Professor Bin Tean Teh, Ph.D., M.D
Deputy Director (Research), National Cancer Centre of Singapore
Deputy Director (Scientific), SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of Precision Medicine
Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Senior Principal Investigator, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore
Senior Principal Investigator, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore

Speaker: Dr. Aritra Banerjee, APCTP, South Korea

Prof. Lucas Carey, Associate Professor, Center for Quantitative Biology, Peking Unviersiy

International Networking-At the end of this program you will feel more comfortable with both face-to-face and virtual networking experiences. You will also learn how to turn everyday encounters with other
professionals into opportunities for your career.

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Max. # of 20 for each event

*Participants should bring their laptops and a copy of their resume.

Project Management-We will delve into traditional project management tools for aligning team
members, managing schedules, creating and tracking budgets, and defining scope. In addition, we will explore the latest trends in Agile project management which can be better for projects with higher degrees of uncertainty and frequency of change.

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*Max. # of 20 for each event

Language: English

Language: English

09:00-10:30 - OIST new faculties' talk
11:00-12:20 - OIST faculties' talk
12:20-13:30 - Poster viewing
13:30-15:30 - OIST researchers/students' talk

Title: Epigenetics for thermal plasticity in a reef fish

Name: Taewoo Ryu

Affiliation: APEC Climate Center, Republic of Korea

Abstract:

Elevated ocean temperature exacerbates physiology and survival of many marine organisms. Recent studies showed that some species can fully restore the physiological traits either within one or after multiple generations depending on the populations. Uncovering cellular mechanisms of such phenotypic plasticity is important to understand and predict species’ or populations’ response to climate change. We tried to identify epigenetic mechanisms related to within- and transgenerational plasticity using the high and low latitude population of Great Barrier Reef fish, Acanthochromis Polyacanthus, which showed thermal acclimation at the first or second generations, respectively. By sequencing genome and DNA methylomes of fish reared in the control and future predicted temperatures (+1.5 and +3 °C) at the whole genome level, differentially methylated genomic regions and related genes were identified. Functions related to nutrient homeostasis, cardiovascular capacity, and development and were significantly enriched among differentially methylated genes of high latitude F1 population, which were scarcely enriched among those of low latitude F2 population, indicating highly coordinated regulation of these functions for within- compared to transgenerational plasticity.