Program schedule
08:30 - 09:00
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Registration
Audience to be seated at 9 am sharp |
09:00 - 09:15
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Welcome Speech
Professor Philip Keith MOORE Executive Director, NGS Research Director, Office of Deputy President (Research & Technology), NUS |
09:15 - 10:00
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Keynote Speech
Professor LIM Chwee Teck Provost's Chair Professor Deputy Head (Administration & External Relations) Principal Investigator, Mechanobiology Institute, NUS “When Engineering Meets Biology & Medicine - Technological Advances or New Biological Insights?” |
10:00 - 10:45
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Tea
Break cum Poster session
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10:45 - 11:15
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Student Presentations
Eeshan KULKARNI “Graphene-based IR sensors: imaging the unseen universe” BAI Limiao “Financial market turning point forecasting using wavelet analysis” |
11:15 - 12:15
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Industrial speakers
Dr Michael MCMILLIAN Vice President of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs, InvitroCue “I will give a brief introduction to working in Big Pharma and the differences from working in academia or government.” Dr Phil KEARNY Director – Licensing & External Research, Merck Sharp & Dohme “The topic of my talk will be some of the key issues affecting big pharma at the moment and how licensing fits into this.” Mr NG Choon Jin Chief Executive Officer, Logos Learning Pte Ltd “Money as an Enabler in Life ” |
12:15 - 13:30
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Lunch
cum exhibition
by Asian Scientist Magazine
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13:30 - 14:45
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Focused
Discussion
Professor Andrew NEE (Innovation) Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering ,NUS President, CIRP “Innovation in Engineering” Associate Professor Paul A MACARY (Opportunity) Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, NUS Director, LSI Immunology Programme Co-Chair CREATE-HUJ Consortium “Some thoughts on ‘Opportunity’ in research” Assistant Professor TOH Yi-Chin (Life) Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, NUS “Making life after PhD to be one with endless possibilities” |
14:45 - 15:30
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Student Presentations
LI Yawen “Research and entrepreneurship - a happy marriage or a formula for failure?” WANG Yuhui “Camtweet: Tweeting Cameras for Event Detection” CHUA Song Lin “The great fortress of bacterial biofilm” |
15:30 - 16:00
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Tea
Break
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16:00 - 16:45
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Student Presentations
TAN Ming Zhen “Shapes, manifolds, brains” LIN Qian “How does light affect us” Willy CHIN "What's bugging us?": Polymers against the Rise of Drug-resistant Superbugs |
16:45 - 17:30
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Prize
Giving Ceremony
Closing Ceremony |