Casandra gave a wonderful presentation and successfully defended both physically and virtually on 15 March 2023! She is PhD #14 from the Kline lab. Congratulations Dr Tan and all the best for your post-doctoral research journey in the Filloux lab!
Lab News
Welcome new interns for the 2022/23 academic year!
BUG Symposium 2022
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Bacterial Ultra Group (BUG), a symposium was held at the National University of Singapore. The 7 BUG PIs kicked off the symposium by sharing their BUG memories and research showcase.
Memories of BUG – Swaine Chen
BUG reflections – Yunn Hwen Gan
BUG encapsulation – Chris Sham
Exploring the gut microbiota-derived peptidoglycan fragments in host – Yuan Qiao
Genetic mobility redefined by the life cycles of bacteriophages and pathogenicity islands – John Chen
Adventures in (mostly) Enterococcal polymicrobial infections – Kimberly Kline
The BUG that sticks – Shu Sin Ch’ng
BUG group photo taken with all participants, including Bill Burkholder, who made a special virtual appearance.
Group shot with all the BUG PIs. Cheers to another 10 year of BUG!
Next was a seminar given by Christoph Tang about immune evasion by Neisseria meningitidis.
The BUG symposium ended with a poster session with 31 presenters from the BUG community.
Big thank you to the BUG symposium organizers for the successful event! Everyone had a great time exchanging scientific ideas and catching up.
Tri-lab party 2022
The Kline-Chen-Ch’ng lab held their final Tri-lab party in style on a yacht.
It was a first time on a yacht for many.
We bid farewell to sunny Singapore island.
It was all fun and laughter one the yacht anchored near Lazarus beach.
Beautiful sunset over the sea horizon.
Mandatory Kline lab group photo.
Not forgetting a full group photo with the Chen and Ch’ng lab!
Time flies and soon it was time to disembark from Sardinia yacht. We wish Swaine all the best for his future endeavour!
Lab lunch while Kim is back!
The Kline lab enjoyed a scrumptious meal together to celebrate all the lab achievements thus far. Huge thanks to Kim for the treat!
Congratulations Claudia!
Claudia gave birth to a sweet baby girl, Aurelia on 28 July. Congratulations to Claudia and Michael!
Congratulations Class of 2022!!
Dr JJ, Keefe, Aslam and Nithiyaa officially graduated on 28 July 2022. Huge congratulations to them!
Congratulations Dr Patrick Kao!
PhD #13 from the Kline lab, Patrick successfully defended virtually on 20 July 2022! Congratulations Dr Kao and all the best for your scientific journey!
SCELSE 10th Year Anniversary Conference
This year, SCELSE celebrated 10 years of research excellence at Capella Singapore. Members of the Kline lab participated in this glamorous event and even Kim, who flew back specially for this!
Kim (top) and Haris (bottom) gave a wonderful talk at the conference.
Claudia posing beside her poster (spot her baby bump).
Ph.D students Casandra (top) and Jerome (bottom) also presented their projects at the conference.
Zeus explaining his poster to a curious audience.
Well done to all and kudos to the organizing committee for the successful celebration!
Welcome new undergrads for the 2022/23 academic year!
