Dr Chew Joon Lin


Name:	Chew Joon Lin
Designation:	Senior Manager (Internships and Overseas Programmes) Senior Lecturer Chairperson - Biosafety Committee
Address:	School of Life Sciences and Chemical Technology Blk 83, #06-00, Singapore 599489
Tel:	(65) 6460 8928
Email:	CHEW_Joon_Lin@np.edu.sg
Education:	PhD (A* STAR & Biological Sciences, NUS) MSc (Paediatrics, NUS) ACTA (IAL) SD WSH (SP) GC WSH (SP) OHSAS 18001 Lead Auditor Certificate Registered Safety Officer (MOM) ISTR Biosafety Practitioner (Public Health England, UK)
My favourite quote by Jane Goodall:	“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Check out my LinkedIn pagehere.
Professional Expertise:	Life-long learning, workplace safety and health training, youth counselling, biomedical sciences, biotechnology
Awards & Achievements:	Singapore Millennium Foundation (SMF) Research Fellowship, Temasek Holdings, 2007-2010
Publications, Patents, Projects, Consultancy:	Bourque G, Leong B, Vega VB, Chen X, Srinivasan KG, Chew JL, Ruan Y, Wei CL, Ng HH, Liu ET. 2008. Evolution of the mammalian transcription factor binding repertoire via transposable elements. Genome Research 18(11):1752-62. Zhao XD, Han X, Chew JL, Liu J, Chiu KP, Choo A, Orlov YL, Sung WK, Shahab A, Kuznetsov VA, Bourque G, Oh S, Ruan Y, Ng HH, Wei CL. 2007. Whole-genome mapping of histone H3 Lys4 and 27 trimethylations reveals distinct genomic compartments in human embryonic stem cells. Cell Stem Cell 1: 286-298. Loh YH, Wu Q, Chew JL*, Vega VB, Zhang W, Chen X, Bourque G, George J, Leong B, Liu J, Wong KY, Sung KW, Lipovich L, Kuznetsov VA, Robson P, Stanton LW, Wei CL, Ruan Y, Lim B and Ng HH. 2006. The Oct4 and Nanog transcription network that regulates pluripotency in mouse embroynic stem cells. Nature Genetics 38:431-440.
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