Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has deepened its collaboration with Beijing University of Chinese Medicine (BUCM) with a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), signed on 31 July 2024. Key initiatives under the MOU include: 1) Faculty Exchange: Both...
Get to know the 2024 CoS Valedictorians: Lee Bo Sern, Bronson (SBS)
In this series, Science@NTU gets to know the 2024 CoS valedictorians. They give a quick overview of their time in CoS, and also offer a few words of advice on transitioning into a new phase of life. Next up, we have Bronson Lee from the School of Biological Sciences....
Improving the Disease Resistance of Coffee Plants
Assistant Professor Jarkko Salojarvi from the NTU School of Biological Sciences (SBS), together with an international team of scientists, have assembled high-quality genomes of Coffea arabica, Arabica coffee, and its parental species Coffea canephora, Robusta coffee,...
Understanding a Protein’s Relationship with Our Telomeres
Scientists from the NTU School of Biological Sciences, led by Professor Lars Nordenskiöld, recently published their study in The Embo Journal on an essential protein, telomere repeat binding factor 2 (TRF2), that plays a critical role in stabilising and maintaining...
Global Undergraduate Awards 2023 Highly Commended Entrant Feature: Chester Ng
NTU SBS is proud to share that one of our undergraduate, Chester Ng has been awarded the Highly Commended Entrant of the 2023 Global Undergraduate Awards, under the category of Nursing, Midwifery & Allied Care. Cited as the ultimate championship of high-potential...
Introducing the College of Science Community Project 2nd Executive Committee
The College of Science Community Project (CoSCP) is proud to present its 2nd executive committee. The aim of the CoSCP is to foster a College culture of giving back to society and to provide platforms through which the College can come together in a spirit of caring....
College of Science’s Jakarta Outreach Event
In September, the College of Science - assisted by a group of our Indonesian student ambassadors, Indonesian alumni, and with several of our faculty members - travelled to Jakarta to meet and greet students from more than 15 schools in the region. Over 250 attendees,...
Molecular Mechanism of Plant Oil Biosynthesis – First Authors Feature: Yuzhou Yang and Audrey Lim
2 of our Ph.D students from Assistant Prof Wei Ma's lab published their papers in Plant Physiology in May and July this year. Yuzhou Yang first-authored “Transcription factor bZIP52 modulates Arabidopsis seed oil biosynthesis through interaction with WRINKLED1”...
Get to know the 2023 CoS Valedictorians: Fiona Fan Chongyue (SBS)
Convocation season is here again! In this series, Science@NTU gets to know the 2023 CoS valedictorians. They give a quick overview of their time in CoS, and also offer a few words of advice on transitioning into the next phase of life. First up, we have Fiona Fan from the School of Biological Sciences.
Congratulations to Prof James P. Tam on receiving the 2023 Murray Goodman Scientific Excellence & Mentorship Award!
We congratulate Prof Tam for this award recognizing his pioneering research in the areas of chemoenzymatic peptide ligation, peptide dendrimers as vaccines and therapeutics and plant-derived bioactive peptides, as well as for outstanding international leadership and mentorship in the peptide science community.