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Volume 05
Journal of Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics
ISSN: 2472-1921
Page 9
June 17-18, 2019 London, UK
&
JOINT EVENT
26
th
World Nutrition Congress
15
th
Euro Obesity and Endocrinology Congress
Nutrition World 2019
Euro Obesity 2019
June 17-18, 2019
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Tse H, Yang D, Sze K H, Chu I K, Kao R Y T, Lee K C, Lam C W, Gu Q, Tai S S, Ke Y, Chan E, Chan WM, Dai
J, Leung S P, Leung S Y and Yuen K Y (2017) A tricyclic pyrrolobenzodiazepine produced by
Klebsiella oxytoca
is associated with cytotoxicity in antibiotic-associated hemorrhagic colitis. J Biol Chem. 292(47):19503-19520.
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Gao P, Davies J and Kao R Y (2017) Dehydrosqualene Desaturase as a novel target for anti-virulence therapy
against
Staphylococcus aureus
. mBio 8(5):e01224-17.
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Gao P, Wang Y, Villanueva I, Ho P L, Davies J and Kao R Y (2016) Construction of a multiplex promoter reporter
platform to monitor
staphylococcus aureus
virulence gene expression and the identification of usnic acid as a
potent suppressor of psm gene expression. Front Microbiol. 7:1344.
Biography
Richard Y Kao has obtained his PhD in Microbiology at UBC in 1999 and subsequent Postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School. He has joined the
University of Hong Kong as a Research Assistant Professor in 2001 and now a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing
Faculty of Medicine. His research focuses on the application of chemical genetics in infectious diseases. Most recently, he has extended his chemical genetic
studies to virulence and antibiotics resistance in bacteria and has illustrated the potential use of anti-virulence compounds to treat MRSA infections. The research
results have been published in top microbiology journals Frontiers in Microbiology, mBio, and PNAS in 2016, 2017, 2018 respectively. He has received the
Innovation Academy Award from International Consortium of Prevention and Control of Infection (ICPIC) in Geneva, Switzerland in 2017.
rytkao@hku.hk