Centre for Stem Cell Research

SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES

No Date Event/Speaker & Title of Talk
January 2015
1 30 January 2015
CSCR General Meeting 1
2
4th UTAR SCiP and 1st UTAR-UST 2015 Joint Symposium Committee Meeting
February 2015
3 9 February 2015
Post-graduate programme – Work Completion Seminar
Ms Nalini Devi Verusingam Development and Characterization of Induce Pluripotent Stem Cells (IPSCs) Derived From Human Oral Squamous Carcinoma Cell (OSCC)
4 26 February 2015
Post-graduate programme - Directed Reading
Mr. Vimalan Rengganaten Induction of Cancer Stem Cell Properties in Colon Cancer Cells by Defined Factors [PLoS ONE (2014), 9 (7), e101735]
5 Ms. Erica Choong Pei Feng Cancer cell reprogramming : Implications & Challenges
March 2015
6 12 March 2015
Post-graduate programme - Directed Reading
Mr. Tan Yoke Tsung Characterization of shed medicinal leech mucus reveals a diverse microbiodata [Frontiers in Microbiology (2015), 5(757), pp. 1-10]
7 Mr. Vimalan Rengganaten Chemoresistance in cancer
8 27 March 2015
4th UTAR SCiP and 1st UTAR-UST 2015 Joint Symposium Committee Meeting
April 2015
9 9 April 2015
Post-graduate programme – Proposal Defense
Mr. Vimalan Rengganaten Expression of selected ABC transporter proteins in the established chemo-resistant colorectal cancer stem cells
10 Mr. Tan Yoke Tsung Microbial 16S Metagenomic Diversity of Malaysian Raw and Post-harvest Edible Bird Nest (EBN)
11
Post-graduate programme - Directed Reading
Ms. Erica Choong Pei Feng Elite model for the generation of induced pluripotent cancer cells (iPCs) [PLoS ONE (2013), 8(2), e56702]
12 10 April 2015
Post-graduate programme – Work Completion Seminar
Mr Lim Sheng Jye In Vitro Hair Follicle Cloning Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Derived from Hair Follicle Keratinocytes of Plucked Human Hair
13 23 April 2015
Post-graduate programme - Directed Reading
Ms. Norlaily Mohd Ali Infiltrating bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells increase prostate cancer stem cell population and metastatic ability via secreting cytokines to suppress androgen receptor signaling[Oncogene (2013), pp. 1-11]
14 Ms. Boo Lily Sulforaphane (SF) a Dietary Component of Broccoli/Broccoli Sprouts, Inhibits Breast Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs)[Clinical Cancer Research (2010), 16(9), pp. 2580- 2590]
May 2015
15 14 May 2015
Post-graduate programme - Directed Reading
Mr. Tan Yoke Tsung Impact of Next Generation Sequencing Techniques in Food Microbiology
Post-graduate programme – Proposal Defense
16 Ms. Erica ChoongPei Feng Elucidation of DNA damage response pathways and functional efficiency of DNA repair genes associated with reprogrammed osteosarcoma cell lines
17 15 May 2015
4th UTAR SCiP and 1st UTAR-UST 2015 Joint Symposium Committee Meeting
18 28 May 2015
Post-graduate programme - Directed Reading
Ms Boo Lily Spheroid 3D Cancer Models in Tumor Biology
19 Ms. Norlaily Mohd Ali Exosomes, circulating miRNAs in cancer
June 2015
20 11 June 2015
Post-graduate programme – Proposal Defense
Ms. Boo Lily Establishment, phenotypic and molecular profiling of stem cell-like spheroid cultures in breast cancer cell lines
21 Ms. Norlaily Mohd Ali Exosomal and cellular miRNAs profiling of osteosarcoma-derived CSC-like population (CD133+) under the influence of BM-MSCs co-culture environment
22 25 June 2015
Post-graduate programme - Directed Reading
Ms. Erica Choong Pei Feng DNA repair mechanisms and cancer
July 2015
23 9 July 2015
4th UTAR SCiP and 1st UTAR-UST 2015 Joint Symposium Committee Meeting
24 15 July 2015 CSCRTalk
Dr. Martyna Adamowicz-Brice Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College, London, UK

Title: System analysis reveals a non-coding RNA regulatory network in cardiac development and repair
25 29 July 2015
4th UTAR SCiP and 1st UTAR-UST 2015 Joint Symposium Committee Meeting
August 2015
25 3-4 August 2015
4th UTAR SCiP and 1st UTAR-UST Joint Symposium on Stem Cell Research
27 6 August 2015
Post-graduate programme - Viva
Ms. Chiew Men Yee Development and Characterization of AML-M5-derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs)
28 27 August 2015
CSCR General meeting 2
September 2015
29 10 September 2015
Post-graduate programme - Directed Reading
Ms. Boo Lily Chemoresistance in cancer stem cells & strategies to overcome resistance
30 Ms. Norlaily Mohd Ali Co-culture-system for modeling tumor microenvironment in vitro.
31 Ms. Erica Choong Pei Feng Single cell resolution in vivo imaging of DNA damage following PARP inhibition [ Scientific Reports 5:10129,2014]
October 2015
32 22 October 2015
Post-graduate programme - Directed Reading
Ms. Boo Lily Assessing breast cancer cell lines as tumour models by comparison of mRNA expression profiles [Breast Cancer Research (2015), 17(1), pp. 114]
33 Ms. Norlaily Mohd Ali Exosomes from bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells contain a microRNA that promotes dormancy in metastatic breast cancer cells [Science Signaling (2014), 7(332): ra63]
November 2015
34 27 November 2015
CSCR Journal Club
Dr. Lim Kian Lam Generation of clinical-grade human induced pluripotent stem cells in Xeno-free conditions. [Stem Cell Research & Therapy (2015), 6(1), pp. 1-11]
35
CSCR General meeting 3
December 2015
36 7 December 2015
Post-graduate programme - Viva
Mr. Lim Sheng Jye Generation and Characterisation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Derived From Human Hair Follicle Keratinocytes
37 18 December 2015
CSCR Journal Club
Ms. Michele Hiew Sook Yuin Terminal differentiation and loss of tumorigenecity of human cancers via pluripotency based reprogramming [Oncogene (2013), 32(18), pp. 2249-2260]

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