Scientific Programme

Day 1

Thursday, 26 September 2024

8:00 - 8:30 am

Registration

8:30 - 8:40 am Opening Remarks by HOD - Prof Reshma Taneja
SESSION 1: Cancer

Chairs: Shazib Pervaiz and Celestial Yap

8:40 - 9:40 am

Oon Chiew Seng Distinguished Visitor

(Public Lecture & Keynote Address)

Guido Kroemer

A new tissue hormone acting as an autophagy checkpoint

Faculty of Medicine, University of Paris Cité, France

9:40 - 10:00 am

Polly Chen Leilei

The role of self-derived double-stranded RNA species in tumor immune evasion

Cancer Science Institute of Singapore

NUS Medicine, National University of Singapore

10:00 - 10:20 am

Wee Wei Tee

Cell fate plasticity and chromatin therapeutics

Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR, Singapore

NUS Medicine, National University of Singapore

10:20 - 10:30 am

Sponsor Talk- Singlabs

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Suruchi Arora, Product Manager at Bio-Techne

10:30 - 11:00 am

Tea Break

11:00 - 11:20 am

Kanaga Sabapathy

Targeting mutant p53 – inside and outside the cell

School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

11:20 - 11:40 am

Anthony Khong

Stress Granule Assembly and Functions

Cancer Science Institute of Singapore

NUS Medicine, National University of Singapore

11:40 - 12:10 pm

Catherine Brenner

AIF/CHCHD4: from an anticancer target to drug discovery for pediatric and adult cancers

Institut Gustave Roussy, France

Université Paris, France

12:10 - 1:40 pm

Lunch

SESSION 2: Neuroscience

Chair: Sarah Luo and Shuo-Chien Ling

1:40 - 2:00 pm Li Zeng

Investigating NOTCH2-NLC GGC repeat expansion in neurodegeneration in mouse

National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore

2:00 - 2:30 pm

Chih-Cheng Chen

A role for proprioceptors in sngception and pain chronicity

Institute of Biochemical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

2:30 - 2:40 pm

Sponsor Talks - Genomax

Innovations in Biomedical Solutions: Bridging Research and Industry for impactful science.

Fok-Moon Lum - Infectious Diseases Labs(ID Labs), A*STAR Singapore

2:40 - 3:10 pm

Tea Break

3:10 - 3:30 pm

Sarah Luo

Liver-brain axis in immune and metabolic regulation

Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR, Singapore

3:30 - 3:50 pm

Anna Barron

Mitochondrial control of microglial function in Alzheimer’s disease

Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

3:50 - 4:10 pm

Tuck Wah Soong

ADAR-2 mediated RNA editing of Cav1.3 channels: implications in learning and feeding

NUS Medicine, National University of Singapore

4:10 - 4:55 pm

Keynote Speaker

Eric Huang

Neuroimmune Dysfunction in FTD-ALS Spectrum Diseases

University of California San Francisco, USA

5:30 - 9:00 pm

Dinner (by invitation only)

 

End of Day One

Day 2

Friday, 27 September 2024

8:00 - 8:30 am

Registration

SESSION 3: Biology of Aging

Chair: Shih-Yin Tsai and Tsuyoshi Hirashima

8:30 - 8:50 am

Rong Li

Cytoplasmic Dynamics and Mechanics in the Maturation and Aging of Mammalian Oocytes

Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore

8:50 - 10:20 am

Flash Talks by Poster Presenters

10:20 - 10:50 am

Tea Break

10:50 - 11:10 am

Shih-Yin Tsai

Restricting cap-dependent translation enhances the protein catabolic processes and protects the integrity of skeletal muscle

NUS Medicine, National University of Singapore

11:10 - 11:30 am

Hong-Wen Tang

Skeletal Muscle homeostasis – Leads from Cross-species Analysis

Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

11:30 - 11:50 am

Alfredo Franco-Obregon

Magnetic Mitohormesis: A potential paradigm shift in Breast Cancer treatment

NUS Medicine, National University of Singapore

11:50 - 12:35 pm

Keynote Speaker

Markus Ruegg

The ambivalent role of growth signals in aging skeletal muscle

University of Basel, Switzerland

12:35 - 1:00 pm

Prize Presentation and Closing Remarks by Prof Shazib Pervaiz

1:00 - 2:30 pm

Lunch

 

End of Day Two


Venue

MD11- Clinical Research Centre Auditorium

National University of Singapore
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
10, Medical Drive
Singapore 117597

 CC24  Kent Ridge MRT station is the nearest MRT station to the venue.

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Co-Chairpersons:

Prof Reshma Taneja

 

Prof Shazib Pervaiz

 

A/Prof Ling Shuo-Chien

 

Dr Tsai Shih-Yin

Committee Members:

Koh Shu Wen

Yeo Yongxin, Unis

Nurul Suhana Binte Ali Ahamed

Tiara Camelia Binte Zuraini

Special thanks to:

Nur Afiah Binte Shahrudin

Nicole Gay Yee Lin

 

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