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Affiliated labs ca. 2013

SFN-Singapore May 1, 2013 8 min read

For posterity, a page from the old SFNSG website listing affiliations. This list of affiliated labs is from around 2013.

Affiliations

NUS Neurobiology/Ageing Programme (Life Science Institute)
NUS
NTU
A*STAR
Duke-NUS
NNI
Other Institutions

NUS Neurobiology/Ageing Programme (Life Science Institute)

Principal Investigators	Departments/ Affiliations	Research Interest 1	Research Interest 2	Research Interest 3	Link
Alan Lee Yiu Wah	Dept of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Molecular and cellular biology	Development Biology	Synaptic Plasticity
Andrew Michael Jenner	Dept of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Oxidative stress	Neurodegenerative disease	Molecular and cellular biology
Annett Schirmer	Dept of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Emotion	Communication	Interindividual differences
Barry Halliwell	Dept of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Oxidative stress	Neurodegenerative disease	Molecular and cellular biology
Benjamin Ong KC	Dept of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Bioimaging	Neuroepidemiology	Neuroimmunology
Christopher Chen Li Hsian	Dept of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Stroke/Trauma	Neurodegenerative disease	Epidemiology and trials
Einar Wilder-Smith	Dept of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Clinical Neurophysiology	Peripheral nerve disorders	Diabetic & Pain Neuropathy
Gavin Dawe	Dept of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Electrophsiology	Mental health	Molecular and cellular biology
Jeyaseelan Kandiah	Dept of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Molecular and cellular biology	Neuroprotection	Stroke/Trauma
Lim Kah Leong	Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School	Neurodegenerative disease	Dementia	Molecular and cellular biology
Liou Yih-Cherng	Dept of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science	Genetics	Molecular and cellular biology	Signalling
Low Chian Ming	Dept of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Genetics	Molecular and cellular biology	Electrophysiology
Markus R Wenk	Dept of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Lipidomics	System biology	Lipid-protein interactions
Michael Chee Wei-Liang	Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School	Behavioural/cognitive	Ageing and dementia	Sleep
Mitchell Lai Kim Peng	Dept of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Stroke/Trauma	Neurodegenerative disease	Epidemiology and trials
Nicholas Hon Hsueh Hsien	Dept of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Attention	Executive Control	Association Cortex
Ong Wei Yi	Dept of Anatomy, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Neurodegenerative disease	Dementia	Molecular and cellular biology
Peter Wong Tsun Hon	Dept of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Molecular and cellular biology	Neuroprotection	Stroke/Trauma
Sanjay Khanna	Dept of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Genetics	Molecular and cellular biology	Electrophysiology
Sheu Fwu-Shan	Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Facult of Engineering	Synaptic Plasticity	Electrophysiology	Devices
Song Jianxing	Dept of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Neurodegenerative disease	Proteomics	Molecular and cellular biology
Soong Tuck Wah	Dept of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Molecular and cellular biology	Ion channels	Parkinson’s disease
Stacey Tay Kiat Hong	Dept of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Genetics	Neurodegenerative disease	Memory and learning
Tang Bor Luen	Dept of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Genetics	Molecular and cellular biology
Tang Feng-Ru	Temasek Lab	Epilepsy
Too Heng-Phon	Dept of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Genetics	Molecular and cellular biology
Trevor B Penny	Dept of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Memory	Timing	Language
Wang Shu	Dept of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science	Genetics	Molecular and cellular biology	Devices
Wong Boon Seng	Dept of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Neurodegenerative disease
Yee Woon Chee	Singapore General Hospital	Neuromuscular disease
Yen Shih-Cheng	Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Facult of Engineering	Neural coding	Visual psychophysics	Comupational neuroscience

NUS

Principal Investigators	Departments/ Affiliations	Research Interest 1	Research Interest 2	Research Interest 3	Link
Low Boon Chuan	Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science	Cell Signalling	Development Biology	Mechanobiology
Ling Eng Ang	Dept of Anatomy, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Microglia in CNS	Development Biology	Structural organization of Autonomic Nervous System
George Yip	Dept of Anatomy, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Developmental Biology
Liang Fengyi	Dept of Anatomy, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Synaptic Plasticity	Cell type-specific novel genes/proteins	Glia neurobiology
Samuel Tay	Dept of Anatomy, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Adult stem cells	Parkinson’s disease
He Beiping	Dept of Anatomy, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Microglial cells and neurons in neurodegenerative diseases	Biology of adult bone marrow stem cells
Tan Hao Yang	Dept of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Neural circuitry	Genetic basis of psychosis
Kumar Rajeev	Dept of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Aging	Mild cognitive impairment	Neuropsychiatry
Charanjit Kuar	Dept of Anatomy, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Neonatal hypoxia	Immunobiology of microglial cells	Age related structural and molecular changes in hypothalamus
Lee Tat Leang	Dept of Anaesthesia, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Pain
Qiu Anqi	Division of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering	Image Analysis
Lim Tit Meng	Dept of Biological Science, Faculty of Science	Biomarkers and drug discovery
Thameem Dheen	Dept of Anatomy, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	Genomics	Neurodegenerative disease
Lim Chuen Hian, Erle	Dept of Medicine, NUHS	Parkinson’s disease
Li Xiaoping	Division of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering	Neurosensors

NTU

Principal Investigators	Departments/ Affiliations	Research Interest 1	Research Interest 2	Research Interest 3	Link
Klaus Heese	Division of Molecular and cell biology, School of Biological Sciences	Neurodegenerative disease	Neuronal stem cells	Signalling
Luke Kang Kwong Kapathy	Division of Linguistics and Multilingual studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Language and cognitive neuroscience
Michael Donald Patterson	Division of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Cognitive neuroscience	Working memory
Cho Siu-Yeung David	Division of Computing Systems, School of Computer Engineering	Neural networks and its applications	Cognitive system
Daniel Fung Shuen Sheng	Division of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Anxiety disorders and selective mutism	Learning disorders	Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
Rajapakse Jagath Chandana	Division of Information Systems, School of Computer Engineering	Brain imaging	Computational neuroscience
Shiro Konishi	Division of Molecular and cell biology, School of Biological Sciences	Molecular and cellular biology
Vitali Zagorodnov	Division of Computing Systems, School of Computer Engineering	Brain structural and functional imaging
Douglas B Matthews	Division of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Learning and memory	Neurobiology of Alcohol Use and Abuse
Xu Hong	Division of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Vision perception	Behavioural Neuroscience	Neural imaging
Chen Sheng-Hsing Annabel	Division of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Clinical neuropsychology	Cognitive Neuroscience
Quek Hiok Chai	Division of Computer Science, School of Computer Engineering	Functional and computational models of memory structures
Sven J Norris	School of Arts, Design and Media, Schools of Humanities and Social Sciences	Gaming and neurofeedback
Christos Sakellariou	Division of Economics, Schools of Humanities and Social Sciences	Cognition	Labour Economics
Er Meng Joo	Divison of Control and Instrumentation,	Control theory and applications	Fuzzy logic and neural networks	Cognitive systems
Benjamin Hill Detenber	Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and InformationÂ , College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences	Cognitive and Emotional Responses to Media Use
Ser Wee	Division of Communication Engineering, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering	Sensor Array Signal Processing	Signal Classification Techniques
Guan Cuntai	Division of Computing Systems, School of Computer Engineering, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering	Brain-computer interface	Neural signal processing
Ho Moon-Ho Ringo	Division of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Neuroinformatics
Qu Li	Division of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Theory of mind	Emotion regulation
Kwon Nayoung	Division of Linguistics and Multilingual studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Neuro/psycholinguistics	Human Language processing
Lim Joo Hwee	Division of Computer Communication, School of Computer Engineering	Computer vision	Pattern recognition	Computation intelligence
Qiu Lin	Division of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Human cognition and social behaviours
Eugene Makeyev	School of Biological Sciences	Epigenetics	Neurodegenerative disease	Neurogenesis
Ajai Vyas	Division of Molecular and Cell biology, School of Biological Sciences	Neurobiology and Parasitology interface
Konstantin Pervushin	Division of Structural and Computational Biology, School of Biological Science	Channels and Receptors
Gong Xiandi, Alex	School of Biological Sciences	Channels and Receptors
Feng Zhi Wei	School of Biological Sciences	Cell differentiation and apoptosis
Chen Ken Shiung	School of Biological Sciences	Neurogenetic disorders
Lin Feng	Division of Information Systems, School of Computer Engineering	Endo-confocal microscopy
Mu Yuguang	Division of Structural and Computational Biology, School of Biological Science	Amyloid proteins aggregation	Amyloidosis toxicity	Computational Biology

A*STAR

Principal Investigators	Departments/ Affiliations	Research Interest 1	Research Interest 2	Research Interest 3	Link
Yoshiaki Ito	IMCB	Cell Cycle Control
Edward Manser	NRP	Cell Signalling	Embryonic stem cells	Cell adhesion
Thomas Leung	NRP	Cell Signalling	Neural differentiation and degeneration
Gerald Udolph	IMB	Stem cells for Parkinson’s disease	Developmental Neurobiology	Neurotransmitter specificiation
Sohail Ahmed	IMB	Developmental Biology	Developmental Biology
Yang Xiaohang	IMCB	Developmental Biology
Alan Colman	IMB	Embryonic and adult stem cells	Differentiation	Drug discovery
Jiang Yun-Jin	IMCB	Developmental Biology
Vladimir Korzh	IMCB	Developmental Biology
Thomas Lufkin	GIS	Developmental Genomics
Jun Li	SBIC	Developmental Biology	Biomaterials
Christopher Ang	SICS	Cancer stem cells	Neurocritical care	Brain cancer
Suresh Jesuthasan	NRP	Analysis of circuitry	Neural basis of emotion
Wieslaw Nowinski	SBIC	Bioimaging	Neuroinformatics	Brain atlases
Judy Sng	SICS	Epigenetics	Sensory processing	Critical periods
Michael Meaney	SICS	Epigenetics	Maternal stress	Corticosteriods
Colin Blakemore	BMRC/NRP	Vision	Early development of brain	Plasticity of the cerebral cortex
Chuang Kai-Hsiang	SBIC	Functional brain imaging	Biomedical signal and image processing	Molecular imaging
Principal Investigators: Kishore Bhakoo	SBIC	Neurodegenerative Diseases	Stem Cell Therapy	Neuroimaging MRI/PET
Kishore Bhakoo	SBIC	Neurodegenerative Diseases	Stem Cell Therapy	Neuroimaging MRI/PET

Duke-NUS

Principal Investigators	Departments/ Affiliations	Research Interest 1	Research Interest 2	Research Interest 3	Link
Dale Purves	Neuroscience and Behavioural disorders	Visual and auditory perception
George J Augustine		Synaptic plasticity	Analysis of circuitry
Wang Hongyan		Embryonic stem cells	Brain tumour suppressor
Marc Fivaz		Neuronal morphogenesis and plasticity
Eyleen Goh		Neuroregeneration in adult CNS
Lee Tih Shih		Pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disease	Neuropsychiatric disorders
Fulton Wong		Retinal degeneration
Tan Eng King		Clinical and translational research	Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s	Neurodegenerative disorders
Zhang Xiaodong		Genetics of Affective Disorders
Terri Young		Myopia
Ranga Krishnan		Affective disorders	Obsessive-compulsive disorders	Psychopharmacology
Joshua J Gooley		Human circadian timing system
Steve Rozen		Bioinformatics	Genome-scale biology	Human genetics
Shirish Shenolikar		Protein phosphatases and Neurological diseases
Antonius van Dongen		Channels and receptors	Learning and memory

NNI

Principal Investigators	Departments/ Affiliations	Research Interest 1	Research Interest 2	Research Interest 3	Link
Carol Tang	National Neuroscience Institute	Brain tumour suppressor
Yu Wei Ping	National Neuroscience Institute	Neural circuitry formation	Animal models of Parkinson’s Disease
N V Ramani	National Neuroscience Institute	Stroke
Wong Meng Cheong	National Neuroscience Institute	Stroke	Brain cancer
Lo Hew Long	National Neuroscience Institute	Neuromuscular Disorders	TMS
Ivan Ng Hua Bak	Dept of Neurosurgery	Cerebrovascular Surgeryq	Neurotrauma	Neuro-oncology
Louis Tan	National Neuroscience Institute	Parkinson’s disease
Ong Peck Leong	Dept of Neurosurgery	Neuro-oncology	Transphenoidal
Seow Wan Tew	Dept of Neurosurgery	Paediatric Neurosurgery
Tan Kheng Kooi	Dept of Neurosurgery	Sull-base surgery	Spine surgery	Transphenoidal
Ng Wai Hoe	Dept of Neurosurgery	Neuro-oncology	Functional Neurosurgery	Paediatric Neurosurgery
Rajendra Tiruchelvarayan	Dept of Neurosurgery	Spine Surgery	Paediatric Neurosurgery
Ernest Wang Chee Meng	Dept of Neurosurgery	Cerebrovascular Surgery	Spine surgery	Neurotrauma
Pang Boon Chuan	Dept of Neurosurgery	Spine Surgery

Other Institutions

Principal Investigators	Departments/ Affiliations	Research Interest 1	Research Interest 2	Research Interest 3	Link
Steve Cohen	Temasek Life Science Laboratory	Molecular and cellular biology	Neurodegenerative disease
Daniel Fung	Institute of Mental Health	Affective disorders
Chong Siow Ann	Institute of Mental Health	Psychosis
Lu Jia	DSO	Animal models of trauma
Kenneth Kwok	DSO	Cognitive Science	Human Inspired Computation
Bernard Chan	Dept of Medicine, Division of Neurology, NUHS	Clinical Neurologist	Stroke
Teoh Hock Luen		Clinical Neurologist	Stroke
June Tan		Movement Disorders	Therapeutic indications for Botulinum toxin
Vijay Kumar Sharma		Stroke management	Application of neurosonology in acute and chronic management