Distinguished Lecture Series on Eastern and Western Medicine - Structural Mechanism of RNA Silencing
You are welcome to attend the seminar, please find the details below:
Date: January 23, 2026 (Friday)
Time: 3:30-5:30pm (Registration starts at 3:00pm)
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, 1/F, HKUMed Academic Building, 3 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Mode: In-person
CME Points for RCMPs: 2 points
Fee: Free of Charge
Enquires: Tel：81000538；Email：scmevent@hku.hk
Registration: Here
Speaker:
Distinguished Professor, School of Life Sciences
Deputy Director, State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering
Fudan University
Moderator:
Director, School of Chinese Medicine, HKU
Abstract:
The long-term research interest in my lab is focused on 3D structures and molecular recognitions in RNAs and proteins involved in the biogenesis and mechanism of small non-coding RNAs (miRNA and siRNA), structures of long non-coding RNAs (Ribozymes), and RNA modifications (m6A and m5C) and recognitions, using structural and biochemical approaches, mainly including X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM techniques. In this seminar, I will talk about structural basis for the recognition of siRNA and miRNA, 3’-end modification of miRNA, and dsRNA processing mechanism and regulation, as well as explore the application of RNA technology in the field of Chinese medicine.
About the Speaker:
Professor Jinbiao Ma is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Fudan University, Principal Investigator and Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering. He obtained his B.Sc Degree in chemistry from the Department of Chemistry at Fudan University, and his Ph.D Degree in Organic Chemistry from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. After completing his postdoctoral training in Prof. Dinshaw Patel’s lab at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, he obtained a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama in Birmingham in 2007. He joined the School of Life Sciences at Fudan University as a Distinguished Professor in 2010, and has been the Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering since 2017.
