Join us at our next Singapore RNA Seminar Series by Dr. Xiang-Dong Fu, Chair Professor in RNA Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Westlake University on Monday 5 August, 10.30am (SGT) Webinar link: zoom.us/j/92890950604?… Webinar ID: 928 9095 0604 Passcode: 653378

Congratulations to Dr Jingmei Li and team from GIS who provided a review of the challenges faced by Asian working mothers re-entering the workforce and how we can better support working mothers in Asia! #Breastfeeding #MaternityLeave #WorkLifeBalance

Join us at Frontiers in Cancer Science 2024 conference in Nov! Don't miss out on the chance to submit your abstract and register under the early-bird category hashtag#FCS2024 by 11 Aug at csi.nus.edu.sg/fcs

#Overheard in A*STAR: Chia Bing Shao, a GIS Research Fellow, shares what he enjoys doing from discovering antiviral factors to advancing nucleic acid therapeutics 🧬🔭🧪💊at youtu.be/dXlUK0c7MHY?si…

Researchers from A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), Singapore General Hospital (SGH), and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at National University of Singapore have discovered a new clade of Candida auris. Read more about their discovery at a-star.edu.sg/gis/news-event…

Join us at our next Genome: The GIS Speaker Series seminars by Prof. Kai Ye and Dr. Shuhua Xu on 23 August from 9am to 10am at GIS Seminar Room.

This week, we celebrate with our GIS colleagues who were conferred various awards for their distinguished service and significant contributions to A*STAR and Singapore. Our heartiest congratulations to the following awardees!

Our GIS team conducted city-wide metagenomic surveillance of food-centre microbiomes in Singapore to provide a detailed map of microbial (bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses) as well as non-microbial DNA abundances across two timepoints. Read more in Dr Niranjan's post below:

Join us at the next Singapore RNA Seminar Series on Thursday 19 September, 10.00am (SGT) by Dr. Furqan Fazal, Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine. To join the webinar: zoom.us/j/99607957039?… Webinar ID: 996 0795 7039 Passcode: 011268

GIS inked a Memorandum of Understanding with 10X Genomics yesterday. This MOU will see both parties working closely to explore possible joint research collaborations, joint seminars and workshops and other activities in single cell and spatial applications in Singapore.

A new study by IMCB, Genome Institute of Singapore, National Cancer Centre Singapore and Singapore General Hospital, revealed high iron levels, often linked to red meat consumption, can drive colorectal cancer by reactivating telomerase, a key enzyme in 90% of cancers. See aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscover…

🚨 Exciting Opportunity! 🚨 The Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) is hiring talented Principal Investigators at all seniority levels. If you have a strong research background, we encourage you to apply! 👉 Apply now at linkedin.com/jobs/view/4007… or share with your network!

Congratulations to Dr Teh Bin Tean and Peiyong Guan on your new paper on duct carcinoma (CDC), an aggressive rare subtype of kidney cancer in EMBO Molecular Medicine! Read more here 👉embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…

<LAST CHANCE> Don't miss out on the chance to register under the early-bird category for Frontiers in Cancer Science #FCS2024 by 11 Sep 23 59 SGT! csi.nus.edu.sg/fcs

The 2nd Spatial Biology Congress Asia is happening in Singapore from 21 - 22 Nov! Check out the programme and registration details in the poster below👇 global-engage.com/product/spatia…