Programme

Day 1 – 16th March 2009 (Monday)

Time	Details
8.30 – 9.00 am	Registration
Session 1 Chairperson – Dr. Chandra Verma
9.00 – 9.10 am	Welcome Address by British High Commission Ms. Amanda Brooks Deputy High Commissioner, British High Commission, Singapore
9.10 – 9.50 am	Keynote Speaker: Prof. Sir David Lane Human Neutralising Antibodies Cloned from Convalescent Patient B Cells: A New Route to Anti-Viral Therapy Biomedical Research Council, Agency for Science, Technology and Research Singapore
9.50 – 10.20 am	Prof. Paul Williams Quorum Sensing as a Target for Novel Antibacterial Agents School of Molecular Medical Sciences, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham United Kingdom
10.20 – 10.45 am	Morning Tea
Session 2 Chairperson – Prof. Malcolm Walkinshaw
10.45 – 11.15 am	Dr. Chan Tat Keong Preventing Infection after Cataract Surgery with Antibiotics: Current Evidence and Controversy Singapore National Eye Centre National University of Singapore Singapore
11.15 – 11.45 am	Prof. Garry Taylor Sialidases as Drug Targets for Respiratory Disease Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of St Andrews United Kingdom
11.45 – 12.15 pm	Prof. James Tam Mutation-resistant Antiviral Drug Discovery Centre, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University Singapore
12.15 – 12.45 pm	Prof. Antonio Bertoletti Targeting Hbv Infected Cells Using a Monoclonal Antibody with T Cell Receptor-like Specificity Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, Agency for Science, Technology and Research Singapore
12.45 – 2.00 pm	Lunch
Session 3 Chairperson – Prof. Garry Taylor
2.00 – 2.30 pm	Dr. Emanuele Paci Preventing Pili’s Growth in Bacteria: Insights from Simulation and Rational Analysis of Experimental Data Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology & School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds United Kingdom
2.30 – 3.00 pm	Prof. Roger Beuerman Developing Antimicrobial Peptides with Increased Killing Ability and Decreased Cytotoxicity Singapore Eye Research Institute; School of Medicine, National University of Singapore Singapore
3.00 – 3.30 pm	Dr. Neoh Koh Gee Antimicrobial Surfaces and Materials: An Engineering Approach Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore Singapore
3.30 – 3.45 pm	Break
Session 4 Chairperson – Prof. Roger Beuerman
3.45 – 4.15 pm	Dr. Martin Everett Natural Products as a Source of New Antibiotics MerLion Pharmaceuticals Singapore
4.15 – 4.45 pm	Dr. Alessio Ciulli Starting with Fragments University Chemical Laboratory, University of Cambridge United Kingdom
4.45 – 5.15 pm	Dr. Jagadeesh Nanjegowda Structure and Folding Dynamics of Novel Antimicrobial Peptides Bioinformatics Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research; Singapore Eye Research Institute Singapore
5.15 – 5.30 pm	Closing Discussions for Day 1

Day 2 – 17th March 2009 (Tuesday)

Time	Details
8.30 – 9.00 am	Registration
Session 1 Chairperson – Dr. David Coomber
9.00 – 9.30 am	Prof. Malcolm Walkinshaw Structure Based Approaches for the Discovery of Anti-Infective Ligands Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom
9.30 – 10.00 am	Dr. Zhang Lian Hui Networking the Bacterial Virulence Regulons Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research Singapore
10.00 – 10.30 am	Dr. Richard Smith A Better Vancomycin – Application of Cytotopic Membrane- Localising Technology to an Antibiotic King’s College London, University of Cambridge United Kingdom
10.30 – 11.00 am	Morning Tea
Session 2 Chairperson – Prof. Paul Williams
11.00 – 11.30 am	Dr. Martin Hibberd Optimization and Clinical Validation of a Pathogen Detection Microarray Genome Institute of Singapore; National University of Singapore Singapore
11.30 – 12.00 pm	Dr. John Dangerfield Encapsulation of Living Cells and Virus Surface Modification: Two Technologies for Treating Pathogenic Microbes and other Serious Diseases Austrianova Singapore; Christian Doppler Laboratory Foreign Module for Virology Singapore
12.00 – 12.30 pm	Dr. Naweed Naqvi Chemical Biology of Fungal Pathogenesis: New Strategies and Antifungal Metabolites Molecular Pathogenesis Program, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory Singapore
12.30 – 1.00 pm	Dr. Ujjini Manjunatha Challenges in TB Drug Discovery: understanding the Mechanism of Action of New Chemical Entities Challenges in TB Drug Discovery: understanding the Mechanism of Action of New Chemical Entities Singapore
1.00 – 1.15 pm	Closing Discussions for Day 2

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