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  Sohail AHMED  
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sohail.ahmed@imb.a-star.edu.sg


  
     


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Sohail Ahmed

Sohail Ahmed received his B.Sc. (University of London) in 1979 and Ph.D. (University of Aberdeen) in 1982, both in Biochemistry. He carried out his post-doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley (1983), the Institute Pasteur, Paris (1985) and UCL, London (1986). In 1989 he was appointed a Lecturer at the Institute of Neurology, UCL, and a Senior Scientist in the Glaxo-IMCB group. In 1998, he was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Neurology, UCL. In 2002, he moved to Singapore and joined the Centre for Molecular Medicine (CMM) where he set up the Neural Stem Cell Laboratory within the Regenerative Medicine Programme. (CMM became part of the new IMB in April 2007.)




Research Interests

Sohail's research interests focus on trying to understand the molecular and cell biology of neural stem cells in the context of regenerative medicine. His laboratory is investigating fundamental aspects of neural stem cells and neural precursors, and how these cells grow, divide, differentiate and die. The group has a particular interest in the application of advanced imaging techniques such as time-lapse microscopy and the F-techniques (FRET, FRAP, FLIM, and FCS) to map cell signalling pathways responsible for controlling actin dynamics in growth cones. 3-D imaging techniques and GFP/RFP reporters are being used to investigate the formation of neurospheres. Sohail Ahmed has championed advanced light microscopy imaging techniques at Biopolis and has played a key role in establishing the IMB Microscopy Unit. Together with Ernst Stelzer (EMBL), he ran the first Singapore EMBO course in 2003.
 
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