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Updated 9 Jan 2007


Speaker

Dr. Guan Guijun and Dr. Lau Enliang
National Institute for Basic Biology, Aichi, Okazaki, Japan

Title

1. Applications of Transgenic Medaka to Study Fish Sex Determination and Differentiation.
2. Steps towards generation of a knockout medaka

Date:

Tues, 19 Dec 2006

Time: 2 pm
Venue: Seminar Room 1
Host: A/P Hong Yunhan

Speaker

Masa-aki Yoshida
Department of Biology, Graduate School of
Science, Osaka University

Title

Phylogeny of selected cuttlefishes (Sepiidae) based on 12s, 16s, and CO1 consequences

Date:

Tues, 19 Dec 2006

Time: 10 am
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Prof Chou Loke Ming

Speaker

Ming-Jer Tsai and Sohia Ysai
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

Title

Role of oncogene, SRC-3 in proliferation, growth, and metastais

Date:

Fri, 15 Dec 2006

Time: 10 am
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Philippa Melamed

Speaker

Dr Kim S. Last
Scottish Association for Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Scotland, UK.

Title

Dances with worms: biological clock in the marine domain - behavioural, genetic and evolutionary perspectives

Date:

Wed, 6 Dec 2006

Time: 3.00 pm
Venue: SR 4, Blk S2 Level 2
Host: Dr Peter Todd

Speaker

James D. Reimer
Biological Institute, Kuroshio, JAPAN

Title

Investigating diversity in the order Zoantharia: (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) using molecular methods

Date:

Thurs, 30 Nov 2006

Time: 3.30 pm
Venue: SR 4, Blk S2 Level 2
Host: Dr Peter Todd

Speaker

So Iwata
Professor, Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College London, UK

Title

Towards structure determination of human membrane proteins

Date:

Fri, 24 Nov 2006

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

Speaker

Lawson, Mark A., PhD
Assistant Professor of Reproductive Medicine, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, University of Califormia, San Diego, USA

Title

GnRH signaling and gene expression: regulation by pulse frequency and amplitude

Date:

Fri, 17 Nov 2006

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

Speaker

Jan Spitsbergen, DVM, Ph.D.,
Diplomate American College of Veterinary Pathologists Fish Pathologist and Toxicologic, Pathologist Center for Fish Disease Research, Oregon State University

Title

The promise of the Zebrafish model for cancer research and drug discovery

Date:

Thurs, 16 Nov 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference room
Host: A/P Gong Zhiyuan

Speaker

LINDA J. KENNEY
Associate Professor, Department of
Microbiology & Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago

Title

Two component signaling systems and their role in pathogenesis

Date:

Mon, 13 Nov 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference room
Host: Prof Hew Choy Leong

Speaker

Virginia K. Walker
Professor of Biology and Queen’s Research, Chair, Queen’s University
Kingston Canada

Title

Surviving a Canadian winter without a plug-in:lessons from the bug

Date:

Fri, 10 Nov 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Liou Yih-Cherng

Speaker

Joerg Renn
University of Wuerzburg, Dept. of Physiological Chemistry I, Germany

Title

Medaka as model for osteogenesis

Date:

Thurs, 9 Nov 2006

Time: 2 - 4 pm
Venue: SR3, S2 L2
Host: A/P Hong Yunhan

Speaker

Young-Tae Chang
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, New York
University

Title

Colorful chemical genetics

Date:

Fri, 3 Nov 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P Yao Shao Qin

Speaker

Walter Blackstock
Principal Investigator, IMCB

Title

'Too many - omics', Herr Mozart, 'too many - omics'. A personal reflection on biological mass spectrometry.

Date:

Fri, 27 Oct 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P Maxey Chung

Speaker

Agustin Fuentes
Nancy O'Neill, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology, Univ of Notre Dame

Title

Humans, monkeys and the Rock

Date:

Wed, 25 Oct 2006

Time: 10 am
Venue: DBS Conference Room
   

Speaker

Jan Beck
Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre, University Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam

Title

Biogeography of South-east Asian Hawkmoth

Date:

Mon, 23 Oct 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: David Lohman

Speaker

Jennifer L. Baltzer
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Tropical Forest Science – Arnold Arboretum Asia program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Title

Determinants of geographic distributions in tropical trees: Comparisons between everwet and seasonal forests in Malaysia and Thailand

Date:

Mon, 23 Oct 2006

Time: 10 am
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Ms Chua Siew Chin

Speaker

Jay W. Fox
Professor of Microbiology; Asst. Dean for Research
University of Virginia Health System

Title

Use of functional genomics and proteomics to investigate cell migration: Implication in cancer metastasis

Date:

Fri, 20 Oct 2006

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

Speaker

Dr R.E.W. (Bob) Hancock.
Centre for Microbial Diseases and Immunity Research, University of British Columbia, Canada

Title

Host defense peptides as agents of innate immunity against infection

Date:

Fri, 20 Oct 2006

Time: 10 am
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Prof Ding Jeak Ling

Speaker

Cynthia He
Department of Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Yale University

Title

GOLGI BIOGENESIS IN TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI

Date:

Wed, 18 Oct 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: A/P Li Daiqin

Speaker

Li Chia-Wei
Professor, Department of Life Sciences,
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Title

The early evolution of animals

Date:

Fri, 6 Oct 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Professor Hew Choy Leong

Speaker

Jeffrey Way
Director of Structural Biology, Director of Intellectual
Property, EMD Lexigen Structural Biology Group

Title

Engineering of an erythropoietin fusion protein

Date:

Fri, 29 Sept 2006

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

Speaker

Kim Chu-young
Assistant Professor, Dept of Biological Sciences, NUS

Title

Pharmaceutical and Biological applications of an antibody ligase

Date:

Fri, 22 Sept 2006

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

Speaker

Rolf Hilgenfeld
Institute of Biochemistry, Center for Structural and Cell Biology in Medicine (CSCM), University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany

Title

Proteases of RNA Viruses: Structures, inhibitors and resistance

Date:

Wed, 20 Sept 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Song Jianxing

Speaker

Jeffrey Hill
Senior Scientist, BII

Title

Biomarker Discovery: Proteomic and Transcriptomic Strategies

Date:

Fri , 15 Sept 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Chew Fook Tim

Speaker

Toshie Kai
Principal Investigator, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory

Title

Maintenance and differentiation of germlines cells in Drosophila melanogaster

Date:

Fri , 8 Sept 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P Hong Yun Han

Speaker

Anna Nekaris
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford University, UK

Title

The influence of microhabitat availability on the abundance and distribution of Sri Lanka endangered Red Slender Loris (Loris tardigradus)

Date:

Wed, 6 Sept 2006

Time: 3 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Myron Shekelle

Speaker

David S. Wilcove
Professor of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Public Affairs , Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University

Title

How do we measure success in conservation and how do we follow migratory dragonflies? Two unrelated by intriguing issues in conservation biology

Date:

Fri , 1 Sept 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P N Sodhi

Speaker

Rod Eastwood

Title

Ant association and speciation in Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): consequences of novel adaptation and pleistocene climate changes

Date:

Thurs , 24 August 2006

Time: 11 am
Venue: SR 3
Host: Dr David lohman

Speaker

Yu Qiang
Senior Research Scientist, GIS, Singapore

Title

Modulation of P53 signalling pathway to enhance apoptopic drug response

Date:

Fri , 25 August 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Liou Yih Cherng

Speaker

Zvi Naor
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel.

Title

Reciprocal cross-talk between gonadtropin releasing hormone (GnRH) and prostaglandin receptors regulates GnRH receptor expression and differential gonadotropin secretion

Date:

Fri , 18 August 2006

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

Speaker

Ng Heok Hee
Fish Division, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, SA

Title

Only skin deep: phylogeny and evolution of epidermal characters in the Sisoridae

Date:

Wed, 16 August 2006

Time: 10 am
Venue: SR 4
Host: Dr Tan Swee Hee

Speaker

Jianzhu Chen
Professor, Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Title

T Cell response to influenza virus

Date:

Fri , 4 August 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Thorsten Wohland (SMA-CSB Fellow)

Speaker

Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dept. of Neurobiology & Anatomy, University of Utah School of Medicine

Title

A model system approach to uncover the mechanisms of animal regeneration

Date:

Fri , 21 July 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Liou Yih Cherng

Speaker

Tan Heok Hui
Dept Biological Sciences, NUS

Title

The Borneo Suckers: Revision of Gastromyzon and Neogastromyzon

Date:

Fri , 14 July 2006

Time: 10 am
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Jeffrey Kwik

Speaker

Gerard Barry
Golden Rice Network Coordinator www.goldenrice.org HarvestPlus Rice Crop Team Leader www.harvestplus. org, Program Leader, IRRI Program 4 on Nutrition and Health Head, Intellectual Property Management Unit,
International Rice Research Institute

Title

Progress on the development of Golden Rice and other biofortified rice

Date:

Fri , 14 July 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Prof Paul Matsudaira (MIT)

Speaker

Serban Proaches
Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Title

Phylogenetic diversity in ecological communities

Date:

Fri , 14 July 2006

Time: 11 am
Venue: Seminar Room 4
Host: A/P N Sodhi

Speaker

Peter T C So
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Division of Biological Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title

Novel optical microscopy technologies for biology and medicine

Date:

Wed , 12 July 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Prof Colin Sheppard (Div of Bioengineering)

Speaker

Kunihiro Kuwajima
Professor, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo

Title

Experimental and simulation study of the mechanism of folding and unfolding of Alpha-lactalbumin

Date:

Thurs , 6 July 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Song Jianxing

Speaker

Eric Werner
President and CEO, Cellnomica, Inc., Specializing in multicellular systems biology and computational developmental biology

Title

Understanding genomes using in silico multicellular systems biology

Date:

Fri , 9 Jun 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Han Jinhua

Speaker

William Chia
Professor, Dept Biological Sciences, NUS and TLL, Singapore

Title

Assymetric division and the generation of cellular diversity

Date:

Fri , 2 Jun 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Liou Yih Cherng

Speaker

Gregory Jedd
Dept Biological Sciences, NUS and TLL, Singapore

Title

Woronin bodies: crystalline peroxisomes close the door at the septal pores

Date:

Fri , 26 May 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Chew Fook Tim

Speaker

Song Haiwei
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore

Title

Structural and functional insights into mRNA decapping and deadenylation

Date:

Fri , 19 May 2006

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

Speaker

Indrajit Nanda
Department of Human Genetics Universität Würzburg

Title

EVOLUTION OF INCIPIENT Y CHROMOSOME IN MEDAKA (ORYZIAS LATIPES) IS MEDIATED BY GENE DUPLICATION

Date:

Wed , 10 May 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: A/P Yang Daiwen

Speaker

Seiki Yamane
Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Faculty of Science, Kagoshima University, and
Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo

Title

Insect fauna of the Krakatau Islands

Date:

Thurs , 11 May 2006

Time: 3 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Darren Yeo

Speaker

Naomi E Pierce
Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Title

Evolution of Blue butterflies: pattern and process

Date:

Mon , 8 May 2006

Time: 11 am
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: A/P N Sodhi

Speaker

Ida Yonath
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Title

The specular ribosomal architecture and its evolution: Linking protein formation, initial folding and antibiotics action

Date:

Fri , 5 May 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P Swaminathan

Speaker

Nicholas Pilcher
Marine Research Foundation, Sabah, Malaysia
The Year of the Turtle Committee, Co-Chair, IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group

Title

IOSEA Year of the Turtle

Date:

Tues , 2 May 2006

Time: 10 am
Venue: DBS Conference Room
   

Speaker

Curt Alexandar Davey
Assistant Professor, Division of Structural & Computational Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University

Title

Nucleosomal DNA, an old new drug target?

Date:

Fri , 28 April 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P Swaminathan

Speaker

B Brett Finlay
Biotechnology Lab, Univ of British Columbia

Title

Pathogenic E. coli: contribution of the pathogen, host and microbiota

Date:

Fri , 21 April 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P Leung Ka Yin

Speaker

Richard Willan
Research Scientist, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territories, Darwin, Australia

Title

Nudibranchs: successful but unsung globe-trotters

Date:

Tues , 18 April 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
   

Speaker Neil Clarke
Senior Group Leader, Biological Discovery, GIS
Title

Why do DNA binding proteins bind where they do? Sequence specificity in vivo and the effect of nuclesomes

Date:

Fri , 7 April 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT20
Host: Dr Phiippa Melamed

Speaker RM Kini
Professor, Dept of Biological Sciences, NUS
Title

Prothrombin activators from snake venoms similiar to mammalian blood coagulation factors

Date:

Fri , 31 Mar 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT20
Host: Dr Henry Mok

Speaker Jie Yan
Assistant Professor, Physics Dept, NUS
Title

Study DNA-protein interactions using single DNA manipulation and imaging techniques

Date:

Fri , 24 Mar 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT20
Host: Dr Philippa M

Speaker David Bickford
Post-Doc, Dept of Biological Sciences, NUS
Title

The ecology and evolution of parental care of microhylid frogs of New Guinea

Date:

Thurs , 23 Mar 2006

Time: 10-11am
Venue: SR 4
Host: A/P Sodhi

Speaker Dinshaw J Patel
Professor, Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
Title

Structural Biology of Riboswitches, Ribozymes and RNA Silencing

Date:

Wed , 22 Mar 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Professor RM Kini

Speaker Hiroshi Kanazawa
Professor, Membrane Biology Group, Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University
Title

Why you need salt for your life?

Date:

Fri , 17 Mar 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Professor Wong Sek Man

Speaker Michael T Monaghan
Natural History Museum and Imperial College, London, UK
Title

Using DNA-based species discovery to examine the biodiversity and conservation status of tropical insect faunas

Date:

Thurs , 16 Mar 2006

Time: 10 am
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Mr Tran Anh Duc

Speaker Michael J Wise
Assoc Professor, School of Biomedical and Chemical Sciences, University of Western Australia
Title

A discrete event-simulator of metabolic network - bottoms up systems biology

Date:

Wed , 15 Mar 2006

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

Speaker Wilhelm Schwaeble
Professor of Immunology, Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester UK
Title

The role of the lectin pathway of complement activation in health and disease

Date:

Fri , 10 Mar 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Professor Ding Jeak Ling

Speaker

V.S. Ananthanarayanan
Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Title

Structural aspects of collagen biosynthesis

Date:

Fri , 3 Mar 2006

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

Speaker

Adam Yuen
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre

Title

Structural insights into RISC assembly and RISC-mediated MRNA cleavage in RNAI

Date:

Wed,1 Mar 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference room
Host: A.P Yang Daiwen

Speaker

Christoph Winkler
Wurzburg Neuromuscular Centre, Universitat Wurburg

Title

Zebrafish and Medaka as models for spinal cord development, motoneuron disease and somitogenesis

Date:

Fri , 24 Feb 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A.P Hong Yunhan

Speaker

Dennis E. Vance
Departement of Biochemistry and the CIHR Group on Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, University of Alberta, Canada

Title

Insights into phosphotidylcholine biosynthesis and function from gene targeting in mice (is basic research on phosphotydycholine biosynthesis relevant to human diseases?)

Date:

Fri , 17 Feb 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Prof Hew Choy Leong

Speaker

Patrick Grootaert
Department of Entomology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences,
Brussels, Belguim.

Title

1-year flies in Singapore. Can have more lah?

Date:

Fri , 17 Feb 2006

Time: 12 - 1 pm (new timing)
Venue: SR 4
   

Speaker

Toshiro Ito
Principal Investigator Plant Systems Biology group, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Adjunct Assistant Professor of DBS, NUS

Title

Downstream cascades of floral organ identity control in Arabidopsis

Date:

Fri , 10 Feb 2006

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

Speaker

Jean Vance
Professor of Medicine, Group on Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids
328 Heritage Medical Research Centre, University of Alberta

Title

Lipid Dyamics in Neurons

Date:

Wed , 8 Feb 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: A/P Sheu Fwu Shan

Speaker

Stuart J Edelstein
Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry University of Geneva, Switzerland

Title

How conformational changes control function in acetylcholine-gated ion channels and other membrane receptors

Date:

Fri , 3 Feb 2006

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

Speaker

Axel Ullrich
Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany
Singapore Oncogenome Laboratory (SOG), Centre of Molecular Medicine, Singapore

Title

Genomic strategies towards the development of novel cancer therapies

Date:

Fri , 27 Jan 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Prof Hew Choy Leong

Speaker

Dipankar Chatterji
Professor, Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore-560012, India

Title

Stationary phase Proteomics in Mycobacteria and transcription regulation

Date:

Fri , 20 Jan 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P Leung Ka Yin

Speaker

Mitsu Ikura
Professor, Division of Signaling Biology, Ontario Cancer Institute and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Title

Structural basis for inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor mediated calcium release from the endoplasmic reticulum

Date:

Thurs , 19 Jan 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: A/P Yang Daiwen

Speaker

Shi Chi Hung
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto

Title

A tale of 2 Cs: Chemokines and CAMs in Cancer Cell Extravasation

Date:

Fri , 6 Jan 2006

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: A/P Yang Daiwen

 

 

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