The International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB), an official conference of the Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) will be held in Singapore for the first time, from 7 to 11 September 2009 at Matrix, Biopolis. [READ MORE]
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Blood-derived serine proteases play important roles not only in coagulation and thrombolysis, but also in inflammatory and proliferative responses triggered by tissue injury, as well as in signal pathways in the central nervous system. [READ MORE] |
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Dr Yang Zheng (from the Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery and member of the LSI Tissue Engineering Programme) has a recent paper published in the journal Stem Cells and Development, titled: ‘Stage-dependent effect of TGFβ on chondrogenic differentiation of human embryonic stem cells’. [READ MORE] |
Prospective Talk on SPRING Singapore’s Technology Enterprise Commercialisation Scheme (TECS) Grants
The talk aims to make a funding option known to NUS PIs, Post-docs and PhDs should they (or their collaborators) have thoughts of spinning-off research/technology ideas on the side, or even to kick-off a technopreneurship career.
Date : Friday, 2 Oct 2009
Time : 11am – 12nn
Venue: CeLS Auditorium
LSI Immunology Seminar
“Topic to be advised”
Professor Philippa Jane Easterbrook
Professor of HIV Medicine, Head of Department of HIV/GUM,
Kings College London
Date : Tuesday, 1 Sept 2009
Time : 12nn – 1pm
Venue: CeLS Auditorium
“Blimp-1 drives differentiation of effector CD8+ T cell memory and represses protective central memory responses”
Dr Gabrielle Belz
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholar,
Viertel Fellow, Laboratory Head,
The Walter and Eliza Hall of Institute of Medical Research
Date : Tuesday, 8 Sept 2009
Time : 12nn – 1pm
Venue: CeLS Auditorium
LSI Neurobiology Seminar
“Assessing Stem Cell Therapy in vivo using Multi-modal Imaging”
Prof Kishore Bhakoo
Head, Translational Molecular Imaging Group
Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC) (A*STAR)
Date : Monday, 7 Sept 2009
Time : 12nn – 1pm
Venue: CeLS Seminar Room 1
“Topic to be advised”
Miss Natasha Bajic
Wolfson Centre For Age Related Diseases
King’s College London
Guy’s Campus
Date : Friday, 11 Sept 2009
Time : 3pm – 4pm
Venue: CeLS Seminar Room 1
Editorial Team
Lim Chwee Teck
Ellice Lim
Siti Haryanti
Aziz Salim
LSI Distinguished Lecture Series
“Genes, Transcription and Metabolic Control: Targets for Molecular Imaging”
Prof Sir George Radda
Chairman, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium
Chairman, Biomedical Research Council, A*STAR
Date : Thursday, 10 Sept 2009
Time : 11am – 12nn
Venue: CeLS Auditorium
“Sensing with Ionic Channels”
Prof Michel Lazdunski
Professor
Institut Universitaire de France
Date : Thursday, 1 Oct 2009
Time : 11am – 12nn
Venue: CeLS Auditorium
LSI Investigator Seminar Series
“Class II Major Histocompatibility Complex: Structure, Function, and Blockade”
Dr Kim Chu-Young
(NUS Young Investigator Award Recipient 2006)
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, NUS
“Small Interference RNA Profiling Reveals the Essential Role of Human Membrane Trafficking Genes in Mediating the Infectious Entry of Dengue Virus into Cells”
Dr Chu Jang Hann, Justin
Lee Yuan Yew Fellow
Department of Microbiology,NUS
Date : Thursday, 3 Sept 2009
Time : 4pm – 5pm
Venue: CeLS Seminar Room 2
The LSI Symposium chaired by Prof Peter Little, Director, LSI was held on Thursday, 6 August 2009 at the CeLS auditorium.
Programme Leaders and Representatives from the LSI Programmes made presentations on their respective research areas. Attended by about 90 researchers and graduate students from the LSI Programmes, it was a great opportunity for Programmes to learn about their fellow researchers’ areas and interests.
Possible areas for joint collaboration are being discussed among programmes following the symposium.
Sixteen projects have been awarded Proof-of-Concept Grants by the National Research Foundation (NRF) under the Proof-of-Concept (POC) Scheme. The grants worth $75 million have been set aside for the 16 project teams to develop their inventions into prototypes, bringing them closer to commercialisation. [READ MORE]
3rd Mechanobiology Workshop
A workshop jointly organized by the Life Sciences Institute, the Division of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering and the Dept of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, NUS.
Date : 3 -5 November 2009
Time : 9am – 5pm
Venue: CeLS Auditorium, NUS
In August:
LSI Distinguished Lecture Series
Prof Mattaj at CeLS auditorium.
On 5 August 2009, Prof Iain Mattaj (Director-General, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL), delivered a lecture on “The Ran GtPase as a Spatial Regulator of Nuclear Assembly in Mitosis” at the CeLS auditorium.
Participants interacting with Prof Mattaj
during networking session.
Our congratulations to the following who received :
National Day Awards
Assoc Prof Keson Tan, Dean, Faculty of Dentistry was awarded the Public Administration Medal(Silver).
Assoc Prof Benjamin Ong, Dept of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Member of the Neurobiology Programme was awarded the Public Administration Medal(Silver).
2009 National Medical Excellence Awards
Professor John Wong Eu Li, Dean, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine received the National Outstanding Clinician Award from the Ministry of Health
This award recognizes individuals for their exceptional contributions to clinical work through advances in the safety and quality of patient care. In addition the individual has supported and facilitated research and or successfully introduced novel/effective treatment in his clinical practice. The individual is also recognized by one’s peers as being a master clinician.
In August:
LSI Distinguished Lecture Series
Prof Mattaj at CeLS auditorium.
On 5 August 2009, Prof Iain Mattaj (Director-General, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL), delivered a lecture on “The Ran GtPase as a Spatial Regulator of Nuclear Assembly in Mitosis” at the CeLS auditorium.
Participants interacting with Prof Mattaj
during networking session.
