Past Seminars

2013

 

January 17
11:00AM – Wesley Goi, Kelvin Lee
“Metatranscriptomic analysis of complex activated sludge communities.” and “More are better than one: community interactions change biofilm development and stress responses.”
January 13
11:00AM – Dr Federico Lauro, ARC DECRA Research Fellow
“Marine Community Genomics: from theory to practice.”

2012

 

December 13
11:00AM – Hong Wu, SCELSLE Senior Research Fellow
“The formation and dispersion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms in related to cyclic-di-GMP and natural compounds.”
December 6
11:00AM – Linda Kenney PhD, University of Illinois-Chicago and Mechanobiology Institute-Singapore
“Environmental sensing by the EnvZ histidine kinase”
December 4
10:30AM – Dr. Damien Keogh
“Insights into Bacterial Iron Transport - Novel MFS and ABC Transporters”
November 22
11:00AM – Alexander D. Bershadsky - The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel and Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore
“Forces and signaling in the self-organization of actin cytoskeleton and focal adhesions”
November 15
11:00AM – Martina Erken PhD – UNSW/Center for Marine Biology
“Protozoa - bacteria interactions within biofilm communities”
November 9
10:30AM – Dr. Sarah Holec
“Genome-wide profiling and dynamics of H3 histone variants in Arabidopsis thaliana”
November 8
11:00AM – Bärbel Stecher PhD, Max von Pettenkofer-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
“The role of the host response in colicin-dependent E. coli – Salmonella competition in the gut”
October 23
SPECIAL TIME and PLACE: Tuesday 3:30 PM, NUS CeLS Auditorium Level 1, Scott Hultgren PhD – Professor, Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine
"A Molecular Blueprint for Urinary Tract Infection: E. coli Pathogenesis Translated to Clinical Application"
October 22
SPECIAL TIME: Monday, 11AM - Drew Schwartz – Washington University School of Medicine
"Intracellular E. coli community formation triggers chronic urinary tract infection"
October 18
11:00AM – Chenjie Xu PhD - Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, NTU
“Functional Nanoparticles for Molecular Imaging and Drug Delivery”
September 27
11:00AM – Enrico Marsilli PhD – SCELSE Visiting Assistant Professor/Dublin City University
"Advancing direct electrochemistry of biofilms"
September 13
11:00AM – Joanne Yew, PhD – TLL
"Using mass spectrometry to decipher the chemical language of insects"
August 23
11:00AM – Niranjan Nagarajan PhD, A*STAR/Genome Institute of Singapore
"Profiling Complex Microbial Communities using Short-read Sequencing"
August 21
11:00AM – Jade Chung PhD
"Type III secretion system expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms"
August 17
11:00AM – Ana Carolina Martins Junqueira PhD, DCenter for Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, State University of Campinas, Brazil
"From mitogenomics to metagenomics: an overview of the blowflies’ diversity"
August 16
11:00AM - Xie Chao PhD, Research Fellow NUS
"Metagenome and metatranscriptome analysis of a water reclamation plant"
August 3
2:30PM – Daniel Huson PhD , Department of Computer Science, University of Tuebingen
"New tools for analyzing metagenomic data"
July 27
2:30PM – Shu Sin Chng PhD, NUS Department of Chemistry
"Lipopolysaccharide assembly in Gram-negative bacteria"
May 18
2:30PM – Greg Jedd PhD, Temasek Lifesciences Laboratory
"Molecular self-organization at fungal organelles and cell-to-cell channels"
Apr 27
2:30PM - Ali Miserez, NTU School of Materials Science & Engineering
Underwater Adhesion Strategies of Mussels and Implications for Biofouling
Apr 23
2:30PM - Chris Lu Fan PhD, University of New South Wales
The legend of microbial symbiosis -- how hard is to live in a forbidden city?
Apr 13
2:30PM – Liang Yang PhD, SCELSE
Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm development in flow cells
Mar 23
2:30PM – GAN Yunn Hwen, Associate Professor, NUS Department of Biochemistry
Bacterial virulence and susceptibility of Type 2 diabetics to intracellular bacterial disease
Mar 19
2:00PM - Rupert J. Craggs PhD
New Zealand experience withlow energy wastewater treatment and recovery using enhanced pond systems
Mar 9
2:30PM – Thomas Seviour, SCELSE
Understanding the structure-property relationships in biofilm matrices (Can this information be used to engineer better biofilms/biomaterials?)
Feb 17
3PM – Rohan Williams, SCELSE
Feb 10 23
3PM – Gui Bazan
Feb 9
10AM – Katherine Helliwell PhD, University of Cambridge Dept of Plant Sciences
The evolution of vitamin B12 dependence in algae - a driver for algal-bacterial symbiosis
Jan 27
3PM – Hao SONG, NTU School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Engineering electroactive biofilm: Synthetic biology meets environments and energy
Jan 13
3PM – Bill Burkholder, A*STAR
Microfluidics-based approaches for studying transcriptional and protein regulatory networks and for single cell analysis
Jan 9
2pm - Saravanan Periasamy, NIH National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease
Staphylococcus aureus biofilms
Jan 6
10am – Giovanna Carpi, Pennsylvania State University & Edmund Mach Foundation
Metagenomic analysis to unravel the microbial diversity associated with the European tick

2011

 

Dec 25

Quorum sensing and biofilm dispersion

3PM - Lian Hui ZHANG, A*STAR/Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology
Dec 16

The genomics of algae physiology in model and non-model organisms

3PM - Neil Clarke, A*STAR/Genome Institute of Singapore
Dec 9

New Insights into Disease from Positive Selection

10AM - Swaine Chen, A*STAR/Genome Institute of Singapore