2008

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 Alcaro 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