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Speaker

D.Velmurugan
Professor, Department of Crystallography and Biophysics, University of Madras, INDIA.

Title

High-throughput crystallographic tools in structural bioinformatics. a) Iteractive ACORN b) SAS

Date:

Fri , 16 Dec 2005

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Sivaraman

Speaker

Michael A Djordjevic
ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Legume Research, Genomic Interactions Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Title

Proteomics analysis of Glycine max xylem sap and secreted proteins from Medicago sativa suspension cell culture

Date:

Wed , 14 Dec 2005

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: A/P Sanjay Swarup

Speaker

Kong Hung SZE
Assistant Professor, Dept of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong

Title

Applications and developments of biomolecular NMR

Date:

Fri , 9 Dec 2005

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Henry Mok

Speaker

Liam Good
Associate Professor, Centre for Genomics and BIoinformatics, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Title

Inhibition of bacteria genes using expressed RNA and cell permeable antisense agents

Date:

Fri , 25 Nov 2005

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Martti Tammi

Speaker

Piergiorgio Percipalle
Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Title

Actin and actin associated proteins in transcription regulation (abstract)

Date:

Thur, 24 Nov 2005

Time: 10 am
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Martti Tammi

Speaker

Amilcar Flores
Senior Scientist, Dept of molecular medicine and surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Title

A functional genomics approach to the study of androgen regulation of prostate cancer (abstract)

Date:

Thur, 24 Nov 2005

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Martti Tammi

Speaker

Sara Helena Ruth Engholmen Sandin
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology,
Medical Nobel Institute, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Title

Cryo-electron tomography of individual protein molecules

Date:

Wed, 23 Nov 2005

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Henry Mok

Speaker

David Hsiao
Research Fellow, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan

Title

Structural basis of GTPase gate for protein import into chloroplasts

Date:

Fri, 18 Nov 2005

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
   

Speaker

Rupert C Wilmouth
Assistant Professor, NTU

Title

Snapshots of serine protease catalysis obtained by time-resolved X-ray crystallography

Date:

Fri, 11 Nov 2005

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Swaminathan K

Speaker

Myron Shekelle
Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Studies University of Indonesia, Jakarta

Title

Evolutionary Biology of Tarsiers

Date:

Tues, 8 Nov 2005

Time: 11 am
Venue: SR4, Blk S2 Level 2
 

Speaker

Martin Lee
Assist Prof, Dept of Physiology, NUS

Title

You're not DEAD till you're SUMOylated! Transcriptional repression of the nuclear receptor Steroidogenic Factor 1 by SUMOylation and the DEAD-box protein DP103

Date:

Fri, 4 Nov 2005

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT20
Host Dr Philippa Melamed

Speaker

He Yuehui
Assist Prof, Dept of Biological Sciences, NUS

Title

Role of chromatin modification in developmental timing in Arabidopsis

Date:

Fri, 28 Oct 2005

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT20
Host A/P Prakash Kumar
 

Event

2nd Life Sciences Career Day 2005

Date:

Sat, 22 Oct 2005

Time: 8.30 am - 1.30 pm
Venue: LT 27
  All Life Sciences, Pharmacy and Chemistry Students are welcome
 

Speaker

Lance D Miller
Senior Group Leader, GIS, Microarray and expression genomics Lab

Title

Breast Cancer Prognosis and Mechanism in Gene Expression Data

Date:

Fri, 21 Oct 2005

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host Dr Philippa Melamed
 

Speaker

Phil W Ingham
Professor, Centre for Developmental& Biological Genetics, University of Sheffield, U.K.

Title

Hedgehog signalling: from fruit flies to fish

Date:

Fri, 14 Oct 2005

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host A/P Ge Ruowen
 

Speaker

Cagan H. Sekercioglu
Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biological Sciences
Stanford University

Title A Rapid Assessment of Kumbira Forest in the Angolan Escarpment
Date:

Wed, 12 Oct 2005

Time: 3 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host A/P Sodhi
 

Speaker

Bob Robinson
Associate Professor
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology
Singapore

Title Structures of the Actin-binding gelsolin
Date:

Fri, 7 Oct 2005

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host Dr J Sivaraman
 

Speaker

Meng-Chao YAO
Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, College of Arts and Sciences, Zoology, USA

Title RNA-guided DNA deletion in Tetrahymena
Date:

Fri, 30 Sep 2005

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host Dr Ng Huck Hui
 

Speaker

Patrick J Casey
James B. Duke Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Duke University Medical Center, Senior Vice Dean (Research), NUS Graduate Medical School

Title Mechanisms and consequences of Caax protein prenylation
Date:

Fri, 23 Sep 2005

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host Dr Low Boon Chuan
 

Speaker

Robin L. Chazdon
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut. USA

Title Structure, dynamics and biodiversty of secondary forest vegetation in wet tropical forest of Costa Rica
Date:

Mon, 19 Sep 2005

Time: 3 - 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host A/P Sohdi
 

Speaker

Elizabeth Komives
Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UC San Diego, USA

Title Biophysics of the NF-kB/IkBa Interaction
Date:

Fri, 16 Sep 2005

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host Prof Kini R M
 

Speaker

Robert K Colwell
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor , Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, USA

Title The secret world of hummingbird flower mites: life history, behaviour, morphology and phylogeny
Date:

Fri, 16 Sep 2005

Time: 10 am
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host A/P Sodhi
 

Speaker

Frederic Berger
Senior Principal Investigator, Chromatin and Reproduction Group
Temasek Lifescience Laboratory, Singapore

Title Regulation of genomic imprinting in plants: from chromatin remodeling to heterochronies
Date:

Fri, 9 Sep 2005

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host Dr Yu Hao
 

Speaker Xu Qiuwei
Merck & Co., Inc.
Title Application of NMR in pharmaceutical R & D
Date:

Wed, 7 Sep 2005

Time: 3 pm
Venue: SR 2 (Blk S2 Level 4)
Host A/P Yang Daiwen
 

Speaker Shazib Pervaiz
Associate Professor and Vice Dean, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS.
Title ROS and BCl2 family: Friends or Foes?
Date:

Fri, 2 Sep 2005

Time: 4 -5 pm
Venue: LT 20
 
 

Speaker Davis Ng
Associate Professor/Senior Principal Investigator, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory and Department of Biological Sciences, NUS.
Title Quality Control of Protein Folding in the Secretory Pathway
Date:

Fri, 26 Aug 2005

Time: 4 -5 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host Dr Philippa Melamed
 

Speaker Dennis Lo
Professor, Department of Chemical Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Title Biology and Diagnostics Application of Fetal Nuclei Acid in Maternal Plasma
Date:

Fri, 19 Aug 2005

Time: 4 -5 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host Dr Henry Mok
 

Speaker Harvey Lodish
Professor, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Title Structural view of apoptosis
Date:

Thurs, 18 Aug 2005

Time: 4 -5 pm
Venue: LT 32
Host Prof Hew Choy Leong
 

Speaker C Forbes Dewey Jr
Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering, MIT
Title Opportunities in Biological Information Technology
Date:

Fri, 12 Aug 2005

Time: 4 -5 pm
Venue: LT 32
Host Dr Martti Tammi
 

Speaker Wu Jia Wei
Professor, Tsinghua University
Title Structural view of apoptosis
Date:

Fri, 5 Aug 2005

Time: 4 -5 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host Dr Philippa Melamed
 

Speaker Paul Matsudaira
Professor, MIT
Title Cell migration in 3D matrices
Date:

Fri, 29 Jul 2005

Time: 4 -5 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host Dr Philippa Melamed
 

Speaker Liu Dong
Research Associate,
Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon
Title Mechanism of inner ear induction
Date:

Fri, 22 Jul 2005

Time: 4 -5 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host Dr Philippa Melamed
 

Speaker Lucia Bongiorni
Department of Marine Science, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy
Title Underwater coral nurseries and concept for reef restoration
Date:

Wed, 20 Jul 2005

Time: 4 -5 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host Jani Thuaibah
 

Title Life Sciences Career Day 2005
Date:

Tues, 21 Jun 2005 (Talks)

Time: 9 am - 1.30 pm
Venue: LT 31
 

Speaker: Terry Hughes
Federation Fellow (2002-2007) Scientific Director, Centre for Coral Reef Biodiversity, School of Marine Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
Title:

History, ecology and state of the world's oceans

Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 (Public Lecture)
Time: 7 -8 pm
Venue: LT 25
Host: Prof Chou Loke Ming


Title: First Singapore mini-symposium on medicinal chemistry: advances in synthesis and screening
Date:

6 July 2005 (Symposium)

Venue: LT 31, Science Faculty
 
 
 

Speaker: Arun Krishnan
Research Scientist and Team Leader,
Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore
Title:

Trawling the twilight zone: Novel approaches for protein sequence to structure/function mapping

Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
 

Speaker: Jochen Wittbrodt
Group Leader, Developmental Biology Program, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany
Title:

Mutants, molecules, mechanisms - control of proliferation and differentiation in the vertebrate retina

Date: Fri, 27 May 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: A/P Hong Yunhan

Speaker: Christian Sturmbauer
Department of Zoology, Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Austria
Title:

Importance of interspecific hybridization for ciclhlid diversification in Lake Tanganyika

Date: Thurs, 26 May 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Tan Heok Hui

Speaker: E. Subramanian
Emeritus Professor, Crystallography and Biophysics, University of Madras, India
Title:

Structural Genomics: From genes to clones to crystals

Date: Thurs, 26 May 2005
Time: 10 am
Venue: Seminar room 3 (SR 3)
Host: Dr Sivaraman

Speaker: Sabrina Russo
Forest Dynamics Group, CTFS, Arnold Arboretum Asia Program, Harvard University
Title:

Soil-related performance variation and distributions of tree species in a Bornean rain forest

Date: Tues, 24 May 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: N Sivasothi

Speaker: Lawrence W Stanton
Senior Group Leader and Deputy Director, GIS. Adjunct Assoc Prof, DBS, NUS
Title:

Characterisation of transcription factors that control embryonic stem cell differentiation

Date: Fri, 20 May 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Philippa Melamed

Speaker: Ira Rubinoff
Director & Senior Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Republic of Panama
Title:

The history and experiences of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Date: Thurs, 19 May 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Seminar Room 4 (SR4)
Host: A/P Benito Tan
Poster announcement  

Speaker: Rhett Harrision
Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
Title:

Figs and the diversity of tropical forests

Date: Wed, 18 May 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Ms Wang Luan Keng
Poster announcement


Speaker: Martti Tammi
Assistant Professor, Dept of Biological Sciences, NUS
Title:

Computing the dark matter of organism - A set of tools for rapid large scale genome analysis

Date: Fri, 13 May 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Low Boon Chuan
Poster announcement

Speaker: Sievert Rohwer
Burke Museum and Department of BiologyUniversity of Washington, U.S.A.
Title:

Hybridizing Warblers: How Behavior Scales to History and Landscapes

Date: Thurs, 12 May 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Ms Wang Luan Keng
Poster announcement

Speaker: Wayne Maddison
Department of Zoology/ BotanyUniversity of British Columbia, Canada
Title:

Phylogenetic challenges: deep coalescence, confounding asymmetries, and integrating analyses

Date: Wed, 11 May 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: SR 2
Host: Dr Li Daiqin
Poster announcement

Speaker:

James Shen
Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, ROC

Title:

Regulation of Human GlobinSwitch- Transcription Factors and Gene Positioning in Play

Date: Fri, 6 May 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Prof Ding Jeak Ling
Poster announcement

Speaker:

Philip W. Kuchel
Professor, School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences,
University of Sydney, Australia

Title:

Structural studies of proteins and peptides in Platypus Venom

Date: Fri, 29 April 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: A/P Maxey Chung
Poster announcement

Speaker:

Tianwei Lin
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, USA

Title:

RX- an isohedral capsule for nano-medicine

Date: Fri, 22 April 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Prof Hew Choy Leong
Poster announcement

Speaker: James Galagan
Assoc. Director for Microbial Genome Analysis
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Title:

Comparative Genomics of Fungi: Genome Evolution and Gene Regulation

Date: Thurs, 21 April 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Prof Hew Choy Leong
Poster announcement

Speaker: Donald Chang
Professor, Department of Biology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China
Title:

New approaches in functional genomics

Date: Fri, 8  April 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Poster announcement

Speaker: Zhang Mingjie
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Title:

Hetero-tetrameric L27 (Lin-2, Lin-7) domain complexes as organisation platforms for supra-molecules assemblies

Date: Monday, 4  April 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: SR 4, Blk S2 Level 2
Host: Dr Henry Mok
Poster announcement

Speaker: Hong Yun Han
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Science, NUS
Title:

Medaka embryonic stem cell and adult male germ stem cells

Date: Fri, 1 April 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Liou Yih Cherng
Poster announcement

Speaker: Lin Shengcai
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University.
Title:

Axin as a master scaffold for diverse signaling pathways

Date: Fri, 18  Mar 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: A/P Sanjay Swarup
Poster announcement

Speaker: Harley McAdams
Professor, Department of Developmental Biology at Stanford University.
Title:

Real Nanocomputing: the control system of bacterial cell

Date: Thurs, 17  Mar 2005
Time: 10 am
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: A/P Sanjay Swarup
Poster announcement

Speaker: Jae-Seong Lee
Associate Professor, Dept of Environ. Sci., Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
Title:

Topic 1. Molecular approach to assess the endocrine-disrupting chemicals using aquatic species
Topic 2. Mitochondrial genome analysis in aquatic species

Date: Tues, 15 Mar 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: Seminar Rm 4
Host: A/P Hong Yunhan

Speaker: Christopher M Yip
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto
Title:

Integrated functional imaging strategies for studying protein-protein
interactions in and at membrane surfaces.

Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Prof Hew Choy Leong
  Poster announcement

Speaker: Yung-Chi Cheng
Henry Bronson Professor of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine (Distinguished BMRC Visitor)
Title:

Revisiting History - Facilitating the discovery of future medicine
II. Discovery and development of drugs for the treatment of hepatitis B infection and the prevention of hepatocellular carcinoma

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005
Time: 11 am
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Prof Hew Choy Leong
Poster announcement

Speaker: Utpal Tatu
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India
Title:

Proteomics view of molecular chaperones in Plasmodium falciparum: Hsp90 as a potential drug target against malaria

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Prof Hew Choy Leong
Poster announcement

Speaker: Bella S. Galil
National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research, Haifa, Israel
Title:

Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea – vectors, drivers and risks

Date: Thurs, 24 Feb 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: N Sivasothi (RMBR)
Poster announcement

Speaker: Thomas G Cotter
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Biosciences
Institute, University College, Cork. Ireland
Title:

Programmed cell death (apoptosis) in development and aging

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Prof Hew Choy Leong
Poster announcement

Speaker: Chua Ee Kiam
Honourary Museum Associate, Raffles Museum
of Biodiversity Research
Title:

Borneo's Tropical Eden - SABAH

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: N Sivasothi
Poster announcement

Speaker: Kim Chu-Young
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, California
Title:

Erythromysin Biosynthesis

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Prof Hew Choy Leong
Poster announcement

Speaker: Liliana Attisano
Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
Title:

BMP-dependent regulation of neuronal morphogenesis

Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 31
Host: Prof Hew Choy Leong
Poster announcement

Speaker: Bertrand Richer de Forges
Director of Research, Institut de la Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
Title:

Specific Richness and Seamounts Vulnerability

Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: A/P Peter Ng
Poster announcement

Speaker: Jason Swedlow
Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer, University of Dundee, UK
Title:

"There's No Place Like Home": A Tale of Centromeres, Kinases, Proteomics, and Microscopes

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 31
Host: Dr Henry Mok
Poster announcement

Speaker: Nat Kav
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science University of Alberta, CANADA
Title:

Genetic Engineering of Salinity Tolerance: Discovery, validation and utility of a target

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005
Time: 10 am
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: A/P Sanjay Swarup
Poster announcement

Speaker: Cheng Yifan
Instructor, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, USA
Title:

Single particle cryo-electron microscopy study of the transferrin receptor-transferrin complex and clathrin coats

Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dept of Biological Sciences
Poster announcement

Speaker: Heimo Breiteneder
PhD Department of Pathophysiology, Medical University of Vienna
Title:

The Classification of Plant Food Allergens

Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005
Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Chew Fook Tim
Poster announcement

 

 

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