Speakers

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Dr. Uqbah Iqbal was born in the United States and emigrated to Malaysia at the age of six. Winning Second Place in Malaysian Historical Essay Writing Competition 2013, he was the recipient of Research University Fellowship Scheme from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, MyBrain 15 (MyPhD) Postgraduate Scholarship Programme from Ministry of Education Malaysia, Graduate on Time Award and Outstanding Student Award from Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia as well as the Youngest Ph.D. in History Holder and the only Malaysian achieved a Ph.D. in History in conjunction with the 43rd Convocation of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

Speech Title : Actin polymerization prevents chromatin bridge breakage in cytokinesis in human cancer cells via a new tension sensitive mechanism

Dr Eleni Petsalaki is a Post Docroral Research Scientist in Dr George Zachos’ lab at University of Crete, Greece. She completed her PhD in 2014 in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine at the Department of Biology. Her main interest is mitotic cell division and mechanisms that monitor mitotic progression called the mitotic spindle checkpoint and the abscission checkpoint. She is an author of 20 publications including Journal of Cell Biology, Nature Communications, Journal of Cell Science and others. Her publications have received >600 citations so far. She is currently a member of FEBS, AACR, EACR and Royal Society of Biology.