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Safety News

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We would like to welcome our new Safety Officer Mr Kannan Ramachandran who has just joined LSI in June. Kannan hold a Masters degree from NUS in Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS). He brings with him a wealth of experience in safety related matters in the semiconductor, offshore and wafer fab fields in the last 10 years.

Prior to joining NUS, he was working with one of the A*STAR companies.

A few programmes are in the pipeline such as a more comprehensive safety orientation programme, safety talks and Safety Day. More details will follow.

Fire Drill at CeLS

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Some 400 CeLS staff participated in a fire drill on Wednesday 11 June 2008. The drill was held in collaboration with the Office of Safety, Health and Environment and the Singapore Civil Defence Force. This was the first time that the SCDF were involved in an exercise with NUS.

Two fire engines from the Alexandra Fire Station were activated and arrived within 18 minutes at CeLS. The firemen scoured the CeLS building to find 2 of the 3 dummies that were placed in the premises. The drill tested the emergency response of CeLS occupants, fire engine access to CeLS and other fire safety measures.

Mechanobiology Workshop@Engineering 2008

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The Faculties of Engineering and Sciences, the Mechanobiology Research Group and the Life Sciences Institute organised the Mechanobiology Workshop on Modelling, Nano/Micro Fabrication and Bioimaging 2008 on Thursday, 26 June 2008.

This workshop was chaired by A/Prof Lim Chwee Teck (Deputy Director, LSI) and brought together 17 speakers who are engineers, physicists or modelers from NUS, NTU, Singapore-MIT Alliance as well as some of the A*STAR research institutes including Institute of High Performance Computing, Institute of Microelectronics and Institute of Materials Research & Engineering. The workshop was held at the Engineering Faculty at NUS.

The Workshop began with opening remarks delivered by Prof Chan Eng Soon, Dean of Engineering and Prof Andrew Wee, Dean of Science. This was followed by keynote lectures by Prof Mike Sheetz, Columbia University and Prof Jacques Prost, ESPCI.

The Workshop was well received by participants.

Past LSI Events

LSI Distinguished Lecture Series

The month of June 2008 held two lectures at the CeLS Auditorium.

On 5 June, Professor Paul Matsudaira (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Professor of Biology and Bioengineering, MIT) delivered a lecture on “The interplay between cell adhesion and ECM stiffness in the migration of single cells and epithelia”.

Prof Paul Matsudaira
delivering his lecture.

Professor Karl Tryggvason (Dean of Research at Karolinska Institute, Professor of Medical Chemistry, Department of Medical Chemistry and Biophysics (MBB), Division Chief of the Matrix Biology Division) spoke on “Antibodies blocking adhesion and matrix binding domains of laminin-332 inhibit tumor growth and metastasis in vivo” on 25 June.

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Prof Karl Tryggvason giving his talk.

Demonstration on Journal Article Management Software

Prof Casey Chan, Adjunct Professor with the Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery and Division of Bioengineering has recently developed a journal article management software. This software is a quantum leap over competing products such as Refworks, Endnote Web, EndnoteX, Reference Manager and Bibtex.

LSI organised a demonstration by Prof Chan on the Journal Article Management Software on 10 June 2007 at the CeLS Auditorium. This talk drew some 60 participants comprising staff and graduate students from LSI Programmes.

LSI Seminar by Mr Markus Pasterk

Mr Markus Pasterk ,Scientific Coordinator of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) delivered the LSI Seminar on “ BBMRI: A New European Infrastructure Initiative for Biomedical Research at CeLS on 11 June.

He spoke on the huge initiative in biobanking that is currently taking place in Europe called Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI). [READ MORE]

Lectures & Seminars

LSI Distinguished Lecture Series

“Molecular Controls of Morphogenesis and Tumor Progression”

Professor Jean Paul-Thiery
Deputy Director, Division of Systems
Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology

Date: Thursday, 24 July 2008
Time: 4.00 – 5.00pm
Venue: CeLS Auditorium

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Dynamic regulation of Axin-based p53 regulatory complexes in response to sublethal and lethal DNA damage

Professor Lin Shengcai
School of Life Sciences
Xiamen University

Date: Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Time: 4.00pm – 5.00pm
Venue: CeLS Auditorium

3rd Medicinal Chemistry Symposium: Trends in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Medicinal Chemistry Program plans to have the third international symposium in “Trends in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology” on 28 July, 2008 in S8-0314. The speaker list includes three Riken scientists and one Duke-NUS researcher as well as other local faculties.

The objective of the symposium is to stimulate collaborations between scientists in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology internationally and educate our students with the most updated current research topics in the field. For enquiries, please contact Zhu Hui Hui at chmzhuh@nus.edu.sg or 6516-1920.

Brain Function and Repair Symposia 2008

The 2nd Symposium on Brain and Mind Research in the Asia/Pacific (BMAP) and 6th Asia Pacific Symposium on Neuroregeneration (APSNR) will be held from 1-3 September 2008 and 3-5 September 2008, respectively.