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!
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.
PhD #15 from the Kline lab! Bala successfully defended on 28 March 2023 through Zoom. The lab celebrated this joyous occasion together with Bala on 3 May, while Kim was back in Singapore. Congratulations Dr Bala!
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!
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.
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!
The Kline lab enjoyed a scrumptious meal together to celebrate all the lab achievements thus far. Huge thanks to Kim for the treat!
Claudia gave birth to a sweet baby girl, Aurelia on 28 July. Congratulations to Claudia and Michael!
Dr JJ, Keefe, Aslam and Nithiyaa officially graduated on 28 July 2022. Huge congratulations to them!
