Meet the Team
Graham holds an interdisciplinary PhD in cell biology and physics from The University of Edinburgh, UK. He has extensive experience in applying advanced light microscopy to a wide range of biomedical research projects.
Outside the laboratory he is committed to science outreach and has featured as a judge on MediaCorp’s National Science Challenge TV show, presented a TEDx talk, had microscopy images displayed on the big screen in Times Square, New York and exhibited work at Beautiful Science and Dynamic Beauty in Science at the National Museum of Singapore.
He can be contacted for consultation and advice on your experimental design and with any requests for new equipment.
Graham Wright, PhD MBA
Director, A*STAR Microscopy Platform
Acting Director, RSC
Imaging Consultant (Honorary), LKC School of Medicine, NTU (Adjunct)
Office: Neuros 6.43
Phone: +65 6407 0167
Sudha holds a PhD in Chemistry from India and trained in the interdisciplinary area of Biology and Chemistry.
Before joining ASTAR he was developing “Rainbow Proteins” by coupling Bioluminescent and fluorescent proteins using recombinant technology at Anthony Campbell’s lab in Cardiff University, UK.
Sudha has more than 15 years of research experience on fluorescence microscopy applications for cell biology. Sudha has a vast experience in applying the varied F-techniques (FRAP, FRET, FLIM, FCS, FCCS) for studying molecular movements and interactions in single cells.
Sudhaharan Thankiah, PhD
Advanced Microscopy Expert
Office: Immunos 5.17A
Phone: +65 6407 0230
Wah Ing enjoys the interdisciplinary nature of microscopy and taking apart microscope hardware. Trained in cell biology, she has extensive experience in sample preparation and studying cytoskeletal structures by live-cell imaging and single molecule localisation microscopy.
She oversees the day-to-day operations of the facility and manages requests for light microscopy training and imaging services, helping users from different fields identify the microscope most suitable for their experiments.
She also provides consultation for sample preparation and more challenging experiments, and operates the DeltaVision OMX superresolution system for 3D structured illumination microscopy.
Goh Wah Ing, PhD
Assistant Manager
Office: Immunos 6.18A
Phone: +65 6407 0471
John holds a bachelor of applied physics from Nanyang Technological University, SG.
He has expertise in image processing and analysis, particularly using ImageJ/FIJI. He offers advice and writes macros for automating or simplifying challenging analysis problems.
He also regularly conducts the course Image Processing & Analysis with FIJI (ImageJ).
The in-house lightsheet microscope (dual-DLSM) was setup by him.
John Lim, BSc
Digital Imaging Specialist
Office: Immunos 5.17A
Phone: +65 6407 0300
Liz holds a PhD in molecular biology from the IMCB Graduate programme and trained in the interdisciplinary area of neuroscience and cell signalling / trafficking.
She enjoys applying advanced light microscopy to address a wide range of biological questions. She has more than 15 years of experience in microscopy spanning over many techniques, including live cell imaging, wide field fluorescence and spinning disk confocal microscopy. She also has expertise in preparation of challenging samples such as primary neuronal cultures for microscopy.
She handles Singascope project.
Liz Lim, PhD
Microscopy Expert
Office: Immunos 6.18A
Phone: +65 6407 0253
Sarah earned her Bachelors of Biomedical Sciences from the University of Bradford and Joint Masters of Science Communication from National University of Singapore and Australian National University.
She conducts many of the light microscopy training sessions within AMP and supports the operation of the slide scanner.
She enjoys presenting the microscope laboratory to students and aspiring scientists.
Sarah Zulkifli, MSc
Microscopy Officer
Office: Immunos 6.18A
Phone: +65 6407 0253
Shuping is employed by Olympus Singapore. She is seconded to AMP as a collaborator and supports the A*STAR-Olympus Microscopy Suite.
Shuping holds PhD in molecular & cell biology from National University of Singapore.
She has extensive experience in sample preparation and applying basic and advanced light microscopy to a wide range of biomedical research projects.
She can be contacted for help with basic microscopy imaging, live-cell imaging, confocal microscopy imaging.
Shuping Lin, PhD
Assistant Manager, Product Application
Olympus Singapore
Office: Immunos 5.17A
Phone: +65 6407 0203