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Seminars in 2003
| Speaker: |
Tim Fulcher
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom |
| Title: |
Phylogenetics of Diseae (Orchidaceae) |
| Date: |
Thurs, 18 Dec 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room, Blk S3 Level 5 |
| Host: |
Dr Adrian Loo |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Patrick Grootaert
Department of Entomology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belguim. |
| Title: |
Sexual selection and speciation |
| Date: |
Fri, 12 Dec 2003 |
| Time: |
11am - 12 noon |
| Venue: |
Seminar Room 1, Blk S2 level 4 |
| Host: |
Dr Darren Yeo |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
David C. Klein
Chief, Neuroendocrinology Section, Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland |
| Title: |
Evolution of the Pineal Gland: Did Melatonin Start Out as Metabolic Garbage? |
| Date: |
Sat, 6 Dec 2003 |
| Time: |
10 am |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room, Blk S3 Level 5 |
| Host: |
Dr Philippa Melamed |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Professor Yoshiaki Ito
Chief of the Cell Transformation Section, National Cancer Institute, USA.& Director of the Oncology Research Institute, National University of Singapore |
| Title: |
The mechanism of transcriptional regulation by RUNX proteins |
| Date: |
Fri, 28 Nov 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room, Blk S3 Level 5 |
| Host: |
A/P R M Kini |
| Speaker: |
Tianwei Lin
Department of Molecular Biology and Center for Integrative Molecular Biosciences, The Scripps Research Institute, USA |
| Title: |
Structural Exploitation of an Icosahedral Virus as Nano-materials |
| Date: |
Fri, 17 Oct 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P R M Kini |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Binhui Ni
Head of Biology, S*BIO, Singapore |
| Title: |
Alzheimer's Disease: From Disease to Molecules |
| Date: |
Wed, 15 Oct 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Gong Zhiyuan |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Kassim Moosa
Indonesian Institute of Science |
| Title: |
Indonesia's coral reef rehabilitation and mamangement program (COREMAP) |
| Date: |
Wed, 8 Oct 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Peter Ng |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Kassim Moosa
Indonesian Institute of Science |
| Title: |
The search for the Indonesian Coelacanth - a living fossil extraordinaire |
| Date: |
Sat, 4 Oct 2003 (PUBLIC TALK) |
| Time: |
2.30 - 4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 31 |
| Host: |
A/P Peter Ng |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
John E Johnson
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Insittute, USA |
| Title: |
Structure and maturation of a dsDNA bacteriophage capsid formed by topologically linked protein rings |
| Date: |
Fri, 3 Oct 2003 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof Hew Choy Leong |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
John E Johnson
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Insittute, USA |
| Title: |
Functional implications of RNA virus capsid dynamics |
| Date: |
Sat, 1 Oct 2003, Wed |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof Hew Choy Leong |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Pan Shen Quan
Associate Prof, Department of BIological Sciences, NUS |
| Title: |
A global pH sensor and its roles in regulating DNA transfer and homologous recombination in Agrobacterium tumefaciens |
| Date: |
Fri, 26 Sept 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr Low Boon Chuan |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
L C Mahadevan
Professor, Nuclear Signalling Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK |
| Title: |
Kinase cascades, chromatin modification and gene induction |
| Date: |
Wed, 24 Sept 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr Ng Huck Hui |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Liou Yih-Cherng
Asst Professor, Depts of Biological Sciences and Biochemistry,, NUS |
| Title: |
Regulating Protein Function and Signaling
by Twisting Proline’s Arm |
| Date: |
Fri, 19 Sept 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr Low Boon Chuan |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Leung Ka Yin
A/P, Dept of Biological Sciences, NUS |
| Title: |
A Functional Genomics Approach To The Identification Of Virulence Genes Involved In Edwardsiella tarda Pathogenesis |
| Date: |
Fri, 12 Sept 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P RM Kini |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Dr. Martti T. Tammi
Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden |
| Title: |
Software Tools and Algorithms for Genome Sequence Analysis |
| Date: |
Wed, 10 Sept 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Rm, Blk S3 Level 5 |
| Host: |
A/P Shoba Ranganathan |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
R. Meganathan
Presidential Research Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA |
| Title: |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology of Vitamin K Biosynthesis |
| Date: |
Wed, 10 Sept 2003 |
| Time: |
10 am |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Rm, Blk S3 Level 5 |
| Host: |
Dr Sanjay Swarup |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Wasim Ahmad
Department of Zoology
Aligarh Muslim University, INDIA |
| Title: |
Feeding Diversity in Nematodes |
| Date: |
Thurs, 4 Sept 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5pm |
| Venue: |
SR 3, Blk S2 Level 2 |
| Host: |
Dr Darren Yeo |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Peter Ng and N Sodhi (Cancelled)
Dept of Biological Sciences, NUS |
| Title: |
Catastrophic extinctions follows deforestation in Singapore |
| Date: |
Wed, 27 Aug 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Benito Tan |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
André Ménez
Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA) |
| Title: |
Modulating immunogenicity by protein engineering |
| Date: |
Fri, 15 Aug 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Kini RM |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Sarah Dunlop
NH & MRC Senior Research Fellow, School of Animal Biology, Univ of Western Australia |
| Title: |
Optic nerve regeneration: Molecular, functional and behaviour correlates |
| Date: |
Thurs, 7 Aug 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Lim T M |
| Speaker: |
Paul Clark
Decapod Consultant, Natural History Museum, London
Honorary Research Associate, RMBR, NUS |
| Title: |
The Natural History Museum, London - Business or pleasure Sir? |
| Date: |
Fri, 1 Aug 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Peter Ng |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Tony Wu
|
| Title: |
Silent Symphony under the Waves |
| Date: |
Thurs, 17 July 2003 |
| Time: |
3-5pm |
| Venue: |
DBS conference room |
| Host: |
Sasi Nayar |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Ng Huck Hui
Department of Biological Sciences, NUS and Genome Institute of Singapore |
| Title: |
Practical Applications of planar bilayer lipid membranes (BLMs)Chromatin:
1.From remodeling to modifications
2.From immunoprecipitation to genomics
3.From Yeast to mammalian cells |
| Date: |
Fri, 27 June 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof Hew Choy Leong |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Michael Lai
Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator,
University of Southern California, USA
Deputy Director of Academia Sinica, Taipeh. |
| Title: |
The Molecular Biology of the SARS Coronavirus |
| Date: |
Wed, 25 June 2003 |
| Time: |
5 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof Hew Choy Leong |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
H. T. Tien and Angelica Ottova
Physiology Department, Michigan State University,
East Lansing, Michigan 48824 (USA) |
| Title: |
Practical Applications of planar bilayer lipid membranes (BLMs) |
| Date: |
Fri, 20 June 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5pm |
| Venue: |
LT 32 |
| Host: |
A/P Sheu Fwu Shan |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Lim Kah Leong
Head and Principal Investigator, Neurodegeneration Research Laboratory, National Neuroscience Institute (NNI), Singapore. |
| Title: |
Parkin and Parkinson Disease |
| Date: |
Fri, 13 June 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Lim Tit Meng |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Navjot Sodhi
Associate Professor, Conservation & Behavioural Ecology Lab
Dept of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore |
| Title: |
Harvard and Beyond |
| Date: |
Thurs, 24 April 2003 |
| Time: |
3-4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
V.S. Ananthanarayanan
Professor, Department of Biochemistry,Health Sciences Centre, McMaster University , Canada |
| Title: |
Molecular Chaperones for Collagen and Elastin: Structural Insights into Their Actions |
| Date: |
Wed, 9 April 2003 (new date and venue) |
| Time: |
4-5 pm |
| Venue: |
LT32 |
| Host: |
Prof Hew Choy Leong |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Derek Pilgrim
Principal Lecturer
Underwater Science at the Institute of Marine Studies, University of Plymouth, UK |
| Title: |
Abiss (Autonomous Benthic Image Scaling System): a new tool for benthic surveys |
| Date: |
Wed, 2 April 2003 |
| Time: |
10-11 am |
| Venue: |
DBS Lab 7C |
| Host: |
Prof Chou Loke Ming |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Alex Law
Professor and Vice Dean (Research), School of Biological Sciences
Nanyang Technological University |
| Title: |
The Chemistry of Opsonization: The Covalent Binding of C3 to Target Surfaces |
| Date: |
Friday, 28 March 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof Hew Choy Leong |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Jack L Haar
Professor, Department of Anatomy, Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia, USA |
| Title: |
Studies of in vitro Cell Migration |
| Date: |
Wednesday, 19 March 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 32 |
| Host: |
A/P Kini RM |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Pawan Dhar
Principal Investigator, Systems Biology
Bioinformatics Institute |
| Title: |
Systems Biology from fraction to integration |
| Date: |
Friday, 14 March 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Lim Tit Meng |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Huei-Ping Shen
Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute, Nantou, Taiwan |
| Title: |
Biodiversity of terrestrial earthworms in Taiwan |
| Date: |
Friday, 14 March 2003 |
| Time: |
11-12 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Lab 7A |
| Host: |
Dr Darren Yeo |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Jaap J. Vermeulen
The Herbarium, Singapore Botanic Gardens National Parks Board |
| Title: |
Sulawesi - Straddling East and West |
| Date: |
Tuesday, 11 March 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5 pm |
| Venue: |
Seminar Rm 4, Blk S2 level 2 |
| Host: |
A/P Benito Tan |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Kimberly G. Smith
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701 |
| Title: |
Conservation Priorities for BIRDS of Conservation Concern in Latin America |
| Date: |
Friday, 7 March 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Sodhi |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Donald Voet
Professor, Chemistry Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. |
| Title: |
The Structure and Function of RNA Polymerase |
| Date: |
Wednesday, 5 March 2003 |
| Time: |
4 -5pm |
| Venue: |
LT 32 |
| Host: |
Dr Swaminathan |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Li Huaifang
Professor, Department of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PRC |
Title: |
Connecting Information Technology to Phytopathology |
| Date: |
Monday 3 March 2003 |
| Time: |
4 -5 pm |
| Venue: |
Seminar Rm 4, Blk S2 |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
George Augustine
George B. Geller Professor, Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, USA |
| Title: |
Lecture 1: Basic Theory of Patch-Clamping
Lecture 2: Fluoresence Imaging combined with Patch Clamp Method |
| Date: |
Monday and Tuesday, 3 - 4 March 2003 |
| Time: |
11am -12.30 pm |
| Venue: |
Conference Room S3 #05-02 |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
V.S. Ananthanarayanan
Professor, Department of Biochemistry,Health Sciences Centre, McMaster University , Canada |
| Title: |
Signal Transduction via Hormone Receptors and Ion Channels: The Calcium Connection |
| Date: |
Fri, 28 Feb 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5 pm |
| Venue: |
LT20 |
| Host: |
Prof Hew Choy Leong |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Chen Ee Sin
Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan. |
| Title: |
Centromere - to be or not to be is the question |
| Date: |
Wed, 26 February 2003 |
| Time: |
4-5 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 32 |
| Host: |
Dr Chan Woon Khiong |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Tzi Ming Leong*, Daisy Wowor# and Darren Yeo*
* Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, Department of Biological Sciences,
National University of Singapore # Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI) |
| Title: |
Natuna Revisited: A Preliminary Survey of Pulau Natuna Besar |
| Date: |
Tuesday, 25 February 2003 |
| Time: |
3-4pm |
| Venue: |
SR 4, Blk S2 Level 2, |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Astrid van Meeuwen (nee Dijkgraaf)
Conservancy Advisory Scientist, Department of Conservation, New Zealand |
| Title: |
Why do kereru (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae) eat what they eat? |
| Date: |
Friday, 21 February 2003 |
| Time: |
10-11am |
| Venue: |
Life Science Lab 7A, Blk S2 Level 3 |
| Host: |
Prof Chou Loke Ming |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Zhijie Chang
Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Tsinghua, University Beijing |
| Title: |
Interaction of the Ubiquitin Ligase CHIP with Smad3 Regulates TGF-? Signal Transduction |
| Date: |
Friday, 21 February 2003 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof Hew Choy Leong |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Charles Santiapillai
Deputy Chairman, IUCN/SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group, Assoc. Prof., Department of Zoology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka |
| Title: |
Conserving the Asian Elephant in Sri Lanka |
| Date: |
Wednesday, 19 February 2003 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 32 |
| Host: |
A/P Peter Ng |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Jun Yu
Beijing Genomics Institute/Center of Genomics & Bioinformatics, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Title: |
Rice Genomes and Beyond:Agricultural Genomics |
| Date: |
Friday, 14 February 2003 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof Hew Choy Leong |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Robert R Jackson
Department of Zoology, University of Canteterbury, NZ |
| Title: |
Blood and Brains: the mind of a mosqyuito-eating jumping spider |
| Date: |
Friday, 14 February 2003 |
| Time: |
10 -11am |
| Venue: |
Life Sciences Lab 7, Blk S2 Level 3 |
| Host: |
Dr Li Daiqin |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Jacques-Henry WEIL
Professor, University of Strasbourg, France |
| Title: |
The Roles of tRNA editing in Plant Mitochondria |
| Date: |
Monday, 10 February 2003 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Prakash Kumar |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Paul Robson
Genome Institute of Singapore |
| Title: |
Conventional and Contemporary Approaches to Understanding Mammalian Embryonic Pluripotent Cells |
| Date: |
Friday, 7 February 2003 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr Chan Woon Khiong |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
R. Varadarajan
Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore |
| Title: |
Approaches to the design of temperature sensitive
mutants of a globular proteins from amino acid sequence. |
| Date: |
Friday, 22 January 2003 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof K Easwaran |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Paul Matsudaira
Professor and Director, Bioimaging Center, Whitehead Institute MIT, USA |
| Title: |
Assembly Of A Cell Adhesion |
| Date: |
Friday, 17 January 2003 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof Hew Choy Leong |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Mr Arvin C. Diesmos
Associate Scientist, Silliman University-Angelo King Center for Research and Environmental Management, Philippines |
| Title: |
Philippine Amphibians and Reptiles: An Overview of Species Diversity, Biogeography, and Conservation |
| Date: |
Friday, 13 January 2003 |
| Time: |
3.30 pm |
| Venue: |
LS Lab 7A |
| Host: |
Leong Tzi Ming and Kelvin Lim |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Andrew Tan Nguan Soon
Institute of Animal Biology , Department of Biology
Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Title: |
Multiple functions of PPAR-ß during wound repair |
| Date: |
Friday, 10 January 2003 |
| Time: |
4 - 5pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof Ding Jeak Ling |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Mohan K. Balasubramanian
Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
National University of Singapore |
| Title: |
Actomyosin ring assembly and function in fission yeast |
| Date: |
Wednesday, 8 January 2003 |
| Time: |
4 - 5pm |
| Venue: |
LT 32 |
| Host: |
A/P Lim Tit Meng |
| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Richard Corlett
Department of Ecology & Biodiversity,
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China |
| Title: |
Biodiversity and conservation in degraded tropical landscapes: lessons from Hong Kong |
| Date: |
Tuesday, 7 January 2003 |
| Time: |
3 pm |
| Venue: |
Seminar Room 4, BLK S2, Department of Biological Sciences |
| Host: |
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| |
Poster announcement |
| Speaker: |
Naweed Naqvi
Temasek Life Sciences Laboratories
National University of Singapore |
| Title: |
Dark-skinned and Dangerous: The dual function of peroxisomes
during Magnaporthe pathogenesis |
| Date: |
Fri, 3 January 2003 |
| Time: |
4 - 5pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Lim Tit Meng |
| |
Poster announcement |
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