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Duke-NUS CVR / NBD Research Seminar: Regenerative approaches for retinal disease
Speaker: Dr Timothy Blenkinsop (Eye and Vision Research Institute)
Venue: Duke-NUS (directions), Meeting Room 7C, Level 7
Date: 29 October 2019, Tuesday
Time: 13.00 – 14.00
NUS Brown Bag: The performance of missing data techniques In measurement models of ordinal and continuous indicators
Speaker: Aaron Lim Jin Ming
Venue: NUS, Department of Psychology (map), Psychology Department Meeting Room, AS4-02-08
Date: 29 October 2019, Tuesday
- Details TBA
2019 Singapore Symposium on Metabolic Diseases (SSMD)
Venue: Breakthrough and Discovery Theatrettes, Level 4, Matrix Building, 30 Biopolis Street
Dates: 29 – 30 October 2019, Tuesday – Wednesday
- Announcement
- Programme
- Registration deadline: 22 October, Tuesday
LKCMedicine Neuroscience Seminars: Imaging synapses: From molecule to function
Speaker: Assistant Prof Jun Nishiyama (Duke-NUS)
Host: Hiroshi Makino
Venue: NTU Novena, Clinical Science Building, LKC Medicine (map), Seminar Room, Level 2
Date: 1 November 2019, Friday
Time: 16.00 – 17.00
Duke-NUS NBD: Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) acetylation and its impact in neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration
Speaker: Luigi Puglielli (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Host: Professor Zhang Su-Chun
Venue: Duke-NUS (directions), Meeting Room 7C, Level 7
Date: 4 November 2019, Monday
Time: 12.00 – 13.00
- Flyer
- Pizza will be served
Duke-NUS Signature Seminar Series: New insights into cellular lipid trafficking and storage: Implications for metabolic and neurodegenerative disorders
Speaker: Prof Hongyuan Robert Yang (University of New South Wales)
Host: Prof David Lawrence Silver
Co-Host: Dr Sun Lei
Venue: Duke-NUS (directions), Amphitheatre, Level 2
Date: 5 November 2019, Tuesday
Time: 12.00 – 13.00
NUS Brown Bag: The influence of parenting and cognitive factors on young children’s honesty
Speaker: Goh Shu Juan
Venue: NUS, Department of Psychology (map), Psychology Department Meeting Room, AS4-02-08
Date: 12 November 2019, Tuesday
- Details TBA
SBIC Seminar: Visceral and chemosensory controls of brain reward systems
Speaker: Prof Ivan E de Araujo (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
Host: Dr Fu Yu
Venue: Biopolis, Helios Building (map), SBIC Seminar Room, Level 2
Date: 18 November 2019, Monday
Time: 11.00 – 12.00
CArbon REduced (CARE) Chronobiology Conference: The circadian clock and its pervasive impact on metabolism from behavior to mechanism
Singapore Host: David Virshup (Duke-NUS)
Venue: TBA
- Conference website
- Registration is free
NUS LSI: Stopping lipid peroxidation: Heavy handling of neurological diseases and aging
Speaker: Dr. Mikhail Shchepinov (Retrotope Inc)
Host: Professor Barry Halliwell
Venue: NUS, Center for Life Sciences (CeLS), Seminar Room 2
Date: 19 November 2019, Tuesday
Time: 16.00 – 17.00
NUS Neuroscience & Technology Symposium: Revisualizing the brain
Venue: NUS, Auditorium, Level 1, Clinical Research Centre, Block MD 11 (map)
Dates: 25 – 26 November 2019, Monday – Tuesday
Time: 9.00 (25th) – 18.00 (26th)
Symposium on Metabolomics and Circadian Rhythm
Venue: NUS, Center for Life Sciences (CeLS), Auditorium
Dates: 25 – 26 November 2019, Monday – Tuesday
- Event website
- Program
- Registration (deadline: 1 November, Friday)
LKCMedicine Neuroscience Seminars: Identification of early AD biomarkers and disease mechanisms using a proteomics approach
Speaker: Assistant Prof John Chua (NUS)
Host: Toh Hean Ch’ng
Venue: NTU Novena, Clinical Science Building, LKC Medicine (map), Seminar Room, Level 2
Date: 6 December 2019, Friday
Time: 16.00 – 17.00
- Poster & event listing
- Details TBA
LKCMedicine Neuroscience Seminars: How amyloid and cerebrovascular burden influence brain network degeneration in preclinical and prodromal dementia: A longitudinal perspective
Speaker: Associate Prof Helen Zhou (Duke-NUS)
Host: George Augustine
Venue: NTU Novena, Clinical Science Building, LKC Medicine (map), Seminar Room, Level 2
Date: 3 January 2020, Friday
Time: 16.00 – 17.00
- Poster & event listing
- Details TBA
LKCMedicine Neuroscience Seminars: Mechanisms of dendrite pruning of nociceptive sensory neurons in drosophila
Speaker: Senior PI Fengwei Yu (TLL)
Host: Jia Nee Foo
Venue: NTU Novena, Clinical Science Building, LKC Medicine (map), Seminar Room, Level 2
Date: 7 February 2020, Friday
Time: 16.00 – 17.00
- Poster & event listing
- Details TBA
LKCMedicine Neuroscience Seminars: Cognition and the cerebellum: From bedside to bench
Speaker: Annabel Chen (NTU)
Host: Anna Barron
Venue: NTU Novena, Clinical Science Building, LKC Medicine (map), Seminar Room, Level 2
Date: 6 March 2020, Friday
Time: 16.00 – 17.00
- Poster & event listing
- Details TBA
LKCMedicine Neuroscience Seminars: Modeling brain disorders using human neurons and minibrains
Speaker: Assoc. Prof Shawn Je (Duke-NUS)
Host: Sarah Langley
Venue: NTU Novena, Clinical Science Building, LKC Medicine (map), Seminar Room, Level 2
Date: 3 April 2020, Friday
Time: 16.00 – 17.00
- Poster & event listing
- Details TBA
LKCMedicine Neuroscience Seminars: Reversing hallmark metabolic defects in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Speaker: Assist. Prof Shiyan Ng (IMCB, A*STAR)
Host: Christine Cheung
Venue: NTU Novena, Clinical Science Building, LKC Medicine (map), Seminar Room, Level 2
Date: 8 May 2020, Friday
Time: 16.00 – 17.00
- Poster & event listing
- Details TBA
LKCMedicine Neuroscience Seminars: Role of RNA editing of Cav1.3 channels in learning and memory
Speaker: Prof Tuck Wah Soong (NUS)
Host: George Augustine
Venue: NTU Novena, Clinical Science Building, LKC Medicine (map), Seminar Room, Level 2
Date: 5 June 2020, Friday
Time: 16.00 – 17.00
- Poster & event listing
- Details TBA
Asia-Pacific Society for Neurochemistry
Plenary Speakers: George Augustine, Schuichi Koizumi, and Eng Lo
Venue: Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre
Dates: 20 – 22 July 2020
- Call for proposals (deadline: Nov 30, 2019)
- See event website for further info
