Seminar 2006
December 19 (Tuesday) 10.30AM
"Highly Sensitive Somatic Mutation Detection in Tumor Samples by Hi-Res Melting"
by Dr. David Teng (Idaho Technology Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
Venue: TLL Auditorium, 1 Research Link, The NUS
December 11 (Monday) 4PM
"The pathophysiology of the response to endoplasmic recticulum stress"
by Dr David Ron (NYU School of Medicine, Skirball Institute, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
December 11 (Monday) 11AM
"Why do DNA binding proteins bind where they do"
by Dr Neil Clarke (Genome Institute of Singapore)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 27 (Monday) 4PM
"Mechanisms of imprinting and epigenetic reprogramming in mammalian development"
by Dr Wolf Reik (The Babraham Institute, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 20 (Monday) 4PM
"Sexual disruption in wild fish in UK Rivers - causes, mechanisms and impacts on populations"
by Prof Charles Tyler (The Hatherly Laboratories, University of Exeter, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 16 (Thursday) 4PM
"Analyzing stem cells in their natural context using Drosophila"
by Dr Allan Spradling (Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Carnegie Institution, San Martin Center, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 15 (Wednesday) 10.30AM
"Molecular Control of Cytokinesis by Plk1 in Human Cells"
by Dr Mark Petronczki (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
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November 06 (Monday) 4PM
"Centrosomes, stress, and the cell cycle"
by Prof Greenfield Sluder (Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 02 (Thursday) 4PM
"Getting in and out of mitosis"
by Dr Jonathan Pines (The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK, Gurdon Institute for Cancer and Developmental Biology, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
October 26 (Thursday) 4PM
"Regulation of DNA damage inducible genes
by chromatin remodeling machines" by Dr Joseph Reese (Pennsylvania State University)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
October 16 (Monday) 4PM
"Cell Size Checkpoint Control by the Retinoblastoma Tumor Suppressor Pathway"
by Dr Jim Umen (The Salk Institute, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
October 12 (Thursday) 10AM
"Sterol-rich membrane domains and membrane-associated proteins in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe"
by Mr Volker Wachtler (Cell Division Group)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
October 11 (Wednesday) 4PM
"RNA Interference of Influenza Virus Infection"
by Dr Jianzhu Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
October 09 (Monday) 11AM
"Developmental origins of muscle growth and pattern within the zebrafish myotome"
by A/Prof Peter Currie (Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
October 05 (Monday) 8.40AM
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology - Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory Joint Symposium
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
September 25 (Monday) 4PM
"Can an anti-cancer drug (FTI) be used to treat a Lamin A-based premature aging disorder (HGPS): A Yeast-Human Connection through the Zmpste24 Protease"
by Prof Susan Michaelis (The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
September 18 (Monday) 4PM
"Mesoderm induction revisited"
by Prof Jim Smith (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
September 14 (Thursday) 4PM
PhD Defense Seminar
"DNA ligase I mutation causes maternal effect on seed development in Arabidopsis"
by Mr Sebastian Andreuzza (Chromatin and Reproduction Group)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
September 13 (Wednesday) 10AM
"Localized molecules and the establishment of polarity in zebrafish"
by Mr Aniket Vilas Gore (Vertebrate Development Group)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
September 12 (Tuesday) 4PM
"Reading the transcription circuitry maps in mammalian cells"
by Dr Ng Huck Hui (Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
September 12 (Tuesday) 11AM
"Antibodies in plant biotechnology - tools and high valuable proteins"
by Dr Stefan Schillberg (Fraunhofer-Institut für Molekularbiologie und Angewandte Oekologie IME, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
August 31 (Thursday) 4PM
"Genetic dissection of the reproduction process in Arabidopsis"
by Dr Paul Grini (University of Oslo, Norway)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
August 30 (Wednesday) 4PM
"Functional Genomics with DNA chips at the Plant Genomics Unit of Evry, from transcription profiling to translatome and chromatin remodelling"
by Dr Jean-Pierre Renou (URGV, CNRS, France)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
August 24 (Thursday) 10AM
"The Role of Cyclops/Nodal Signaling in Zebrafish Early Embryogenesis"
by Ms Tian Jing (Vertebrate Development Group)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
August 23 (Wednesday) 10AM
"Rag1 in the Zebrafish Nervous System"
by Ms Feng Bo(Developmental Neurobiology Group)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
August 08 (Thursday) 4PM
"Molecular and Functional Analysis of Mitotic Chromosome Biorientation"
by Dr Jason Swedlow (The University of Dundee, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
August 02 (Wednesday) 4PM
"Intercellular Communication in Pollen Tube Guidance"
by Dr Tetsuya HIgashiyama (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
July 25 (Tuesday) 4PM
"Feedback loops in the Notch pathway: generating patterns in space and time"
by Prof Julian Lewis (Cancer Research UK London Research Institute UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
July 06 (Thursday) 4PM
"Adult hippocampal neurogenesis- relevance to depressive disorders"
by Dr Vidita Vaidya (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
June 28 (Wednesday) 11AM
"Ensembl: New genomes, new resources and research"
by Dr Paul Flicek (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
June 20 (Tuesday) 4PM
"Comparative approaches to the molecular mechanism of circadian clocks: what can Neurospora tell us about human behaviour?"
by Dr Martha Merrow (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
June 06 (Tuesday) 4PM
"Mechanisms of higher-order chromatin assembly in fission yeast"
by Dr Nakayama Jun-ichi (Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN, Japan)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
May 16 (Tuesday) 4PM
"Stem cell development in plants"
by Prof Thomas Laux (Institute of Biology III, University of Freiburg, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
May 09 (Tuesday) 4PM
"Multiple recruitment of regulatory genes during the evolution of the land plant body"
by Prof Liam Dolan (John Innes Centre, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
May 04 (Thursday) 4PM
"Endocytosis in polar hyphal growth in plant pathogen Ustilago maydis"
by Dr Gero Steinberg (MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
April 27 (Thursday) 4PM
"Cell Biology of Bacterial Actin"
by Dr Zemer Gitai (Princeton University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
April 26 (Wednesday) 4PM
"Transcriptional Analysis of a Model Longevity Program"
by Dr Coleen Murphy (Princeton University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
April 17 (Monday) 4PM
"Long-distance RNAi in Arabidopsis"
by Dr Bernie Carroll (University of Queensland, Australia)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
April 10 (Monday) 10.30AM
"Co-Transcriptional Chromatin Modifications: Enzymes Involved and their Biological Functions"
by Dr Bing Zhu (Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
March 28 (Tuesday) 4PM
"The unc45-related protein Steif is required for assembly of myofibrils in cardiac and skeletal muscle"
by Prof Uwe Straehle" (Universität Heidelberg und Institut für Toxikologie und Genetik, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
March 16 (Thursday) 10AM
PhD Defense
"Analysis of esrom Mutant"
by Ms Jasmine D'Souza (Developmental Neurobiology Group)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
March 09 (Thursday) 1030AM
"RNA-directed DNA Methylation and Transcriptional Gene Silencing"
by Dr Marjori Matzke (Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Feb 27 (Monday) 4PM
"Role of Chromatin Modification in Developmental Timing Control in Arabidopsis"
by Dr He Yuehui (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Feb 24 (Friday) 10AM
PhD Defense Seminar
"Fish Gonad Development: Searching for differentially expressed genes in zebrafish"
by Mr Richard Bartfai (Reproductive Genomics Group)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Feb 23 (Thursday) 10:30AM
"Genome protection by RNAi and DNA methylation"
by Dr Simon Chan
(University of California, LA, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Feb 21 (Tuesday) 10:30AM
"A connection between SUMOylation and ribosome biogenesis/export"
by Dr Vikram Panse (Biochemie Zentrum Heidelberg, Universitaet Heidelberg, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Feb 20 (Monday) 4PM
"Optical scissors and tweezers in fission yeast"
by Dr Iva Tolic-Norrelykke (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Feb 14 (Tuesday) 4PM
"Signaling for Sex in C. elegans"
by Assoc. Prof David Greenstein (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Feb 01 (Wednesday) 10:30AM
"Using Functional Genomics to Unravel Membrane Trafficking Pathways"
by Dr Frederic Bard (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Jan 12 (Thursday) 4PM
"Guidance and mechanics of invasive cell migration"
by Dr Pernille Rorth (EMBL, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Jan 11 (Wednesday) 4PM
"MicroRNA Functions"
by Dr Stephen Cohen (EMBL, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Jan 9 (Monday) 4PM
"Role of Rho GTPase pathways in neuronal morphogenesis: Genetic models from Drosophila"
by Dr Julian Ng (MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Jan 5 (Thursday) 4PM
"From cAMP to chromatin: Hox gene function in neural development and cancer"
by Prof Mark Featherstone (McGill Cancer Centre and Departments of Oncology, Biochemistry and Medicine, Canada)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Jan 4 (Wednesday) 10:30AM
"Regulatory mechanisms of the steroid receptor BRI1 activation and signaling"
by Dr Wang Xuelu (The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS