Joe presents the lab’s latest research at the National Institute of Biological Sciences mini-symposium in Beijing!
Grateful for the invitation to present our lab's latest research at the mini-symposium on biophysics and modelling at the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing. Looking forward to future exciting collaborations!
Celebrating the Chan lab’s 5th Anniversary with its first ever Lab retreat!
Lots of fun sharing crazy science and round table discussions on career development and lab culture.
Ariell Smith
Research Fellow, Young Group
Kong Mengya
Research Fellow, Bershadsky Lab
Emily Troying Chan
Research Fellow, Bershadsky Lab
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.
