Illuminating the Contacts
Using superresolution imagining to map adherens junction machinery
Assoc Prof Evelyn Yim visiting from the University of Waterloo
Assoc Prof Evelyn Yim is visiting from the Chemical Engineering Department from the University of Waterloo, 18-28 February, 2017
MBI PI Lim Chwee Teck honoured with appointment to AIMBE
Prof Lim elected to American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows
Letting Go
How dying cells detach from their neighbors
Cellular Podiatry
Understanding how cells form feet
Shinjini Ray
PhD Student, Class of August 2016, Toyama Group, Zaidel-Bar Group
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.
