The School of Biological Sciences at NTU would like to thank everyone for the overwhelming support of the school’s 20th Anniversary T-shirt Pre-order. It would not have been possible without the talented students of SBS. Congratulations on getting into the top 3 and having your designs printed for the SBS fam!
Recipients of WiEST Development Grant 2022 – Alice & Chui Fann from NTU SBS
This year, there are two deserving recipients of the Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology (WiEST) Development Grant from the School of Biological Sciences (SBS) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Congratulations Sint Thida Bo (Alice) and Wong Chui...
Understanding breeding history of Lychee opens opportunities for better harvests
Assistant Professor Jarkko Salojärvi from NTU SBS, together with a team of Chinese and American researchers made novel insights into the domestication history of lychee and identified the underlying genetics of this important tropical fruit that encode important agricultural traits. The study made by the team was published in Nature Genetics in January 2022, with their significant discoveries on Lychee featured on the cover of the Vol. 54 Issue 1 of Nature Genetics.
Goodbye virtual, hello physical – Tea Party 2022 at NTU SBS
It has been more than two years since the circuit breaker. COVID-19 caused many of our lifestyles to change – going digital with e-payments, virtual meetings, virtual conferences and more. The pandemic had also put physical events to halt, and now that the measures...
First Author at 22 – Lim Rui Qi, Audrey from NTU SBS
It all started when Lim Rui Qi, Audrey, a Year 4 Biological Sciences undergraduate from Nanyang Technological University reached out to Assistant Prof Ma Wei to join his lab because of her passion in plant science since young.
Plant defence against pathogens: It’s about the phase
While the world focuses on building human immunity against the virus, Associate Professor Miao Yansong from the School of Biological Sciences (SBS) at Nanyang Technological University dedicated his efforts to research on the mechanisms underlying plant immunity during bacterial invasion.
Biological Sciences & Food Science and Technology: Meet Johanan from NTU SBS
As part of the Meet Our Students series, we connected with undergraduates from the school’s seven different programmes to learn about their motivations behind joining the programme, their experiences here at NTU SBS and more. Here’s Johanan, currently enrolled in the Biological Sciences with Second Major in Food Science and Technology programme.
Biological Sciences & Structural Biology: Meet Damien from NTU SBS
As part of the Meet Our Students series, we connected with undergraduates from the school’s seven different programmes to learn about their motivations behind joining the programme, their experiences here at NTU SBS and more. Here’s Damien, currently enrolled in the Biological Sciences with Second Major in Biomedical Structural Biology programme.
Biological Sciences & Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology: Meet Kristy from NTU SBS
As part of the Meet Our Students series, we connected with undergraduates from the school’s seven different programmes to learn about their motivations behind joining the programme, their experiences here at NTU SBS and more. Here’s Kristy, currently enrolled in the Biological Sciences with Second Major in Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology programme.
Biomedical Sciences & BioBusiness: Meet Wei Quan from NTU SBS
As part of the Meet Our Students series, we connected with undergraduates from the school’s seven different programmes to learn about their motivations behind joining the programme, their experiences here at NTU SBS and more. Here’s Wei Quan, currently pursuing the double major in Biomedical Sciences and BioBusiness programme.