Principal Investigator
Professor Julien Lescar
With over 25 years of experience in X-ray crystallography, professor Lescar came to the lovely island called Singapore in 2002 and started his lab in School of Biological Sciences in NTU.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Abbas El Sahili
Trained in France during his PhD, Abbas decided to give the tropics a try and came to Singapore in 2015.
Dr. Goh Boon Chong
Boon Chong is a principal research scientist at SMART (Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology) and he holds a joint appointment with NTU Institute of Structural Biology. His research focuses on the development of novel antimicrobial agents using protein engineering, high throughput screening and X-ray crystallography. Boon Chong received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of the late Prof. Klaus Schulten in the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics group at the Beckman Institute. Visit bcgoh.com for more information.
Dr. Wong Yee Hwa
Handling finance and purchasing. Long-standing member of the lab.
Research Staff
Srujana Kishore
Research Associate
Lin Jianqing
Jianqing is a research associate/part-time PhD. He has a research interest in structural biology, with expertise in protein X-ray crystallography and Isothermal Titration Calorimetry and decent proficiency in SEC-MALS, Co-IP, ELISA, SPR, Cloning, MicroScale Thermophoresis etc. He obtained bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from Nanyang Technological University in 2014.
Saranya Veerappan
Saranya is a Researh Associate, having completed her master's degree in Biomedical engineering at NTU (School of mechanical and aerospace engineering) in the year of 2012, with 6 years of experience in protein production and purification in bacterial cell and mammalian cell.
PhD Students
Zara, Chung Shi Ying
Third year PhD student
Chen Wei Min
Second year PhD student
We welcome visiting scholars from all around the world. If you are interested, please drop an email at Julien@ntu.edu.sg
Former members
Dr. Aicha Gharbi Ayachi
Obtained P.h.D in France. Currently working on Non-Structural Proteins of Flavivirus.
Chua Ni Ying
Former PhD student
Law Yuen Wei
Research Associate
Dr. Qian Xinlei
Former Post-doc
Jia Huan
Former PhD student
Hu Side
Former PhD student, working on protein ligase.
Farhana Bt Abdul Bakar
Former PhD student
Dario Heymann
Former PhD student
Swathi Pasunooti
project officer
Tan Siok Thing
Project Officer
Grace
project officer
Dr. Akshita Kumar
Akshita is affiliated with SMART, BII-A*STAR, BBML and NTU. She carries an inter-disciplinary experience with a background in biomimetics research, structural biology, molecular modelling and simulations. She is currently trying her hands on developing crystallography skills (and her luck). She is working towards structural characterisation of various antigen-antibody complex using X-ray crystallography and qualitatively understand the energetics of their interactions using molecular dynamics simulations.
Yeo Tiong Han
PhD student
Dr. Zhong Wenhe
Wenhe is also a SMART scholar and holds a joint affiliation with SMART and NTU.
Anagha Devendra Tambe
PhD student
Dr. Li Xiaokang
Visiting scholar from China