Neuroscience Society of Singapore Annual General Meeting 2023: A Recap
By Matas Vitkauskas On May 16th, 2023, the Neuroscience Society of Singapore held its Annual General Meeting at A*STAR’s Proteos Institute. The following is an executive summary of the presentation delivered by Dr. Ajay Mathuru, president of SfN.SG, and other executive members of the organization. Membership Demographics During the meeting, one of the first topics […]
BRAIN & BODY SEMINAR SERIES 2022 – Monica Dus
By Xu Sangyu One of the main functions of the brain is to find food; food fuels the brain, but also affects it in many other ways. For our second talk in the Brain & Body Seminar Series on November 23, Associate Professor Monica Dus (University of Michigan) shared her research on the dramatic […]
BRAIN & BODY SEMINAR SERIES 2022 – Gary Patti
On Wednesday, 19th November 2022, the Brain & Body Seminar Series for the year 2022 was kicked off by Professor Gary Patti from Washington University in St. Louis. He presented an engaging talk on “Understanding the Cell-Intrinsic and Cell-Extrinsic Drivers of Oncogenesis”. As he was talking to an audience with a mixed background, he began with a discussion on […]
BRAIN & BODY SEMINAR SERIES 2022
by Caroline Wee, the SfN.SG Chapter’s Director of Seminars The Brain & Body Seminar Series is co-organized by SfN.SG, IMCB’s Division of Neurometabolism, and A*STAR’s Brain-Body Initiative. It was launched late last year, with Professor Liping Zhao (Rutgers University) as the inaugural speaker. At this virtual seminar, Prof. Zhao showcased his groundbreaking research on prebiotic diets […]
Brain Bank Singapore
Leaving a Legacy for Research and Future Generations This national brain tissue repository is a partnership between LKCMedicine, National Neuroscience Institute (NNI), National Healthcare Group (NHG) and NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. It was set up in November 2019 to help further the understanding of different neurological disorders, including degenerative, psychiatric and inflammatory […]
A Rousing Success: The Neuroscience Singapore Symposium 2021
On Friday 10 December 2021, The SfN Singapore chapter successfully concluded our annual Neuroscience Singapore symposium. It brought together the neuroscience community in Singapore (with some visitors from neighbouring countries too!) for a full day of brain science and fun! First keynote from Dr. Eric Nestler took us on a grand sweep of his lab’s […]
NS2020-21 Minisymposium 3: Neurotechnology
Our third minisymposium in the Neuroscience Singapore 2020–21 series happened on Friday (Mar 12, 2021, 10:00 – 11:30 AM SGT), moderated by Fu Yu (SBIC, A*STAR) on the topic of Neurotechnology featuring three speakers: Li Yulong (Peking University) Spying on neuromodulation by constructing new genetically-encoded fluorescent sensors Rosa So (I2R, A*STAR)Dealing with Nonstationarity of Neural Signals in a Brain–Machine Interface Kok […]
NS2020 Minisymposium 2: Motivation and Emotion
Our second minisymposium in the Neuroscience Singapore 2020 series happened on Monday 14th December, 2:00 to 3:30 PM SGT. It was on Motivation and Emotion, and moderated by Adam Claridge-Chang (Duke-NUS Medical School). There were three talks, including one international speaker: The Hourglass of EmotionsErik CambriaNanyang Technological University Teaching the brain to fearJoshua JohansenRiken Center for Brain Science, Japan […]
NS2020 Mini-symposium 1: Brains in Social Interaction
On 9th December 2020, the Chapter held a mini-sympoisum on Brains in Social Interaction. Using second-person neuroscience to develop a 21st century social psychiatryLeonhard Schilbach, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry Inter- and intra-personal neural mechanisms of social learning during infancyVictoria Leong, Nanyang Technological University The session was moderated by George Augustine of LKC NTU
Neuroscience Singapore 2020 symposium
On 4th December 2020, the Singapore Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience held a half-day symposium organized by Hong Xu, Ajay Mathuru, Caroline Wee, Sarah Luo, and Adam Claridge-Chang. The Keynote speaker was Christof Koch of the Allen Brain Institute. The program also included Flash talks by Singapore-based scientists. Attendance peaked during Professor Koch’s talk, […]