2nd International Singapore Symposium of Immunology
Date : 19 – 20 January 2009
Venue: University Cultural Centre, National University of Singapore
For more information and registration, please go to:
http://www.ssi.org.sg/events.html
Lim Chwee Teck
Sumita Anant
Ellice Lim
Siti Haryanti
Aziz Salim
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The LSI Exco would like to extend their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all LSI Programmes and their members for the invaluable contributions made and for another successful and productive year. We look forward to your continual support and participation in the various LSI activities. Here’s wishing you and your family a joyous and prosperous 2009! |
It’s the end of the year and time for Annual Safety and Health Performance Award (ASHPA) and Safety and Health Improvement Project (SHIP) submissions. CeLS will be submitting one ASHPA application and six SHIP applications. LSI would like to thank all those who have contributed their time and effort for the ASHPA submission. Good luck all with your SHIP applications and we wish the New Year rewards our hard work with plenty of prizes.
Our heartiest congratulations to the following individuals:
Dr Justin Chu from Department of Microbiology, NUS for receiving the Young Investigator Award at the 48th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotheraphy at Washington DC in October 2008.
Dr Lim Kah Leong was awarded Outstanding Mentor Award (2008), Science Mentorship Programmes by the Ministry of Education.
Assoc Prof Peter Wong Tsun-Hon, Head of Department of Phamacology was appointed Associate Editor of Neurochemistry International (Elsevier).
In the Faculty of Science Awards 2008, the Oustanding Scientist Award were given to Prof Ding Jeak Ling, Department of Biological Sciences, Dr Ng Huck Hui, Department of Biological Sciences and Prof Li Baowen from Department of Physics. Dr Yan Jie, Department of Physics, received the Young Scientist Award.
Yow Soh Zeom, a GPBE PhD student and her supervisor, A/Prof Lim Chwee Teck from the Bioengineering Programme was awarded the Young Investigator Award (First Prize) at the International Conference on Biomedical Engineering 2008 and the Best Poster Award at the NUS GPBE-Tohoku University conference 2008.
A/Prof Lim Chwee Teck was also appointed an editorial board member of the Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing journal (Springer) and the Journal of Biorheology (Springer).
Dr. Huang Qing, a Research fellow under the LSI toxicology programme, won the Best Poster Award at the National Healthcare Group Annual Scientific Congress held on November 7-8, 2008 in Singapore. Part of the findings will appear in the journal Cell Death and Differentiation, 2008 (in print).
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Dr Gijsbert Grotenbreg has been in Singapore three months. He is excited about the new espresso machine at work (“it’s the same one I had in the US”), his NGS graduate student and his research assistant, his NRF fellowship and being in Singapore. He lives with his wife in Holland Village and “we’ve already become quite addicted to local cuisine”. |
Dr Grotenbreg is an NRF Research Fellow with the LSI Immunology Programme and holds a joint appointment with the Department of Microbiology and the Department of Biological Sciences. He obtained his PhD as an organic chemist and during his post-doc, he used his expertise in chemistry to address questions on how the immune system responds to infections. [READ MORE]
LSI is proud to host two recipients of the prestigious Inaugural National Research Foundation Research Fellowships: Dr Cynthia He and Dr Gijsbert Grotenbreg.
The National Research Foundation (NRF) Research Fellowship (RF) Scheme is a globally competitive programme to attract, recruit and root young scientists and researchers to conduct independent research in Singapore. Each Research Fellow is provided with a research grant of up to US$1.5 million over three years, with the option of a second round of three-year funding provided at the discretion of NRF, to support projects that exhibit high likelihood of a research breakthrough.
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Dr Cynthia He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences’ Structural Biology Group and a member of LSI’s Structural Biology programme. Her research uses an infectious parasite, the African trypanosome, as a model to study the role of centrins, small calcium binding proteins shown to play a role in cell signalling, organelle biogenesis, and cell cycle regulation. |
She started her lab in 2007 with a BMRC grant following which she received the prestigious NRF fellowship. The funds helped her purchase a confocal microscope central to her work and hire staff. Her lab currently has 9 members. [READ MORE]
Singapore Molecular Imaging Symposium
Cancer Science Institute of Singapore organised the Singapore Molecular Imaging Symposium on 11 December 2008 at the CeLS Auditorium. Three speakers from Johns Hopkins University were invited to deliver the talks. They were Prof Richard Ambinder (Director, Division of Hematologic Malignancies), Prof Martin Pomper (Professor, Department of Radiology) and Professor George Sgouros (Director, Radiopharmaceutical Dosimetry Section). Dr Hsieh Wen-Son from Johns Hopkins Singapore chaired the symposium.
Joint 5th Structural Biology and Functional Genomics and 1st Biological Physics International Conference
The Structural Biology and Proteomics Research and the Biophysics Group organized the Joint 5th Structural Biology and Functional Genomics and 1st Biological Physics International Conference from 9-11 December 2008.
From left: Guest-of-Honour Prof
Andrew Wee (Dean of Science),
A/Prof Maxey Chung (Conference
Co-Chair) and Prof Liu Xiang
Yang (Conference Co-Chair).
The 3-day conference brought together scientists from various countries to share the latest findings in their fields of specialization – proteomics and functional genomics, structural biology, systems biology, protein interactions, protein design and engineering, mechano-biology, biomolecular folding/assembly/imaging, single molecule manipulation/imaging and biofunctional materials.
The plenary speakers were Richard Caprioli (Vanderbilt University), Bill DeGrado (University of Pennsylvania and Stephen Kowalczykowski (University of California, Davis). Keynote speakers were Edward Egelman (University of Virginia), Fritz Vollrath (University of Oxford) and Marc Wilkins (University of New South Wales). The conference provided a platform to forge new research collaboration and scientific exchange. [READ MORE]
In December:
International Conference on Biomedical Engineering 2008
The 13th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME 2008) was held from 3 to 6 Dec 2008 at the Suntec City Convention Centre. Mr Lim Chuan Poh, Chairman of A*STAR officiated as the Guest-of-Honour at the official opening of the conference while Prof Ong Choon Nam, Director, LSI delivered the Welcome Address.
From left: Prof Chew Yong Tian
(Conference Advisor), Guest-of-Honour
Mr Lim Chuan Poh (A*STAR
Chairman), Prof James Goh
(Chairman, ICBME), Prof Lee
Eng Hin (Executive Director, BMRC).
The ICBME is a series of biennial international conference in biomedical engineering jointly organized by the Faculty of Engineering, the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and the Biomedical Engineering Society (Singapore). The Biomedical Engineering Society (USA) sponsored two symposia and the Tohoku University’s Global COE held a joint symposium at the conference.
This biennial international conference drew about 700 participants from 41 countries from around the world. The exciting programme covered 1 conference lecture, 4 plenary lectures, 8 keynote presentations, 10 invited presentations, 4 special symposia, 41 parallel sessions, 3 poster sessions and a Young Investigator Award Session. [READ MORE]
Neurobiology Programme Seminar
“Pleiotropic Actions of Non-steroidal Anti-flammatory Drugs and Dietary Fatty Acids in Alzheimer’s Pathogenesis”
Professor Gregory M Cole
Professor of Medicine and Neurology (In residence) and
Associate Director of Alzheimer Centre, University of California (UCLA)
Associate Director for Research, Geriatric Research and Education Center, Sepulveda VAMC
“Prospectives for Targeting Inflammatory Mechanismsin Diseases of Aging”
Professor Sally A. Frautschy
Professor of Medicine and Neurology (In residence)
University of California (UCLA)
Research Health Scientist, GRECC, Greater Los Angeles Health Care
Date : Tuesday, 6 January 2009
Time : 3pm-5pm
Venue:CeLS Auditorium
Title of talk: “To be confirmed”
Professor Tomaso A Poggio
Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Date : Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Time : 11am-12pm
Venue: CeLS Seminar Room 1
LSI Distinguished Lecture Series
“The Chemistry of NO in Cancer: Carcinogenesis and Cancer Cell Survival”
Professor Steven R Tannenbaum
Underwood-Prescott Professor of Toxicology,
Professor of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Date: Thursday, 8 January 2009
Time: 4 – 5pm
Venue: CeLS Auditorium
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LSI Seminar
“Role of Adenylate Kinase 2 in Cell Death and Cell Growth”
Professor Yong-Keun Jung
School of Biological Sciences/ BIO-MAX Institute
Seoul National University
Seoul, Korea
Date: Thursday, 15 January 2009
Time: 4 – 5pm
Venue: CeLS Seminar Room 2
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Singapore Molecular Imaging Symposium
Cancer Science Institute of Singapore organised the Singapore Molecular Imaging Symposium on 11 December 2008 at the CeLS Auditorium. Three speakers from Johns Hopkins University were invited to deliver the talks. They were Prof Richard Ambinder (Director, Division of Hematologic Malignancies), Prof Martin Pomper (Professor, Department of Radiology) and Professor George Sgouros (Director, Radiopharmaceutical Dosimetry Section). Dr Hsieh Wen-Son from Johns Hopkins Singapore chaired the symposium.
In December:
International Conference on Biomedical Engineering 2008
The 13th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME 2008) was held from 3 to 6 Dec 2008 at the Suntec City Convention Centre. Mr Lim Chuan Poh, Chairman of A*STAR officiated as the Guest-of-Honour at the official opening of the conference while Prof Ong Choon Nam, Director, LSI delivered the Welcome Address.
From left: Prof Chew Yong Tian
(Conference Advisor), Guest-of-Honour
Mr Lim Chuan Poh (A*STAR
Chairman), Prof James Goh
(Chairman, ICBME), Prof Lee
Eng Hin (Executive Director, BMRC).
The ICBME is a series of biennial international conference in biomedical engineering jointly organized by the Faculty of Engineering, the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and the Biomedical Engineering Society (Singapore). The Biomedical Engineering Society (USA) sponsored two symposia and the Tohoku University’s Global COE held a joint symposium at the conference.
This biennial international conference drew about 700 participants from 41 countries from around the world. The exciting programme covered 1 conference lecture, 4 plenary lectures, 8 keynote presentations, 10 invited presentations, 4 special symposia, 41 parallel sessions, 3 poster sessions and a Young Investigator Award Session. [READ MORE]
Joint 5th Structural Biology and Functional Genomics and 1st Biological Physics International Conference
The Structural Biology and Proteomics Research and the Biophysics Group organized the Joint 5th Structural Biology and Functional Genomics and 1st Biological Physics International Conference from 9-11 December 2008.
From left: Guest-of-Honour Prof
Andrew Wee (Dean of Science),
A/Prof Maxey Chung (Conference
Co-Chair) and Prof Liu Xiang
Yang (Conference Co-Chair).
The 3-day conference brought together scientists from various countries to share the latest findings in their fields of specialization – proteomics and functional genomics, structural biology, systems biology, protein interactions, protein design and engineering, mechano-biology, biomolecular folding/assembly/imaging, single molecule manipulation/imaging and biofunctional materials.
The plenary speakers were Richard Caprioli (Vanderbilt University), Bill DeGrado (University of Pennsylvania and Stephen Kowalczykowski (University of California, Davis). Keynote speakers were Edward Egelman (University of Virginia), Fritz Vollrath (University of Oxford) and Marc Wilkins (University of New South Wales). The conference provided a platform to forge new research collaboration and scientific exchange. [READ MORE]
