Annual Report 2005/2006

SMA-2

CSB programme

SINGAPORE FELLOWS

HEW, Choy Leong
Programme Co-Chair
Professor and Head, Department of Biological Sciences Programme Leader, Structural Biology and Proteomics Research Group, Office of Life Sciences, NUS

Expertise: Protein Structure and Function, Gene Regulation, Transgenic Fish, Molecular Endocrinology, Proteomics

BHOWMICK, Sourav Saha
Associate Professor, School of Computer Engineering, NTU

Expertise: Biological data management, web data management, XML data management, interface-driven data management, semistructured data mining.

HONG, Yunhan
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, NUS

Expertise: Stem cell biology, germ cells, gene targeting, meiosis, spermatogenesis, transgenic fish

LIM, Bing
Senior Group Leader, Genome Institute of Singapore

Expertise: Analysis of ES cell as an engine for Pluripotency, Tissue Regeneration and Epigenomic alteration

PERVAIZ, Shazib
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, NUS

Expertise: Cross talk between mitochondria and caspase in apoptotic signaling, regulation of apoptosis by Reactive Oxygen Species, Bcl-2 family apoptosis, Photo-activation: novel modality for drug discovery.

RAJAGOPAL, Gunaretnam
Deputy Executive Director, Bioinformatics Institute
Head, BioComputing Center
Programme Driver of P53, Stem Cell Biology and Clinical Biomarkers initiatives

Expertise: Developing mathematical and analytic approaches to model the behaviour of complex physical and biological systems; High- Performance computing applied to Biomedical applications; Stochastic Analysis of Cellular Processes ranging from Inter/Intra- Cellular Signal Transduction to regulation of gene expression.

RAJAPAKSE, Jagath Chandana
Associate Professor, School of Computer Engineering, , NTU Deputy Director, BioInformatics Research Centre

Expertise: Computational Biology, Neuroimaging, Machine Learning

SHEPPARD, Colin James Richard
Professor, Division of Bioengineering, NUS

Expertise: Confocal microscopy, nonlinear microscopy, near-field microscopy, 3D image modeling and reconstruction.

YU, Hanry
Course Coordinator
Associate Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, NUS

Expertise: Cellular and Sub-Cellular Motility, Confocal Microscopy, Biomaterials, Liver Regeneration and Fibrosis, Micro-/Nano-tissue Engineering, drug development technologies.

MIT FELLOWS

MATSUDAIRA, Paul T.
Programme Co-Chair
Professor of Biology and Professor of Bioengineering, MIT
Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT

Expertise: Molecular cell biology, biochemistry, and biomechanics of cell motility andadhesion, BioMEMS engineering, design, and applications, high-end computation and imaging.

CHEN, Jianzhu
Professor of Biology, MIT

Expertise: Lymphocyte development and function, animal models, influenza virus, RNA interference, transgenesis.

DEWEY, Jr. C. Forbes
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering, MIT Co-Director, International Consortium for Medical Imaging Technology, MIT

Expertise: Biological basis of atherosclerosis, mechanotransduction, quantitative computational models of cell function, and database technology.

LODISH, Harvey F.
Professor of Biology and Professor of Bioengineering, MIT
Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT

Expertise: Expression cloning and characterization of cell surface receptors, signal transduction proteins, and novel growth factors, Hematopoietic stem cells and cell and tissue engineering.

SO, Peter T. C.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering, MIT

Expertise: Optics, Microscopy, Spectroscopy, Fluorescence, Biomechanics, Biophysics

SURESH, Subra
Ford Professor of Engineering, MIT
Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Division of Biological Engineering, MIT

Expertise: Nanostructured materials; thin films; nanoscale mechanical properties of engineered materials; biological cells and human disease states; computational biology.

TIDOR, Bruce
Professor of Biological Engineering & Computer Science

Expertise: Computational biology and bioengineering: molecular biophysics; rational drug design; biochemical networks and signal transduction; systems biology.

WELSCH, Roy E.
Professor of Statistics, Management Science, and Engineering Systems Sloan School of Management and Engineering Systems Division Director of Center for Computational Research in Economics and Management Science

Expertise: Data mining, bioinformatics, feature selection, robust statistics and design, sampling, design of experiments, financial engineering, and process control.

WHITE, Jacob K.
Professor of Electrical Engineering, MIT

Expertise: Computational electromagnetics, integrated circuit computer-aided design, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) computer-aided design, and computational techniques in biological systems.