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Speaker

Ruan Yijun
GIS, Singapore

Title

Genomic analysis of cancer cells using PET technology

Date:

Fri, 12 Dec 2008

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

Speaker

Ann-Shyn Chiang
Tsing Hua Chair Professor, Brain Research Center & Institute of Biotechnology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Title

Reconstruction of wiring diagrams in the Drosophila brain

Date:

Fri, 5 Dec 2008

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

Speaker

Virgile Viasnoff
CNRS Associate Professor at the ESPCI (Paris)

Title

Proteinaceous nanopores as stochastics sensors of DNA/RNA sequences

Date:

Thurs 4 Dec 2008

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Prof Michael Sheetz

Speaker Manidipa Banerjee
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute
Title

Relationship between structural positioning and biological function of lytic peptides in a non-enveloped virus capsid

Date:

wed, 3 Dec 2008

Time: 4pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: A/P J Sivaraman

Speaker G.V.Shivashankar
Associate Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences-NCBS, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-TIFR, India
Title

MechanoBiology of Genome Assembly & Regulations

Date:

Tues, 2 Dec 2008

Time: 4pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Prof Paul Matsudaira

Speaker Rick Huang
Graduate student, Johnson Lab, Scripps
Title

Biophysics, structural studies and nanabiotechnological applications
of bacteriophage HK97 capsids of different maturations intermediates

Date:

Mon, 1 Dec 2008

Time: 10 am
Venue: SR 4
Host: Dr Henry Mok

Speaker Kah-Leong LIM
Senior Research Scientist and Head, Neurodegeneration Research Lab, National Neuroscience Institute; Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School; Assistant Professor, NUS Department of Biological Sciences
Title

Protein Aggregation and Neurodegenerative Diseases – The Ubiquitin Connection

Date:

Fri, 28 Nov 2008

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

Speaker Koh Lian Pin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)
Title

The oil palm conundrum: how oil palm agriculture affects tropical biodiversity and what can we do about it

Date:

Mon 24 Nov 2008

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

Speaker Madhusudhan M.S.
Research Scientist, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore
Title

Large scale 3D structural modeling of protein complexes

Date:

Fri, 21 Nov 2008

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

Speaker
Stefan Schulte-Merker
Hubrecht Institute, KNAW & University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Title

Genetic Analysis of Organ Formation - of Bones and Lymphatics

Date:

Mon, 17 Nov 2008

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: A/P Christoph Winkler

Speaker Dr. Iain Campuzano
Waters Corporation, UK
Title

A new dimension for mass spectrometry, A new avenue for Structural Biology

Date:

Wed, 12 Nov 2008

Time: 11am
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Ganesh Anand

Speaker Xin-Hua FENG
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology and
Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine
Title

TGFB,Phosphatome and Cancer 

Date:

Fri, 31 Oct 2008

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

Speaker Lawrence W. Stanton
Deputy Director, Genome Institute of Singapore
Title

Mapping transcriptional regulatory networks in stem cells that control differentiation.

Date:

Fri,, 24 Oct 2008

Time: 4.00 pm
Venue: LT 20
Host: Dr Henry Mok

Speaker Suresh Subramani
Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology, UC San Diego, USA
Title

Controlling the Diet of the Autophagic Machinery - Switching
from Non-specific Cellular Junk to Peroxisome Degradation

Date:

Thurs, 23 Oct 2008

Time: 4.30 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: Dr Chew Fook Tim

Speaker Yasushi Ishihama
Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University
Title

Global Protein Phosphorylation Profiling by High Performance Phosphoproteomics Approaches

Date:

Fri, 17 Oct 2008

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT20
Host: A/P Yasuhiro Sawada

Speaker He Wanzhong
Assistant Professor, Depart of Biological Sciences, NUS
Title

FcRn-mediated antibody transport across epithelial cells revealed by cellular electron tomography

Date:

Fri, 10 Oct 2008

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT20
Host: Professor Paul Matsudaira

Speaker Bing K. Jap
Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Title

Assembly-dependent Activation of Protein Degradation Complexes

Date:

Fri, 3 Oct 2008

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT20
Host: Professor Paul Matsudaira

Speaker Steve Rozen
Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
Title

Human Y chromosome mutation and sperm production

Date:

Fri, 26 Sept 2008

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT20
Host: A/P Chris Hogue

Speaker Doris Wagner
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Title

Regulation of the onset of reproduction in Arabidopsis

Date:

Tues, 23 Sept 2008

Time: 4 pm
Venue: DBS Conference Room
Host: A/P Yu Hao

Speaker Catharina Svanborg
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Insitute of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden and Astar, Singapore Immunology Network
Title

HAMLET - Protein folding and tumor cell death

Date:

Fri, 19 Sept 2008

Time: 4 pm
Venue: LT20
Host: Dr Martti Tammi

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

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

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

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
   

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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
   

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

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

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

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
     
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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