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Continuous Professional Development: How to Graduate on Time (GOT) and have a fulfilled life?
Date : 10 April 2025
Venue : INBIOSIS UKM (On-site only)
Fee : RM 50 (UKM Member), RM 75 (Non UKM Member)
Speakers : Prof. Dr. Syarul Nataqain Baharum, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Goh Hoe Han &
ChM. Dr. Nurkhalida Kamal
Workshop Highlights
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The Essentials of a Postgraduate Study
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7 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a PhD or MSc
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Research Project Planning Activities
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How to stop procrastinating?
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Postgraduate Survival Skills
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Going Beyond PhD
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e-certificate of participation
Why you should join the workshop ?
This training course is held to provide exposure to self-management and professional management of graduates throughout their postgraduate studies. Participants will learn self-management and professional management techniques for continuous learning. This training course is conducted in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), including Goal 4 (Quality Education) and Goal 5 (Gender Equality). Since this training course is targeted at graduate students and young supervisors, it is hoped that it can train future researchers who are competent in various aspects while increasing the prominence of the graduates study program at the national level.
List of Speakers and Trainers
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As a pioneer in Metabolomics field in Malaysia, Professor Dr. Syarul Nataqain Baharum research is focused on the new insight of analytical and biological perspectives of the metabolomics in the field of systems biology, in particularly on the understanding of secondary metabolite production in local herbal plants as well as fluxomics studies. She has expanding her research focus in understanding host-pathogen interaction in aquaculture disease and also green therapeutic mechanism in neurogenerative diseases. In metabolomics research, pipeline of analytical tools such as LCMS, GCMS, CEMS, FTIR and NMR combined with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is essential for the dynamic high throughput analysis. This frontier analysis which includes mathematical modelling has provided glimpse of cellular biology and fingerprint of functional network in the model organism in her lab. Currently she has published about 100 research articles, 4 books and 6 chapters in books. As project leader, she also received more than RM 4 million research grants in total amount. Under her supervision, 9 PhD students and 17 MSc were graduated. At the moment, she is supervising a total of 21 PhD students and 18 MSc students. She also has filed two patents and granted one Trade Mark (TM) and one Trade Secret. Her work has been awarded prestigious awards including BioInnovation Awards in 2011 and Selangor My Innovation Award, 2014. She also engaged in collaborative partnership with industries such as Medika Natura Sdn Bhd, AAR Sdn Bhd and FGV Sdn Bhd.
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If you are interested to collaborate with her, or be part of her research group, please drop her an email to nataqain@ukm.edu.my.
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Associate Professor Dr. Goh Hoe Han is a plant molecular biologist who obtained his PhD from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom in 2011 before starting his first acedemic position at the Institute of Systems Biology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Upon joining INBIOSIS, he pioneered the Plant Functional Genomics Research Group focusing on the molecular exploration of tropical plants and crop improvement using functional genomics approaches. Some of the tropical plant species include kesum, ketum, Rafflesia, and Nepenthes pitcher plants, as well as important crops, such as mangosteen, papaya, rice, tomato, and oil palm. Fundamental understandings on the molecular aspects of these plants are crucial for their bioprospecting, industrial application, and crop improvement.
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Dr Goh is keen on industrial collaboration in precision biotechnology for tropical plant improvement and also the commercialisation of novel recombinant plant enzymes. If you are interested to collaborate or be part of the plant functional genomics group, please email to gohhh@ukm.edu.my.
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ChM. Dr. Nurkhalida Kamal completed her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Natural Products Chemistry & Metabolomics) from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK in 2015. She then worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (SIPBS) focusing on metabolomics analysis of marine organisms including seaweed and marine microbes. She joined INBIOSIS in 2020 as a Research Fellow.
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Her research focuses on the application of metabolomics in natural products and food chemistry. She wants to understand the chemistry of various resources, why it is produced and what we can use it for. She has vast experiences in natural products isolation and elucidation from various organisms (plants, microbes, marine organisms and mushrooms), NMR and LCMS and chemometric data analysis. Her on-going research is to unravel the mechanism of immunomodulation of polyphenols-rich tempeh fraction on Caco-2 and HT-29 cell lines. Her interest also includes on using metabolomics as a tool to identify and biotechnologically optimize the production of bioactive secondary metabolites in medicinal plants, mushrooms, and microorganisms.
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Please feel free to visit her research group website (www.nurkhalidakamal.com) or contact ChM. Dr. Nurkhalida Kamal (nurkhalida.kamal@ukm.edu.my) for research and industrial projects collaboration.
Programme
| Time | Activity | Speaker |
| 9.30 am | Registration | |
| 10.00 am | Introduction and Ice breaking | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Goh Hoe Han |
| 10.10 am | The Essentials of a Postgraduate Study
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Prof. Dr. Syarul Nataqain Baharum |
| 10.50 am | Morning break | |
| 11.00 am | 7 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a PhD or MSc | ChM. Dr. Nurkhalida Kamal |
| 11.30 am | Research Project Planning Activities | ChM. Dr. Nurkhalida Kamal |
| 12.00 pm | How to stop procrastinating? | ChM. Dr. Nurkhalida Kamal |
| 12.30 pm | Lunch break | |
| 2.00 pm | Postgraduate Survival Skills
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Goh Hoe Han |
| 3.00 pm | Tea break | |
| 3.10 pm | Going Beyond PhD
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Goh Hoe Han |
| 3.50 pm | Discussion & closing ceremony |