the STEAM@Soybean Project this year, a teacher training workshop was organized on 19 June to equip teachers the necessary knowledge and skills in further scientific investigation with soybean. In the DNA marker workshop, teachers are introduced with the basics of DNA Markers, how to use…
A new computational strategy has been developed by Prof Haiwei Luo’s team to date the origin and diversification of alphaproteobacteria by using information from fossils of eukaryotes. This represents important progress in timing bacterial evolution which may also bring new insights into the emergence of pathogenic bacteria. This work has…
Our Center Director Prof. Hon-Ming Lam was interviewed by Sunday Report on TVB on “Father of Hybrid Rice – Yuan Longping”, and has been broadcast on 30 May, 2021.
Our Center Director Prof. Hon-Ming Lam was interviewed by Backchat on RTHK on “Rice that saved China”, and has been broadcast on 26 May, 2021.
The 7th talk of Agrobiotechnology Talk series ‘Crop and Food: Soybean in Chinese Food Culture’ was held online via zoom on May 12, 2021, with a total of 75 participants. In this talk, Prof Angela Ki Che Leung from the University of Hong Kong introduced the unique role of soybean…
Our Center Director Prof. Hon-Ming Lam was interviewed by MingPao Daily on seed cultivation and local agricultural industry, and has been published on 3 May, 2021. “©2021明報 (with the permission of Ming Pao Daily News) All rights reserved.” Read more in MingPao Daily
On 16 April 2021, Agrobiotechnology Talk on ‘Innovative Solutions for Plant Breeding: a Biotechnology Research Company’s Perspective’ was conducted online via zoom. In this talk, Dr Michiel van Eijk from Genetwister Technologies B.V., the Netherlands provided the audience with an overview of research projects performed in a contract research company…