Seminar 2008
December 12 (Friday) 2PM
"Using Super-resolution Light Microscopy to Investigate Biological Signal Processing"
by A/Prof Jan Liphardt (Department of Physics, University of California, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
December 12 (Friday) 11AM
"War Vs Growth : Learning From Natural Variation"
by Dr Sureshkumar Balasubramanian (School of Integrative Biology University of Queensland, Australia)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
December 10 (Wednesday) 4PM
"Keeping an eternal lineage: Yeast as a model system for stem cell biology"
by Prof Yves Barral (Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
December 03 (Wednesday) 4PM
"From Precursor to Product: Assembly and Repair of the Mammalian Kidney"
by Prof Andy McMahon (Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
December 03 (Wednesday) 10.30AM
"micro-RNA, mRNA Profiling and Sequencing Capturing Service from Febit"
by Dr. Matthias Scheffler (Febit, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
December 01 (Monday) 11AM
"Circadian clock systems of photosynthetic organisms"
by A/Prof Tokitaka Oyama (Kyoto University, Japan)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 27 (Thursday) 5.30PM
Singapore Developmental Biology Club
"1)"Cell-Cell Interactions and the Local Coordination of Cell Polarity"
by Dr. David Strutt (University of Sheffield, UK)
"2)"Beyond Transcription: Translational Control in Embryonic Stem Cells"
by Dr. Prabha Sampath (IMB, Singapore)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Novemeber 25 (Tuesday) 4PM
"When Proteins Leave the Fold: Protein Quality Control in Stress Management and Cellular Regulation"
by Prof Randy Hampton, UC San Diego, U.S.A
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 25 (Tuesday) 3PM
"Cucumoviruses structures and functions"
by Dr Ervin Balázs (Agricultural Research Institute, Hungary)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Adam Yuan (adam@tll.org.sg)
November 24 (Monday) 4PM
"Neurogenesis and regeneration in the adult zebrafish brain"
by Prof Michael Brand (DFG Research Center, Dresden University of Technology, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Karuna Sampath (karuna@tll.org.sg)
November 11 (Tuesday) 11:00AM - 12:30PM
"GATA-repeat elements mark chromatin domain boundary and facilitate long-distance interaction"
by Dr Ram Parikshan Kumar
November 11 (Tuesday) 4PM
"Entry into the Yeast Cell Cycle: The Sprint, the Marathon, and the Finishing Kick"
by Prof Bruce Futcher, Suny Stony Brook University, U.S.A.
November 07 (Friday) 2PM
"Light sheet based Fluorescence Microscopes (LSFM, SPIM, DSLM) reduce phototoxic effects by several orders of magnitude"
by Dr Ernst Stelzer (EMBL, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Prof Mohan Balasubramanian (mohan@tll.org.sg)
November 04 (Tuesday) 4PM
"Cell division and cell migration in the Drosophila embryo"
by Prof. Robert Saint (Australian National University, Australia)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Maki Hori (maki@tll.org.sg)
October 15 (Wednesday) 4PM
"Structure and Function of membrane proteins studied by cryo-EM"
by Dr Werner Kühlbrandt (Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Stephen Cohen (steve@tll.org.sg)
September 23 (Tuesday) 9AM
"Histone variant dynamics and gene activation"
by Prof Steve Henikoff, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute, Seattle, U.S.A
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
September 22 (Monday) 9AM
"Initiation of epigenetic reprogramming in the germ line."
by Prof Azim Surani, Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, U.K
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
September 17 (Wednesday) 4PM
"Genome-wide RNAi in the Drosophila Wing"
by Dr Barry J. Thompson (Epithelial Biology Laboratory, London Research Institute, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Stephen Cohen (steve@tll.org.sg)
September 08 (Monday) 4PM
"How the ER gets into Shape"
by Dr Tom Rapoport (Harvard Medical School, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: A/Prof Davis Ng (davis@tll.org.sg)
September 04 (Thursday) 5PM
"Role of the familial Parkinson's disease gene LRRK2 in neuronal morphology and survival"
by A/Prof Asa Abeliovich (Taub Institute, Columbia University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Stephen Cohen (steve@tll.org.sg)
August 29 (Friday) 4PM
"Towards the development of Jatropha as a dual purpose crop: Molecular and biochemical analysis of toxic and non-toxic lines"
by Prof Ian Graham (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Hong Yan (hongy@tll.org.sg)
August 26 (Tuesday) 4PM
"Mechanobiology of Bacterial Cell Division"
by A/Prof Sean Sun (John Hopkins University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Prof Mohan Balasubramanian (mohan@tll.org.sg)
August 18 (Monday) 4 PM
"Control of Epidermal Development by Endosperm during Embryogenesis"
by Dr Justin Goodrich (Institute of Molecular Plant Services, University of Edinburgh, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
August 07 (Thursday) 4PM
"Leptin and the Biologic Basis of Obesity"
by Dr Jeffrey Friedman (The Rockefeller University & Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
July 31 (Thursday) 4PM
"Regulatory mutations, natural selection, and cryptic variation in the Drosophila Y chromosome"
by Dr Bernardo Lemos (Dept of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Gregory Jedd (gregory@tll.org.sg)
July 28 (Monday) 4PM
"Regulation of developmental and regenerative growth in Drosophila"
by Prof Iswar K. Hariharan (University of California, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Stephen Cohen (steve@tll.org.sg)
July 25 (Friday) 3:30PM
"Molecular mechanisms of mRNA degradation"
by Prof Elena Conti (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
July 23 (Wednesday) 4PM
"Pathways regulating cell fate decisions in the early mouse embryo"
by Prof Elizabeth Robertson (University of Oxford, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
July 14 (Monday) 4PM
"Epigenetic Control of early Mammalian Development"
by Prof Davor Solter (Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: A/Prof Frederic Berger (fred@tll.org.sg)
July 11 (Friday) 4PM
"Primed for Destruction: Regulation of Protein and Organelle degradation by Ubiquitin-mediated pathways"
by Dr Matthias Peter (Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Snezhana Oliferenko (snejana@tll.org.sg)
July 02 (Wednesday) 4 PM
"Regulation of hh and Wnt gradients: stories of proteoglycans and retromer complex"
by Dr Xinhua Lin (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Yu Cai (caiyu@tll.org.sg)
June 30 (Monday) 4 PM
"Biochemical dissection of RISC assembly and function in Drosophila"
by Dr Yukihide Tomari (Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Toshie Kai (toshie@tll.org.sg)
June 19 (Thursday) 4 PM
"Dendritic tiling in zebrafish"
by Dr Alvaro Sagasti (University of California, LA, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Suresh Jesuthasan (suresh@tll.org.sg)
June 17 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Cell biology of RNA-mediated silencing in Arabidopsis"
by by A/Prof Olga Pontes (Washington University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: A/Prof Frederic Berger (fred@tll.org.sg)
Jun 10 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Regulation of Arabidopsis shoot apical meristem function"
by Dr Jennifer Fletcher (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: A/Prof Frederic Berger (fred@tll.org.sg)
May 28 (Wednesday) 11AM
"Dynamic Regulation of Heterochromatic Silencing during the Cell Cycle in Fission Yeast"
by Dr. Ee Sin Chen (National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Prof Mohan Balasubramanian (mohan@tll.org.sg)
May 26 (Monday) 2 - 4 PM
"Seminar on Microscopy"
by Zeiss
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
May 23 (Friday) 11AM
"Mechanisms of Stem Cell Homeostasis"
by A/Prof Weimin Zhong (Yale University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Fengwei Yu (fengwei@tll.org.sg)
May 21 (Wednesday) 5:30 - 7 PM
Singapore Developmental Biology Club
"Neurons of the Same Class Arise from Different Developmental Programs during Drosophila Embryogenesis"
by Dr. Adrian Moore (Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan)
"Sonic Hedgehog Signaling Controls Neural Progenitors Proliferation and Differentiation in the Developing Mouse Telencephalon"
by Dr. Jun Motoyama (Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
May 20 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Transcription Factor Mediated Control of Neuron Class-Specific Dendrite Arbor Morphology"
by Dr Adrian Moore (Brain Science Institute RIKEN, Japan)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Karuna Sampath (karuna@tll.org.sg)
May 13 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Comparative genomics of fungi: Coccidioides"
by Dr. John Taylor (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Gregory Jedd (gregory@tll.org.sg)
May 08 (Thursday) 4 PM
"The Food and Fuel Research Paradigm: Systems Approaches to Rice and Jatropha Improvement"
by Dr. Ajay Kohli (University of Newcastle, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Naweed (naweed@tll.org.sg)
May 06 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Watching the evolution of bacterial society"
by Dr Gregory Velicer (Indiana University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Gregory Jedd (gregory@tll.org.sg)
May 06 (Tuesday) 10:30 AM
"Function and Control of Cullin-based E3 ubiquitin Ligases"
by Dr Thimo Kurz (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Stephen Cohen (steve@tll.org.sg)
April 29 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Genome dynamics in Candida albicans"
by Dr Judith Berman (University of Minnesota, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Gregory Jedd (gregory@tll.org.sg)
April 21 (Monday) 10 AM
PhD Defense Seminar
"Roles of TACC-related protein, Mia1p in MTOCs and microtubule dynamics in Schizosaccharomyces pombe"
by Ms Liling Zheng (Cell Dynamics Group, TLL)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
March 31 (Monday) 4 PM
"Re-inventing cytokinesis: adaptive evolution of myosin-II deficient yeast"
by Dr Rong Li (Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Snezhana Oliferenko (snejana@tll.org.sg)
March 20 (Thursday) 4 PM
"Synaptic biophotonics: Using optogenetic approaches to study brain circuitry"
by Prof George Augustine (Duke University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Suresh Jesuthasan (suresh@tll.org.sg)
March 18 (Tuesday) 11 AM
"Keeping track of developmental time: from miRNAs to nutritional cues"
by Prof Ann Rougvie (University of Minnesota, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Karuna Sampath (karuna@tll.org.sg)
March 17 (Monday) 4 PM
"A model for neuronal polarization based on local positive feedback and membrane transport"
by Dr Marc Laurent Fivaz (Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Fengwei Yu (fengwei@tll.org.sg)
March 11 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Mutational Analysis of Adult Zebrafish to Understand the Genetic and Developmental Basis of Morphological Variation"
by Dr Matthew Harris (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany))
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: A/Prof Laszlo Orban (laszlo@tll.org.sg)
March 10 (Monday) 4 PM
"Sex determination and gonadogensis in zebrafish"
by Dr Kellee Siegfried (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: A/Prof Laszlo Orban (laszlo@tll.org.sg)
March 07 (Friday) 4 PM
"Signal transduction during phagocytosis: Control of protein targeting by phospholipids"
by Dr Sergio Grinstein (University of Toronto)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: A/Prof Davis Ng (davis@tll.org.sg)
March 03 (Monday) 4 PM
"Golgi biogeneis in Trypanosoma brucei"
by Dr Cynthia He (National University of Singapore)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: A/Prof Davis Ng (davis@tll.org.sg)
February 28 (Thursday) 4 PM
"Developmental plasticity and regeneration during vertebrate organogenesis"
by Dr Didier Stainier (UC San Francisco, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
February 26 (Tuesday) 10.30 AM
"Intracellular trafficking of signaling receptors"
by Dr Manojkumar Puthenveedu (UC San Francisco, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
February 25 (Monday) 4 PM
"Morphogen gradients and body pattern establishment in flies"
by Dr Stephen Small (New York University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Karuna Sampath (karuna@tll.org.sg)
February 20 (Wednesday) 3.30 PM
"The genetis of hearing and balance in zebrafish"
by Dr Teresa Nicolson (Howard Hughes Medical Institute and The Vollum Institute, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Suresh Jesuthasan (suresh@tll.org.sg)
February 15 (Friday) 11 AM
"Mechanisms guiding organ regeneration in zebrafish"
by Dr Kenneth Poss (Duke University Medical Center, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Karuna Sampath (karuna@tll.org.sg)
February 14 (Thursday) 4 PM
"The role of microRNAs in vertebrate development"
by Dr Antonio Giraldez (Yale University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Stephen Cohen (steve@tll.org.sg)
February 13 (Wednesday) 4 PM
"Transcriptional output of insulin signaling in Drosophila"
by Dr Aurelio Teleman (German Cancer Research Center, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by:Dr Stephen Cohen (steve@tll.org.sg)
February 12 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Vesicle formation and protein quality control in the endoplasmic reticulum"
by Dr Elizabeth Miller (Coumbia University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: A/Prof Davis Ng (davis@tll.org.sg)
January 21 (Monday) 4 PM
"Erythropoietin receptor and integrin signaling and the formation of red blood cells"
by Prof Harvey Lodish The Whitehead Institute, MIT, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: Dr Stephen Cohen (steve@tll.org.sg)
January 17 (Thursday) 4 PM
"Getting to the core of the histone code: genome-wide analysis of chromatin structure in Arabidopsis"
by Dr Daniel Zilberman (UC Berkeley, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Hosted by: A/Prof Frederic Berger (fred@tll.org.sg)
January 11 (Friday) 10 AM
PhD Defense Seminar
"Establishment of cell polarity in zebrafish: Role of Staufen and GRB2 in cell migration"
by Mr Srinivas Ramasamy (Vertebrate Development Group)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS