Zaidel-Bar Group

Seeking Postdoctoral Research Fellow for collaborative project between Dr. Yin Loon Lee and Prof. Alexander Bershadsky at the Mechanobiology Institute, NUS

The Mechanobiology Institute, NUS seeks to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for a collaborative project between Dr. Yin Loon Lee (A*STAR) and Prof. Alexander Bershadsky.

By Wen Ying Lois Faith|Jul 2nd, 2025|Categories: Job Archives|Comments Off on Seeking Postdoctoral Research Fellow for collaborative project between Dr. Yin Loon Lee and Prof. Alexander Bershadsky at the Mechanobiology Institute, NUS

Biomaterial shows how ageing in the heart could be reversed

A new lab-grown material has revealed that some of the effects of ageing in the heart may be slowed and even reversed. The discovery could open the door to therapies that rejuvenate the heart by changing its cellular environment, rather than focusing on the heart cells themselves.Learn more

By Sung Eun|Jun 18th, 2025|Categories: Science Features|Comments Off on Biomaterial shows how ageing in the heart could be reversed

Ding Wei Yung

Alumni

Principal Investigator

Ronen Zaidel-Bar

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.

By Management|2019-01-09T13:14:35+08:00Jan 1st, 2013|Categories: Alumni|Comments Off on Ding Wei Yung

About the National University of Singapore

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About the Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore

About MBIOne of four Research Centres of Excellence at NUS, MBI is working to identify, measure and describe how the forces for motility and morphogenesis are expressed at the molecular, cellular and tissue level.
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