HEW, Choy Leong
Programme Co-Chair
Emeritus Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Deputy Director, RCE in Mechanobiology, NUS
Expertise: Biology and biotechnology of antifreeze proteins, marine biotechnology, transgenic fish, molecular endocrinology, proteomics, structural biology and cancer biology.
YU, Hanry
Course Coordinator
Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, RCE in Mechanobiology, NUS
Expertise: Cellular and sub-cellular motility, confocal microscopy, flow cytometry, biomaterials, liver regeneration and fibrosis, micro-/nano-tissue engineering and drug testing platforms.
BHOWMICK, Sourav Saha
Associate Professor, School of Computer Engineering, Division of Information Systems, NTU
Expertise: Web data management, complex-structured data management, data mining and data-driven systems biology.
CHEN, Yu Zong
Deputy Director, Centre for Computational Science and Engineering
Professor, Department of Pharmacy
Expertise: Computer-aided drug design, computational biology and bioinformatics.
HOGUE, Christopher W V
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, RCE in Mechanobiology, NUS
Expertise: Bioinformatics, protein-folding and small-molecule informatics, biophysical characterisation of protein and small molecule interactions.
LIM, Bing
Associate Professor, Senior Group Leader, Genome Institute of Singapore
Expertise: Analysis of ES cell as an engine for pluripotency, tissue regeneration and epigenomic alteration.
MATSUDAIRA, Paul T
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, NUS
Co-Director, RCE in Mechanobiology, NUS
Expertise: Molecular cell biology, biochemistry and biomechanics of cell motility and adhesion, BioMEMS engineering, design, and applications, high-end computation and imaging.
PERVAIZ, Shazib
Professor, Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, NUS
Expertise: Cross talk between mitochondria and caspase in apoptotic signalling, regulation of apoptosis by reactive oxygen species, regulation of death signalling by Bcl-2 family, oncogenic signalling and reactive oxygen species, inflammation and cancer and photo-activation: novel modality for drug discovery.
RAJAPAKSE, Jagath Chandana
Director, BioInformatics Research Centre
Professor, School of Computer Engineering, Division of Information Systems, NTU
Expertise: Brain imaging, bioinformatics, statistical and machine learning.
SHEPPARD, Colin James Richard
Professor, Division of Bioengineering, NUS
Expertise: Confocal microscopy, nonlinear microscopy, phase microscopy, 3D image modelling and reconstruction.
TUCKER-KELLOGG, Lisa
Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Computer Science, NUS
Senior Research Fellow, RCE in Mechanobiology, NUS
Expertise: Computational modelling of signalling pathways. Application areas have focused on liver fibrosis and redox signalling in survival/apoptosis. New work is also beginning on cytoskeletal modeling and links with mechanobiology.
DING, Jeak Ling
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, NUS
Expertise: Molecular biology of host-pathogen interaction and innate immune response; biotechnology of endotoxin diagnostics and depyrogenation.
GONG, Zhiyuan
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, NUS
Expertise: Zebrafish developmental biology, zebrafish model in cancer research , transgenic zebrafish for environmental monitoring and zebrafish toxicogenomics.
LIM, Chwee Teck
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Division of Bioengineering, Life Sciences Institute, RCE in Mechanobiology, NUS
Expertise: Cell and molecular biomechanics, mechanobiology, nano and microbiomedical devices.
TAN, Patrick
Associate Professor, DUKE-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, NUS
Genome Institute of SingaporeS
Expertise: Genomics of cancer and infectious disease.
WOHLAND, Thorsten
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, NUS
Expertise: Biophysics, fluorescence spectroscopy, membrane and protein/peptide-membrane interactions and proteinprotein interactions.
WENK, Markus
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, NUS
Expertise: Biochemistry of lipids and lipidomics (systems level scale analysis of lipids).
HIBBERD, Martin L
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, NUS and Genome Institute of Singapore
Expertise: Pathogen and host aspects of infectious diseases (current disease areas include, dengue, TB, Kawasaki disease, Meningococcal disease, respiratory syncytial virus and inflammatory bowel disease).
ROZEN, Steve
Associate Professor, DUKE-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, NUS
Expertise: Human genetics, especially behavioural disorders and cancer genetics, genomics (including uses of nextgen sequencing), bioinformatics with a genetics and genomics focus
YAN, Jie
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, RCE in Mechanobiology, NUS
Expertise: Single-DNA manipulation studies of DNA micromechanics and DNA-protein interactions, atomic force microscopy imaging of DNA-protein complex, force response of proteins and force regulated protein-protein interactions, theoretical modelling of molecular interactions and steered MD simulation of force induced structural changes of DNA and protein.
LOW, Boon Chuan
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, RCE in Mechanobiology, NUS
Expertise: To identify novel signalling proteins and protein domains that control cell growth and tissue/organ development in normal and disease states. Areas of interest include cell signalling, domain-discovery, protein-protein interaction, structural biology, developmental biology, computational biology and mechanobiology.
MACARY, Paul
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, NUS
Expertise: The priming of human Dendritic cells (DC) for anti-viral CTL generation by Mycobacterial HSP70, identification of pathogen encoded ligands for human Chemokine receptors, role of Chemokine receptors in West Nile virus encephalopathy and generations of EBV epitope specific monoclonals that target Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma tumor cells.
MCKEON, Frank
Adjunct Professor, Department of Physiology, NUS and Genome Institute of Singapore
Expertise: Cloning and regulation of adult stem cells with a particular focus on pathways governing long term self renewal and their relationship to precursors of cancers.
GROTENBREG, Gijsbert
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, NUS
Expertise: Immunology, infectious/inflammatory diseases, molecular medicine, structural and chemical biology.