December
2004
30 Dec - Dr Low Boon Chuan's graduate student, Lua Bee Leng
was recently awarded the American Society for Cell Biology Norton Gilula
Memorial Award for the best undergraduate and Graduate Research.
The award was earlier announced in the Society newsletter (front cover) and officially awarded in the
Annual Meeting recently. This is in addition to her winning
the ASBMB (American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
and the BioScience (UK) Travel Awards and Bursary earlier this
year. Quite a rare treat. Her work on cell dynamics control
has seen publications in the Molecular Biology of the Cell,
Biochemical Society Transactions, FEBS Letters (Review article;
in press), and another article under revision in a premium journal.
17 Dec - Dr Li Daiqin and his graduate student, Seah
Wee khee's presented their results on the ecological impacts
of transgenic GFP zebrafish using sexual seletion experiments
in Biology in Asia International Conference held in Singapore
7 Dec 04.. The news has been reported in Science Now by AAAS..>>more
16 Dec - Sodhi et al has published a cover page
article in Trends in Ecology and Evolution (TREE), a top-notched
journal in Biodiversity.
8 Dec - RM Kini's paper in Toxicon (official journal of
the International Society on Toxinology) was the most cited
paper in that Journal with 200 citations as of February 2004.
This paper since has been cited more than 220 times! >>
more
2 Dec - Third International Conference
on Structural Biology & Functional Genomics Dec 2004
November
2004
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22 Nov - An MOU
was signed on 22 Nov between College of Biological and Environmental
Sciences, Guizhou University and Department of Biological Sciences,
NUS
2004 NUS SYMPOSIUM on COMPUTATIONAL
BIOLOGY: 'To Integrate, To Synergize',
Nov 2004
Singapore Bioinformatics Workshop,
Nov 2004
October
2004
20 Oct - NUS and Chinese
Universities jointly organise 5th SINO-SINGAPORE CONFERENCE
ON LIFE SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, Wuhan University, 20 - 22
OCTOBER 2004
A 11-member delegation from the National University of Singapore
(NUS), led by Professor Lai Choy Heng, NUS Vice Provost and
Associate Professor Tan Eng Chye, Dean of the Faculty of Science,
attended the 5th Sino-Singapore Conference on Life Sciences
and Biotechnology in Wuhan from 20 to 22 October 2004. The conference
was jointly organised by Wuhan University, Tsinghua University,
Xiamen University and National University of Singapore and was
held at the College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University. >>
more
17 Oct - Breakfast with Dean
of Science, 16 Oct 04 - A group of alumni were invited
to breakfast with Dean Tan Eng Chye and selected Dept staff
as part of the 75th Anniversary Celebrations.
15
Oct - Another paper in Science from A/P Peter Ng!
Local Endemism Within the Western GhatsÂSri Lanka Biodiversity
Hotspot. Science, 306: 479-481 (15 Oct 2004). >>pdf
11 Oct - 75 Annivesary Faculty Dinner, 9 Oct
2004 - a tremendous sucess with more than 100 tables taken up.
Here are some pictures taken that evening, enjoy... picture
gallery
9
Oct - Dr Ng Huck Hui of Department of Biological
Sciences, NUS & Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR has
been awarded the Young Scientist Award 2004.
Congratulations! >>more
at A*STAR website
9
Oct - Congratulations to the following award receipients:
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