Seminars 2010
December 09 (Thursday) 11AM
"Cryo EM of Virus and Cell"
Dr. Wah Chiu (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
December 06 (Monday) 4PM
"Structural Biology Approaches for New Insights into G-alpha Protein Function in Cell Division and Pathogenicity"
Prof David Siderovski (University of North Carolina, USA)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
December 03 (Friday) 10AM
"Evaluation of the Role of Autophagy in Fungal Development and Pathogenesis"
Deng Yizhen (TLL)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
December 01 (Wednesday) 4PM
"Chaperone-assisted Protein Folding and Assembly: Mechanisms and Pathways"
Dr Manajit Hayer-Hartl (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 25 (Thursday) 4PM
"Playing Hide and Seek with Flu: the Immune Response to Influenza Tracked Using Labeled Flu"
Dr Mike Kemeny (NUS, Singapore)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 24 (Wednesday)11AM
"Tracing Evolutionary Steps of Multicellularity from Chlamydomonas to Volvox"
Dr. Ichiro Nishii (Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, Nara Women’s University, Japan)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 22 (Monday) 4PM
"Effects of Temperature and Growth Rates on Fish Sex Ratios, with Particular Emphasis on the European Sea Bass Model"
Prof Francesc Piferrer (institut de ciències del mar, Barcelona, Spain)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 09 (Tuesday) 4PM
"Molecular and Biochemical Mechanisms Linking Extracellular Guidance Cues To Actin Cytoskeletal Alterations"
Dr Jonathan Terman (University of Texas, U.S.A)
Venue: #05-41 Seminar Room, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 08 (Monday) 4PM
"Systems Analysis of Actin-based Motility, Endocytosis and Cytokinesis"
Tom Pollard (Yale University, USA)
Venue: #05-41 Seminar Room, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 02 (Tuesday) 11AM
"In Vivo Imaging of Cell Migration in Zebrafish"
Prof Dr. Elena Kardash (University clinics Muenster, Institute of Cell Biology, ZMBE/ Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster, Germany)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 01 (Monday) 4PM
"Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Innate Host Susceptibility/Resistance to Avian Influenza in Chicken and Ducks"
Prof Chang Kin-Chow (University of Nottingham, UK)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
October 25 (Monday) 4PM
"Chaperone Action in Health and Disease"
Dr Ulrich Hartl (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
October 14 (Thursday) 4PM
"An Essential Role of the NACK 1/HINKEL Kinesin and a MAP Kinase Cascade in Cytokinesis of Plant Cells"
Dr Prof Yasunori Machida (Nagoya University, Japan)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
October 07 (Thursday) 11AM
"Cell Surface Based Auxin Signaling in Arabidopsis"
Dr Dr. Xu Tongda (University of California, Riverside, USA)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
September 30 (Thursday) 4PM
"Forming and Patterning the Inner Ear"
Dr Gary Schoenwolf (University of Utah, U.S.)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
September 16 (Thursday) 4PM
"The N-end Rule Pathway: New Insights Into Its Components and Physiological Roles"
A/Prof Takafumi Tasaki (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
September 02 (Thursday) 4PM
"Reversible or Irreversible?: Modelling Epigenetic Regulation of FLOWERING LOCUS C"
Dr Satake Akiko (Hokkaido University, PRESTO, Japan)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
August 11 (Wednesday) 11AM
"The ART, The SCIENCE and The GRACE Behind The Discoveries of Nipah Virus"
Prof Dr Chua Kaw Bing (International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur and National Public Health Laboratory Ministry of Health, Malaysia)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
July 23 (Friday) 4PM
"Centrosomes, Cilia, And The Cell Cycle"
Prof. Tim Stearns (Stanford University, USA)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
July 07 (Wednesday) 3PM
"Cis, Trans and Regulatory Elements Acting in ERAD"
Dr Prof Shoshona Bar-Nun (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Venue: #05-41 Seminar Room, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
June 21 (Monday) 4PM
"Chromatin of Filamentous Fungi: RIP, Centromeres and Light"
Dr Michael Freitag (Oregon State University, U.S.A)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
June 15 (Tuesday) 4PM
"Engineering centromeres to produce haploid plants"
Simon Chan, University of California, Davis, U.S.
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
June 07 (Monday) 10AM
"Breeding Biology of the Asian Arowana, Scleropages Formosus: Analysis Using Genetic and Biochemical Tool"
Alex Chang (TLL)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
June 04 (Friday) 11AM
"Establishing Cell Polarity During Early Xenopus Embryogenesis"
Prof Naoto Ueno (National Institute of Basic Biology, Japan)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
May 31 (Monday) 3PM
"The Role of Histone H3K27 Methylation in Chromatin Structure, Gene Silencing, and DNA Replication"
Dr Scott Michaels (Indiana University, USA)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
May 25 (Tuesday) 4PM
"Arabidopsis CLE Peptide Signaling In Meristem Maintenance"
Dr Shinichiro Sawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
May 19 (Wednesday) 10AM
"Regulation of Asymmetric Cell Division and Self-Renewal of Drosophila Neural Stem Cells"
Chang Kai Chen (TLL)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
May 12 (Wednesday) 3PM
"Speciation with Gene Flow in Neurospora: Speciation Islands and Adaptation"
Dr John Taylor (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
29 April 29 (Thursday) 10AM
"An Analysis of Woronin Body Biogenesis in Neurospora Crassa"
Ng Seng Kah
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
April 26 (Monday) 11AM
"Regulation of asymmetric cell division by Wnt signaling in C elegans"
Dr Hitoshi Sawa, Lab for Cell Fate Division, RIKEN, CDB, Kobe, Japan
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
April 19 (Monday) 1PM
PhD Defense Seminar
"Functional Analysis of the Nuage, a Unique Germline Organelle, in Drosophila melanogaster"
Ms. Ai Khim Lim (Kai Group, TLL)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
March 31 (Wednesday) 5.30PM
TLL and SDBC present
"The Role of FGF Signalling in Cytoskeletal Organization During Inner Ear Morphogenesis"
Dr Raj Ladher (Sensory Development RIKEN CDB, Kobe, Japan)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
March 30 (Tuesday) 11AM
"Delivering drugs to tumors using bacteria and liposomes"
Dr Ian Cheong (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
March 09 (Tuesday) 4PM
"Stem Cells: Niche, Competition, Aging and Applications"
Professor Ting Xie (Stowers Institute For Medical Research, USA)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
March 02 (Tuesday) 4PM
"The role of Notch signaling in regulating cell fate and morphogenesis in the zebrafish lateral line"
Dr Ajay Chitnis (Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Health, USA)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
February 09 (Tuesday) 4PM
"Assembly of germ granules in C. elegans"
Dr Asako Sugimoto (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan)
Venue: Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS