
TEE Yee Han
MBI Fellow, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore
mbityh@nus.edu.sg
Level 10 T-Lab
National University of Singapore
5A Engineering Drive 1
Singapore 117411
Welcome aboard, Boon Heng!
The Chan Lab welcomes Boon Heng, the first PhD student to the lab. Looking forward to exciting times ahead!
Farewell to Nicole, our first summer intern in the Lab!
Congrats to Nicole for winning the best video presentation in the MBI MUST program. We are lucky to have you! Thank you for bringing so much energy and joy to the lab. Hope to see you soon!
2021 Cell & Tissue Hydraulics: Virtual interactive symposium
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN. The Cell & Tissue Hydraulics Mini-Symposium will present three days of pre-recorded lectures, live talks from invited speakers and pre-recorded short talks and poster presentations.
Spotlight on MBI Prof Low Boon Chuan: Unravelling the chemistry of life
A recent NUS News article features Assoc Prof Low, who leads a dynamic team at MBI focusing on how cells signal – the way they communicate with one another and within themselves.
Tee Yee Han
MBI Fellow
Principal Investigator
Research Interests
Recent Publications
- Naripogu KB, Tee YH, Senju Y, Bershadsky A, and Robinson RC. Localization of Asgard archaeal ESCRT proteins to eukaryotic cellular structures. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2026; 802:153301. [PMID: 41576632]
- Tsikolia N, Nguyen DTL, and Tee YH. Mechanisms of left-right symmetry breaking across scales. Curr Opin Cell Biol 2025; 95:102564. [PMID: 40544609]
- Glazenburg MM, Hettema NM, Laan L, Remy O, Laloux G, Brunet T, Chen X, Tee YH, Wen W, Rizvi MS, Jolly MK, and Riddell M. Perspectives on polarity - exploring biological asymmetry across scales. J Cell Sci 2024; 137(5). [PMID: 38441500]
- Tee YH, Goh WJ, Yong X, Ong HT, Hu J, Tay IYY, Shi S, Jalal S, Barnett SFH, Kanchanawong P, Huang W, Yan J, Lim YAB, Thiagarajan V, Mogilner A, and Bershadsky AD. Actin polymerisation and crosslinking drive left-right asymmetry in single cell and cell collectives. Nat Commun 2023; 14(1):776. [PMID: 36774346]
- Efremov AK, Yao M, Sun Y, Tee YH, Sheetz MP, Bershadsky AD, Martinac B, and Yan J. Application of piconewton forces to individual filopodia reveals mechanosensory role of L-type Ca2+ channels. Biomaterials 2022; 284:121477. [PMID: 35395455]
- Jalal S, Shi S, Acharya V, Huang RY, Viasnoff V, Bershadsky A, and Tee YH. Actin cytoskeleton self-organization in single epithelial cells and fibroblasts under isotropic confinement. J. Cell. Sci. 2019;. [PMID: 30787030]
- Lou Y, Toh TC, Tee YH, and Yu H. 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3 induces osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells. Sci Rep 2017; 7:42816. [PMID: 28211493]
- Hu S, Dasbiswas K, Guo Z, Tee Y, Thiagarajan V, Hersen P, Chew T, Safran SA, Zaidel-Bar R, and Bershadsky AD. Long-range self-organization of cytoskeletal myosin II filament stacks. Nat. Cell Biol. 2017;. [PMID: 28114270]
- Tee YH, and Bershadsky AD. Actin Retrograde Flow in Permeabilized Cells: Myosin-II Driven Centripetal Movement of Transverse Arcs. Bio Protoc 2016; 6(5):e1743. [PMID: 40656211]
- Hu S, Tee Y, Kabla A, Zaidel-Bar R, Bershadsky A, and Hersen P. Structured illumination microscopy reveals focal adhesions are composed of linear subunits. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken) 2015; 72(5):235-45. [PMID: 26012525]
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