MBI PhD Qualifying Exam Time: 11am Date: 27 February 2020, Thursday Venue: T-Lab Level 5 Meeting Room 1 Supervisor: Prof Timothy Saunders Co-supervisor: Prof Sudipto Roy RESOLVING THE DYNAMICS OF MYOFIBER MORPHOGENESIS By: Sunandan DHAR, Saunders Group **Please note the examination following the seminar is closed-door**
MBI PhD Oral Defence Time: 4PM Date: Thursday, 27 February 2020 Venue: S3-05-02 - DBS CONFERENCE ROOM I (S3 LEVEL 5) Supervisor: Prof. Low Boon Chuan Co-Supervisor: Prof. Pakorn Tony Kanchanawong ROLES OF BNIP-2 IN MECHANOTRANSDUCTION OF CARDIOMYOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION by WONG Chen Pei Darren, Low Boon Chuan Group Cardiac […]
MBI Student and Postdoc Seminar Series (SPSS) Time: 10.00am – 11.00am Date: Tuesday, 3 March 2020 Venue: Level 5 Meeting Room 1, T-Lab Positive feedback through E-cadherin junction and Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) directs dynamics of junction remodeling By Fu Chaoyu, PhD Student, Viasnoff Group, Sheetz […]
MBI Student and Postdoc Seminar Series (SPSS) Time: 10.00am – 11.00am Date: Tuesday, 3 March 2020 Venue: Level 5 Meeting Room 1, T-Lab Tissue scaling during Drosophila embryo development By Prabhat Tiwari, Research Fellow, Saunders Group Please note this event is open to MBI researchers and invited […]
DBS PhD Oral Defense ROLE OF GDAP2 IN INTEGRATINGERK-FAK SIGNALING FOR CELL MIGRATION AND CANCER METASTASIS Speaker: Somsubhro Mukherjee (Graduate Student, Dept. of Biological Sciences, NUS) Date: 3 Mar 2020, Tuesday Time: 4pm Venue: S2-0414 (Blk S2, Level 4) Supervisor: A/P […]
MBI Weekly Meeting Seminar Time: 10.00am - 11.00am Date: Friday, 6 March 2020 Venue: Level 5 Meeting Room 1, T-Lab Mechanical impact of apoptosis in tissue homeostasis By Prof. Yusuke Toyama, Deputy Director and Associate Professor, Mechanobiology Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, National University […]
MBI PhD Qualifying Exam Time: 11am Date: 6 March 2020, Friday Venue: NUS, E3-06-02 Tutorial Room Supervisor: Prof. Low Boon Chuan THE MECHANOBIOLOGY OF CARDIOMYOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION By: Jingwei XIAO, Low Boon Chuan Group This event is online only During the current situation regarding the COVID-19 virus, MBI seminars […]
MBI PhD Qualifying Exam Time: 3pm Date: 9 March 2020, Monday Venue: T-Lab Level 5 Meeting Room 1 Supervisor: Prof. Pakorn Tony Kanchanawong Co-supervisor: Prof. Virgile Viasnoff MECHANOBIOLOGICAL ROLES OF ADHERENS JUNCTIONS IN THE DIFFERENTIATION OF MURINE EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS By: Moin KHAN, Kanchanawong Group This event is online […]
MBI Student and Postdoc Seminar Series (SPSS) Time: 10.00am – 11.00am Date: Tuesday, 10 March 2020 Venue: Level 5 Meeting Room 1, T-Lab Deep Tissue Physics—Deep Neural Nets for Predicting Dynamic Tissue Parameters By Murat Shagirov, PhD Student, Toyama Group Please note this event is open […]
MBI Student and Postdoc Seminar Series (SPSS) Time: 10.00am – 11.00am Date: Tuesday, 10 March 2020 Venue: Level 5 Meeting Room 1, T-Lab Translocated intimin receptor (Tir)-induced actin filament assembly on supported lipid bilayers in the absence of Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) By Liu Xuyao Priscilla, PhD […]
MBI PhD Qualifying Exam Time: 1030am Date: 11 March 2020, Wednesday Venue: MD1-05-03K – MD1 L5 – Seminar Room Supervisor: Prof. Hanry Yu MECHANOBIOLOGY DISSECTION OF NON-ALCOHOLIC STEATOHEPATITIS (NASH) PROGRESSION AND APPLICATIONS By: ZHAO Zixuan, Yu Group This event is online only During the current situation regarding the […]
MBI PhD Qualifying Exam Time: 4pm Date: 16 March 2020, Monday Venue: T-Lab Level 5 Meeting Room 1 Supervisor: Prof. Hanry Yu SURFACE MORPHOLOGICAL PATTERN REVEALS INVASIVENESS OF COLORECTAL CANCER By: WANG Jiahao, Yu Group This event is online only During the current situation regarding the COVID-19 virus, […]
MBI Student and Postdoc Seminar Series (SPSS) Time: 10.00am – 11.00am Date: Tuesday, 17 March 2020 Venue: Level 5 Meeting Room 1, T-Lab An introduction to academic networking: from conferences to Twitter By Timothy Saunders, Principal Investigator, Mechanobiology Institute (NUS) This event is online only During […]
MBI PhD Qualifying Exam Time: 2pm Date: 19 March 2020, Thursday Venue: T-Lab, Level 5 Meeting Room Supervisor: Prof. Toyama Yusuke INVESTIGATING THE MECHANICS OF MACROPHAGE-MEDIATED APOPTOTIC ADIPOCYTE CLEARANCE This event is online only During the current situation regarding the COVID-19 virus, MBI seminars will only be […]
MBI Weekly Meeting Seminar Time: 10.00am - 11.00am Date: Friday, 20 March 2020 Venue: Level 5 Meeting Room 1, T-Lab Muscling into shape – formation of the zebrafish myotome By Prof. Timothy Saunders, Associate Professor, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore This event is online only During the […]
MBI Student and Postdoc Seminar Series (SPSS) Time: 10.00am – 11.00am Date: Tuesday, 24 March 2020 Venue: Level 5 Meeting Room 1, T-Lab Crosstalk between mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo1 and focal adhesions By Yao Mingxi, Research Fellow, Sheetz Group Please note this event is open to […]
MBI Student and Postdoc Seminar Series (SPSS) Time: 10.00am – 11.00am Date: Tuesday, 31 March 2020 Venue: Online seminar via ZOOM Interactions between Salmonella and tumor aggregates on chip By Xu Lisheng, PhD Student, Kenney Group. This event is online only During the current situation regarding […]
MBI PhD Qualifying Exam Time: 2pm Date: 2 April 2020, Thursday Venue: T-Lab, Level 5 Meeting Room Supervisor: Prof. Yan Jie MECHANICAL STABILITY OF FILAMIN-MEDIATED CONNECTION BETWEEN CYTOSKELETON NETWORK AND MEMBRANE RECEPTORS By: DENG Yunxin, Yan Jie Group Abstract: Mechanosensing of cells involves dynamic assembly of various supramolecular […]
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