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All
are welcome
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Speaker |
Cai Huang
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill |
| Title |
TALIN
PHOSPHORYLATION BY CDK5 REGULATES SMURF1-MEDIATED TALIN
HEAD UBIQUITINATION AND CELL MIGRATION |
| Date: |
Mon,
15 Sept
2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT20 |
| Host: |
Professor Paul Matsudaira |
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Speaker |
Robert
Kelsh
Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Dept of Biology and Biochemistry, University
of Bath, UK |
| Title |
Fate
choice in the zebrafish neural crest – which pigment cell
shall I make today? |
| Date: |
Fri,
12 Sept
2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Christoph Winkler |
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Speaker |
Sam Kung
Assistant Professor, Department
of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba,
Canada. |
| Title |
Natural
Killer Cell Receptor Signaling in Differentiation and Acquisition
of Target Cell Recognition |
| Date: |
Thurs,
4 Sept 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P Yao Shao Qin |
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Speaker |
Benoit
Ladoux
Laboratoire MSC (Matiere et Systemes Complexes), Universite
Paris |
| Title |
Microfabricated
substrates for cell mechanics |
| Date: |
Fri,
29 Aug 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
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Speaker |
Sean Sun
Associate Professor, Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University |
| Title |
Structure-based
modeling of processive molecular motors |
| Date: |
Wed,
27 Aug 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
SR 1 |
| Host: |
Professor Michael Sheetz |
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Speaker |
Utpal
Tatu
Associate Professor, Department
of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India |
| Title |
System
analyst of heat shock proteins in Malaria |
| Date: |
Fri,
22 Aug 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Professor Paul Matsudaira |
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Speaker |
Roderick
Lim
M.E. Muller Institute for Structural
Biology, Biozentrum
and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| Title |
The
modus operandi of the nuclear pore complex and the rise of
bio-synthetic molecular machines |
| Date: |
Wed,
20 Aug
2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
SR 1, Blk S2 Level 4 |
| Host: |
Professor Michael Sheetz |
 |
Speaker |
Richard
Corlett
Professor, Department of BIological
Sciences, NUS |
| Title |
The
Science of Seed Dispersal |
| Date: |
Fri,
15 Aug 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Hugh Tan |
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Speaker |
Clay Fuqua
Associate Professor, Department
of Biology, Indiana University |
| Title |
Social
signaling in sponge symbiont |
| Date: |
Thurs,
14 Aug
2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference room |
| Host: |
A/P Pan Shen Quan |
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Speaker |
Sheryl
Tsai
Associate Professor, Department
of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Irvine, USA |
| Title |
Structural
Enzymology of Polyketide Synthase: Domain Architecture and
Substrate Specificity |
| Date: |
Fri,
8 Aug 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr Kim Chu-Young |
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Speaker |
Peng Li
Professor, Department of Biological
Sciences and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
| Title |
Regulation
of adipose tissue identity by CIDE protein |
| Date: |
Fri,
1 Aug
2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof Hew Choy Leong |
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Speaker |
Robert
Davis
Posdoc Associate, University of
Western Australia |
| Title |
The
living dead? Who will survive the Western Australia's agricultural
and urban landscape. |
| Date: |
Thurs,
31 Jul 2008 |
| Time: |
10 am |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Prof N Sodhi |
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Speaker |
Gary Doherty
Trinity College, Cambridge, UK |
| Title |
Beyond
clathrin: GRAF1-mediated endocytosis |
| Date: |
Tues,
8 Jul 2008 |
| Time: |
11 am |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P Low Boon Chuan |
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Speaker |
Kuan Wang
Chief, Muscle Proteomics and Nanotechnology Section, Laboratory of Muscle Biology,
NIAMS, NIH, DHHS. USA. |
| Title |
The emerging role of elasticity of intrinsically disordered proteins in force sensing and signal transduction |
| Date: |
Monday, 7 Jul 2008 |
| Time: |
4pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P Low Boon Chuan |
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Speaker |
Matthew Struebig |
| Title |
Associations
between bat species diversity and genetic diversity in
a fragmented landscape |
| Date: |
Fri,
4 Jul
2008 |
| Time: |
4pm |
| Venue: |
SR 4 |
| Host: |
Prof N Sodhi |
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Speaker |
Xinnian
Dong
Professor, Department of Biology, Duke University, USA |
| Title |
Biochemical,
Genetic, and Genomic Dissection of NPR1-Mediated Defense
Signaling Pathway |
| Date: |
Wed,
2 Jul 2008 |
| Time: |
4pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P Pan Shen Quan |
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Speaker |
John A.
Endler
Professor, Animal Behaviour Research
Group, School of Psychology, Washington Singer Labs, Perry
Road University of Exeter |
| Title |
Testing
hypotheses about elaboration, innovation, and species recognition
in Australian bowerbirds |
| Date: |
Thurs,
19 Jun 2008 |
| Time: |
11 am |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Prof N Sodhi |
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Speaker |
Frank
Eisenhaber
Director of the Bioinformatics
Institute, A*STAR Singapore. |
| Title |
Biomolecular
mechanism discovery at the Bioinformatics Institute |
| Date: |
Fri,
13 Jun 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Dr Henry Mok |
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Speaker |
Norman
Uphoff
Director of Graduate Studies, CIPA;
Professor of Government, Cornell University |
| Title |
The
System of Rice Intensification (SRI): An Available Response
to Rice Price Hikes, Water Shortages, Climate Change, and
Rising Fuel Costs |
| Date: |
Thurs,
12 Jun
2008 |
| Time: |
10 am -
12pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Dr Yu Hao |
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Speaker |
Thimo
Kurz
Institute of Biochemistry,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
Zürich, Switzerland |
| Title |
Function
and control of cullin-based E3 ubiquitin ligases |
| Date: |
Mon,
2 Jun 2008 |
| Time: |
2pm |
| Venue: |
SR 1 |
| Host: |
Prof Ding Jeak Ling |
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Speaker |
Liu Ruchuan
Assistant Professor, Dept of Physics,
NUS |
| Title |
Mechanical
manipulation and fluorescent probking of single protein
molecule |
| Date: |
Fri,
16 May 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Dr Ganesh Anand |
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Speaker |
Erez Raz
Professor, Institute of Cell Biology,
ZMBE, Germany |
| Title |
Zebrafish
primodial germ cells-fate and migration |
| Date: |
Fri,
9 May 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P Hong Yunhan |
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Speaker |
Stephanie
Portet
Assistant Professor, Department
of Mathematics
University of Manitoba |
| Title |
Dynamics
of the intermediate filament assembly |
| Date: |
Fri,
2 May 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P Christopher Hogue |
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Speaker |
Roderick
Lim
M.E. Mueller Institute for
Structural Biology, Biozentrum, and the Swiss Nanoscience
Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| Title |
The
nanomachinery of the nuclear pore complex and the rise of
bio-synthetic molecular machines |
| Date: |
Wed,
30 Apr 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P Low Boon Chuan |
 |
Speaker |
Chang
Young-Tae
Associate Professor, Dept
of Chemistry, NUS |
| Title |
Colorful
chemical genetics |
| Date: |
Fri,
25 Apr 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P Philippa Melamed |
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Speaker |
Andrew
Tan Nguan Soon
Assistant Professor, School of Biological
Sciences, NTU |
| Title |
A
novel matricellular protein – role of angiopoietin-like protein
4 in epithelial tissue repair |
| Date: |
Fri,
18 Apr 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof Ding Jeak Ling |
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Speaker |
Anand M. Saxena
Professor, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National
Laboratory, NY, USA |
| Title |
Synchrotrons
and crystallographic data collection |
| Date: |
Fri,
18 Apr 2008 |
| Time: |
10 am |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P K Swaminathan |
 |
Speaker |
Boa Zheng-Zheng
Associate
Professor, Program in Neuroscience, Interdisciplinary Graduate
Program. Department
of Medicine and Cell biology, University of Massachusetts Medical
School
|
| Title |
Concentration
dependent effects of the sonic hedgedog protein on the growth
and membrane trafficking of retinal ganglion cell axon
|
| Date: |
Thurs,
17 Apr
2008 |
| Time: |
10 am |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P Prakash Kumar |
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Speaker |
Bela Boddi
Professor, Eotvos Lorand University,
Department of Plant Anatomy, Pazmany Peter setany, Hungary |
| Title |
Molecular
biology and biophysics of protochlorophyllide-chlorophyllide
transformation in plants |
| Date: |
Tues,
15 Apr 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P Prakash Kumar |
 |
Speaker |
Ng Ngan Kee
Instructor, DBS, NUS |
| Title |
Systematics
and ecology of the crabs of the family Xenograpsidae (Brachyura,
Decapoda) |
| Date: |
Fri,
11 Apr 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof Peter Ng |
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Speaker |
Toby Gardner |
| Title |
Quantifying
biodiversity patterns in human-dominated tropical forests:
challenges and opportunities for conservation science |
| Date: |
Mon,
7 Apr 2008 |
| Time: |
10 am |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Prof N Sodhi |
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Speaker |
Tara HUBER
Senior Research Scientist, GIS |
| Title |
Studying
the Origins of Embryonic Hematopoiesis |
| Date: |
Fri,
4 Apr 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Ge Ruowen |
 |
Speaker |
Roberts W
Sites
Professor of Entomology, Director
of the Enns Entomology Museum University of Missouri, U.S.A |
| Title |
Aquatic
insects in the mountains of Thailand, with an undescribed
genus in an understudied habitat |
| Date: |
Thurs
3, Apr 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
SR 4 |
| Host: |
Prof N Sodhi |
 |
Speaker |
Rajan Sankaranarayanan
Centre
for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Uppal
Road, Hyderabad, INDIA
|
| Title |
Structural
and Functional Studies on Polyketide Synthases and Fatty
Acid Synthases from Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
| Date: |
Mon,
31 Mar 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
A/P K Swaminathan |
 |
Speaker |
Barry
W. Brook
Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change, Professor and Director,
Research Institute for Climate Change and Sustainability, School
of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide
|
| Title |
Climate
Change: Feeling the tropical heat |
| Date: |
Fri,
28 Mar 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Prof N Sodhi |
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Speaker |
Susan
S. Taylor
Professor, University of California San Diego
|
| Title |
PKA:
Dynamic scaffold for catalysis and docking |
| Date: |
Wed
19 Mar 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Dr Ganesh Srinivasan |
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Speaker |
Denis
Wirtz
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Associate
Director, Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology
Director, HHMI Graduate Training Program (NBMed) Johns Hopkins
University
|
| Title |
The
nucleus cytoskeleton connection in health and disease |
| Date: |
Tues,
18 Mar 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Professor Michael Sheetz |
 |
Speaker |
Matthew
Linkie
Consultant, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (University
of Kent)
|
| Title |
Evaluating
forest conservation in the tropics |
| Date: |
Tues,
18 Mar 2008 |
| Time: |
9.15am |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Professor N Sodhi |
 |
Speaker |
I-hsin
Su
Assistant Professor, Department of Genomics and Genetics
School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University
|
| Title |
A
tale of the polycomb family -The
dual functions of Ezh2 |
| Date: |
Fri,
14 Mar 2008 |
| Time: |
4pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr Liou Yih-Cherng |
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Speaker |
Joachim
Wittbrodt
Professor, Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, University
of Heidelberg and Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe c/o European
Molecular Biology Laboratory EMBL, Developmental Biology Programme,
Germany
|
| Title |
Genetic
dissection of vertebrate eye morphogenesis |
| Date: |
Fri,
7 Mar 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Christoph Winkler |
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Speaker |
Tony
Whitten
Senior Biodiversity Specialist, The World Bank
|
| Title |
What
on earth does an ecologist do at the World Bank? |
| Date: |
Mon,
3 Mar 2008 |
| Time: |
10.15am |
| Venue: |
SR3 |
| Host: |
Professor Peter Ng |
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Speaker |
Marc
Fivaz
Assistant Professor, Neurobehavioral Disorders Program
DUKE-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore
|
| Title |
A
model for neuronal symmetry-breaking and axon formation based
on local positive feedback and membrane transport |
| Date: |
Fri,
29 Feb 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Philippa Melamed |
 |
Speaker |
Ray
Dunn
Principal Investigator, Institute of Medical Biology (IMB)
Singapore |
| Title |
Directed
differentiation of human embryonic stem cells into the pancreatic
endocrine lineage: a progress report |
| Date: |
Fri,
22 Feb 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Philippa Melamed |
 |
Speaker |
Yaron
Turpaz
Director, Integrative Computational Sciences (ICS)
Lilly Singapore Centre for Drug Discovery |
| Title |
Multi-Dimensional Views in the 'Omics' Era Data Analyses Solutions in Structural Computational Biology and Microarrays Applications |
| Date: |
Fri,
15 Feb 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
A/P Philippa Melamed |
 |
Event |
Structural
Biology and Proteomics and Immunology
Inter-programmatic Workshop |
| Date: |
Tuesday,
25 Feb
2008 |
| Time: |
9 am -
12.30 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
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Speaker |
Wah
Chiu
Director
and Professor, National Center for Macromolecular
Imaging
Baylor College of Medicine |
| Title |
Cryo-EM
Structures of Ion Channel and Lipid-Associated Proteins |
| Date: |
Fri,
1 Feb 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr He Wanzhong |
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Speaker |
Jacky
Ngo
Postdoctoral Fellow, Division
of Hemostasis and Thrombosis, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center, Harvard Medical School, USA |
| Title |
A
sliding docking interaction is essential for sequential
and processive phosphorylation of an SR protein by SRPK1 |
| Date: |
Fri,
1 Feb 2008 |
| Time: |
2 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Dr Ganesh Srinivasan |
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Speaker |
John
W Callahan
Professor, Metabolic Diseases Laboratory, Department
of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick
Children, and Professor of Biochemistry and Paediatrics,
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
|
| Title |
Guidance
mechanisms for invasive migration by a cell cluster |
| Date: |
Fri,
25 Jan 2008 |
| Time: |
4 pm |
| Venue: |
LT 20 |
| Host: |
Dr Henry Mok |
 |
Speaker |
Nigel
Stork
School of Resource Management,
University of Melbourne, Burnley
Campus, Australia
|
| Title |
Is
there a global extinction crisis for biodiversity? |
| Date: |
Fri,
25 Jan 2008 |
| Time: |
10.30 am |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Prof N Sodhi |
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Speaker |
Bruce
W Fouke
Department of Geology, Depaertment of Microbiology,
Institute
for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
|
| Title |
CaCO3
biomineralisation: a strategy for survival in hot springs
and coral reefs |
| Date: |
Wed,
23 Jan
2008 |
| Time: |
3 pm |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Dr Peter Todd |
 |
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 |
Peng
Li
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology,
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
|
| Title |
The
role of CIDE proteins in the development of Obesity |
| Date: |
Thurs,
17 Jan
2008 |
| Time: |
12 noon |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Prof Hew Choy Leong |
 |
Speaker |
Peter
Alan Todd
Biological Sciences, NUS
|
| Title |
Color
for camouflage and communication in rocky shore and mangrove
crabs |
| Date: |
Fri,
11 Jan 2008 |
| Time: |
9 am |
| Venue: |
DBS Conference Room |
| Host: |
Prof N Sodhi |
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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 |
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