After 9 years in the Kline lab, Mark is embarking on a new journey away from sunny island Singapore. We’ll miss you, Mark, and wish you all the best in your new endeavors!
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Welcome new interns for the 2024/25 academic year!
FYP Poster Day 2024
Hsin Yee and Vanessa have successfully completed their Final Year Project under the guidance of mentors Aaron and Zeus respectively! Congratulations to both of them!
Hsin Yee and Aaron
Vanessa and Zeus.
Welcome new interns for the 2023/24 academic year!
The Kline Lab unites at Porto!
For the 6th International Conference on Enterococci held at Porto, Portugal.
Talks given by Ronni and Haris:
Poster presentations by the Kline lab representatives:
Fun at the wine experience social event
Group photo!
Last but not least, congratulations to Navin for winning the best poster award!
FYP Poster Day 2023
NTU undergrads, Ann Don and Jia Hui completed their Kline lab FYP journey on 10 May, presenting their posters at the SBS FYP poster day. We hope they have learnt valuable skills and wish them all the best for their future endeavors!
Jia Hui posing beside her poster with her mentor, Frederick.
Ann Don standing beside her poster with her mentor, Chor Ming.
Congratulations Dr Casandra Tan!
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!
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!
