The Crisis Management team carried out a Crisis Management table top exercise on Tuesday, 18 November 2008. The purpose of the exercise was to help identify new safety measures which could be put in place to improve the existing safety plans. Members of the team provided useful recommendations which were related to improving the notification procedures, communication of the plan to all CeLS occupants and developing a trained Emergency Response Team. [READ MORE]
We would like to congratulate Prof James Goh, Interim Programme Leader for the LSI Tissue Engineering Programme, on his recent promotion from a Research Staff to Research Professorship.
Our heartiest congratulations to Prof Barry Halliwell and Assoc Prof Toh Siew Lok.
Prof Barry Halliwell, Deputy President (Research and Technology), NUS, Leader of Neurobiology and Ageing programme, LSI, was awarded the “Lifetime Achievement Award” (2008) by the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine, based in the USA.
Assoc Prof Toh Siew Lok, LSI Bioengineering programme, Division of Bioengineering, NUS, was awarded the Ministry of Community Development (MCYS) Volunteer Long Service Award 2008. This is in recognition of his untiring and selfless contributions and services as a volunteer with the Ministry.
Associate Professor Yao Shao Qin from the LSI Medicinal Chemistry programme has been appointed a member of the Editorial Board, for journal Future Medicinal Chemistry, UK (since 2008) and a member of the Faculty of 1000 Biology (under the Macromolecular Chemistry Section of the Chemical Biology Faculty), USA (since May 2008).
Date : 3 - 6 December 2008
Venue: Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre
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Date : 9 - 11 December 2008
Venue: University Cultural Centre, National University of Singapore
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http://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/
structbio_biophysics_08/index.html
Date : 19 – 20 January 2009
Venue: University Cultural Centre, National University of Singapore
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http://www.ssi.org.sg/events.html
Lim Chwee Teck
Sumita Anant
Ellice Lim
Siti Haryanti
Aziz Salim
Genome Wide Association Studies
Participants at the CeLS auditorium
for the symposium.
The Molecular Epidemilogy Programme organized the symposium on Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS): Now and Beyond on Friday, 21 November 2008 at the CeLS Auditorium.
GWAS help identify genetic factors that mediate disease susceptibility in populations. In some diseases simultaneous genome-wide studies of prognosis and susceptibility in the same patients allows for discovery of genes that overlap in their importance for prognosis and susceptibility. [READ MORE]
The 2nd Mechanobiology Workshop 2008 organised by the Mechanobiology Research Group in collaboration with the Life Sciences Institute, the Department of Biological Sciences and the Bioengineering Division, NUS was a success. It was held at the Centre for Life Sciences Auditorium from 3 to 5 November 2008.
Attended by 220 participants from NUS, NTU and research institutes, it had 19 overseas and 17 local speakers who shared their scientific knowledge and expertise on the multidisciplinary fields of Cellular and Molecular Mechanics, Bioimaging, Modelling, Bioengineering and Tissue Engineering. [READ MORE]
LSI Young Investigator Seminar Series
A LSI Young Investigator Seminar Series was held on 20 November 2008 at the CeLS Auditorium, chaired by Assoc Prof Low Boon Chuan, LSI Deputy Director.
Dr Chen Nanguang.
The two NUS speakers were Dr Chen Nanguang, Assistant Professor, Division of Bioengineering and Dr Liou Yih-Cherng, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences.
Dr Liou Yih-Cherng.
Dr Chen gave a talk on “Novel optical imaging methods for in vivo imaging of biological tissue” and Dr Liou spoke on “A novel aspect of the phosphorylation regulation mechanism”.
in November:
LSI Distinguished Lecture Series
Two LSI Distinguished Lectures were held at the CeLS Auditorium.
Prof Halliwell (left) presenting
Dr FitzGerald (right) with a plaque after the talk.
On 10 November 2008, Dr Garret A. FitzGerald, Director at the Institute for Translational Medicine & Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, USA, delivered a lecture titled “Perestroika in Pharma; Challenges and Opportunities in Translational Medicine”. Professor Barry Halliwell, Deputy President (Research & Technology) and Leader of the LSI Neurobiology Programme chaired this lecture.
Prof Shu Chien (centre) interacting
with participants after the talk.
On 24 November 2008, LSI was honoured to have Prof Shu Chien, Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor, University Professor and Y.C. Fung Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA. He gave a talk on “Mechanotransduction in Co-cultured Endothelial – Smooth Muscle Cells”. Assoc Prof Lim Chwee Teck, Deputy Director Life Sciences Institute chaired the lecture.
in November:
LSI Distinguished Lecture Series
Two LSI Distinguished Lectures were held at the CeLS Auditorium.
Prof Halliwell (left) presenting
Dr FitzGerald (right) with a plaque after the talk.
On 10 November 2008, Dr Garret A. FitzGerald, Director at the Institute for Translational Medicine & Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, USA, delivered a lecture titled “Perestroika in Pharma; Challenges and Opportunities in Translational Medicine”. Professor Barry Halliwell, Deputy President (Research & Technology) and Leader of the LSI Neurobiology Programme chaired this lecture.
Prof Shu Chien (centre) interacting
with participants after the talk.
On 24 November 2008, LSI was honoured to have Prof Shu Chien, Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor, University Professor and Y.C. Fung Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA. He gave a talk on “Mechanotransduction in Co-cultured Endothelial – Smooth Muscle Cells”. Assoc Prof Lim Chwee Teck, Deputy Director Life Sciences Institute chaired the lecture.
Genome Wide Association Studies
Participants at the CeLS auditorium
for the symposium.
The Molecular Epidemilogy Programme organized the symposium on Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS): Now and Beyond on Friday, 21 November 2008 at the CeLS Auditorium.
GWAS help identify genetic factors that mediate disease susceptibility in populations. In some diseases simultaneous genome-wide studies of prognosis and susceptibility in the same patients allows for discovery of genes that overlap in their importance for prognosis and susceptibility. [READ MORE]