IMCB Event

Tuesday, 6 June 2023, 11.00AM - 12.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 6 June 2023
Speaker: Prof Lynne E. Maquat
Professor, Departments of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Oncology, and Pediatrics,
School of Medicine and Dentistry,
Director, Center for RNA Biology: From Genome to Therapeutics
University of Rochester, USA
Nonsense-mediated mRNA Decay in Human Health and Disease

Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673

Host: Prof Hong Wanjin

Wednesday to Friday, 26 - 28 April 2023

Cell Symposia: Neurometabolism in Health and Disease
Venue: Matrix Level 2 Auditorium, Biopolis, Singapore

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Click HERE for Registration ( The early registration deadline is 3 March )

We also welcome abstract submission to be considered for poster presentations
and limited number of oral presentations ( deadline is extended to 3 February)
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For enquiry, please contact Dr Yu FU via email : fu_yu@imcb.a-star.edu.sg

Friday, 14 April 2023, 11.00AM – 12.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 14April 2023
Speaker: Dr Jared Rutter
Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry,
Dee Glen and Ida Smith Endowed Chair for Cancer Research at the University of Utah
Metabolism, Cellular Decisions and the Language That Unites Them

Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673 (Physical)

Host: Prof Han Weiping

Wednesday, 12 April 2023, 4.00PM – 5.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 12 April 2023
Speaker: Prof Philip Ingham
Professor, Developmental Biology, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Farewell to Singapore: Stories from a Journey through the Life Sciences

Venue: IMCB Staff Event Room 7-19, Level 7 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673 (Physical)

Host: Dr Sudipto Roy

Monday, 27 March 2023, 11.00AM - 12.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 27 March 2023
Speakers: A/Prof Beng Ti Ang, Head of Neurosurgery, National Neuroscience Institute (NNI)
A/Prof Carol Tang, Co-lead of the Neuro-Oncology Research Program,
National Neuroscience Institute (NNI)
A Paradigm Shift in the Approach to Diagnose and Treat Glioblastoma Tumors

Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673

Host: Dr Andrea Pavesi

Thursday, 23 March 2023, 2.00PM - 3.00PM

IMCB Seminar Series, Brain and Body Seminar Series: Prof Justin O'Sullivan
Restoring the Microbiome in Obese Adolescents – Does It Make a Difference? (Hybrid)
Speaker: Prof Justin O'Sullivan (Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673 (Hybrid)

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Hosts: Dr Caroline Wee (IMCB)

Wednesday, 22 March 2023, 11.00AM - 12.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 22 March 2023
Speaker: A/Prof Nicholas Tolwinski
Associate Professor, Yale-NUS College
Combining Stem Cell Rejuvenation and Senescence Targeting to Synergistically Extend Lifespan
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673
Host: Prof Jonathan Loh

Monday, 13 March 2023, 9.00AM - 5.30PM

Nutrition & Metabolism Symposium 2023
Venue: Matrix Theatrette 2, Level 2M, 30 Biopolis St, Singapore 138673
(No registration required )

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Hosts: Dr Caroline WEE (IMCB)

Wednesday, 1 March 2023, 11.00AM - 12.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 1 March 2023
Speaker: A/Prof Patricia Pelufo Silveira
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
Insulin Moderates the Effects of Early Adversity on Child Behavior and Executive Function
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673
Host: Prof Han Weiping

Wednesday, 22 February 2023, 11.00AM - 12.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 22 February 2023
Speaker: Prof Michael Hall
Professor & Former Chair of Biochemistry,
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
mTOR Signaling in Growth and Metabolism
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673
Host: Prof Han Weiping

Thursday, 16 February 2023, 2.00PM - 3.00PM

IMCB Research Excellence Seminar Series: A/Prof Diego Bohórquez
Speaker: A/Prof Diego Bohórquez (Dept. of Medicine and Neurobiology, Duke University, USA)
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673 (Hybrid)

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Hosts: Dr Sarah Luo (IMCB)

Friday, 10 February 2023, 2.00PM - 3.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 10 February 2023
Speaker: Dr Julian Jude
Scientific Development Manager, Twist Bioscience
Accelerating the CRISPR revolution with limitless synthetic DNA
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673
Host: Dr Eugene Lee

Wednesday, 8 February 2023, 2.00PM – 3.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 8 February 2023
Speaker: Prof John F. Rawls
Professor, Departments of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, and Medicine
Director, Duke Microbiome Center, Duke University School of Medicine
Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms Mediating Host-Microbiome Interactions in the Vertebrate Intestine
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673
Host: Dr Caroline Wee

Monday, 6 February 2023, 11.00AM - 12.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 6 February 2023
Speaker: Prof Hailan Hu
Director, School of Brain Science and Brain Medicine, Zhejiang University
From Pecking Order to Ketamine – Neural mechanisms of social and emotional behaviors
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673
Host: Prof Han Weiping

Friday, 3 February 2023, 2.00PM - 3.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 3 February 2023
Speaker: Prof Tim Mitchison
Dept. of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
How do Microtubule Drugs act as Medicines?
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673
Host: Prof Hong Wanjin

Thursday, 2 February 2023, 11.00AM - 12.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 2 February 2023
Speaker: Prof Michael Meaney
Director, A*STAR Translational Neuroscience programme, Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences,
Co-Director of the Brain – Body Initiative Strategic Research Initiative
Expression-Based Polygenic Scores: Leveraging Transcriptomic Analyses, Bioinformatics and Human Data to Examine the Molecular Mechanisms of Mood Disorders
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673
Host: Prof Han Weiping

Tuesday, 31 January 2023, 11.00AM - 12.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 31 January 2023
Speaker: Prof Michael Birnbaum
Principal Investigator,
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), USA
Decoding and Rewiring Immunity
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673
Host: Dr Andrea Pavesi

Friday, 27 January 2023, 2.00PM - 3.00PM

IMCB Research Excellence Seminar Series: Prof Didier Stainier
Speaker: Prof Didier Stainier (Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Germany)
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673 (Hybrid)

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Hosts: Dr Caroline Wee (IMCB) & Dr Ajay Mathuru (Yale-NUS College)

Friday, 26 January 2023, 3.00PM - 4.00PM

IMCB Research Excellence Seminar Series: A/Prof Jacques Behmoaras
Speaker: A/Prof Jacques Behmoaras (Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Centre for Computational Biology (CCB), Program in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders, Duke-NUS Medical School)
Targeting white adipose tissue macrophages during obesity and ageing

Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673

Hosts: Prof Han Weiping

Wednesday, 4 January 2023, 11.00AM - 12.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 4 January 2023
Speaker 1: A/Prof Jun-Seok Lee,
Department of Pharmacology, Korea University
Chemical tools and methods shed light on biological phenomena:
photo-affinity for interactome study

Speaker 2: Prof Yun Kyung Kim,
Principal Research Scientist,
Korea Institute of Science & Technology (KIST),
Brain Science Institute, Korea
Tau-BiFC platform to visualize tau oligomerization in the brain and its applications

Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673
Host: Prof Han Weiping

Wednesday to Friday, 7 – 9 December 2022

14th Stem Cell Society Singapore Symposium 2022
Venue: Clinical Sciences Building, LKCM, Novena

Website: https://www.stemcell.org.sg/symposium22.html
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Monday, 28 November 2022, 3.00PM - 4.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 28 November 2022
Speaker: Prof Christian Wolfrum,
Full Professor for Translational Nutritional Research, ETH Zürich
Adipose Tissue Heterogeneity and Plasticity – Implications for Metabolic Homeostasis
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673
Host: Prof Han Weiping

Monday to Tuesday, 21-22 November 2022

2022 Singapore Symposium on Metabolic Diseases (SSMD) / Asia-Pacific Diabetes and Obesity Study Group Annual Conference (APDO)
Venue: Multi-purpose Halls 1&2, Innovis, Fusionopolis, 2 Fusionopolis Way

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For more information, please contact Xing Xing via email : Xing_Xing@imcb.a-star.edu.sg

Friday, 18 November 2022, 2.00PM - 3.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 18 November 2022
Speaker: A/Prof LU Lei, Associate Professor,
School of Biological Sciences,
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Solving Golgi's Mysteries with New Imaging Tools
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673
Host: Prof Han Weiping

Thursday, 17 November 2022, 2.00PM - 3.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 17 November 2022
Speaker: Dr Steve Mao, Editor-in-Chief,
Cancer Cell Publishing Director, Life & Medical Sciences, Cell Press
Cancer Cell: Advancing with the Community
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673
Host: Dr Fu Yu

Friday, 11 November 2022, 11.00AM - 12.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 11 November 2022
Speaker: Prof Hai Yan, MD, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center;
Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Genetron Health, Inc
Leveraging Genomic and Biological Data to Advance Biomarker Discovery for Cancer Diagnosis and Drug Development
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis, Singapore 138673
Host: Prof Li Qi-Jing

Monday to Thursday, 10-13 October 2022

EMBO Workshop on DNA Damage Response, Immunity and Aging (Hybrid)
Venue: Centre for Life Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, NUS, 28 Medical Dr, Singapore 117456

Website: https://meetings.embo.org/event/20-dna-damage
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Thursday, 29 September 2022, 3.30PM - 4.30PM

IMCB Seminar : 29 September 2022
Speaker: A/Prof Matthew Hirschey, Departments of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology,
Metabolism and Nutrition and Pharmacology & Cancer Biology,
Director of the Center for Computational Thinking, Duke University
Making data-driven hypotheses for novel metabolic gene functions
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis
Host: Prof Han Weiping

Friday, 23 September 2022, 3.00PM - 4.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 23 September 2022
Speaker: Dr. Tianyi Zeng, Yale University
Head motion tracking for brain PET using Hardware-based method and Deep Learning method
Venue: Seminar Room, Level 2 Helios Building, 11 Biopolis Way, Biopolis (Physical)
(Please enter via Level 1 entrance #01-02 and take the internal stairs up to Level 2)
Host: Prof Han Weiping

Tuesday, 13 September 2022, 4.00PM - 5.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 13 September 2022
Speaker: Prof Jake Lusis, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Crossing-Tissue Communications in Heart Failure
Venue: Seminar Room, Level 2 Helios Building, 11 Biopolis Way, Biopolis (Physical)
(Please enter via Level 1 entrance #01-02 and take the internal stairs up to Level 2)
Host: Prof Han Weiping

Friday, 26 August 2022, 10.00AM

ASTEM Webinar: 26 August 2022
Speaker: Dr Joe Valdez
Reimagining the future of high-throughput screening with the Berkeley Lights Platform

Wednesday, 24 August 2022, 3:00PM - 4:00PM

IMCB Research Excellence Seminar Series: 24 August 2022
Speaker: Prof Anurag Agrawal
a) Variants and Vaccines: Lessons from the COVID19 pandemic
b) Technology, Society and the Future of Health
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3, Proteos, Biopolis
Host: Vinay TERGAONKAR

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Wednesday, 10 August 2022, 3.00PM - 4.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 10 August 2022
Speaker: Prof Colin Bingle, Professor of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Sheffield
BPI fold containing proteins: From genome wide to single cell
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis
Host: A/Prof Sudipto Roy

Wednesday, 10 August 2022, 11.00AM - 12.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 10 August 2022
Speaker: Prof Zhu Yi Zhun, Chair Professor of Pharmacology, Dean of the School of Pharmacy,
Macau University of Science and Technology
Therapeutic New Targets for Inflammation and Immune Response: Bench to Bedside
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis
Host: Prof Han Weiping

Monday, 1 August 2022, 3.00PM - 4.00PM

IMCB Seminar : 1 August 2022
Speaker: Prof Kim Jae Bum, Professor of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University
Adipose Stem Cells Determine Fat Depot-Specificity
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3 Proteos, Biopolis
Host: Prof Han Weiping

Friday, 29 July 2022, 11.00AM - 12.00PM

ASTEM Seminar Series: 29 July 2022
Speaker: A/Prof Francis Wong
From the Skin to the Joints: Clinical Translation, Commercialisation and the Future for Cell-based regenerative therapies in Orthopaedic Surgery: where are we headed?
Venue: Level 7 Staff Room, #07-19, Proteos, Biopolis

Wednesday, 27 July 2022, 11.00AM - 12.00PM

IMCB Research Excellence Seminar Series: 27 July 2022
Speaker: Prof Roger Foo
Down the Hill and Up Again
Venue: IMCB Seminar Room 3-46, Level 3, Proteos, Biopolis
Host: Feng XU

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Tuesday, 26 July 2022, 2.00PM - 3.00PM

IMCB Seminar: 26 July 2022
Speaker: Dr Yibin Wang, Professor and Program Director, Duke-NUS Medical School
From Molecules to Systems: Dissecting the Mechanism of Cardiometabolic Diseases
Zoom Meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/95277865259?pwd=NXJjSis1V1BvdUpvZTdhM01FQkVUdz09
Meeting ID: 952 7786 5259
Passcode: 547296

Friday, 30 July 2021, 11.00AM

ASTEM Webinar: 30 July 2021
Speaker: Dr Alexander LEZHAVA
Overview of Genomic Screening & specific reference to Cell Therapy

Speaker: Dr Padmapriya SATHIYANATHAN
Assay Development For Donor Selection And Cell Isolation

Speaker: Dr Tong Ming LIU
Gene and Cell Therapy of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine

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Friday, 28 May 2021, 11.00AM

ASTEM Webinar: 28 May 2021
Speaker: Dr Simon COOL
Expansion and application of allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells

Speaker: Dr Steve OH
Machine learning to predict cell therapies efficacy and a novel cell preservation solution cells

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Tuesday, 20 October 2020, 11.00AM

Virtual Seminar
Speaker: Prof Dario Campana
Transforming the treatment of cancer with immune cells
Jointly hosted by the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology and Stem Cell Society Singapore

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Wednesday, 18 November 2020, 8.45AM - 4.00PM (GMT +11)
Thursday, 19 November 2020, 8.45AM - 4.00PM (GMT +11)

HIPPO 2020 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
HIPPO Signalling in Development, Disease and New Therapies

Organised by:
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR, Singapore
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
Monash University, Australia

IMCB Event

A*STAR celebrates International Women's Day