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SCELSE Open House 2025

Date:      28 Aug 2025 (Thu)
Time:     11.30 am – 5 pm
Venue:   NTU, 60 Nanyang Drive, SBS-01N-27, Singapore 637551 (Above Quad Café) Location map

Registration for SCELSE Open House is now open!

Discover how SCELSE advances microbiology to impact areas like:
• Public health & medical biofilms
• Food production and sustainability
• Air & water quality surveillance
• Marine microbial ecology & ecosystem sustainability
• Environmental genomics

Network with our professors and researchers, tour the labs, and explore pathways to internship, FYP and PhD opportunities at SCELSE.

Programme
11.30 am Registration
12.15 pm Welcome address by Prof Alain Filloux, SCELSE Centre Director
12.20 pm Path to PhD by Ms Sumathi Lechimanan, Assistant Manager, Student & Academic Services
12.30 pm Fireside chat with SCELSE experts
1.20 pm Networking Lunch with Professors
2.40 pm Lab tours 1
3.40 pm Microbiology seminars: chaired by A/Prof Janelle Thompson
3.45 pm
  • Talk 1: Microbial solutions for economic & climate resilience in food production
    Dr Andrew Laloo, SCELSE Research Fellow
  • Talk 2: Microbiomes influencing ocean health
    Dr Jeslyn Poo, SCELSE Research Fellow
  • Talk 3: Biofilms in chronic infection: A biophysical perspective
    Dr Binu Kundukad, SCELSE Senior Research Fellow
4.40 pm Lab tours 2
5 pm End

One way transport will be provided from NUS to SCELSE at NTU for signed up participants.
Pickup time: 10.30am
Pickup Location: Bus stop No. 18301 – Lim Seng Tjoe Bldg (LT27),
10 Lower Kent Ridge Rd, Kent Ridge Campus, Singapore 119076
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