The DRH lab at NUS has officially closed. The students have moved on to bigger and brighter futures and the PI has gone to the dark side to pursue commercial drug development.
It has been a stimulating 9-year ride and we all look forward to continuing to engage in innovative science elsewhere.
The end ….. ?
In the spirit of maintaining stimulating scientific interactions during this period of social distancing, the NUS Department of Pharmacology has moved its regular seminar series on-line. This page will be updated frequently as we put together a schedule of internationally-renowned speakers. We are extremely grateful to the speakers for accommodating this format on such short notice.
Date/time: Thursday, March 26th, 8:30 am (Singapore time, GMT +8)
Title: Genetic Mutations in Patients with Congenital Insensitivity to Pain Guide Development of a New Analgesic
Speaker: Professor Deborah Schechtman, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, http://lapic.iq.usp.br/en/bioquimica-da-sinalizacao-celular2.html
Venue: https://nus-sg.zoom.us/j/879779821
Date/time: Thursday, April 16th, 8:30 am (Singapore time, GMT +8)
Title: Protective S1P signalling in vascular and metabolic function in aging is disrupted by cytomegalovirus infection. [Recent publication])
Speaker: Dr. Denise Hemmings, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada https://www.ualberta.ca/medicine/about/people/denise-hemmings
Venue: Zoom: https://nus-sg.zoom.us/j/203609993 – password: 1111
Date/time: Thursday, April 30th, 8:30 am (Singapore time, GMT +8) – *Seminar postponed until late May. Date/time TBA*
Title: The potential for small Open Reading Frame micropeptides as therapeutics: lessons from adropin
Speaker: Professor Andrew A. Butler, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacological and Physiological Science, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA, https://www.slu.edu/medicine/medical-education/graduate-programs/pharmacology-physiology/faculty/butler-andrew.php
Venue: Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/y8wtl62r password: 1111
On Thursday, 4 April, the NUS Department of Pharmacology will be hosting a workshop in honor of its 60th year. This workshop will be attended by distinguished scientists in the field of bioactive lipid signaling, and has the goal of bringing together scientists who are actively working on lipid systems or have an interest in this field. Researchers of any level are warmly welcomed to participate. This is a free-of-charge event. Lunch will be provided.
Please express your interest by clicking the RSVP link: https://goo.gl/forms/0jFzJPmKNoI6pO4s2
Lipids…fats…are the most fundamentally important molecules in your body. Life wouldn’t exist without lipids. In order for a cell to be a cell, or a person to be a person, something has to separate the self from the non-self. Lipids form that boundary; the barrier that prevents organisms from diffusing away into the environment.
We now know that lipids are much more than passive barriers to diffusion. Among other things, they are essential components of the cellular communication network. Multicellular organisms are only possible because all of the varied cells act in concert. They do this by engaging in constant conversation. The language of this conversation is complex and involves many different media. There are two goals of the DRH Lab: 1) learn new things about the role of lipids in this cellular conversation, and 2) use this information to design new drug therapies to treat disease.
Our work is carried out in the Department of Pharmacology at the National University of Singapore.