PhD Prjects – CSB Programme

AY 2009/2010 Intake

Signaling Networks in Mechanobiology

Student: Akila Surendran
Thesis Advisors (Singapore): Assoc Prof Low Boon Chuan and Dr Lisa Tucker-Kellogg
Thesis Advisor (MIT): Prof Forbes Dewey


Understanding the Effects of Template Structures on Protein Folding

Student: Arun Chandramohan
Thesis Advisor (Singapore): Assoc Prof Christopher Hogue
Thesis Advisor (MIT): Prof Bruce Tidor


Dissection of CD1-associated Glycolipid Antigen Presentation During Pathogenic Challenge

Student: Dai Lingyun
Thesis Advisors (Singapore): Dr Gijsbert Grotenbreg, Assoc Prof Markus Wenk and Dr Paul A Macary
Thesis Advisor (MIT): Prof Hidde Ploegh


Functional Study of miR-7 in Neuronal and Pancreatic Development

Student: Lavanya Adusumilli
Thesis Advisor (Singapore): Dr Lim Bing
Thesis Advisor (MIT): Prof Chen Jianzhu


A Reflexive Index Database for Biomedical Information Integration and Mining

Student: Liu Sihan
Thesis Advisor (Singapore): Assoc Prof Christopher Hogue
Thesis Advisor (MIT): Prof Michael Yaffe


Studying Forces Developed by Rapid Conformational Changes of Non-globular Proteins in Endocytosis

Student: Narendra Suhas Jagannathan
Thesis Advisor (Singapore): Assoc Prof Christopher Hogue
Thesis Advisor (MIT): Prof Bruce Tidor


Automatic Cell Model Generation from Integrated Cell Image Database

Student: Tu Yajing
Thesis Advisors (Singapore): Prof Paul Matsudaira and Dr Lisa Tucker-Kellogg
Thesis Advisor (MIT): Prof Peter So


Drug Combination Profiling Based on Modelling of Biological Pathways

Student: Zhang Cheng
Thesis Advisor (Singapore): Prof Chen Yuzong
Thesis Advisor (MIT): Prof Bruce Tidor