NGS Alumni Dinner 2009

The NGS Alumni Dinner on July 16th is a memorable one for the NGS graduates of 2009. It not only brought together friends and colleagues

for a night of good food, some booze, fun and laughter, it was also a wonderful occasion to celebrate the successful completion of the PhD degree for the 2008/09 graduates. For some of us, it was a time to meet and catch up with some old friends whom we have not met since thesis submission as we were posted to different research institutes. A few have also gone overseas for their postdoctoral fellowships so the informal dinner was a wonderful opportunity to find out how each has been doing. Perhaps it is also appropriate that the dinner was held at the Nexus in the NUS University Hall, which overlooks the NUS campus, Biopolis and Fusionopolis- a serving reminder of the countless late nights in the labs and meticulous effort put in throughout the candidature. 

The dinner was graced by Prof. Tom Fox, Deputy Executive Director of NGS, who began with a very informative address on the history of alumni groups.  The opening address was a way to acknowledge the wonderful accomplishments of the new alumni as well as to highlight their beginning of a new phase of interactions and future contributions of many types to the NGS family.

(contributions from Tank Pak Kay & Teo Peili)