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| Supervisor |
Research focus |
Detailed Research Projects |
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Research Website |
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Photovoltaic Energy Conversion |
| 2. |
Silicon Solar Cells (Wafers and Thin-Films) |
| 3. |
Fabrication, Characterisation and Numerical Modelling of Silicon Solar Cells |
| 4. |
Physics of Semiconductor Devices |
| 5. |
Light Trapping |
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Personal Website |
| 1. |
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
| 2. |
Materials Science & Engineering |
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Personal Website
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Study of the mechanisms involved in the survival of M. tuberculosis within macrophages. |
| 2. |
Vaccine development using attenuated Bordetella pertussis as vehicle for vaccine delivery through the nasal route. |
| 3. |
Dengue vaccine: use of Lactococcus lactis as mucosal delivery system. |
| 4. |
Development of a vaccine against enterovirus 71 (EV71) using attenuated Bordetella pertussis as nasal delivery vehicle. |
| 5. |
Exploring the role of metabolic pathways in Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence and persistence. |
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Mohan K. BALASUBRAMANIAN

Personal Website
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Cell Cycle Control and Cell Division |
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Magnetic Data Storage Systems. |
| 2. |
Ultra-thin film research. |
| 3. |
Tribology. |
| 4. |
Magnetic Interface Studies for Spintronics
devices & exchange couple media. |
| 5. |
Solar Energy. |
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| 1. |
Computational Bioengineering |
| 2. |
Electrophysiology |
| 2. |
Bioelectromechanics |
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| 1. |
Derivation of progenitor and somatic lineages from human embryonic stem cells. |
| 2. |
Utilizing of human embryonic stem cells and progenies in studies of cytotoxicity, genotoxicity, carcinogenicity and mutogenicity for wide biomedical and biotech needs. |
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CHANG Young-Tae

Personal Website
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| 1. |
Chemical Biology |
| 2. |
Bioimaging |
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| 1. |
Applied Probability |
| 2. |
Applications to computational biology |
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| 1. |
Stein's method and probability approximations. |
| 2. |
Bio-molecular sequence analysis. |
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Personal Website |
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Biomedical Optical Imaging |
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| 1. |
Self-assembled Nanostructures. |
| 2. |
Graphene. |
| 3. |
Soft Condensed Matter. |
| 4. |
Synchrotron Radiation Science. |
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| 1. |
Well-ordered functional molecular nanostructure arrays via self-assembly on surfaces or surface nanotemplates for their applications in molecular electronics and solid state quantum computation. |
| 2. |
Molecular-level interface controlled organic thin films or organic heterojunctions for organic photovoltaic devices. |
| 3. |
Graphene-related devices, with particular focus on the single crystalline graphene epitaxially grown on SiC substrates. |
| 4. |
Excited-state chemistry or physics at the interfaces of organic/metal, organic-oxides, and organic p-n heterojunctions with well-defined molecular orientation, supramolecular arrangement and interface energy level alignment. |
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Adrian CHEOK

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| 1. |
Mixed Reality and Virtual Reality |
| 2. |
Pervasive and Wearable Computing |
| 3. |
Interactive Media |
| 4. |
Human Computer Interfaces |
| 5. |
Art and Technology / Science |
| 6. |
Transgenic Arts |
| 7. |
New Media for Entertainment and Education |
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Students are invited to propose projects and ideas related to the
topics of interest by this Professor. |
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CHIM
Wai Kin

Personal Website |
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Investigation of nanostructure fabrication /
characterization techniques and the development /
application of physical and electrical characterization
techniques for the understanding of MOS device
physics/reliability and the operation of nanoelectronic
memory devices. |
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| 1. |
Growth and characterization of nanostructures
for memory devices. |
| 2. |
Growth and characterization of semiconductor nanostructures
for thermoelectric application. |
| 3. |
Scanning capacitance microscopy /
spectroscopy. |
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Personal Website |
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Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. |
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Personal Website
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Multimedia information retrieval, in particular, on text and
video retrieval, precise search, and question-answering. |
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Materials Science and Engineering |
| 2. |
Nano-Science |
| 3. |
Structural and Chemical Sciences |
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| 1. |
Apoptosis |
| 2. |
Reactive oxygen species |
| 3. |
Oncogenesis |
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| 1. |
Redox regulation of apoptosis in tumor cells. |
| 2. |
Oncogene activation and reactive oxygen species generation. |
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Genome-wide analysis of microRNA functions. |
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Personal Website |
| 1. |
Neurobiology |
| 2. |
Stem Cell Biology |
| 3. |
Pharmacology |
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Personal Website
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| 1. |
Innate immunity in acute phase infection. |
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DONG
Jin Song
Personal Website
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Real-time concurrent system specification. |
| 2. |
Verification for software design models. |
| 3. |
Web semantics, services, agent and verification. |
| 4. |
Formal methods and saftety critical systems. |
| 5. |
Object, component and language semantics. |
| 6. |
Context awareness computing and smart space. |
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| Visualisation |
| 1. |
3D Visualisation of the Facial, Craniofacial skeletal, Oral and Dental structures. |
| 2. |
Visualisation of dynamic jaw motion, and 3D human facial expression. |
| Simulation | |
| 1. |
Facial Soft tissue simulation and animation. |
| 2. |
Manipulation of craniofacial bone. |
| 3. |
Jaw motion diagnostics. |
| 4. |
Forensic simulation of teeth and facial structure. |
| 5. |
3D outcome prediction for patient care. |
| 6. |
Surgical and dental simulators for education. |
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Personal Website |
| 1. |
Epigenetics. |
| 2. |
Inflammation and Immunity. |
| 3. |
Cancer Metastasis. |
| 4. |
Stem Cell Gene Program. |
| 5. |
Metabolic Syndrome/Obesity. |
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Personal website
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| 1. |
Pathogenesis of
Burkholderia pseudomallei |
| 2. |
Host
innate immunity in melioidosis |
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Infocommunications research |
| 2. |
Data Storage Technologies |
| 3. |
Bioengineering |
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| Modulation and Coding techniques for wireless
communications, digital watermarking for digital rights
management, Quality of service for enhanced data rate mobile
communications, Radio resource management, Innovative
services. |
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Personal Website
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Innate Immune Recognition |
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Personal Website
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Social Robotics and Intelligence Control |
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Devoted to robotics alive, artificial
intelligence, intelligent control and applications,
intelligent and interactive digital media fusion, the
research group has strong research linkages with research
institutes in Singapore, leading research groups overseas,
as well as with the industry. Current projects include:
| 1. |
Social Robotics and
Edutainment Robotics. |
| 2. |
Artificial
Intelligence and Sensor Fusion. |
| 3. |
Intelligent
Control Theory and Applications. |
| 4. |
Intelligent and
Interactive Digital Media Fusion. |
| 5. |
Control
Applications: Hard Disk Drives, Unmanned Vehicles, Flexible
Systems, etc. |
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| 1. |
Scaffold Biomaterials and adult stem cells for tissue engineering applications. |
| 2. |
Knee cartilage and ligament biomechanics. |
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GONG Jiangbin

Research Link
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| 1. |
Coherent control. |
| 2. |
Quantum nonlinear dynamics. |
| 3. |
Fundamental issues in quantum mechanics. |
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Personal
Website
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| 1. |
Zebrafish developmental biology |
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Personal Website |
| 1. |
Immunology |
| 2. |
Infectious/Inflammatory Diseases |
| 3. |
Molecular Medicine |
| 4. |
Structural & Chemical Biology |
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Neurobiology |
| 2. |
Antioxidants |
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| 1. |
Proteasomal dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease. |
| 2. |
Antioxidants for human disease treatment. |
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Thilo
HAGEN

Personal Link
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| 1. |
Cellular signaling |
| 2. |
Cancer |
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| 1. |
Explore the role of protein degradation in
normal cell signaling and in cancer. |
| 2. |
Understand the role of mitochondria in
cellular physiology and pathology. |
| 3. |
Characterize the mechanisms through which
cells adapt to hypoxia. |
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Personal Website
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Management of Technology Interactive &
Digital Media |
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| 1. |
Disruptive Technologies. |
| 2. |
Social Robotics. |
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Personal
Website
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| 1. |
Molecular Syntheses & Applications. |
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Research
Link
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| 1. |
Robotics |
| 2. |
Computational Biology |
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| 1. |
Robot motion planning in uncertain
environments. |
| 2. |
Computational modeling of protein motion. |
| 3. |
Systems-level dynamic models of cell signaling pathways. |
| 4. |
Probabilistic Adaptive Computing. |
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Personal Website |
| 1. |
Molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis with special emphasis on RUNX genes that encode transcription factors RUNX1, 2 and 3. |
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| 1. |
Roles of RUNX 3 in the early stage of carcinogenesis. |
| 2. |
Roles of RUNX3 in adult stem cells and cancer stem cells. |
| 3. |
Relationship between RUNX genes and developmental regulator genes. |
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Mansoor B. A. JALIL

Personal Website
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| 1. |
Spintronics theory |
| 2. |
Theory of transport |
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Research
Link
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Personal Website
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| 1. |
Polymers in Nanoscience. |
| 2. |
Biomolecular Engineering. |
| 3. |
Molecular Electronics. |
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Personal Website
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| 1. |
Screening for novel snake venom toxins using protein chemistry and molecular biology. |
| 2. |
Design and development of potent thrombin peptide inhibitors. |
| 3. |
Structure-Function studies of novel anticoagulants from snake venoms. |
| 4. |
Structure-function studies of a novel protein b-cardiotoxin having b-blocker activity. |
| 5. |
Design of mini enzymes. |
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| 1. |
Multimedia Content Processing |
| 2. |
Computational Media Aesthetics |
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Clinical Immunology |
| 2. |
Basic immunology |
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| 1. |
Characterisation of immunoregulatory networks. |
| 2. |
CD8 T cell and Dc biology. |
| 3. |
Immune mediated anaemia in renal disease. |
| 4. |
COPD and asthma. |
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| 1. |
Bioengineering |
| 2. |
Computational Science and Engineering |
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Personal Website
Research Link |
| 1. |
Cancer Functional Genomics. |
| 2. |
Population genetics / Pharmacogenetics. |
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Personal Website
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Miniaturized analytical chemistry. |
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Personal Website
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LEE
Sungjoo

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| 1. |
Nanoscience/nanotechnology and their applications. |
| 2. |
Future electronic and photonic devices. |
| 3. |
Advanced materials and devices for future nanoscaled
devicess. |
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LEE Tong Heng

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| 1. |
Intelligent Control Systems. |
| 2. |
Adaptive Systems. |
| 3. |
Intelligent Mechatronics. |
| 4. |
Precision Control Systems. |
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Personal Website |
| 1. |
Heat (phonon) conduction in low
dimensional nano scale systems. |
| 2. |
Control and management of heat. |
| 3. |
Phononics. |
| 4. |
Complex network, Computational
biology. |
| 5. |
Wave Chaos |
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Personal Website |
| 1. |
Analytical Chemistry |
| 2. |
Environmental Research |
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LI Jun

Personal Website
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| 1. |
Biomaterials for Drug/Gene Delivery and Tissue Engineering. |
| 2. |
Polymer Science & Engineering. |
| 3. |
Supramolecular Chemistry. |
| 4. |
Stimuli-response Materials. |
| 5. |
Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials. |
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Personal Website
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| 1. |
Nano
Biomechanics |
| 2. |
Mechanostranduction/
Mechanobiology |
| 3. |
Nanobiomaterials |
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| 1. |
Breast Cancer |
| 2. |
Gastric Cancer |
| 3. |
Tyrosine Kinases |
| 4. |
Signal Transduction |
| 5. |
Drug Targets |
| 6. |
Biomarkers |
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Personal Website |
| 1. |
Immune regulation and development |
| 2. |
Inflammation and Cancer |
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Cell Signaling |
| 2. |
Protein structure and function |
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| 1. |
Protein structural dynamics and biological function relationship. |
| 2. |
Molecular signaling of neuronal degeneration and cancer. |
| 3. |
Animal models for human diseases. |
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| 1. |
Cell adhesion proteins under mechanical forces. |
| 2. |
Protein folding/unfolding mechanism. |
| 3. |
Protein-protein interactions involved in signalling processes in biological systems. |
| 4. |
Mechano- biosensors |
| 5. |
Single-molecule manipulation and tracking of bio-molecules. |
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The study of the force response of CasSD-FN constructs and following signaling processes. |
| 2. |
The elasticity of cadherin molecules and its role in cell adhesion. |
| 3. |
The conformational changes of gelsolin associated with action binding. |
| 4. |
Single-molecule study of protein folding mechanism. |
| 5. |
The force dependency of fluorescence properties of fluorescent proteins. |
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Research Link |
| 1. |
Biophysics
Biomacro-molecule crystallization, self-assembly and
aggregation in the bulk and at the surface; Antifreeze
mechanism and antifreeze protein; Biomineralization
mechanism and tissue engineering; Silk formation mechanism
and engineering. |
| 2. |
Micro/Nano
Structure formation and engineering:
Supramolecular
self-assembly and micro/nano architecture; Microemulsion
crystallization and nanomaterials preparation; Micro/nano
particle self assembly; mesoscopic structures and properties
of liquid crystals; Self assembly of colloidal spheres
(Mechanism of colloidal crystallization and self-assembly;
Colloidal crystallization and self-assembly under the
influence of field gradient; Fabrication of photonic
crystals). |
| 3. |
Crystallization/molecular assembly and hybrid materials:
The
surface roughening transition and the structure of
crystal-liquid interfaces; the prediction of morphologies
(shapes) of crystals, and the design of crystal habit
modifiers and/or crystallization inhibitors by surface
recognition; nucleation and crystals growth; spherulitic
crystallization and crystal network (aggregation) formation. |
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Personal Website
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| 1. |
Nanomaterials Synthesis. |
| 2. |
Molecular Electronics. |
| 3. |
Bionanotechnology. |
| 4. |
Surface Science. |
| 5. |
Diamond related materials and devices. |
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| 1. |
Dendritic cells and macrophages in innate immunity,
vaccination and immunotherapy. |
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Personal Website |
| 1. |
Asymmetric catalysis. |
| 2. |
Medicinal Chemistry. |
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Personal Website |
| 1. |
Stem Cell and Development |
| 2. |
Mechanobiology |
| 3. |
Molecular Cell Biology |
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Paul A.
MacAry

Personal Website |
| 1. |
Monoclonal Antibodies. |
| 2. |
Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV). |
| 3. |
Human Cytomegalovirus (HuCMV). |
| 4. |
Dengue Immunology. |
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| 1. |
Generation and Clinical Application of EBV
specific monoclonals. |
| 2. |
Generation and Characterisation of
HLA-A2/LMP-1 specific monoclonal antibodies. |
| 3. |
Generation and Characterisation of
HLA-201/EBNA-1 specific monoclonal antibodies. |
| 4. |
Generation and Characterisation of
HLA-A2/LMP-2a specific monoclonal antibodies. |
| 5. |
Influenza uptake, processing and presentation
by professional Antigen presenting Cells- a comparison of
FcgRI
versus FcgRIIa. |
| 6. |
Lipidomics of Phagosomes - An analysis of
phagosomes from donors with polymorphisms in
FcgRIIb. |
| 7. |
Making anti-lipid monoclonals using phage
antibody libraries and classical hybridoma approaches. |
| 8. |
Dissecting the molecular mechanisms of TLR-8
in Mycobacterial Infections. |
| 9. |
Cloning and Characterisation of Dengue virus
specific monoclonal antibody secreting B-lymphocytes from
Convalescent volunteer donors. |
| 10. |
Analysis of IE and pp65 antigen presentation
during HuCMV infections using TCR-like monoclonals. |
| 11. |
Generation of Myeloma fusion partners for
making human monoclonal antibodies. |
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Personal Website |
Main research focus is the development of partner technologies that facilitate and increase human participation in life’s interesting and important challenges. This involves computational design and implementation, cognitive studies and modeling, and the articulation of design knowledge. Research areas include:
| 1. |
Interactive digital media design. |
| 2. |
Design of computer tools. |
| 3. |
Design of end user programming environments. |
| 4. |
Design knowledge and methods. |
| 5. |
Advanced human-computer interaction. |
| 6. |
Intelligent and adaptive user interfaces. |
| 7. |
Artificial intelligence and cognitive science. |
| 8. |
Psychology of partnership, improvisation, and play. |
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| 1. |
Partner Technologies: designing intellingent, end-user computer tools for creative expression. |
| 2. |
Understanding Interactivity: experimental studies contributing to an applied formal theory of interactive digital media. |
| 3. |
Tools for Telling: How Game Development Systems Shape Interactive Storytelling. |
| 4. |
New Music and the Networked Ensemble. |
Students are also invited to propose projects and ideas related to the topics of interest by this Professor. Note: students should have programming/engineering experience (or be willing to acquire it ) and be interested in working at the intersection of at least two of the following: computational tool design, artificial intelligence, intelligent/adaptive hci, and design studies. |
Personal
Website
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NMR structural study on proteins related to human diseases. |
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Personal Website |
| 1. |
Electronic Gaming. |
| 2. |
Artificial Intelligence. |
| 3. |
Entertainment Psychology and Brain Mechanisms. |
| 4. |
Virtual Actors. |
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Please contact the supervisor for a discussion of potential topics. There is a very wide area of topics available, ranging from non-technical topics, like player profiling and player manipulation techniques, research of story structures and game design, and research on entertainment psychology and brain mechanics – to more technical topics, like automated story generation by artificial intelligence techniques, dynamic music synthesis, and search and optimization for planning and scheduling – and many many more topics. |
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Personal Website
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Manufacturing Engineering. |
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Personal Website
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| 1. |
Natural Language Processing |
| 2. |
Information Retrieval |
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Understand the pathogenesis of flavivirus infections in
order to design effective antiviral or vaccine strategies
against flavivirus. |
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| 1. |
Receptor and host
signaling pathway(s) involved in virus entry. |
| 2. |
Identify potential
oligomerization sites on the virus structural proteins
during virus assembly. These sites could be ideal antiviral
target sites to prevent the formation of infectious virus
particles. |
| 3. |
Understand the
roles/mechanisms of virus-host protein interactions during
virus replication cycle. Such interactions may enhance or
suppress virus replication and could be exploited to disrupt
virus replication. |
| 4. |
Develop and optimized advance imaging technology to enhance
virus-host interaction studies. |
| 5. |
Flavivirology. |
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| 1. |
Multimodal Analysis. |
| 2. |
Social Semiotics. |
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| 1. |
Medical Image Processing and Visualization. |
| 2. |
Computer Vision. |
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ONG Soh Khim

Personal Website
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Application of Augmented Reality (AR) Technology to the
areas of Manufacturing and Assistive Technology. |
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| 1. |
Augmented Reality-based Machining Simulation. |
| 2. |
Use of AR to Facilitate Layout Design and
Planning. |
| 3. |
An AR-assisted Manufacturing Planning
Round-table Discussion. |
| 4. |
A Volumetric Model-based CNC Simulation and
Monitoring System in Augmented Environments. |
| 5. |
AR-assisted Assembly of Complex Parts. |
| 6. |
Methodologies for Immersive Robot Programming
in an Augmented Reality Environment. |
| 7. |
Mobile Outdoor AR Navigation System. |
| 8. |
Dynamic
Information System for Augmented Reality. |
| 9. |
Applications of Augmented Reality to
Assistive Technology. |
| 10. |
Augmented Reality 3D DesignSpace. |
|

Barbaros OZYILMAZ

Personal Website
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| 1. |
Graphene Physics |
| 2. |
Lithographically Patterned Nanoscale Magnets |
| 3. |
Graphene Device Applications in the Areas of Biosensing and Nanoelectronics |
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| 1. |
Charge and Spin Transport in Graphene Nanostructures. |
| 2. |
Spin Transfer Torque in Single Magnetic Nanopillar Junctions. |
| 3. |
Biosensing with Graphene. |
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| 1. |
Molecular cell biology |
| 2. |
Gene transfer technology |
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| 1. |
Chemical Synthesis and Enzymatic Studies. |
| 2. |
Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Compounds. Molecular Modeling Studies. |
| 3. |
In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluations of Vaccine Prototypes. |
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| 1. |
Apoptosis |
| 2. |
Cancer Biology |
| 3. |
Reactive Oxygen Species |
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| 1. |
Apoptotic signal transduction. |
| 2. |
Bcl-2 family and mitochondria. |
| 3. |
ROS in death signaling. |
| 4. |
Regulation of apoptotic signaling. |
| 5. |
Novel anti-cancer drug action. |
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Personal Website |
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| 1. |
Surface Plasmon Dynamics and Plasmonic Structures (Plasmonics) |
| 2. |
Helium ion microscopy for sub-nm imaging |
| 3. |
Nano-photonics and optics |
| 4. |
Heterogeneous Integration for 3D Integrated Circuits |
| 5. |
Nano-Fabrication and Nano-Characterization Techniques |
| 6. |
Diamond as an Electron Emitter |
| 7. |
Charged Particle Optics |
| 8. |
Massively Parallel Electron Beam Systems |
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| 1. |
Bioengineering |
| 2. |
Cell and Molecular Biology |
| 3. |
Molecular Medicine |
| 4. |
Stem Cells / Tissue Engineering |
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| 1. |
Scar Wars in Opthalmological Tissue Repair and Disease: evalulation of lead compounds that prevent fibrosis while preventing local angiogenesis. |
| 2. |
Scar Wars and Neovascularisation in Tissue Engineering and Repair. |
| 3. |
Implementation of the Extracellular Matrix Platform at NUS. |
| 4. |
Modelling of the extracellular matrix stem cell niche. |
| 5. |
Fully synthetic collagen matrix for Tissue Engineering and wound application. |
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Physical & Chemical Behavior of Biopolymers, Colloids and Interfaces. |
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| 1. |
Polymer-Induced Forces in Biomolecular Systems and Materials Science. |
| 2. |
Single-Particle and Single-Chain Force
Spectroscopy: Optical Tweezer Tensiometry. |
| 3. |
Brownian Fluctuation Spectroscopy: Mechanical Behavior of Biopolymer Solutions and Gels. |
| 4. |
Stability of Supercooled Soft Systems: Crystallization of Colloids and Proteins. |
|

REN Ee Chee

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| 1. |
Immunology. |
| 2. |
Virology. |
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Manuel SALTO-TELLEZ

Personal Website
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Molecular Pathology of the Runx Family of
Genes. |
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| 1. |
Prevalence, risk factors and gene-environment interaction for myopia. |
| 2. |
Prevalence, risk factors and gene-environment interaction for cataract, glaucoma, pterygia and diabetic retinopathy. |
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| 1. |
Hematopoietic stem cells. |
| 2. |
Tumor immunology. |
| 3. |
Regulation of immune responses. |
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Research Links for:
1) Healthcare and Energy Materials
2) Sustainable Energy
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| 1. |
Renewable Energy. |
| 2. |
Nanotechnology |
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Personal Website |
| 1. |
Oxidative Stress in Cell Death Signaling Pathways (Apoptotic and Non-Apoptotic Cell Death) |
| 2. |
Autophagy and Cell Death |
| 3. |
Antioxidants and Natural Products as Anti-Cancer Agents |
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Personal Website |
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| 1. |
Confocal microscopy, multiphoton microscopy, interference microscopy, near-field microscopy. |
| 2. |
3D imaging, electromagnetic theory of focusing, information theory of imaging. |
| 3. |
3D image modeling and reconstruction, scattering, imaging in turbid media. |
| 4. |
Beam propagation including high aperture, flattened, Bessel and pulsed beams. |
| 5. |
Super-resolution in microscopy, data storage and optical lithography. |
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Personal
Website |
| 1. |
Multidisciplinary study of protein folding mechanism and
misfolding-related diseases |
| 2. |
Structure determination of functionally-relevant protein
targets and characterization of protein-protein interactions
by NMR spectroscopy |
| 3. |
NMR-based mimetics/drug design and discovery targeting
protein-protein interaction interfaces |
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| 1. Functional characterisation of voltage-gated calcium channel splice variants |
| 2. Mechanisms of alternative splicing of calcium channel genes |
| 3. Investigations of genetic associations of ion channel disorders |
| 4. Role of iron in Parkinson.s Disease |
| 5. Mouse knock-out models on ablation of splice exons of calcium channels |
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| 1. Functional characterisation of alternative splice variants of voltage-gated calcium channels. |
| 2. Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis (TPP). |
| 3. Search for endogenous ligands of calcium channels. |
| 4. Calcium channel gene regulation. |
| 5. Role of iron in Parkinson.s Disease. |
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| 1. |
Bioinformatics |
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Algorithm design and analysis. |
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Large scale biological experiment data
analysis |
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Motif Finding for both protein and DNA. |
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Pattern searching using indexing data
structure. |
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Phylogenetic tree analysis. |
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Genome annotation based on whole genome high throughtput
sequencing data. |
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Kunchithapadam SWAMINATHAN

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Structural Biology. |
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X-ray crystallography. |
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Wnt signaling. |
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Lymphonma. |
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Catalysis and Advance Synthesis. |
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Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery. |
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Biological Chemistry and Bioengineering. |
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Databases (Computer Science). |
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Host-pathogen interactions |
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Novel mediators of protozoan programmed cell death |
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Apoptotic mimicry |
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Nanotechnology as a platform to study pathogen biology |
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Regulation of cellular differentiation and apoptosis |
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Molecular and cellular neurobiology |
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Nanoscale heat transfer |
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Electronics packaging |
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Electronics cooling |
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Solar cells |
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Optimization of thermoelectric coolers. |
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Delamination of thin films in IC chips. |
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Development of solar cells. |
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Computational Systems Biology. |
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Nanodevices, 1 & 2- dimensional materials & nanostructures,
nanofabrication techniques. |
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TUNG Kum Hoe, Anthony

Personal Website
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Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. |
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Similarity Search on Complex Structures. |
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Bioinformatics. |
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WikiScience: Platform for Collaborative
Scientific Discovery. |
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Gemini: Gene Expression Mining on Integrated
Biological Databases. |
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IntelliSearch: Intelligent Search Interface
for Scientific Databases. |
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Organic and polymer synthesis. |
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Self-assembly directed materials synthesis. |
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Development of novel biomaterials and tissues. |
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Nanolithography and nanostructured materials. |
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Biomineralisation and tissue engineering. |
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Self-assembly assisted Material synthesis. |
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Synthesis and characterization of biologically active compounds. |
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Synthesis and characterization of novel polymeric architectures. |
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Synthesis and characterization of nanostructures and naomaterials. |
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In vivo investigation of biomineralization in organisms. |
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Developing nanolithographic patterning of biopolymers for tissue engineering. |
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Understanding health effects of nonmaterials to various organisms. |
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Development of drug targets for bone diseases. |
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Investigation of the health-risk of nanomaterials. |
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Nanoscience. |
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Nanotechnology |
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Thomas WALCZYK

Personal Website
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Human Nutrition. |
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Mineral and Trace Element
Metabolism. |
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Inorganic Mass Spectrometry. |
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Isotope Sciences. |
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Nanostructural materials and nanotechnology |
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Biomaterials |
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Advanced materials for functional applicants |
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Functional and bioceramic materials. |
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MEMs and biosensors. |
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Mesoporous and nanohybrid materials. |
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Multilayer functional thin films and heterolayer structures. |
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Ferroelectrics, relaxors and piezoelectrics. |
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Nanophase and nanostructural materials. |
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Personal
Website
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Surface nanostructure formation and atomic scale templates
for nanodevices |
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Synchrotron radiation studies of molecule-metal interface;
Carbon nanotubes and other nanomaterials for nanodevice
applications |
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Synchrotron
radiation and scanning probe microsocpy studies of
molecular, magnetic and dielectric ultrathin films. |
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Nanopatterning by
adsorbate-induced surface reconstruction. |
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Single Molecule
Investigations For Molecular Electronics. |
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Investigations of biomolecule-substrate interfaces using
synchrotron-radiation spectroscopy. |
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Personal
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The critical role of lipids is
demonstrated by a large number of genetic studies and by
many human diseases involving the disruption of lipid
metabolic enzymes and pathways. Examples of such diseases
include cancer, diabetes, neurodegenerative and infectious
disorders. Novel analytical approaches now allow for "lipidomics":
systems level analysis of lipids and their interacting
partners.
We recently started a new program termed "Lipidomics, novel
tools and applications", which is built on basic research
and engineering with a strong outlook on applications,
merging facets of medicine, cell/biology, bio/engineering,
organic chemistry and bioinformatics. It will enhance
international connections with new initiatives such as the
SMART center for Infectious Diseases, SystemsX.ch (ETH
Zurich) and the Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and
Repair (CNNR) program at Yale University. Our industrial
partners include The Novartis Institute for Tropical
Diseases as well as analytical instrument manufacturer
Applied Biosystems in co-development and application of the
above tools.
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The role of microRNAs during cell specification and
differentiation in the zebrafish spinal cord. |
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Defects in RNA metabolism as cause for neuronal
degeneration: A zebrafish model for Retinitis Pigmentosa. |
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Medakafish as a model for human bone disorders: The role
of Osterix and SOST in controlling bone homeostasis. |
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Fluorescence Spectroscopy for the investigation of
biomolecular interactions in vitro and in vivo |
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Database theory. |
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Knowledge Discovery. |
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Bioinformatics. |
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Nanoscience. |
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Molecular Medicine. |
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High Performance Computing. |
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Structural and Chemical Sciences. |
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Molecular modeling of medicinal molecules. |
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Intermolecular interactions in chemistry and biology. |
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Reaction mechanism of chemical and biological reactions. |
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Structures of nano-clusters and their surface chemistry. |
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Reactive intermediates. |
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WONG Wai Choong,
Lawrence

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Wireless ad hoc and sensor
networks. |
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Robust and secure source matched
transmission. |
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Multimedia networks. |
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Distributed learning in wireless sensor
networks. |
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Combinatorics-based energy conservation
methods in wireless sensor networks. |
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Enhancing multicast communications with
Data-In-Network schemes. |
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Sentient platforms for ambient intelligence. |
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Robust stream authentication for digital
image/video transmission. |
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Location-estimation in wireless networks. |
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Multimodal location sensing in wireless networks. |
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Cognitive Sentient Platforms. |
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WU Jishan

Personal Website
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Materials Science. |
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Organic and Nanoelectronics. |
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Supramolecular chemistry. |
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Smart materials. |
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Self-assembly. |
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Carbon nanostructures. |
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Functional materials. |
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Nanomagnetism. |
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Spintronics. |
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Carbon Nanotechnology. |
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Personal Website
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Musical Communication, Interfaces and Displays. |
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Music Perception and Cognition. |
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Computational Sound Modeling, Synthesis, and Design Tools. |
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Electroacoustic Music Analysis. |
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Interactive Audio for Games. |
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Data Sonification. |
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Students are expected to have a strong interdisciplinary background for working at the intersection of Science, Technology and Sonic Art. |
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Surface Chemistry. |
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Nanomaterials and Nanocatalysis. |
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Molecular Assembly and Architecture. |
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Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Organic Modification of Semiconductor Surfaces. |
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Fabrication of Nano-templates and Molecular Patterning. |
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Photo-reduction of Carbon Dioxide on Nanomaterials and Metal Surfaces. |
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Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Molecular Conductivity. |
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XU Qing-Hua

Personal
Website |
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Materials Physics and Chemistry. |
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Nanoscience and Technology. |
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Biophysics and Biomaterials. |
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Nonlinear optics and optoelectronics. |
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Optical spectroscopy and imaging. |
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YAN Jie

Research Link |
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To understand how genes are
compacted in cells, bacterial, and viruses. |
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How genes are transcribed and
regulated. |
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How viruses are replicated in host cells. |
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How to detect specific interactions between
DNA and important proteins or enzymes. |
Our research is based on highly sensitive single-molecule
manipulation and imaging techniques. It also requires
understanding mechanics of biopolymers.
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Mechanical properties of anomalous short DNA
molecules. |
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Effect of Integration Host Factor (IHF). |
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Biophysical approaches to studying in-vivo
chromatins. |
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Single-DNA study of DNA organized in cells. |
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Single-molecule study of dengue virus
helicase NS3 on DNA and RNA templates. |
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Single-molecule study of SsrB-HN/s protein
interactions. |
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Personal Website
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Protein structure and dynamics. |
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Structure-based drug design. |
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Personal Website
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Chemical Biology. |
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Proteomics. |
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Medicinal Chemistry. |
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Bio-propulsion. |
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Flow Stability & Transition. |
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Drag Reduction. |
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Computational Fluid Dynamics. |
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Personal
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Semiconductor Technology. |
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Nanoelectronics and
Microelectronics. |
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Next-Generation Electronic Devices. |
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Steroid/nuclear receptors: molecular biology and health
effects |
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Computer Science (Distributed Systems, Distributed Algorithms, Peer-to-Peer Systems, Fault-Tolerance, Distributed Computing, and Distributed Systems Security). |
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Cell motility &
cytoskeleton |
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Control of cellular
behaviours by engineered extra-cellular microenvironment |
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Liver tissue engineering
& bio-imaging projects |
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Personal Website
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Nanoscience. |
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Nanomaterials. |
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Personal Website |
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Nano-biomaterials. |
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Nano-biotechnology. |
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Biomedical Microdevices. |
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Nanoscience |
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Materials Science and Engineering |
| 3. |
Computational Science and Engineering/ High Performance Computing |
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Epitaxial growth of quantum structures |
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Multiscale modeling of nanomaterials and nanostructures |
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Interfacial mechanics |
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