Lab News

February

We had our uncoupler paper accepted in Scientific Reports. This project started out as part of Mei Ying’s PhD project and was 11 years in the making, including many collaborators!

December
All our three UROPS student got A- or higher for their UROPS project. Well done!

August

This month marked the beginning of a new semester, and we have three new and amazing undergraduate students in the lab!


Our three new UROPS students Hong Xi, Wayne and Amos

This month my post for the NUS Teaching Connections blog was also published. It can be found here.


December
Our UROPS student Diya got an “A” for her UROPS project during the past semester on NRF2 and hypoxia, which made me very happy, too!

June
Mei Ying has passed her PhD defense and has submitted her final thesis, and is now a PhD! She is continuing her work at Dana Farber Cancer Institute as a postdoc.

May
Both our Temasek Poly students Vernice and Josabella got an “A” for their Final Year Major research project and have graduated from Poly!!

November
My NUS Teaching Reflections blog article was published.

August
Our new poly interns Vernice and Josabella have started in the lab.

June

The FYP (Final Year Project) results are out and Yin Pin (standing next to me) got “A-“! And our polytechnic FYP students also did really well. Jess and Syasya got “A” and Shawn even came first in the Biomedical Science cohort and scored distinction. And our UROPS student Ying Yee got “A” as well!

October
My education related paper on lecturer evaluation has been accepted.

July

Our lab is busy again with undergraduate and attachment students.


June

Yamin got an A for her UROPS project to investigate strategies to prevent mitochondrial DNA oxidation!

May

Michelle’s paper was published!

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32417234/

December

Sam got A- for his UROPS project on galactosemia!

November
Our SPS student paper was finally accepted in the Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease and published!

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jimd.12198

August

Kiran got an A for her summer UROPS on perfringolysin O mediated cell permeabilisation!

July
2019 GRADUATION!

Our final year students Lee Heng and Yu Qi have graduated!

And Michelle got her PhD!

June
Some pictures of killifish that Yee Liu has been breeding.

May
Our Honours students Yu Qi and Lee Heng both got an A- for their Final Year Project in Academic Year 2018/19!

And our UROPS undergraduate student Jeff got an A!

Our new undergraduate students Yamin, Sam and Kiran have joined the lab!

Mei Ying has left for Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, where she will be completing her PhD!

https://chouchanilab.dana-farber.org/

April
My revived postgraduate module MDG5218 has been approved. I will be teaching this again in semester 2 of Academic Year 2019/20.

In addition to this, we will also cover various transferable skills, including presentation, writing, and creativity, and we will also discuss issues related to motivation and productivity.

January

I won the Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence Award for Academic Year 2017/18!