INTERNATIONAL MEETING - 48TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE MALAYSIAN SOCIETY FOR BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
14-15 AUGUST 2024
FOUR POINTS BY SHERATON PUCHONG SELANGOR, MALAYSIA
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SPEAKERS
ANNE DELL (PLENARY)
Professor
Department of Life Sciences
Imperial College London
UNITED KINGDOM
Anne Dell is Professor of Carbohydrate Biochemistry at Imperial College London which she joined as a postdoc in 1975. During her career, Anne has spearheaded the development of ultra-high sensitivity mass spectrometric methods for glycomic and glycoproteomic analyses, especially in the area of biomedical research. Her laboratory provides structural underpinning for programmes of research seeking to define the biological roles that glycans play in health and disease. Anne is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Australian Academy of Sciences. She was Head of Imperial’s Department of Life Sciences from 2017 to 2022. Hoffmann is President of the Australasian Proteomics Society and Treasurer of the Asia-Oceania Human Proteome Organisation (AOHUPO). His research has delved into the identification of low abundant proteins and the mapping of their posttranslational modifications and their use as biomarkers for early detection of cancer. He is a leader in Mass Spectrometry Imaging and his research group was the first to use this technology in Australia. He is Director of the NCRIS Bioplatforms Australia Node for Tissue Mass Spectrometry Imaging. He has experience translation forming OncoDX to commercialise patented biomarkers for the early detection of ovarian and gastric cancer.
NOR HADIANI ISMAIL
President
Malaysian Natural Product Society
MALAYSIA
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Dr. Nor Hadiani Ismail obtained her Ph.D. in natural product chemistry from Universiti Putra Malaysia in 1999. Her PhD thesis entitled Chemistry and Biological Activity of the Roots of Morinda elliptica won the Tan Sri Ong Kee Hui medal for the Best Postgraduate Thesis 1999 by Institut Kimia Malaysia. She was a professor in Chemistry at Universiti Teknologi MARA and served as the director of Atta-ur-Rahman Institute for Natural Products Discovery (AuRIns), until recently. With more than 200 research publications, she was recognized as Top Research Scientist Malaysia in 2017. A fellow of the Malaysian Chemical Institute and Malaysian Academy of Science, Dr Nor Hadiani is the current president of Malaysian Natural Product Society.
NORHAYATI YUSOP
Senior Lecturer
Basic Sciences Unit, School of Dental Sciences,
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus,
MALAYSIA
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Dr. Norhayati Yusop is from School of Dental Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia. Her research interest is in cellular mechanism of stem cells and sustainable biomaterials in regeneration of mineralised tissue. As an academician, she involved in teaching biochemistry for dental undergraduate students. She is certified MOOC content developer with Open Learning, and MyDigital Educator 2.0 under Ministry of Higher Education. She has won a number of awards for her work in teaching innovations, including Best Elective Research (in Basic Science) at Dental Student Scientific Conference, Silver Medal in MOOC Competitions and Gold Award for Innovations in Teaching and Learning Competition 2023 for her project entitled Transformative Learning Experiences in Gamified Biochemistry Module. She is the recipient of FAOBMB Thailand Travel Fellowship Special Education Award 2023.
KEHKOOI KEE
Professor / Assistant Chancellor
School of Basic Medical Sciences
Tsinghua University, Beijing
CHINA
Dr. Kee studied meiotic recombination during his graduate school at Weill Cornell Medical School. After his PhD study, he started to study human reproductive biology using embryonic stem cells and became research associate at Stanford University in 2007. He became a principal investigator at School of Medicine, Tsinghua University since 2010 and he is now the tenured Professor in School of Basic Medical Sciences. His team is interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying human germ cell development. Their current research projects include developing in vitro models of human germ cell development and studying mutations causing infertility manifested in clinical setting. They have built many in vitro differentiation and induction systems for studying human germ cells and their neighboring somatic cells, including spermatids, oocytes, and Sertoli cells. These in vitro systems also allow them to study the effect of microgravity on development of human germ cells in spacecraft.