Events 2009

 July 31 (Friday) 3.30PM 
"Evolution and Regulation of Pathogenesis in Microorganisms"
by: Prof Gerald Fink, Whitehead Institute/MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

July 29 (Wednesday) 4PM 
"Next generation genetics in plants: Whole-genome sequence variation and its impact on phenotypic diversity"
Prof Detlef Weigel (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany)

July 06 (Monday) 11AM 
"Cul3-based E3-ligase: a master regulator of mitosis in mammalian cells"
Dr Izabela Sumara, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

June 29 (Monday) 11AM 
"It takes guts and nerves to fight infections: molecular insights from bacteria - C. elegans interactions"
Dr Man-Wah Tan (Stanford University School of Medicine, USA)

June 25 (Thursday) 11AM 
"Germ Plasm Assembly during Zebrafish Oogenesis"
Dr Roland Dosch (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

June 22 (Monday) 11AM 
"Integrative genomics and functional consequences of epigenetic regulation by polymorphic heterochromatin: from discovery to mechanisms"
Dr Bernardo Lemos, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

June 15 (Monday) 11AM 
"Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation by Polycomb Group (PcG) assemblages"
Dr Adone Sarip, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

June 08 (Monday) 4PM 
"Germ cell development and regeneration in planarians"
Dr Phil Newmark (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA)

June 05 (Friday) 4PM 
"Biochemical and genetic analysis of histone methylation in higher plants"
Dr Cao Xiaofeng, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

May 19 (Tuesday) 4PM 
"Origins of Cellular Identity Revealed By Single Cell Expression Analysis of the Mouse Preimplantation Embryo"
Dr Dr. Paul Robson, Genome Institute of Singapore

May 12 (Tuesday) 4PM 
"500 million years of evolution in a regulatory cascade controlling cell differentiation and growth"
Dr Prof Liam Dolan, John Innes Centre, UK

May 06 (Wednesday) 4PM 
"Cortex organization in yeast and mammals - new roles for myosins"
Dr Roland Wedlich-Soeldner, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany

April 27 (Monday) 11AM 
"MicroRNA Evolution in Primates and Its Impact on Gene Expression Variability"
Dr Rui Zhang

April 16 (Thursday) 4PM 
"Visualizing and Manipulating Intracellular Signaling"
Dr Carsten Schultz (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany)

April 14 (Tuesday) 3.30PM 
"Packaging of collagen VII into transport carriers: skin biogenesis and metastasis"
Prof Vivek Malhotra (The Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain)

April 14 (Tuesday) 11AM 
"Spatial versus temporal computation of Dpp during growth control"
Prof Marcos Gonzalez (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

April 13 (Monday) 11AM 
"The role of extra-cellular matrix (ECM) proteins in centrosome orientation and polarity in cerebellar granule cell neurons"
Dr Shailesh Kumar Gupta (National Brain Research Centre, India)

March 10 (Tuesday) 4PM 
"Lipid Modification and Secretion of Wnt Proteins"
Prof Shinji Takada, National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan

April 06 (Monday) 4PM 
"Regulation of nuclear transport machinery during apoptosis"
Dr Li Hoi Yeung (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

April 03 (Friday) 9AM - 6PM 
A symposium organized by Temasek LifeSciences Laboratory and the Genome Institute of Singapore. "Yeast and Fungal Biology 2009"

March 24 (Tuesday) 11AM 
"Ataxin-2 Binding Protein 1 (A2BP1) Functions as a Cofactor of Cubitusinterruptus during Wing Development in Drosophila"
Dr. Usha Nagarajan (Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India)

March 20 (Friday) 11AM 
"Functional analysis of TGFbeta family signaling in vertebrate embryogenesis"
Prof Danny Huylebroeck (University of Leuven, Belgium)

March 04 (Wednesday) 4PM 
"Regulation of cell proliferation in the Drosophila CNS"
Prof Alex Gould (The National Institute for Medical Research, UK)

March 03 (Tuesday) 4PM 
"Mechanisms that Asymmetrically Localize mRNAs in Oocytes and Embryos"
Ms. Kumari Pooja (Graduate Student, Department of Biological Sciences, NUS)

March 03 (Tuesday) 11AM 
"Deciphering the Genetic Basis of Tumorigenesis and Metastasis in Flies"
Prof Tian Xu (Yale University School of Medicine, USA)

February 23 (Monday) 5PM 
Singapore Developmental Biology Club
"Of form and function: the cortical actin skeleton of the early embryo"
Prof Christopher Wylie, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre, USA
"Wnt5a and 11 interaction in Xenopus development"
Prof Janet Heasman, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre, USA
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

February 20 (Friday) 11AM 
"The fission yeast microtubular cytoskeleton array: an electron tomography approach in Wild Type and mutant cells"
Prof Dr Claude Antony (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

February 17 (Tuesday) 2PM 
"Peroxisome biogenesis and human peroxisomal disorders"
Prof Yukio Fujiki (Kyushu University Graduate School, Japan)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

February 16 (Monday) 4PM 
"Control of Genic DNA Methylation by a jmjC-Domain-Containing Gene in Arabidopsis"
Dr Hidetoshi Saze (National Institute of Genetics, Japan)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

February 13 (Friday) 11.30AM 
"Endogenous siRNA and piwi complex guides heterochromatin assembly and stability in Drosophila"
Dr Utpal Bhadra (Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, India)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

February 13 (Friday) 10AM 
"Understanding the Regulation of Cytokinesis in Fission Yeast"
Ting Gang Chew (TLL)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

February 12 (Thurs) 5PM 
"Epigenetic Genome Control by RNAi and transposon-derived proteins"
by Dr Shiv Grewal, Laboratory of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, USA
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

February 12 (Thursday) 4PM 
"Telomere capping in Drosophila: telomere protection independent of its sequence"
by Dr Rong Yikang (Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

February 10 (Tuesday) 4PM 
"A Good Meal: Recognition and Clearance of Apoptotic cells in the nematode C. elegans"
by Professor Michael Hengartner, University of Zurich
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

February 06 (Friday) 11AM 
"Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in vivo"
by Dr Marta Vicente-Crespo
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

February 03 (Tuesday) 10AM 
"Functions of Cytoplasmic Dynein in Drosophila Epithelial Cells"
by Dr Arthur Hsu Jer-Yuan (University of California, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

February 02 (Monday) 11AM 
"Regulation of gene expression and enhancer function via the core promoter"
by Dr Arthur Hsu Jer-Yuan (University of California, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

January 28 (Wednesday) 11AM - 12PM 
"Piwi proteins and piRNAs in zebrafish germ line development"
by Dr Saskia Houwing
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

January 20 (Tuesday) 11AM 
"A crosstalk between nitric oxide (NO) signaling and protein ubiquitination"
by Dr Cory Hu Rong-gui (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

January 14 (Wednesday) 11AM 
"Understanding the chemical language of insects using mass spectrometry"
by Dr Joanne Yew (Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

January 09 (Friday) 11AM 
"What structures of the ribosome have revealed about decoding of mRNA"
by Prof Venki Ramakrishnan (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Prof Mohan Balasubramanian (mohan@tll.org.sg)

January 07 (Wednesday) 11AM 
"Scent of a worm: Small molecule signaling in C. elegans"
by Dr Jagan Srinivasan (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS