Introduction
 
In celebration of the launch of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) – Utrecht University (UU) Joint Centre for Language, Mind and Brain, an Opening Ceremony and inaugural Symposium on the Neurogenetics of Language and Cognition will be held at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Recent advances in genetics such as Whole Genome Exome Sequencing and in human neuroscience such as high-imaging functional MRI have allowed for an unprecedented look into the human mind and language functions from the molecule to behavior. The Symposium will feature keynote speakers from both UU and CUHK for exchanging state-of-the-art research on language, cognition, brain and genes from an interdisciplinary and translational perspective.
 
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Rundown
 
Day 1: 13 March 2014
Venue 1: School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
Venue 2: Leung Kau Kui Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
Time Programme  
  Dialogues on Language, Mind and Neurogenetics
Genetics Discussions       Moderator
School of Biomedical Sciences (SBS), CUHK, Shatin, Hong Kong
Medical Genomics Working Group


Professor Richard Choy, CUHK
Molecular Genetics Working Group Professor Andrew Chan, CUHK
 
Linguistics Discussions Moderator
Leung Kau Kui Building, CUHK
Neurolinguistics Working Group


Professor Patrick Wong, CUHK

Language Acquisition Working Group Professor Rene Kager, UU
 
Day 2: 14 March 2014
Venue
: Cho Yiu Conference Hall, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
Opening Ceremony of the Joint Centre for Language, Mind and Brain
Time Programme  
8:30 am Opening Remarks Professor Joseph Sung
Vice-Chancellor and President, CUHK
Professor Wiljan van den Akker
Dean, Faculty of Humanities, UU
Mr Wilfred Mohr
Consul General, Netherlands Consulate General in Hong Kong and Macao
Professor Patrick Wong
Co-Director, Joint Centre for Language, Mind and Brain, CUHK
 
9:00 am Group Photo  
 
9:15 am Scientific Addresses Professor Rene Kager
Co-Director, Joint Centre for Language, Mind and Brain, UU
"Perceptual Reorganization of Tone: Recent Findings from the Utrecht Baby Lab"
  Professor Andrew Chan
School of Biomedical Sciences, CUHK
"PTEN: from a Tumor Suppressor to a Neurocognitive Mediator"
Tea Break
  Professor Peter Burbach
Chairperson, Department of Translational Neuroscience, UU
"Genes and Autism"
  Professor Patrick Wong
Co-Director, Joint Centre for Language, Mind and Brain, CUHK
"Neurogenetics of Language: Lessons from Cognitive Neuroscience"
 
11:15 am Closing Remarks Professor CHAN Wai Yee
Director, School of Biomedical Sciences, CUHK
12:30 pm
Lunch
 
Day 3: 15 March 2014
Venue
: Room 408, CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute (SZRI), Shenzhen, China
Time Programme  
10:00 am Basic & Translational Research Presentation with Centre members & Guests
Section 1
Professor Virginia Yip
Chairperson, Department of Linguistics & Modern Languages, CUHK
"Bilingualism and Language Disorders in the Chinese Context"
Professor Peter Burbach
Department of Translational Neuroscience, UU
"From Autism Genes to Treatment"
Professor Aoju Chen
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, UU
"Is There a Link between Production and Comprehension in Prosodic Development?"
Professor Richard Choy
Deputy Director, Joint Centre for Language, Mind and Brain, CUHK
"Performance of Chromosomal Microarray for Patients with Intellectual Disabilites/
Developmental Delay, Autism, and Multiple Congenital Anomalies in a Chinese Cohort"
Professor Catherine McBride
Department of Psychology, CUHK
"Dyslexia in Chinese Children: Risk Factors and Potential Early Interventions"
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm Basic & Translational Research Presentations
Section 2
Professor Him Cheung
Department of Psychology, CUHK
"Children's Lie Perception and Theory of Mind"
Professor Andrew Chan
School of Biomedical Sciences, CUHK
"The Role of a Tumor Suppressor in the Genetic Predisposition to Autism"
Dr. Ao Chen
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, UU
"Pitch Perception in Different Domains in Early Infancy"
Tea Break
Forum Moderator
Professor Patrick Wong
Co-Director, Joint Centre for Language, Mind and Brain, CUHK

Professor Rene Kager
Co-Director, Joint Centre for Language, Mind and Brain, UU
 
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About the Joint Centre for Language, Mind and Brain

The Joint Centre aims to create an international platform for advancing knowledge in the study of language, mind and brain. Anchored in linguistics as a focus area of research, the Joint Centre provides fertile soil to nurture a number of disciplines on CUHK campus with a shared interest in language structure, language learning, communicative and literacy disorders and cognitive neuroscience. A natural extension of this focus would involve reading acquisition and impairment in both adults and children as well. The Joint Centre is strongly interdisciplinary in its orientation, connecting the humanities with biomedical sciences, life sciences, and social science. In particular, the language learning and development theme at CUHK echoes and complements the Youth and Identity focus area at UU where youth covers the age range from infancy to adolescence and beyond.

The Joint Centre is designed to be an international hub to give linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, psychology, genetics and speech-language therapy prominence and impetus to achieve excellence in the international academic community. It will also provide a bridge between the Western world and Mainland China.

A key component of the Joint Centre is a Genetic Core housed in the CUHK School of Biomedical Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine which supports cross-faculty and interdisciplinary collaboration in genetic research related to language, mind and brain, fostering academic exchanges on and between the two campuses. CUHK has pioneered clinical prenatal genetics service and our Fetal Medicine Unit is the first and a world-leading clinic that has established microarray for prenatal and postnatal genetics diagnosis of microdeletion and microduplication syndromes including Autism and Epilepsy.

 
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