The 8th International Conference in Bioinformatics (InCoB), jointly organized by the National University of Singapore (NUS) Departments of Biochemistry and Biological Sciences, NUS School of Computing, LSI Bioinformatics Programme, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Bioinformatics Institute (BII) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) School of Computer Engineering, was held at Biopolis from 7-11 September 2009. [READ MORE]
New Secretary-General of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE)
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Prof James Goh Cho Hong of Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery and Division of Bioengineering, NUS was elected as the new Secretary-General of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) on 9th September 2009. [READ MORE] |
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Assoc Prof Michael Raghunath from the Tissue Modulation Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, Division of Bioengineering, NUS, was awarded a Walton Visiting Fellowship to the National University of Ireland at Galway by the Science Foundation of Ireland for 17 months. |
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Dr Low Chian Ming, member of the Neurobiology/Ageing Programme Neurobiology/Ageing Programme was awarded the NMRC EDG grant in May/Jun 2009 for a project on “5-Substituted benzimidazoles as novel anti-stroke drugs”. [READ MORE] |
LSI Investigator Seminar Series
Dr Justin Chu (left) and Dr Kim.
An LSI Investigator Seminar Series was held on 3 September 2009 at the CeLS Auditorium. The two speakers were Dr KIM Chu-Young (NUS Young Investigator Award Recipient 2006) from the Department of Biological Sciences and Dr CHU Jang Hann, Justin (Lee Kuan Yew Fellow) from the Department of Microbiology, NUS.
Dr Kim spoke on “Class II Major Histocompatibility Complex: Structure, Function, and Blockade” while Dr Chu delivered a talk on “Small Interference RNA Profiling Reveals the Essential Role of Human Membrane Trafficking Genes in Mediating the Infectious Entry of Dengue Virus into Cells”. A/Prof Vincent Chow, LSI Infectious Diseases Programme Leader chaired the seminar.
In September:
LSI Distinguished Lecture Series
Prof Sir George Radda delivering his talk.
On 10 September 2009, Prof Sir George Radda gave a presentation on “Genes, Transcription and Metabolic Control: Targets for Molecular Imaging”. The talk was chaired by Prof Low Boon Chuan. This was held at the CeLS auditorium.
A/Prof Low Boon Chuan presenting a plaque to Prof Sir George Radda.
LSI Immunology Seminar
“Ontogeny and Homeostasis of non-lymphoid tissue Dendritic Cells: Evidence for a Dendritic Cells Lineage”
Dr Florent Ginhoux
Principal Investigator,
Singapore Immunology Network,
A*STAR
Date : Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Time : 12nn – 1pm
Venue: CeLS Auditorium
“NK and CD8+ T Cells Regulate Dendritic Cell Functions: DCs as Carriers of Signal 3 and Signal 4 for Tumor-specific T Cells”
Professor Pawel Kalinski
Associate Professor,
Department of Surgery,
School of Medicine,
University of Pittsburgh
Date : Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Time : 12nn – 1pm
Venue: CeLS Auditorium
Editorial Team
Lim Chwee Teck
Ellice Lim
Siti Haryanti
Aziz Salim
3rd Mechanobiology Workshop 2009
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
For more information and registration, please click here.
LSI Distinguished Lecture Series
“Sensing with Ionic Channels”
Prof Michel Lazdunski
Professor
Institut Universitaire de France
Date : Thursday, 1 Oct 2009
Time : 12nn – 1pm
Venue: CeLS Auditorium
Seminar on Animal Protocol by CMC and IACUC
“Problems and Pitfalls in Protocol Approval”
Find out about the use of animals for your research work.
Jointly Organised by Life Sciences Institute (LSI), Comparative Medicine Centre (CMC) & Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC).
Date : Wednesday, 14 Oct 2009
Time : 10am – 12.15pm
Venue: CeLS Auditorium
Please register online at this link: http://www.lsi.nus.edu.sg/ipprotocol/.
Talk by SPRING Singapore
“Bringing Research to Market – A Technology Commercialisation Grant from SPRING Singapore”
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, 16 Oct 2009
Time : 11am – 12nn
Venue: CeLS Auditorium
Registration is now open. Please register online at http://lsi.nus.edu.sg/springtalk/.
Seminar jointly organised by Centre for Molecular Epidemiology, NUS and Health Promotion Board
“The Role of Diet in Achieving Optimal Health”
Professor Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH
Chair, Department of Nutrition
Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Date : Thursday, 1 Oct 2009
Time : 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Venue: Health Promotion Board, Level 1 Lecture Hall
To register, please email to HPB_Journal_Club@hpb.gov.sg.
Grant awards
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Prof Barry Halliwell, Programme Leader for the Neurobiology/Ageing Programme was awarded a $706K grant in the recent NMRC grant award for a project on “Probing the correlation between oxidative damage and wound healing outcomes’. |
NIH Invited Talk for Cancer Biochip Inventors
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Prof Lim Chwee Teck and his NGS PhD student, Tan Swee Jin who invented a biochip which can isolate and retrieve circulating cancer or tumor cells (CTCs) from peripheral blood were invited to give a talk at a Conference on “Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs): Emerging Technologies for Detection, Diagnosis and Treatment” organized by the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). |
They were one of the only two speakers from outside of USA. [READ MORE]
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A recent paper published by Dr Kim Chu-Young, member of the Biophysical Sciences and Medicinal Chemistry Programme, and his team have been featured in the October issue of Nature Immunology 10, 1096 – 1101 (2009):- |
“Differences in the risk of celiac disease associated with HLA-DQ2.5 or HLA-DQ2.2 are related to sustained gluten antigen presentation” [READ MORE]
A Novel Fly Model of Parkinson’s Disease
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Dr Lim Kah Leong (Joint Associate Professor at the Department of Physiology, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and an adjunct member of the LSI Neurobiology/Ageing Programme) and colleagues have recently developed a novel fly model of Parkinson’s disease (PD). |
It promises to speed up drug discovery efforts for the debilitating disorder. [READ MORE]
Life Sciences Institute and the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences are jointly organizing the Safety Day 2009 on Thursday, 22 October 2009. Mark this day in your calendar and come attend talks and view the poster and photo exhibitions in the CeLS foyer. Some of the talks in the auditorium would include topics on the Ergonomics for Working Adults, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), Laboratory Acquired Infections etc. Take part in the activities like the blood donation drive and CPR-AED training. Lucky draws will be held through-out the day. Results of the poster and photo competition will be announced at the end of the day. For more information on the programme, please view this link:
In September:
LSI Distinguished Lecture Series
Prof Sir George Radda delivering his talk.
On 10 September 2009, Prof Sir George Radda gave a presentation on “Genes, Transcription and Metabolic Control: Targets for Molecular Imaging”. The talk was chaired by Prof Low Boon Chuan. This was held at the CeLS auditorium.
A/Prof Low Boon Chuan presenting a plaque to Prof Sir George Radda.
LSI Investigator Seminar Series
Dr Justin Chu (left) and Dr Kim.
An LSI Investigator Seminar Series was held on 3 September 2009 at the CeLS Auditorium. The two speakers were Dr KIM Chu-Young (NUS Young Investigator Award Recipient 2006) from the Department of Biological Sciences and Dr CHU Jang Hann, Justin (Lee Kuan Yew Fellow) from the Department of Microbiology, NUS.
Dr Kim spoke on “Class II Major Histocompatibility Complex: Structure, Function, and Blockade” while Dr Chu delivered a talk on “Small Interference RNA Profiling Reveals the Essential Role of Human Membrane Trafficking Genes in Mediating the Infectious Entry of Dengue Virus into Cells”. A/Prof Vincent Chow, LSI Infectious Diseases Programme Leader chaired the seminar.
