2007

December 14 (Friday) 11 AM
"The polerovirus F-box protein P0 targets ARGONAUTE1 to suppress RNA silencing"
by Dr Pascal Genschik (IBMP, CNRS Strasbourg, France)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

December 12 (Wednesday) 10.30 AM
"Growth factor signaling in mouse development"
by Dr Philippe Soriano (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

December 03 (Monday) 4 PM
"Distinct kinetic mechanisms of the two classes of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases"
by Dr Ya-Ming Hou (Thomas Jefferson University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

November 21 (Wednesday) 4 PM
"The beginning of the ends: a curvature-mediateed mechanism for the polar localization of lipids in bacteria"
by Dr Kerwyn Huang (Princeton University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

November 19 (Monday) 4 PM
"The Arabidopsis SERK receptor complexes mediate brassinosteroid related and unrelated pathways"
by Prof David Virshup (Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

November 16 (Friday) 11 AM
"The Arabidopsis SERK receptor complexes mediate brassinosteroid related and unrelated pathways"
by Prof Sacco de Vries (Wageningen University, Netherlands)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

November 15 (Thursday) 4 PM
"Genes controlling cell shape changes and migration that make Volvox embryos inside-out are revealed by transposon-tagging system"
by Dr Ichiro Nishii (RIKEN Institute, Wako, Japan)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

November 06 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Troubled mitosis: What happens when cleavage fails or mitosis is too long"
by Prof Greenfield Sluder (University of Massachussetts Medical School, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

November 01 (Thursday) 4 PM
"Properties of fission yeast actin: similarity and difference to animal actins"
by Dr Eugene Makeyev (Harvard University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

October 31 (Wednesday) 10.30 AM
"Post-transcriptional regulation in developing nervous system: microRNAs, alternative splicing and beyond"
by Prof Issei Mabuchi (Gakushuin University, Japan)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

October 25 (Thursday) 10.30 AM
"Regulation of cell surface mechanics and tissue morphogenesis"
by Dr Thomas Lecuit (IBDML, France)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

October 22 (Monday) 10.30 AM
"Cell identity is a major determinant of stress response in Arabidopsis roots"
by Dr Jose Dinneny (Duke University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

October 15 (Monday) 4 PM
"Mechanisms of cold stress tolerance adaptation in vertebrates: The role of delta 9-acyl desaturases"
by Prof Andrew Cossins (The University of Liverpool, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

September 03 (Monday) 4 PM
"Epigenetic control of neural fate in the developing zebrafish CNS"
by Dr Vincent Cunliffe (Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, The University of Sheffield, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

August 20 (Monday) 4 PM
"Live imaging lipid and lysosomal trafficking in neurodegeneration models"
by Dr Rachel Kraut (Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

August 06 (Monday) 4 PM
"The Sec protein translocation system of E. coli and its regulation by SecM"
by Prof Koreaki Ito (Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Japan)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

August 06 (Monday) 11 AM
"Move! Making skeletal muscle in vertebrates"
by Dr Susanne Dietrich (King's College London, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

July 30 (Monday) 4 PM
"From Moss to Arabidopsis: The role of Polycomb proteins in the regulation of phase transition and differentiation"
by Dr Nir Ohad (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

July 16 (Monday) 4 PM
"Microfluidics, microtubules and cellular pattern formation"
by Dr Phong T. Tran (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

July 13 (Friday) 4 PM
"Functional genomics of the female gametophyte: Genes, genomes and conflicts"
by Prof Venkatesan Sundaresan (University of California, Davis, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

July 11 (Wednesday) 4 PM
"Milton and Darwin: Two Views of Creation"
A Public Lecture by Nobel Laureate Sir Prof Paul Nurse
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

June 28 (Thursday) 10 AM
"Regulation of Cytokinesis in the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe"
by Mr Mithilesh Mishra (Cell Division Group)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

June 26 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"microRNA biogenesis and function in Arabidopsis"
by Dr Chen Xuemei (University of California, Riverside, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

June 18 (Monday) 4 PM
"Regulation of membrane trafficking in Arabidopsis"
by Prof Gerd Jurgens (ZMBP - Center of Plant Molecular Biology, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

June 11 (Monday) 4 PM
"Patterning genes in land plants"
by Prof John Bowman (Monash University, Australia)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

June 05 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"Nitrate assimilation in the ascomycetes, gene clustering, chromatin structure and intracellular signalling"
by Prof Claudio Scazzocchio (Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, France) Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

May 21 (Monday) 4 PM
"E2F transcription factors of Arabidopsis"
by Prof Dirk Inze (Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Ghent University, Belgium)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

May 15 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"SinR and the transition from motility to biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis"
by Dr Daniel Kearns(Indiana University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

May 15 (Tuesday) 3 PM
"Signal regulating force and cell adhesion during epithelial morphogenesis in Drosophila"
by Dr Shigeo Hayashi (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

May 15 (Tuesday) 2 PM
"Self-renewal and differentiation in Drosophila neural progenitor divisions"
by Dr Fumio Matsuzaki (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

May 08 (Tuesday) 4 PM
"In hot water: Exploring hot-spring microbial mat communities using genomic and metagenomic analyses"
by Dr Devaki Bhaya (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford University, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

May 07 (Monday) 4 PM
"Imaging key events in cardiovascular development"
by Prof Scott E Fraser (Biological Imaging Center, Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

April 25 (Wednesday) 4 PM
"Regulation of EGFR signaling during Drosophila development by intracellular trafficking"
by Prof Ben-Zion Shilo (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

April 18 (Wednesday) 4 PM
"Physical and genetic modelling of plant morphogenesis"
by Dr Jim Haseloff (University of Cambridge, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

March 29 (Thursday) 4 PM
"Transcription factor pathways in heart development and congenital heart disease"
by Dr Richard Harvey (The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, St Vincents Hospital, Australia)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

March 26 (Monday) 4 PM
PhD Defense Seminar
"Androgen receptors in teleosts"
by Prof Per-Erik Olsson (Orebro University, Sweden)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

March 08 (Thursday) 10 AM
"Functional genomic analysis of fission yeast kinome and characterisation of a phosphoinositide dependent protein kinase homologue, Pdk1p"
by Ms Andrea Bimbo (Cell Division Group)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

March 07 (Wednesday) 3 PM
"Analysis of Regulator of G-Protein Signaling (RGS) function in growth, development and pathogenicity of Magnaporthe grisea"
by Mr Liu Hao (Fungal Patho-Biology Group)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

March 05 (Monday) 4 AM
"Unfolded Protein Response: How the Endoplasmic Reticulum Talks to the Nucleus"
by Dr Peter Walter (HHMI/UCSF, USA)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

March 01 (Thursday) 10 AM
"Role of lipid catablism in the pathogenicity of the rice-blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea"
by Ms Marilou Ramos-Pamplona (Fungal Patho-Biology Group)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

February 06 (Tuesday) 11 AM
"Genome-wide RNAi Approaches to Dissect Signaling Networks"
by Dr Michael Boutros (German Cancer Research Center, Germany)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

February 05 (Monday) 4 PM
"Specification and Emergence of Function in the Embryonic Nervous System of Drosophila"
by Prof Michael Bate (University of Cambridge, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

February 02 (Friday) 11 AM
"Neuronal guidance and degeneration in Drosophila"
by Prof K Vijayraghavan (National Centre for Biological Sciences, India)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS

January 26 (Friday) 11 AM
"The development of locomotion: Examples from crawling and walking in Drosophila"
by Prof Guy Tear (MRC Centre of Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London, UK)
Venue: Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, NUS