2004
December 20 (Monday) 4 PM
"Molecular Pathology of Alzheimer's disease: Identification of the causative peptide and development of therapeutic approaches"
by Prof Ralph Martins (Edith Cowan University, Australia)
Venue: Temasek Lifesciences Laboratory, NUS
December 8 (Wednesday) 4 PM
"Biodesign of transgenic plants for pharmaceutical protein manufacture (and, in some cases, oral
delivery of product); a case study - Microbicides for the developing world"
by Dr Charles Arntzen (The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
December 3 (Friday) 9:30 AM
"RNA Interference: How Small RNAs Control Gene Expression and Development in Plants"
by Dr Tang Guiliang (University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
December 1 (Wednesday) 9:30 AM
"Downstream functions of the floral homeotic protein AGAMOUS in Arabidopsis"
by Dr Toshiro Ito (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 29 (Monday) 4 PM
"Functions of the centrosomes during mitosis"
by Dr Alexey Khodjakov (Wadsworth Center, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 29 (Monday) 9:30 AM
"Genome-wide analysis of C. elegans foregut genes and the response to nutritional cues"
by Dr Wanyuan Ao (Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 26 (Friday) 9:30 AM
"Maintenance and differentiation of female germline stem cells in Drosophila melanogaster"
by Dr Toshie Kai (Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 24 (Wednesday) 11 AM
"Formin actin filaments de novo: a mechanistic comparison of yeast and mammalian formins"
by Dr David Kovar (Yale University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 22 (Monday) 4 PM
"A growing pandemic threat from highly pathogenic avian influenza virus"
by Dr Ruben Donis (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 8 (Monday) 4 PM
"Centrosomes and the cell cycle"
by Prof Greenfield Sluder (Department of Cell Biology, UMASS Medical Center, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 4 (Thursday) 4 PM
"Notch-1 regulation of apoptosis in the T-cell lineage"
by Dr Apurva Sarin (National Centre for Biological Sciences, India)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 4 (Thursday) 11 AM
"Understanding the design principles for the establishment of cell polarity" by
Dr Roland Wedlich-Soldner (Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 3 (Wednesday) 4 PM
"Formation of the contractile ring in fission yeast: assembly of myosin and role of Adf1"
by Prof Issei Mabuchi (Department of Biology, University of Tokyo, Japan)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 3 (Wednesday) 10.30 AM
"Re-modelling an indentified neuron in the Drosophila brain"
by Dr Veronica Rodrigues (Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
November 1 (Monday) 4 PM
"Homeobox gene control of murine embryonic patterning and development"
by Dr Thomas Lufkin (Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
October 21 (Thursday) 4 PM
"G-protein signaling: biochemical insights into developmental biology"
by Dr Francis Willard (University of North Carolina, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
October 11 (Monday) 4 PM
"Tunneling through membranes: the architecture of a voltage-gated potassium channel"
by Dr M K Mathew (National Centre for Biological Sciences, India)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
September 21 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"The function of non-canonical Wnt signalling in regulating zebrafish gastrulation movements"
by Dr Carl-Philipp Heisenberg (Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
September 6 (Monday) 4 PM
"NFkB: a lesson in familly values"
by Dr Vinay Tergaonkar (Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
September 3 (Friday) 11 AM
"Probing cell division in fission yeast using cell centrifugation and laser microsurgery"
by Dr Fred Chang (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
September 3 (Friday) 4 PM
"Regulation of epithelial morphogenesis by effector kinases for the Rho family small GTPases Rac and Cdc42"
by Dr Nick Harden (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
August 30 (Monday) 11 AM
"Generation of cell diversity in the developing central nervous system"
by Dr Gerd Technau (Institut für Genetik, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
August 10 (Tuesday) 2 PM
"The dynamics of a macrophage focal contact"
by Prof Paul Matsudaira (MIT Department of Biology, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
August 6 (Friday) 11 AM
"Sphingolipid raft: sorting myths from reality"
by Prof Roger Morris (King's College London, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
August 2 (Monday) 4 PM
"A new genetic model for floral meristem development"
by Dr Yu Hao (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
July 29 (Thursday) 11 AM
"From the RanGTP gradient to Spindle Assembly"
by Dr Hoi Yeung Li (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
July 22 (Thursday) 12 PM
"Genomic Approaches to the Cell Cycle"
by Prof Paul Nurse (Rockefeller University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
July 20 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Towards the Computable Plant: New Experimental and Computational Approaches to Understanding the Shoot Apical Meristem"
by Prof Elliot Meyerowitz (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
July 19 (Monday) 10 AM
"A two-stroke molecular motor drives protein import into the endoplasmic reticulum"
by Prof Colin Stirling (University of Manchester, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
30 June 2004 (Wednesday), 4 PM
"Single receptor gene choice and allelic exclusion in the mouse olfactory sensory neuron"
by Prof Hitoshi Sakano (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
June 21 (Monday) 11 AM
"Progress Report of Korean Crop Functional Genomics Center"
by Dr Yang Do Choi (Crop Functional Genomic Centre & Seoul National University, Korea)
and
"Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Transgenic Rice"
by Prof Jukon Kim (Myongji University, Korea)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
June 16 (Wednesday) 10 AM PhD Defense Seminar
"An Analysis of the role of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe homolog of Survivin, Bir1p, in mitosis"
by Ms Srividya Rajagopalan (Laboratory of Cell Division)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
14 June 2004 (Monday), 4 PM
"Molecular mechanism of synapse assembly"
by Dr Yishi Jin (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
June 8 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Transmembrane signaling by cell surface receptors: from bacteria to humans"
by Dr Ichiro Maruyama (Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
May 24 (Monday) 4 PM
"Role of the Rab GAPs Msb3p and Msb4p in exocytosis and actin organization in yeast"
by Dr Erfei Bi (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
May 10 (Monday) 4 PM
"Lipomic and genomics in zebrafish: visualizing lipid metabolism in vivo"
by Dr Steven Farber (Thomas Jefferson University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
April 22 (Thursday) 11 AM
"The cell biology of developmental signaling"
by Dr Alan Zhu (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
April 20 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Meristem activity controlling plant organ development"
by Prof Kiyotaka Okada (Kyoto University, Japan)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
April 19 (Monday) 4 PM
"Molecular determinants of asymmetric cell division"
by Dr David Pellman (Dana Farber Cancer Institute, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
April 5 (Monday) 11 AM
"Photoreceptor ubiquitination by COP1 E3 ligase desensitizes phytochrome A signaling"
by Dr Hak Soo Seo (Rockefeller University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
March 29 (Monday) 4 PM
"Fun Genomics with Arabidopsis and rice"
by Prof Venkatesan Sundaresan (University of California, Davis, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
March 16 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Cilia function in zebrafish kidney organogenesis"
by Dr Iain Drummond (Massachusetts General Hospital, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
March 9 (Tuesday) 11 AM
"Cell Biology of Retrograde Transport"
by Dr Sandhya P Koushika (Washington University School of Medicine, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
March 8 (Monday) 4 PM
"Enhancer detection in the zebrafish genome"
by Dr Thomas Becker (Sars International Centre for Molecular Marine Biology, Norway)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
February 24 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Regulation of early axis formation in the vertebrate embryo"
by Prof David Kimelman (University of Washington, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
February 18 (Wednesday) 11 AM
"Patterning the Vertebrate Embryo: Signalling Centres and Modulation of Nodal Activity"
by Dr Mike Jones (Institute of Cancer Research, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
February 17 (Tuesday) 11 AM
"Epidermal Cell Patterning and Differentiation in Plants: Lessons from Arabidopsis Trichomes"
by Mr B.P. Srinivas (University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, The NUS
February 13 (Friday) 4 PM
"Functional Imaging of Working Memory Following 24 Hour Total Sleep Deprivation"
by Dr Michael Chee (SingHealth Research Facilities, Singapore)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
February 3 (Tuesday) 11 AM
"Wiring sensory neurons to the olfactory lobe of Drosophila"
by Dr Veronica Rodrigues (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
January 15 (Thursday) 11 AM
"Protein quality control in the secretory pathway"
by Dr Karin Romisch (University of Cambridge, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
January 17 (Saturday) 2 PM
"An actin spring powers the acrosome reaction, the most powerful of actin-based engines"
by Prof Paul Matsudaira (MIT, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
January 19 (Monday) 10 AM
PhD Defense Seminar
"Analysis of the Multisubunit Exocyst Complex in Schizosaccharomyces pombe"
by Ms Wang Hongyan (Laboratory of Cell Division)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
January 8 (Thursday) 4 PM
"Mechanisms of asymmetric cell division in C. elegans embryos"
by Dr Pierre Gönczy (ISREC, Switzerland)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
January 8 (Thursday) 11 AM
"Churchill, a Zinc Finger Transcriptional Activator, Regulates the Transition between Gastrulation and Neurulation"
by Dr Guojun Sheng (University College London, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
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