Moirangthem Kiran Singh
Research Fellow, Alumni Kenney Group
MBI hosts Physics Colloquium for Olympiad students
As part of the Physics Colloquium for Olympiad Students program, MBI hosted a group of high school students from different schools across Singapore to learn more about interdisciplinary sciences such as Mechanobiology and to get better insights into the application of physical principles in order to answer complex biological questions.
HER2 can HEAR2
HER2 activates mechanosensing on rigid matrices
Too Deep To Divide!
Molecular response to depth sensing differs in cancer cells
Women in Science Special Segment Explores Gender Equality in STEM
As part of the recently held 2017 Joint Symposium on Bioimaging between Singapore and Japan, a Women in Science segment was organized to explore gender equality issues in STEM.
Small Steps to Big Changes: Towards Gender Equality in Science
MBI Science Communications editor Laskhmi Ramachandran represented the MBI Women in Science Initiative at 2017's Gender Summit 10.
Ding Wei Yung
Alumni
Principal Investigator
Research Interests
Cell-Matrix and Cell-Cell Mechanotransduction, Molecular Mechanisms of Mechanobiology
Wei Yung’s interest lies in understanding the sophistication of cells as robust machines. Using C. elegans, a 1mm nematode, as a model system, he investigates the cellular machinery underlying newly fertilized zygotes that drives critical force-dependent processes such as polarization and cytokinesis.
Biography
Wei Yung completed his Bachelor’s degree in Bioengineering (Second Class Upper) from the National University of Singapore in 2012. In his honors dissertation under the co-supervision of Professor James Goh and Professor Wong Hee Kit, he optimized the conditions required for the construction of interbody spinal fusion device using primary adipose stem cells seeded in a biodegradable polycaprolactone/tricalcium sulphate (PCL/TCP) scaffold. The work was presented in the Bioengineering Showcase 2012 and he was awarded the Best Poster Award. After he was enrolled in the Mechanobiology Graduate Program, he joined Dr. Zaidel-Bar’s Cell Adhesion and Morphogenesis Lab and is currently searching for novel genes involved in regulating C. elegans early embryogenesis.
