2005
Dec 12 (Monday) 11 AM
"Regulation of an essential polycomb gene during Arabidopsis seed development"
by Dr Daphna Michaeli (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Dec 7 (Wednesday) 10 AM
PhD Defense Seminar
"Specificity and Diversity in the Vertebrate Nervous System: an analysis of two genes"
by Mr Mahendra D Wagle (Developmental Neurobiology Group)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Dec 5 (Monday) 4 PM
"Function and Regulation of centralspindlin, a kinesin/RhoGAP complex, in cytokinesis"
by Dr Masanori Mishima (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Nov 28 (Monday) 10:30 AM
"Structural insights into RISC assembly and RISC-mediated mRNA cleavage in RNA interference"
by Dr Yu-Ren Yuan (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Nov 25 (Friday) 11 AM
"Control of cell cycle and differentiation in Arabidopsis"
by Prof Willi Gruissem (Institute of Plant Sciences, Switzerland)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Nov 7 (Monday) 4 PM
"Splitsville: How bacterial tubulin FtsZ divides E.coli cells"
by Prof William Margolin (University of Texas Medical School, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Nov 7 (Monday) 11 AM
"GFI1/Senseless role in Cancer and Ataxia"
by Dr Hugo Bellen (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Nov 4 (Friday) 11 AM
"Math1 and Atonal inProprioception and Hearing"
by Dr Hugo Bellen (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Oct 28 (Friday) 11 AM
"Self-renewing mechanisms of stem cells in the germline"
by Dr Haifan Lin (Duke University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Oct 17 (Monday) 4 PM
"Natural and artificial nucleotide exchange factors for G-alpha subunits
- mechanistic insights into cell division"
by Dr David Siderovski (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Oct 3 (Monday) 4 PM
"The dynamics of mitosis and its control at the centromere"
by Prof Christian Lehner (Universitat Bayreuth, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
Contact: cindy@tll.org.sg
View abstract here ( PDF format)
September 20 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Derailing the locomotive: gene regulation by dismantling the RNA pol II elongation complex"
by Dr David Gilmour (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
View abstract here
September 16 (Friday) 11 AM
"Enhancer dissection of reproductive development in Arabidopsis"
by Dr R. Baskar (Indian Institute of Technology, India)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
September 15 (Thursday) 11 AM
"The Epichloe festucae-perennial ryegrass mutualistic symbiosis: analysis of endophyte genes for bioprotection and maintenance of mutualism"
by Prof Barry Scott (Institute of Molecular BioSciences, Massey University, New Zealand)
Venue: 5th flr Seminar Room, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
September 7 (Wednesday) 4 PM
"Making and Changing the Drosophila olfactory system"
by Dr Veronica Rodrigues (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
September 7 (Wednesday) 10.30 AM
"Plant protein-based green wood adhesives and paper additives"
by A/Prof Kaichang Li (Oregon State University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
September 6 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Roles of Unfolded Protein Response during the Hemoatopoietic Stem Cell Development"
by Dr Maho Niwa (University of California, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
View abstract here
August 29 (Monday) 4 PM
"The genetic and molecular control of asexual seed formation (apomixis) in a natural apomict: Hieracium"
by Prof Anna Koltunow (CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
August 25 (Thursday) 4 PM
"Molecular Basis for Rice Design"
by Prof Li Jiayang (Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People's Republic of China)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
August 22 (Monday) 4 PM
"Maternal and Zygotic processes of cell fate specification during ascidian embryogenesis"
by Dr Hiroki Nishida (Osaka University, Japan)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
August 19 (Friday) 10 AM
"An Inducible-Targeted Tagging System For Localized Insertional Mutagenesis In Arabidopsis thaliana"
by Ms Bindu Nishal
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
August 15 (Monday) 4 PM
"A third type of actin-based cellular engine, the horseshoe crab acrosomal process, an actin spring"
by Prof Paul Matsudaira (MIT Department of Biology, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
June 7 (Tuesday) 10:30 AM
"Lipid Signaling in Chemotaxis"
by Dr Miho Iijima (The John Hopkins Univerity, School of Medicine, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
June 6 (Monday) 4 PM
"Roles of Rho Family GTPases in Regulation of Cell Migration and Polarity"
by Prof Kozo Kaibuchi (Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
July 4 (Monday) 4 PM
"Why is the Y Chromosome so Polymorphic in Guppies?"
by Dr. Rob Brooks (UNSW, Sydney, Australia)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, The NUS
May 31 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"A gene expression map of Arabidopsis development"
by Dr Jan U. Lohmann (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
May 30 (Monday) 4 PM
"The evolution cichlid fishes and their genomes: from trees to comparative genomics"
by Prof Axel Meyer (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
May 27 (Friday) 4 PM
"dSTIM in signalling and development"
by Mr Jean-Pierre S. Eid (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
May 27 (Friday) 9:30 AM
"Genomic Approaches to studying speciation in Lake Malawi cichlids"
by Prof Thomas Kocher (University of New Hampshire, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
May 26 (Thursday) 4 PM
"Evolution and the Genomic Revolution: Whole Genome Content and Expression"
by Dr Jeffrey Townsend (University of Connecticut, USA
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
May 25 (Wednesday) 4 PM
"Cellular Development in an epidermis - 450 million years of conservation"
by Prof Liam Dolan (John Innes Centre, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
May 19 (Thursday) 11 AM
" Regulation of plant hormone signaling by ubiquitin and microRNAs"
by Prof Chua Nam Hai (Rockefeller University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
May 12 (Thursday) 4 PM
"Transcription factors regulating development of the rice flowering stem and floral organs"
by Dr Usha Vijayraghavan (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
May 5 (Thursday) 4 PM
"Cytokinesis in Arabidopsis: Membrane fusion and cytoskeleton dynamics"
by Prof Gerd Juergens (ZMBP - Center of Plant Molecular Biology, Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
April 27 (Wednesday) 4 PM
"Dynamic maintenance of cell polarity in yeast - modeling and biology"
by Dr Roland Wedlich-Soldner (Harvard Medical School, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
April 26 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Hypovirulence: Mycoviruses at the interface of fungal-host pathogenic interactions"
by Prof Donald Nuss (Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
April 25 (Monday) 4 PM
"Subcellular Protein Localization in Bacillus subtilis"
by Dr Kumaran Ramamurthi (Harvard University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
April 13 (Wednesday) 4 PM
"Integrins and morphogenesis"
by Dr Nick Brown (The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute & Dept of Anatomy, University of Cambridge, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
April 11 (Monday) 4 PM
"How much (or little) do we understand about genomes?"
by Dr Elia Stupka (Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Italy)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
April 4 (Monday) 4 PM
"Building the Golgi Apparatus"
by Dr Benjamin Glick (The University of Chicago, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
March 29 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Evolution of regulatory elements. Lessons from the neural determination gene neurogenin1.
by Prof Uwe Straehle (Universität Heidelberg und Institut für Toxikologie und Genetik, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
March 15 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Specification and migration of primordial germ cells in zebrafish"
by Dr Erez Raz (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
March 8 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Segmental patterning of the vertebrate axis"
by Dr Olivier Pourquie (Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
March 2 (Wednesday) 4 PM
"Hedgehog signaling and muscle development in the zebrafish"
by Prof Phil Ingham (University of Sheffield, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
February 28 (Monday) 4 PM
"Hedgehog signaling and Ci proteolysis: a tale of three kinases"
by Dr Mary Ann Price (University of Sheffield, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS
January 28 (Friday) 8.30 AM - 5.00 PM
"Symposium on Prevention and Control of Bird Flu and Human Flu Pandemics"
by the Singapore Society for Microbiology & Biotechnology and the Department of Microbiology, NUS
Venue: Grand Ballroom 1 (Level 4), Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore
January 17 (Monday) 10:30 AM
"C. elegans morphogenesis as a model for gene discovery and functional analysis"
by Dr Andrew Chisholm (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, NUS
January 10 (Monday) 4 PM
"Impact of Vaccines and Future of Genetically Modified Vaccines for Food Producing Animals"
by Dr Deoki N Tripathy (University of Illinois, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, NUS
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