Chang Sheh Lit (changshe)

Student Mentor

Physics

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• Synthesis and characterization of nanostructures, investigation of physical properties of nanostructures.

Goh Jing Qiang (gohjingq)

Head Mentor - Student Mentor

Physics

• Computational Physics

• Atomic Physics, Solid State Physics Past projects: UROPS: Grover’s Search Algorithm Under the Influence of Phase-flip Noise (Quantum Information) SP2172: Self-assembly of polymer-polymer heterostructures for efficient organic photovoltaic SP2171: Optoelectronics

Lee Chee Kong (cheekong)

Student Mentor

Physics

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• I am interested in the study of open systems(classical and quantum), i.e. how the interaction of our sub-system with the environment affects its behaviors and evolution. I am also interested in using numerical methods to solve for physical problems.
• Past Project(UROPS)--- Path Integral and Influence Functional: This is basically a review of how path integral formalism is used to study quantum open systems.
• I am also interested in economics. I would like to explore more about the controversial field of econophysics, though i am not a fan in this area.

Lim Chin Chean (limchinc)

Student Mentor

Physics

• Cold atom analogs of different quantum systems in theoretical physics

• I have some experience in condensed matter physics, and done some ab-initio calculations with VASP software for oxide systems, I too know a little on the experimental side of material sciences.

Siu Zhuo Bin (siuzhuob)

Graduate Mentor

Physics

• spin transport in nanostructures
• Research topics which I have previously worked on are an experimental study on a family of colossal magnetoresistive metallic oxides and a computational study of spin waves in nanowires

• nanotechnolody and computational physics

Tang Jingwen (tangjing)

Student Mentor

Physics

• molecular dynamics and modeling of biopolymer chains
• tricks about silk worm/spider silk

• Multi-displinary area---
• biophysics,nanoscience thermodynamics,solid state physics and basic mathematical methods
• I have some research experience in semiconductor device-OPV and OLED
• I have also studied lotus-leaf effect

Yang Tzyh Haur (tzyhhaur)

Head Physics Mentor - Student Mentor

Physics

• Quantum Mechanics - Looking for symmetry in a non-symmetrical lattice (in short, looking for a needle in ocean)

• Funny funny and crazy crazy stuff in Quantum Mechanics- Entanglement, Teleportation, Decoherence , No cloning theorem, quantum-classical correspondence....
• Group theory and symmetry in physics.

Wu Jiang (wujiangw)

Graduate Mentor

Chemistry

• Catalytic Activity of Mixed Transition Metal Cluster

• Computational Chemistry based on density functional theory

Yap Aik Heng (yapaikhe)

Student Mentor

Chemistry

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Goh Shijie (gohshiji)

Graduate Mentor

Life Sciences

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• Cellular and Molecular Biology, particularly:
  • Developmental Biology, from the zygote to the embryo (transcriptional regulation)
  • Cell Death, how cells trigger programmed cell death, and the signaling cues and pathways involved
  • Cell Biology, the regulation of cell cycle, mechanics of cell function in terms of gene and protein level regulation
  • Reactive Oxygen Species, effects of ROS on cell function, particularly in cell survival
• Tumour biology, cell signaling, molecular genetics. Broadly speaking anything that is molecular biology.

Ives Lim Yubin (iveslimy)

Head Mentor - Student Mentor

Life Sciences

• Proteomic analysis of gastritis, stomach cancer pathologies
• Strontium metabolism in humans

• Angiogenesis
• Validation of anti-angiogenic agents on zebrafish model
• Optimization of biochemical components in a low budget Real-Time qPCR machine

• Biology of Aging
• Marine Biology
• Proteomic studies on small toxic peptides (think snake venom, jellyfish, neurotoxins, poison dart frogs...Yea , you get the idea)

Lam Yat Sau (lamyatsa)

Student Mentor

Life Sciences

• Natural History of Phoridae (scuttle-flies)

Shefali Krishna (shefalik)

Student Mentor

Life Sciences

• Effect of anti-cancer drugs and novel small molecules on PI3K/Akt signaling pathway in cancer.

• Research Interests:
  • • Molecular Basis of Tumourigenesis
  • • p53 and Apoptosis
  • • Therapeutic development in cancer
  Previous Projects/Research:
  • • SP2171: Targeting the p53-mdm2-ARF pathway for cancer therapy.
  • • SP2172: Gene expression profiling in Alzheimer’s Disease.
  • • UROPS: Redox regulation of c-FLIP in tumour cells.
  • • Epigenetics and Cancer in Drosophila.

Vincent Lau Siang Lin (vincentl)

Graduate Mentor

Life Sciences

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Wang Jun Yen (wangjuny)

Student Mentor

Life Sciences

• Azheimer's Disease and have a strong base in Neurodegeneration

• Cell cycles and evolution as well as environment and biology(evolution)

Wee Kim Shan Alison (weekimsh)

Graduate Mentor

Life Sciences

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• Genetic diversity for plants (mangroves)

Xu Weizhen (xuweizhe)

Head Life Science Mentor - Student Mentor

Life Sciences

• Immunology

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Luo Weiwei (luoweiwe)

Graduate Mentor

Computational Biology

• Environmental sensing and motility of hMSC cells on three dimensional nanotopography

• Mechanobiology: the study of molecular, cellular and tissue Mechanics
• Working to identify, measure, and describe how the forces for motility and morphogenesis are expressed at the tissue, molecular and cellular level.
• Cell Migration and Actin Cytoskeleton
• Cell Adhesion to Extracellular Matrix and other cells
• Microtubules and molecular Motors
• Signaling in Cell Mechanosensing, Polarization and Migration
• Computational biology: computational modelling of cell signalling pathways

Tran Chieu Minh (tranchie)

Head Mathematics Mentor - Student Mentor

Mathematics

• Local Class Field Theory

• Logic, Number Theory and Philosophy of Mathematics

Cai Yu (caiyucai )

Junior Mentor

Physics

• Quantum Bell's inequality(CGLMP), polytope and dimension witness

• General physics especially quantum mechanics
• Crytography

Le Phuc Thinh (lephucth)

Junior Mentor

Physics

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• quantum physics/quantum information and general relativity Research Experience : Bell's inequality

Thi Ha Kyaw (thihakya )

Junior Mentor

Physics

• Quantum Information-Entanglement preservation in Post-Markovian dynamics

• Quantum information and its application
• Quantum mechanics
• General Relativity

Thong May Han (thongmay )

Junior Mentor

Physics

• Quantum Electrodynamics and Gauge Theories

• Astrophysics, cosmology, nuclear and particle physics
  Previous Research include: Distribution of galaxies

Cai Jinhong (caijinho )

Junior Mentor

Chemistry

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• Organic Chemistry

Ang Wei Jie (angweiji)

Junior Mentor

Chemistry

• Organic Chemistry (Organic Synthesis)

• Organic Synthesis (Past Project: Synthesis and Properties of Triphenylaminophane)

Guangrong (gaungron)

Junior Mentor

Chemistry

• Organic chemistry
• Inorganic chemistry

You Sheng Chiah (shengchi)

Junior Mentor

Chemistry

• Chemistry: physical and analytical chemistry, quantum dots, food chemistry etc
• Physics: astronomy physics
• Life Science: biodiversity

Chiang Wei Min, Sylvia (chiangwe)

Junior Mentor

Life Sciences

• Unfolded Proteins

• Microbiology
• Cancer
• Unfolded protein response

Chin Wei Mun Eunice (chinweim)

Junior Mentor

Life Sciences

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• biomedical sciences and terrestrial ecology, having done my '71 and '72 on the former (combination therapy agianst influenza infection) and am currently undertaking a UROPS project investigating the effect of colour and shape on avian foraging behaviour.

Edison (edisoned)

Junior Mentor

Life Sciences

• Identification of lipid mediators in FcGammaReceptor Signalling

• Cancer biology (e.g. carcinogenesis, cancer biomarkers, tumor microenvironment, etc)
• Lipid biology and lipidomics.
  
  In general, cell biology and systems biology.
• Past projects: Carcinogenesis and cancer biomarkers - lipid biology and lipidomics
• Profiling of DNA methylaiton in a tumor suppressor gene in colorectal cancer
• Phospholipids profiling in Taxus cuspidata using HPLC-MS/MS
• Role of lipid modifying enzymes in ovarian cancer

Sew Wei Xin, Genevieve (sewweixi)

Junior Mentor

Life Sciences

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• Mainly lie in the biology section, more inclined to corals of marine biology.

Tan Chong Yew (tanchong)

Junior Mentor

Life Sciences

• Worked on profilic small interfering screening of host factors responsible for EV71 replication
• Virology

• Interested in drug discovery, pharmacogenetics, cardiac pharmacology and cell signalling

Tan Kai Sen (tankaise)

Junior Mentor

Life Sciences

• Influenza virus, primarily focusing on antiviral research

• Virology, particularly in antiviral components against viral infection, immune responses against viral infection, mechanism of viral infection and replication and viral mutations.
• My strengths are in fields of cell biology and microbiology and I'm also interested in animal biology.