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Seminars 2004
Updated 2 Dec 2004


Speaker: Kurt Wüthrich
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), La Jolla, CA, USA and Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland
Title:

Lessons from my life as a Scientist

Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004
Time: 12.30 - 2pm
Venue: LT 32
Host: Dept of Biological Sciences
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Chandra Verma
Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore
Title:

From structure to function - advancing mechanisms from in-silico insights

Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Henry Mok
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Matthias Mann
Professor, Center for Experimental, BioInformatics (CEBI), University of Southern
Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Title:

Organellar and signaling proteomics by quantitative mass spectrometry

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P Maxey Chung
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Yu Hao
Assistant Professor,Department of Biological Sciences,NUS
Title:

Floral homeotic genes are targets of gibberellin signalling in flower development

Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P Prakash Kumar
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Wen-guey Wu
Professor, Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural BiologyCollege of Life Sciences, National Tsing Hua University Hsinchu, Taiwan
Title:

The role of carbohydrates in snake toxin action

Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Liou Yih Cherng
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Christopher Hogue
Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry,University of Toronto and Adjunct A/P in the Department of Biological Sciences, NUS.
Title:

What's new with Blueprint?

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Martti Tammi
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Kanaga Sabapathy
Associate Professor and Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis,
National Cancer Centre, Singapore
Title:

c-Jun N-terminal Kinase (JNK) signaling: Specific roles or just redundant junk?

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Ng Huck Hui
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Maurice Kottelat
Independent Aquatic Biodiversity, Consultant/RMBR Honorary Research Associate
Title: Mites (Acari) in the marine littoral, an introduction
Date: Thurs, 7 Oct 2004
Time: 10 am - 12 noon
Venue: Seminar Room 2 (Blk S2 level 4)
Host: A/P Peter Ng
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Ilse Bartsch
Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Title: Mites (Acari) in the marine littoral, an introduction
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Darren Yeo (RMBR)
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Frederick Sachs
Distinguised Professor of Biophysics, Hughes Center for Single Molecule Biophysics
Physiology and Biophysical Sciences
Title: Local and Global Signaling in Neuromuscular Synaptogenesis
Date: Tues, 5 Oct 2004
Time: 10 am
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Henry Mok
  Poster announcement

Speaker: H. Benjamin Peng
Professor of Biology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Title: Local and Global Signaling in Neuromuscular Synaptogenesis
Date: Fri 1 Oct 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P Sheu Fwu-Shan
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Nicholas P. Harberd
Professor, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
Title: Relief of Della-Restraint: Integration of Multiple Signal Inputs to the Control of Plant Growth
Date: Mon 27 Sep 2004
Time: 2 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Yu Hao
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Maki Murata-Hori
Senior Scientist, Mammalian Cell Biology, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, NUS
Title: Molecular Mechanism for Signaling Cytokinesis in Mammalian Cells
Date: Fri 24 Sep 2004
Time: 4 -5 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P Loh Chiang Shiong
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Chu-Fang Lo
Professor, Institute of Zoology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Title: Molecular Characterization of Shrimp White Spot Syndrome Virus by Genomic and Proteomic Approaches
Date: Fri 17 Sep 2004
Time: 4 -5 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Prof Hew Choy Leong
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Tristram D Wyatt
Department of Zoology,University of Oxford, UK
Title: Pheromones: Evolutionary contexts, contrasts and convergence
Date: Wed 8 Sep 2004
Time: 4 -5 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Li Daiqin
  Poster announcement

Speaker: André Ménez
ProfessorCommissariat à l’EnergieAtomique (CEA)
Title: New Trends in Toxiconology
Date: Fri 27 Aug 2004
Time: 4 -5 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P R M Kini
  Poster announcement

Speaker:

Raymond S. Norton
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia

Title: A Tale of Two Toxins: Structure and Mechanism of Action
Date: Fri 20 Aug 2004
Time: 4 -5 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P R M Kini
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Wu Donghai
University of Florida, USA
Title: Structural and Functional Studies of Choline/Carnitine Acyltransferases
Date: Fri 13 Aug 2004
Time: 4 -5 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P Pan Shen Quan

Speaker: Paul Matsudaira
Member, Whitehead Institute, Professor of Bioengineering and Biology, Dept of Biology and Div. of Biological Engineering, MIT, Director, WI-MIT BioImaging Center
Title: A third type of Actin-based cellular engine, an actin spring
Date: Fri 6 Aug 2004
Time: 4 -5 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Prof Hew Choy Leong
  Poster announcement

Speaker: M.K. Pandit
Professor, Centre for Inter-disciplinary Studies of Mountain & Hill Environment, University of Delhi
Title: IT IS SEX STUPID : LOSS OF SEX IN ENDANGERED HIMALAYAN SPECIES
Date: Thurs 8 Jul 2004
Time: 4 -5 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: A/P Hugh Tan
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Peter Todd
Napier University, Scotland
Title: Phenotypically plastic responses in two reef-building corals
Date: Wed 24 Jun 2004
Time: 12 - 1 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: James Rolfe Guest
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Chien Ho
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Title: Recent multinuclear NMR studies of haemoglobin: new insights into the structure-function relationship in haemoglobin in solution in atomic resolution
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Prof Hew Choy Leong
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Charles Bangham
Professor and Chair of Immunology, Division of Investigative Science Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.
Title: Dynamics and cell-to-cell spread of HTVL-1 infection
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Prof Hew Choy Leong
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Peng Li
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Title: Cofilin, actin cytoskeleton and apoptosis
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Low Boon Chuan
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Teo Yen Ling and Fiona Hong
Undergraduates, Dept of Biological Sciences, NUS
Title: 1. Population and distribution of Mangrove prawns at the Kranji Nature Trail estuaries, Western Johor Straits
2. Population and distribution of Horseshoe Crab Carcinoscopius rotundicauda at the Kranji Nature Trail estuaries, Western Johor Straits
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004
Time: 3-4pm
Venue: DBS Seminar Rm 4
Host: N Sivasothi
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Li Kuo-Bin
Bioinformtics Insitute, Singapore
Title: Predicting allergenic proteins with bioinformatics
Date: Fri 28, May 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Chew Fook Tim
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Adam A Pack
Co-founder and Vice-President, The Dolphin Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii
Title: Are Humpback Whales both Competitive and Choosy?
Date: Wed 26, May 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Seminar Room 4, Blk S2 Level 2
Host: N Sivasothi
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Michael Rebhan
Bioinformatics Insitute, Singapore
Title: SBCR : The Singapore Bio-Medical Computing Resource
Date: Wed 21, May 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Low Boon Chuan
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Søeren Toft
Department of Ecology and Genetics
Aarhus University, Denmark
Title: Nutritional Ecology of Generalist Predators
Date: Wed 19, May 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Li Daiqin
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Chandra Verma
Bioinformtics Insitute, Singapore
Title: Computer Simulations: Coming of Age in Molecular Biology
Date: Fri 14, May 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Henry Mok
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Joint Workshop - Biomaterials and Chemical Biology
Depts of Biological Sciences, Material Science and Chemistry
Title: Biomaterials and Chemical BIology
Date: Wed 5, May 2004
Time: 9am -1 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Rm
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Ian G Warkentin
Associate Professor, Memorial University, Corner Brook, Canada
Title: Riparin Habitat as Refuge; Avian Conservation in Disrupted Landscape
Date: Mon 3, May 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Rm
Host: A/P Sodhi
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Christian Griesinger
Director, Max Planck Institute for BiophysicalChemistry, Germany
Title: Structure and dynamics of biomolecules deduced by liquid and solid state NMR
Date: Fri, 30 April 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Yang Daiwen
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Ng Heok Hee
Fish Division, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan
Title: Fishing in the shadows of the Himalayas
Date: Tue, 27 April 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: A/P Peter Ng and Mr Kelvin Lim (RMBR)
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Ge Ruowen
Associate Professor, Dept of BIological Sciences, NUS
Title: Pleiotropic And Context-dependent Roles Of Growth Factors In Tumor Development-------- A Case Study Of Placental Growth Factor In Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma In Mice
Date: Fri, 23 April 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Chan Woon Khiong
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Markus Wenk
Assistant Professor, Depts of Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, NUS
Title: Lipidomics of Organelles, Cells and Tissues: a novel and independent approach to quantitative genomics and proteomics
Date: Fri, 16 April 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Low Boon Chuan
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Jean E Vance
Professor of Medicine, 332 Heritage Medical Research Building, University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2S2, Canada
Title: Lipids Dynamics in Neurons
Date: Fri, 2 April 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Markus Wenk
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Pamela Hoodless
Senior Scientist, Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Title: Patterning the early mouse embryo: traditional and genomics approaches
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Ng Huck Hooi
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Dennis E Vance
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Director, CIHR Group on Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, University of Alberta, Canada
Title: Metabolic Insights from Murine Knockout in Hepatic Phospholipid Biosynthesis
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P R M Kini
  Poster announcement

Speaker: DBS and Physics Joint Workshop 2004
Title: Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics in Biological Functions
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004
Time: 1- 5 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: DBS and Physics Departments
  Poster announcement

Speaker: David S Moss
Professor, Birkbeck College, Univ of London, UK
Title: Bacterial Toxins of Clostridium Perfrigens
Date: Fri,12 Mar 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Sivaraman
  Poster announcement

Speaker: J Sivaraman
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, NUS
Title: Structural Studies on Ribosomal Modifying Enzymes
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P R M Kini
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Maxey Chung C M
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, NUS
Title: Proteomics in the Discovery of Cancer Biomarkers
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P R M Kini
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Tamás Székely
Lecturer, University of Bath , BATH BA2 7AY United Kingdom
Title: Sexual Conflict and Parental Care in the Kentish Plower
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Rm, Blk S3 level 5
Host: A/P Sodhi N
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Harry ten Hove
Project manager, Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam
Title: Marine Flowers: The diversity and anthropogeneous distribution of serpulid polychaetes
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Rm, Blk S3 level 5
Host: Dr Serena Teo(TMSI) and Dr Darren Yeo (RMBR)
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Ian G Warkentin
Associate Professor, Memorial University, Corner Brook, Canada
Title: Riparin Habitat as Refuge; Avian Conservation in disrupted Landscapes
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 (Cancelled)
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Rm, Blk S3 level 5
Host: A/P Sodhi N
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Henry Yang He
Young Investigator, Functional and Structural Genomics, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore
Title: Optimal DNA Microarray Experimental Design and Data Analysis
Date: Fri , 20 Feb 2004
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Low Boon Chuan
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Nataraj Dongre
Head of Bioinformatics Research, Synamtrix Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
Title: Bio-molecular interactions and structural features
Analysis, Storage and Visualization
Date: Fri , 13 Feb 2004
Time: 10 am
Venue: DBS Conference Rm, Blk S3 level 5
Host: A/P Ge Ruowen
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Daniel Simberloff
Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Title: Halting the Homogeocene: We can stop introduced species
Date: Fri , 13 Feb 2004
Time: 4-5pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P N Sodhi
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Ilan Rosenshine
Lecturer, The Hebrew University, Department of Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Israel
Title: Genetic approach for the identification of virulence genes of enteropathogenic E coli
Date: Fri , 6 Feb 2004
Time: 4-5pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P Leung Ka Yin
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Yu Hao
Assistant Professor, Dept of Biological Sciences, NUS
Title: A new genetic model for floral meristem development
Date: Fri , 30 Jan 2004
Time: 4-5pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P Prakash Kumar
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Harvey Lodish
Professor, whitehead Institute, MIT, USA
Title: Hematopoietic stem cells - new insights into their purification, expansion and differentiation
Date: Tue , 20 Jan 2004
Time: 4-5pm
Venue: CRC Auditorium (please note venue)
Host: Prof Hew Choy Leong
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Chen Jianzhu
Associate Professor, Dept of Biology, MIT, USA
Title: Immune response to RNA interference of Influenza virus
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004
Time: 4-5pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Prof Hew Choy Leong
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Chan Woon Khiong
Assistant Professor, DBS, NUS
Title: Ff1b And Prox1: Ontogeny and Organogenesis Of The Zebrafish Interrenal Gland
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004
Time: 4-5 pm
Venue: LT 20
 Host: Dr Low Boon Chuan
  Poster announcement