DUNES

Date: 8th October 2010
Venue: DUKE-NUS Graduate Medical School, Level 2, Amphitheatre

Registration: 8:45 am to 9:15 am

Introductions: 9:15 am to 9:30 am

Session 1: 9:30 am to 12:30 pm

Keynote Speaker- Rob Clarke, University of Manchester 9:30am -10:30 am
Breast stem cells and cancer.

Tea break: 10:30 am to 11:00 am

Oral presentations: 11:00 am to 12:30 pm

11:00 am-11:20 am
Benjamin Thomas Bikman (DUKE-NUS CVMD)
Toll-Like Receptor 4 in the Control of Fat Utilization: TLR4 induces insulin resistance by promoting the synthesis of sphingolipids.

11:20am-11:40am
Treena Wu Sher-Lin (HSSR, NUS/DUKE-NUS)
Parents’ Investment in Education and Children’s Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Indonesia

11:40 am-12:00 pm
Andreas Peter Schuller (DUKE-NUS EID)
Structure-guided fragment-based in silico drug design of dengue protease inhibitors

12:00 pm- 12:20 pm
Cheng Lai Ling (DUKE-NUS CSCB)
The molecular determinant of DZNep sensitivity on gastric cancer cells.

Lunch and poster session: 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm

Session 2: 2:30 pm to 5:30pm

Oral presentations: 2:30 pm to 3:30pm

2.30 pm-2.50pm
Poon Yi Nuo Vivian (DUKE-NUS NBD)
Role of microRNAs in the developing mammalian brain.

2.50 pm-3.10pm
Lin Xiuhua (DUKE-NUS EID)
A customizable methodology for the removal of ribosomal RNA from total RNA prior to full transcriptome analysis.

3.10 pm-3.30pm
Claire Canning (A STAR)
FGF signaling acts via distinct pathways to coordinate discrete aspects of sensory neurogenis and differentiation of the trigeminal ganglion.

Tea break: 3.30 pm to 4:00 pm

Keynote Speaker- Rosemary Tan, CEO Genecet Biotechnologies, Pte Ltd, CEO Veredus Laboratories Ptd. Ltd. 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
In Pursuit of the Unknown.

Informal Career Discussion Talk: 5:00pm-5:30pm
William J. Muller, McGill University

Awards Presentation for Photo competition: 5:30pm-5:45pm

Wine and cheese: 5:45 pm to 7:00 pm