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Updated
11 Dec 2007
 |
Speaker |
Pernille
Rorth
Senior Principal Investigator, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
(TLL)
|
| Title |
Guidance
mechanisms for invasive migration by a cell cluster |
| Date: |
Fri,
18 Jan 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr Henry Mok |
 |
Speaker |
Charles
Marshall
Depts. of Organismic and Evolutionary
Biology & Earth
and Planetary Sciences,
Curator, Dept. of Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative
Zoology, Harvard
University
|
| Title |
The
Cambrian explosion: failed experiment of evolution big bang? |
| Date: |
Fri,
11 Jan 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Dr David Lohman |
 |
Speaker |
Carol
H Kim
Associate Professor, Department
of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Molecular
Biology, University of
Maine, Orono, Maine USA
|
| Title |
Innate
immune respond to viral and bacterial pathogens |
| Date: |
Fri,
28 Dec 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof Gong Z |
 |
Speaker |
James
A Simmons
Department of Neuroscience,
Brown University, Rhode Island
|
| Title |
What
do bats see with their sonar? |
| Date: |
Wed,
19 Dec 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Prof Peter Ng |
 |
Speaker |
Pierre
Escoubas
Assistant Professor, University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis,
Institute
of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Valbonne, France |
| Title |
Spiders
venomics: from deadly toxins to novel analgesic drugs |
| Date: |
Tues,
18 Dec
2007 |
| Time: |
4pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof RM Kini |
 |
Speaker |
Eben
and Uromi Goodale
University of Colombo and the University of Papua New Guinea |
| Title |
Mixed
species birds flocks: linking communication, community ecology
and conservation |
| Date: |
Fri,
14 Dec 2007 |
| Time: |
10.30 am |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Prof N Sodhi |
 |
Speaker |
Muhammad
H. Zaman
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and
Institute of Theoretical Chemistry , The University of Texas
at Austin
|
| Title |
Navigating
the landscape of cell-matrix interactions through high resolution
experiments and simulations |
| Date: |
Fri,
14 Dec 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr Henry Mok |
 |
Speaker |
Alexander
Bershadsky
Professor, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute
of Science, Israel
|
| Title |
Cell
adhesion mechanics and the cytoskeleton : Roles of formin
molecules |
| Date: |
Wed,
12 Dec 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P Low Boon Chuan |
 |
Speaker |
Hsiu-Ming
Shih
Research Fellow, Institute of Biomedical Sciences,
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
|
| Title |
DAXX
is a sumo reader in transcriptional regulation |
| Date: |
Fri,
7 Dec 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr Liou Yih Cherng |
 |
Speaker |
Paul
T. Callaghan
Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences School of Chemical
and Physical Sciences Victoria University of Wellington Wellington
New Zealand
|
| Title |
A
new era magnetic resonance |
| Date: |
Tues,
27 Nov 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 32 |
| Host: |
Prof Hew Choy Leong |
 |
Speaker |
Ahimsa
Campos Arceiz
University of Tokyo
|
| Title |
Crop
raiding and seed dispersal by Asian elephants |
| Date: |
Thurs,
22
Nov 2007 |
| Time: |
2 pm |
| Venue: |
SR 3 |
| Host: |
David Bickford |
 |
Speaker |
Lawrence
J. Wangh
Associate Professor of Biology, Brandeis
University
|
| Title |
LATE
PCR et al: New highly informative platform technologies
for detection and analysis of nucleic acids. |
| Date: |
Fri,
23 Nov 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Wang Shu |
 |
Speaker |
Masahiro
Sokabe
Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology, Nagoya University
School of Medicine
|
| Title |
Mechanobiology
of cell mechanotransduction: from molecular dynamics study
to heart disease medication |
| Date: |
Wed,
21 Nov
2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P Low Boon Chuan |
 |
Speaker |
Virshup,
David M., M.D.
Professor, Program Director for Cancer & Stem Cell Biology
Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
|
| Title |
Protein
serine-threonine phosphatases: A tale of two pathways |
| Date: |
Fri,
16 Nov 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Philippa Melamed |
 |
Speaker |
David
Bickford
Dept
of Biological Sciences, NUS
|
| Title |
Ecology
and evolution of parental care of the Microhylid Frogs from
New Guinea |
| Date: |
Wed,
14 Nov 2007 |
| Time: |
2 pm |
| Venue: |
SR 3, Blk S2 |
| Host: |
Prof Sodhi |
 |
Speaker |
Jay
T Groves
Professor, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley, USA
|
| Title |
Mechanical
regulation of signaling through T cell receptor |
| Date: |
Tues,
13 Nov 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P Low Boon Chuan |
 |
Speaker |
Mukesh
Doble
Professor, Department of Biotechnology
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India
|
| Title |
Design
of bioactive molecules |
| Date: |
Fri,
9 Nov 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Sanjay Swarup |
 |
Speaker |
Fan
Weimin
M.D., M.P.H.,
Professor of Pathology and Medicine & Member of Hollings
Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
|
| Title |
Drug
resistance mediated by steroid hormones: Mechanisms, clinical
impact and novel opportunity for drug development |
| Date: |
Fri,
9 Nov 2007 |
| Time: |
10 am |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P Wang Shu |
 |
Speaker |
Philip
Kaldis
Principal Investigator, IMCB
|
| Title |
The
regulation of the cell cycle in vivo |
| Date: |
Fri,
2 Nov 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr Liou Yih Cherng |
 |
Speaker |
Paul
Matsudaira
Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Professor
of Biology and Bioengineering, MIT
|
| Title |
The
mechanics of a biological spring: contraction of the Vorticella
stalk |
| Date: |
Fri,
26 Oct 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr Henry Mok |
|
Speaker |
Pernille
Rorth
Senior Principal Investigator, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
(TLL)
|
| Title |
Guidance
mechanisms for invasive migration by a cell cluster |
| Date: |
Fri,
19 Oct 2007 (Postponed) |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr Henry Mok |
 |
Speaker |
Mike
Kemeny
Professor and Head, Department
of Microbiology and Leader of OLS Immunology,
Programme, NUS, Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin
School of Medicine. |
| Title |
Amplication
of protective immunity through CT8T cell to dentritic cell
feedback |
| Date: |
Fri,
12 Oct 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Leung Ka Yin |
 |
Speaker |
David
Symth
Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Monash
University, Melbourne, Australia |
| Title |
Genetic
control of floral design: The role of the PETAL LOSS gene
of Arabidopsis in perianth development |
| Date: |
Fri,
5 Oct 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr Yu Hao |
 |
Speaker |
Gong
Liang-wei
Department of Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine |
| Title |
Mechanisms
underlying vesicle recycling |
| Date: |
Wed,
3 Oct 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Prof Hew Choy Leong |
 |
Speaker |
Larry
Field
Retired Associate Professor from the University
of
Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. |
| Title |
Acoustic
galleries of tropical crickets |
| Date: |
Fri,
28 Sept 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Li Daiqin |
 |
Speaker |
Jian
Xu
Department of Molecular Genetics,
Universiteit Utrecht |
| Title |
Polar
auxin transport and pattern formation in the plant roots |
| Date: |
Wed,
26 Sept 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
SR 1 |
| Host: |
A/P Li Daiqin |
 |
Speaker |
Stephen
Cohen
CEO, Temasek Lifesciences Laboratory |
| Title |
Micro-RNA
functions |
| Date: |
Fri,
21 Sept 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr He Yuehui |
 |
Speaker |
Lin
Qingsong
School of Biological
Sciences,
Nanyang Technological University |
| Title |
Establishment
of proteomics platform technologies and their applications |
| Date: |
Thurs,
20 Sept 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P Li Daiqin |
 |
Speaker |
Mark
Featherstone
Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Nanyang Technological University |
| Title |
Protein
kinase A and inducible transcriptional activation by the
MEIS1 homeodomain transcription factor |
| Date: |
Fri,
14 Sept 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| |
 |
Speaker |
Jin
Jen
Principal Investigator, Lab of Population Genetics,
Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, USA |
| Title |
Genetic
basis of early age onset of lung cancer |
| Date: |
Fri,
7 Sept 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof Hew Choy Leong |
 |
Speaker |
Zvi
Naor
Department of Biochemistry Tel
Aviv University Tel-Aviv Israel |
| Title |
Life
vs. Death Signaling of the GnRH Receptor in Pituitary Gonadotropes
and Human Prostate Cancer Cells |
| Date: |
Fri,
31 August 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Philippa Melamed |
 |
Speaker |
Ellis
Penning
Delft
Hydraulics
|
| Title |
Ecohydromorphology;
linking abiotic and biotic factors in water management |
| Date: |
Thurs,
30 August
2007 |
| Time: |
3 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
 |
Speaker |
James
R. Guest Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research fellow at Newcastle University
|
| Title |
Reef
restoration and coral reproduction in Southeast Asia |
| Date: |
Wed,
29 August 2007 |
| Time: |
4.30 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
 |
Speaker |
Edward
L. Webb, PhD
School of Environment, Resources and Development
The Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
|
| Title |
Ecology
of tree communities on a disturbance - prone island of the
South Pacific |
| Date: |
Mon
27, August
2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Prof
N Sodhi |
 |
Speaker |
Bulavin
Dmitry
IMCB
|
| Title |
Suppresion
of tumorigenesis at the stage of stem cell conversion into
tumour initiating stem cell |
| Date: |
Fri
24 August 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr
Liou Yih Cherng |
 |
Speaker |
P.
Paul Liu
Senior Investigator, Head, Oncogenesis and Development Section
Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch National Human Genome
Research Institute, USA
|
| Title |
Transcriptional
regulation of leukemogenesis and hematopoiesis - mouse and
zebrafish models |
| Date: |
Thurs, 23
August 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P
Gong Zhiyuan |
 |
Speaker |
Janusz
M. Bujnicki
Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering, International
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland
|
| Title |
GeneSilico
TOOLKIT- a suite of methods for protein structure prediction,
model building and evaluation - with or without experimental
data |
| Date: |
Fri
17 August 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr
Tammi Martti |
 |
Speaker |
Harvey
Lodish
Professor, Whitehead
Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, and Department
of Biology, MIT,
Cambridge, MA
|
| Title |
Purification
and Expansion of Hematopoietic Stem Cells Based on Proteins
Expressed by a Novel Stromal Cell Population |
| Date: |
Wed
8 August 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P
Chan Woon Khiong |
 |
Speaker |
Ganesh
Anand
Assistant Professor, Dept of Biological Sciences, NUS |
| Title |
Protein
interfaces by amide H/D exchange mass spectrometry: new insights
into cAMP signalling enzymes |
| Date: |
Fri,
3 August 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr
Henry Mok |
 |
Speaker |
Mostaqul
Huq, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, USA |
| Title |
Small
molecule paradigm in functional genomics and proteomics |
| Date: |
Wed,
25 July 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Dr
He Wanzhong |
 |
Speaker |
Yasuhiro SAWADA
Research Associate, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia
University, New York, USA |
| Title |
Exploration of Mechanotransduction in Cells: p130Cas, an Ion Channel-Independent Cytoskeletal Mechano-Sensor |
| Date: |
Fri, 20 July 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Low Boon Chuan |
 |
Speaker |
Sacha De Carlo, PhD
Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
University of Colorado |
| Title |
Structural basis of ATP dependent activation of transcription |
| Date: |
Tues, 17 July 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Dr He Wanzhong |
 |
Speaker |
Kumar Selvarajoo
Assistant Professor, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Japan |
| Title |
Systemic understanding of the Toll-like Receptor 4 signaling |
| Date: |
Fri, 13 July 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Prof Ding Jeak Ling |
Pathogenesis
of Type 2
diabetes:
Technology
struggles and
the Gordian Knot
|
Speaker |
Dr. M. Balasubramanyam
Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF )
Chennai India
|
| Title |
Pathogenesis of Type 2 diabetes : Technology struggles and the Gordian Knot
|
| Date: |
Tues, 3 Jul 2007 |
| Time: |
11 am |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Dr Ganesh |
 |
Speaker |
Hendrik Freitag
International Research Institute of Entomology (Museum of Natural History Vienna) |
| Title |
The aquatic biodiversity research project on the Philippine island of Palawan (Aqua Palawan) |
| Date: |
Tues, 3 Jul 2007 (rescheduled from 26 Jun 07) |
| Time: |
10 am |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Dr Darren Yeo |
 |
Speaker |
Serban Proches, PhD
School of Life and Conservation SciencesUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa |
| Title |
Recent progress in modeling plant invasions |
| Date: |
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P Sodhi |
 |
Speaker |
Wong Siew Te
Wildlife Biology Program, College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, USA |
| Title |
The ecology and conservation of sun bear in Malaysia |
| Date: |
Mon, 18 Jun 2007 |
| Time: |
1 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| |
|
 |
Speaker |
Paul Alewood
Professor, Institute for Molecular Bioscience,
The University of Queensland, Australia. |
| Title |
Drugs from venom |
| Date: |
Fri, 15 Jun 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof R M Kini |
 |
Speaker |
David M. Lodge
Professor, Dept of Biological Sciences,
University of Notre Dame, USA |
| Title |
Linking science and policy on invasive species |
| Date: |
Fri, 8 Jun 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof Peter Ng |
 |
Speaker |
Matjaz Kuntner
Institute of Biology, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy
of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia. |
| Title |
Sexually antagonistic coevolution in Nephilid spiders |
| Date: |
Fri, 1 Jun 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P Li Daiqin |
 |
Speaker |
Peter L. Davies
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Protein Function Discovery Group, Queen's
University, Canada |
| Title |
New folds and new insights from recently rediscovered antifreeze proteins |
| Date: |
Fri, 25 May 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr Liou Yih Cherng |
 |
Speaker |
Ping-Chiang Lyu
Department of Life Sciences,
Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural
Biology, National Tsing Hua University,
Taiwan |
| Title |
Structure based protein engineering for alpha-amylase inhibitory activity of plant defensin |
| Date: |
Fri, 18 May 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr Liou Yih Cherng |
 |
Speaker |
Brenda Andrews
Director, Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto |
| Title |
Systematics yeast genetics to explore biological pathways and kinase targets |
| Date: |
Fri, 11 May 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr Henry Mok |
 |
Speaker |
Lim Chwee Teck
Associate Professor, Division of Bioengineering & Department of Mechanical Engineering, NUS |
| Title |
Relevance of mechanics in studying human diseases |
| Date: |
Fri, 4 May 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P Low Boon Chuan |
 |
Speaker |
Peter Kuhn
Associate professor of cell biology at The Scripps Research Institute and life sciences director for the Scripps-Palo Alto Research Center Institute. |
| Title |
Viral infectious disease structural proteomics - SARs cov and related organisms |
| Date: |
Fri, 27 April 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Profesor RM Kini |
 |
Speaker |
Mathew Lim Lek Min, Ph.D.
Research Assistant, Dept of Biological Sciences, NUS |
| Title |
Sex-Specific UV and Fluorescence Signals in Jumping Spiders |
| Date: |
Fri, 20 April 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| |
|
 |
Speaker |
Hong Chen, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yale University, USA |
| Title |
From clathrin/ubiquitin-mediated endocytosis to development: the epsin connection |
| Date: |
Fri, 13 April 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Li Daiqin |
 |
Speaker |
Paik Ji-Hye, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts |
| Title |
Intergrative analysis of FOXO function in cancer suppression and vascular homeostasis during aging |
| Date: |
Wed, 4 April 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P Li Daiqin |
 |
Speaker |
Thorsten Wohland
Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department, NUS |
| Title |
Flourescence cross-corelation spectroscopy (FCCS) as a tool to study biomolecular interactions in vivo |
| Date: |
Fri, 30 Mar 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT20 |
| Host: |
Professor Ding Jeak Ling |
 |
Speaker |
Y. Norma-Rashid
Professor. Faculty of Science, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. |
| Title |
Dragonflies (Order: Odonota) of Penisular Malaysia |
| Date: |
Thurs, 29 Mar 2007 |
| Time: |
11 am |
| Venue: |
SR 3 |
| Host: |
A/P Li Daiqin |
 |
Speaker |
V.S. Ananthanarayanan
Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences,
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
| Title |
A Structural Role for Calcium in Hormone- and Drug-Mediated Signal Transduction |
| Date: |
Fri, 23 Mar 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT20 |
| Host: |
Dr Henry Mok |
 |
Speaker |
Uma Ramakrishnan
National Centre for Biological Sciences, India |
| Title |
Genetic time travel: understanding the past using modern and ancient DNA |
| Date: |
Fri, 16 Mar 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT20 |
| Host: |
A/P Sodhi N |
 |
Speaker |
G. William Wong
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, USA |
| Title |
Adipose secreted factors and the control of energy homeostasis |
| Date: |
Fri, 9 Mar 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT20 |
| Host: |
Prof Hew Choy Leong |
 |
Speaker |
Tom L Blundell
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge University, UK |
| Title |
Structural biology, the proteome and chemical space: the new dimension of drug discovery |
| Date: |
Fri, 2 Mar 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT20 |
| Host: |
Dr Swaminathan |
 |
Speaker |
Yun-Bo Shi
Chief, Section on Molecular Morphogenesis National Institute Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA |
| Title |
Cofactor recruitment and alteration of histone acetylation in gene regulation by thyroid hormone receptor during development.
|
| Date: |
Tues, 16 Feb 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT20 |
| Host: |
A/P Chan Woon Khiong |
 |
Speaker |
Keith Martin-Smith
Senior Programme Manager, Project Seahorse,
School of Zoology, University of Tasmania |
| Title |
Using sea-horse science to advance marine conservation
|
| Date: |
Tues, 13 Feb 2007 |
| Time: |
11 am |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Dr Tan Heok Hui |
 |
Speaker |
Stuart J. Edelstein
Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| Title |
Allosteric Control of Biological Reactions:
From Hemoglobin to Key Proteins of the Nervous System
|
| Date: |
Fri, 9 Feb 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Sheu Fwu-Shan |
 |
Speaker |
V. Kesavan
Assistant professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of, Technology Madras, Chennai |
| Title |
Drugging the undruggable
|
| Date: |
Fri, 2 Feb 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Sanjay Swarup |
 |
Speaker |
Corey Bradshaw
Senior Research Fellow, School for |
| Title |
Basic data and clever models: empirically based conservation and management of sharks and crocodiles in Australia
|
| Date: |
Fri, 26 Jan 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P N Sodhi |
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Speaker |
Jen-Fu Chiu
Principal Investigator, Institute of Molecular Biology,
Honorary Professor of Biochemistry, HKU,
Honorary Professor of Chemistry, HKU
Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont, USA |
| Title |
Biochemical and proteomic analyses of arsenic carcinogenic and anticarcinogenic activities
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| Date: |
Fri, 19 Jan 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof Hew Choy Leong |
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Speaker |
Li-Huei Tsai
Picower Professor of Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
RIKEN-MIT Neuroscience Research Center, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| Title |
Role of p25/cdk5 kinase in neurodegeneration
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| Date: |
Fri, 12 Jan 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr Liou Yih Cherng |
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Speaker |
Richard Corlett
Professor,
Department of Ecology & Biodiversity
The University of Hong Kong, China |
| Title |
The top ten things we need to know about asian tropical forest
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| Date: |
Wed, 10 Jan 2007 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Prof Peter Ng |
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