The Forum Program

Updated on Sept. 24, 2004

Date: 2nd October, 2004
Location: Lecture Room 5, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC)

Program

 10:00-10:30 

Registration and Coffee

 10:30-10:40

Opening and Introduction

 

Dr. Z. Dang (LUMC)

10:40-10:50

Welcome Speech

 

Prof. Dr. D. Breimer (Rector Magnificus, Leiden University)

10:50-11:00

Opening Speech

 

Representative from the Chinese Embassy to the Kingdom of the Netherlands

 

 

 11:00-12:00

Session 1: Keynote speeches (Chaired by Prof.Dr.E.C.Klasen)

 11:00-11:20

Biotechnology research and applications in China

 

Prof. Dr. Z. Xu (President of Beijing University)

11:20-11:40

Immunology of the kidney disease

 

Prof. Dr. M.R. Daha (LUMC)

11:40-12:00

University Medical Centers in relation to research policy in the Netherlands

 

Prof. Dr. O.J.S. Buruma (President of LUMC)

 

 

12:00-13:50

Group photo and lunch

 

 

 13:50-15:10

Session 2: Biomedical Sciences

 

 Part I: Guest lectures (Chaired by R.R.P. de Vries/ Dr. K.W. Li)

13:50-14:10

ER structure and biology in colorectal cancer cells

 

Prof. Dr. J. Song (China Medical University)

14:10-14:30

Conditional mouse models of breast cancer

 

Dr. J. Jonkers (The Netherlands Cancer Institute)

 

  

 Part II: Presentations from selected abstracts (Chaired by Dr. Y. Zhu/ Dr. Y. Liao)

14:30-14:40

 

Profiling of the secreted proteins during 3T3-L1 adipocyte differentiation leads to the identification of novel adipokines

 

P. Wang (Maastricht University)

14:40-14:50

 

Glucocorticoid receptors regulate gene expression of voltage gated calcium channel subunits in rat hippocampal CA1 neurons

 

Y. Qin (University of Amsterdam)

14:50-15:00

 

Transplantation of bone marrow-derived endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) into rat heart via the coronary circulation

 

C. Qian (University of Groningen)

15:00-15:10

 

Pten inactivation in mouse prostate recapitulates the process of prostate cancer development in human

 

X. Ma (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam)

 

 

15:10-15:30

Coffee and tea break

 

 

 15:30-17:10

Session 3: Plant Sciences and Human Health

 

 Part I: Guest lectures (Chaired by Prof. Dr. A.F. Cohen/ Dr. L. Qin)

15:30-15:50

Function of peptide ligands in maintaining the stem cell populations in plants

 

Dr. C.M. Liu (Wageningen Plant Sciences)

15:50-16:10

“Systems biology”: bridging traditional Chinese medicine and western pharmaceutical visions

 

Dr. M. Wang (TNO Leiden)

16:10-16:30

Plants as source for new medicines

 

Prof. Dr. R. Verpoorte (Leiden University)

 

 

Part II: Presentations from selected abstracts (chaired by Dr. M. Wang/ Dr. C.M. Liu)

16:30-16:40

Parasitism genes of the plant-parasitic nematodes

 

Dr. L. Qin (Wageningen University)

16:40-16:50

Cloning of the potato late blight resistance gene

 

S. Huang (Wageningen University)

16:50-17:00

Quantitative trait loci analysis of sugar sense in Arabidopsis thaliana

 

S. Teng (Utrecht University)

17:00-17:10

 

Substrain-selective glomerular expression of neuronal activity-regulated pentraxin(NARP) discriminates between remodeling and progression towards glomerulosclerosis after induction of anti-Thy –1 nephritis(ATN) in rats

 

L. Bai (LUMC)

 

 

17:10-17:30

Break

 

 

 17:30-18:20

Session 4: From Bench to Industry  (chaired by Dr. L. Ma/ Dr. Y. Zhou)

 17:30-17:50

Opportunities for academic IP

 

Dr. Ir. Dirk Groenewegen (IPD Consulting)

17:50-18:10

Commercialization through start-ups

 

Ir. H.F. Hu (Hyphen Project Management)

 

 

18:30-20:30

Dinner and award of best oral presentation (W. Xu/ C. Liu/ Y. Liao)