The 1st Singapore Structural Biology Symposium (SSBS) is a vibrant symposium and networking platform to showcase and focus on advanced, cutting-edge research in the field of macromolecular X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) as well as other structural biology techniques. The symposium will feature leading local structural biologists and young, aspiring researchers.

The symposium will be held on the 24th and 25th of May 2022, at the School of Biological Sciences, NTU. Registration for participation is open and FREE to all local institution staff and students. The registration period is between 25th March 2022 to 25th April 2022. For enquiries, contact Ms. Lynette Liew drop us an E-mail.

 

Registration is closed

 

Poster Abstract Submissions

The SSBS organizing committee would like to invite prospective authors to submit their abstracts for a poster presentation. The topic of the poster should be based on using structural biology methods to address key scientific questions.

Please submit your poster abstracts to [email protected] with the E-mail subject "Poster Abstract", by no later than 25th April 2022

Please include in the email:

  1. Your name
  2. Your home institute
  3. An abstract not exceeding 250 words.

Speakers

  • BABURAJENDRAN, Nithya | EDDC, A*STAR
  • BASAK, Sandip | SBS, NTU 
  • BHUSHAN, Shashi | SBS, NTU 
  • BROWN, Christopher | IMCB, A*STAR
  • GAO, Yonggui | SBS, NTU 
  • GRÜBER, Gerhard | SBS, NTU 
  • KANG, Congbao | EDDC, A*STAR
  • LESCAR, Julien | SBS, NTU 
  • LOK, Sheemei | Duke-NUS
  • LU, Gan | DBS, NUS
  • LUO, Ming | DBS, NUS
  • MIRSAIDOV, Utkur | DP, NUS
  • MU, Yuguang | SBS, NTU 
  • NORDENSKIÖLD, Lars | SBS, NTU 
  • SIVARAMAN, Jayaraman | DBS, NUS
  • SONG, Haiwei | IMCB, A*STAR
  • TAN, Yong Zi | DBS, NUS
  • VENKITARAMAN, Ashok | CSI, NUS
  • VERMA, Chandra | BII, A*STAR
  • WAN, Yue | GIS, A*STAR
  • WU, Bin | SBS, NTU 
  • XU, Weijun | EDDC, A*STAR
  • XUE, Kai | SPMS, NTU 
  • YANG, Daiwen | DBS, NUS

SSBS Program


Session I

8:30 AMRegistration
9:00 AMOpening addresses
9:20 AMAssoc. Prof. LUO Dahai and Dr. CHEW, Bing Liang Alvin
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU
 Secreted dengue virus NS1 is predominantly dimeric and in complex with high-density lipoprotein
9:40 AMProf. YANG Daiwen
Department of Biological Sciences, NUS
 Impact of Transient Protein-Membrane Interactions on Protein Conformational Exchange Probed by NMR relaxation
10:00 AMProf. LOK Sheemei
Duke-NUS Medical School
 CryoEM structures of the multimeric secreted NS1, a major factor for dengue hemorrhagic fever
10:20 AMProf. VENKITARAMAN Ashok
Cancer Science Institute, NUS
 Structural regulation of DNA recombination by the BRCA2 cancer suppressor and its targeting by small molecules
10:40 AMProf. NORDENSKIÖLD Lars
School of Biological Sciences, NTU
 The structure and dynamics of human telomeric chromatin suggests mechanisms for telomere maintenance
11:00 AMTea Break & Poster Session
12:00 PMOpen Dialogue–The Initiation of Singapore Structural Biology Consortium Panel members:
Prof. LIM Kah Leong (LKC, NTU), Prof. LIOU Yih-Cherng (DBS, NUS), Prof. NORDENSKIÖLD Lars (SBS, NTU), Prof. O’CONNELL Damian (EDDC, A*STAR), Prof. PHANAnh Tuan (NISB, NTU), Dr. SONG Haiwei (IMCB, A*STAR), Prof. VENKITARAMAN Ashok (CSI, NUS), Prof. YANG Daiwen (DBS, NUS)
12:30 PMLunch & Poster Session
 

Session II

2:00 PMProf. SIVARAMAN Jayaraman
Department of Biological Sciences, NUS
 Structural basis for the neutralization of Hepatitis E virus and the role of mosquito procarboxypeptidase in viral infection
2:20 PMDr. KANG Congbao
Experimental Drug Development Centre, A*STAR
 Applications of solution NMR spectroscopy in target-based drug discovery
2:40 PMAssoc. Prof. MU Yuguang
School of Biological Sciences, NTU
 A new machine learning score function for virtual screening: through decoy poses learning
3:00 PMAsst. Prof. TAN Yong Zi
Department of Biological Sciences, NUS
 Addressing Preferred Orientation in Single-Particle Cryo-EM Through Tilting
3:20 PMCoffee Break
3:35 PMDr. BABURAJENDRAN Nithya
Experimental Drug Development Centre, A*STAR
 X-ray crystallography: ‘microscope’ of the drug discovery world
3:55 PMAsst. Prof. BHUSHAN Shashi
School of Biological Sciences, NTU
 Conformational changes in the selectivity filter underlie C-type inactivation in human potassium ion channel Kv1.3
4:15 PMDr. BROWN Christopher
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR
 Biological Inspired Lead Design with Genetically Encoded Libraries
4:35 PMDr. EL SAHILI Abbas
School of Biological Sciences, NTU
 Structural basis for substrate recognition and ligation by asparaginyl peptide ligases

 

 

Session I

9:00 AMProf. GRÜBER Gerhard
School of Biological Sciences, NTU
 Complementary structural tools to discover new targets and compounds of pathogenic mycobacteria
9:20 AMDr. VERMA Chandra
Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR
 The role of computational models in modern biology: some stories from the Bioinformatics Institute
9:40 AMAssoc. Prof. WU Bin
School of Biological Sciences, NTU
 TIR domains of plant immune receptors are sensors of intracellular dsDNA/RNA mediating cell death
10:00 AMDr. SONG Haiwei
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR
 Structural and functional insights into DNA unwinding mechanism of Pif1 helicase
10:20 AMCoffee Break
10:35 AMAssoc. Prof. MIRSAIDOV Utkur
Department of Physics, Material Science, and Biological Sciences, NUS
 How do crystals form from a solution? A glimpse at nonclassical nucleation process with in situ TEM
10:55 AMAssoc. Prof. GAO Yonggui
School of Biological Sciences, NTU
 Molecular basis of cellulose biosynthesis
11:15 AMAssoc. Prof. LU Gan
Department of Biological Sciences, NUS
 Heterogeneous non-canonical nucleosomes predominate in yeast cells in situ
11:35 AMLunch and Poster Session
 

Session II

2:00 PMAsst. Prof. BASAK Sandip
School of Biological Sciences, NTU
 Cryo-EM reveals the gating and drug modulation in ligand-gated ion channels
2:20 PMDr. CHEN Ming Wei 
School of Biological Sciences, NTU
 Design, evaluation, and production of recombinant protein constructs at the NTU Protein Production Platform.
2:40 PMAsst. Prof. LUO Min
Department of Biological Sciences, NUS
 Structure Basis for RNA-guided DNA targeting and degradation in Type 1 CRISPR-Cas system
3:00 PMCoffee Break
3:15 PMDr. XU Weijun
Experimental Drug Development Centre, A*STAR
 Structural model of human PORCN illuminates disease-associated variants and drug-binding sites
3:35 PMDr. XUE Kai
School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, NTU
 Recent development in solid state NMR and a few applications in biosolids
4:10 PMDr. SER Zheng
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR
 Cross-linking mass spectrometry-based structural analysis of the Smc5/6 complex
4:25 PMDr. SOMAN, Aghil
School of Biological Sciences, NTU
 Cryo-EM structure of the telomerictetranucleosome-A new paradigm in DNA packaging?
4:40 PMBest Poster Announcement
4:50 PMClosing Remarks

Location and Date

 Address
School of Biological Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
60 Nanyang Drive​​, SBS CR-1
Singapore 637551
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 Date
24th May to 25th May

 

Contact

 

Ms. Lynette Liew Sin Yee
Tel: +65 6908 2219
Email: [email protected]
NTU Institute of Structural Biology 

https://www.ntu.edu.sg/nisb

Health Declaration (Mandatory)

As per NTU Policy, from 1 January 2022, only business-related visitors who are
(i)     Fully vaccinated,
(ii)    Medically exempted, or
(iii)   Have recovered from COVID-19 in the last 180 days, will be allowed to be present on campus, in compliance
          with the national guidelines.

  • Unvaccinated visitors will not be allowed to enter campus venues.
  • Visitors must be pre-registered and submit their health declaration form at least one day before their visit.

 

Health Declaration Form

 

Please fill in the following fields in the declaration form as follows:

What is the Name of the Host from NTU?NTU Institute of Structural Biology
What is the Contact Number of the Host from NTU?+65 6908 2219
What is the Email Address of the Host from NTU?[email protected]
Where is your meeting held?School of Biological Sciences - Class Room 1

 

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Organizing Committee

  • PHAN, Anh Tuan | NISB, NTU (Chair)
  • GAO, Yonggui | SBS, NTU
  • LESCAR, Julien | SBS, NTU
  • LIEW, Chong Wai | NISB, NTU
  • LIM, Wan Hsin | EDDC, A*STAR 
  • LIOU, Yih-Cherng | DBS, NUS
  • LUO, Dahai | LKC, NTU 
  • NORDENSKIÖLD, Lars | SBS, NTU 
  • SIVARAMAN, Jayaraman | DBS, NUS
  • SONG, Haiwei | IMCB, A*STAR
  • VERMA, Chandra | BII, A*STAR
  • YANG, Daiwen | DBS, NUS 

 

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