Group Updates :
2025/03/06 #Welcome# Welcome Victor from EPFL Switzerland to officially join us as exchange student!
2025/01/17 #Celebrate# Congratulation to Liu Yihang for passing his PhD Qualify Exam!
2024/11/01 #Farewell# Farewell to Huang Lizhen moving to a new position in the industry! Congratulations and best of luck!
2024/08/30 #Farewell# Farewell to Jesslyn for pursuing her master's study in Europe! Congratulations and best of luck!
2024/08/12 #Welcome# Welcome Hasmik to officially join us as Ph.D. student!
2024/08/12 #Welcome# Welcome Zhou Zhanxu to officially join us as Master student!
2024/08/12 #Welcome# Welcome Maina from London (GEM Explorer programme) to officially join us as exchange student!
2024/07/01 #Welcome# Welcome Qu Yao and Liu Bo (Visiting Students) to join us!
2024/05/01 #Farewell# Farewell to Dr. Mu Huanwen for moving to a new position in A*STAR! Congratulations!
2024/04/08 #Welcome# Welcome Dr. Liu Xiaocong from China to officially join us as exchange visitor!
2024/01/19 #Celebrate# Congratulation to Sian Kang for passing his Master Qualify Exam!
2024/01/14 #Welcome# Welcome Wu Haoxiang to officially join us as Ph.D. student!
2023/08/18 #Celebrate# Congratulation to Xiangfu for passing his PhD Qualify Exam!
2023/08/14 #Welcome# Welcome Fan Zihui to officially join us as Ph.D. student!
2023/07/20 #Paper# Our collaborated work with other pioneering groups on "Two-dimensional molecular condensation in cell signaling and mechanosensing." is now published in Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica. Congratulations to Xiangfu! [DOI]
2023/07/03 #Celebrate# Congratulation to Xinwen successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis! BIG Congratulations to Dr. Miao!
2023/05/04 #Paper# Our collaborated work with other pioneering groups on "Biomolecular condensates tunes immune signaling at the Host–Pathogen interface." is now published in Current Opinion in Plant Biology. Congratulations to Xiangfu! [DOI]
2023/01/09 #Welcome# Welcome Chong Sian Kang to officially join us as a Master student!
2023/01/09 #Welcome# Welcome Liu Yihang and Na Qin to officially join us as Ph.D. students!
2022/12/03 #Paper# Our collaborated work with other pioneering groups on "Membrane curvature governs the distribution of Piezo1 in live cells." is now published in Nature communications. Congratulations to Xinwen and Xiangfu! [DOI]
2022/11/30 #Paper# Our work on "A Nanobar-Supported Lipid Bilayer System for the Study of Membrane Curvature Sensing Proteins in vitro." is now published in Journal of Visualized Experiments: Jove. Congratulations to Xinwen and Jiawei! [DOI]
2022/09/14 #Celebrate# Sin Yi's FYP-URECA paper is awarded the Regional Winner for Asia in the Life Sciences of the Global Undergraduate Awards 2022. Congratulations to Sin Yi and her mentor Xinwen!
2022/09/01 #Farewell# Farewell to Jiawei returning back to China! We will miss you...
2022/08/15 #Paper# Our work on "Guiding Irregular Nuclear Morphology on Nanopillar Arrays for Malignancy Differentiation in Tumor Cells." is now published in Nano Letters as Supplementary Cover. Congratulations to Yongpeng! [DOI]
2022/08/15 #Welcome# Welcome Vivian to officially join us as Research Assistant!
2022/08/12 #Paper# Our collaborated work with other pioneering groups on "Biointerface design for vertical nanoprobes" is now published in Nature Review Materials. Congratulations to Xiangfu! [DOI]
2022/08/11 #Welcome# Welcome Wang Hao to officially join us as Ph.D. student!
2022/08/10 #Celebrate# Marie is awarded the prestigious NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. BIG Congratulations!
2022/08/02 #Celebrate# Congratulation to Lizhen for passing her Master Qualify Exam!
2022/07/20 #Welcome# Welcome Marie to officially join us as Research Fellow!
2022/07/04 #Celebrate# Huanwen successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis! BIG Congratulations to Dr. Mu!
2022/05/31 #Farewell# Farewell to Benjamin moving to a new position in the industry! Congratulations!
2022/02/17 #Celebrate# Yongpeng successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! BIG Congratulations to Dr. Zeng!
2022/02/08 #Paper# Our work on "Revealing the heterogeneity in neuroblastoma cells via nanopillar-guided subnuclear deformation" is now published in Nanoscale as Inside Front Cover. Congratulations to Yongpeng! [DOI]
2022/01/19 #Paper# Our work on "Patterning of Oncogenic Ras Clustering in Live Cells Using Vertically Aligned Nanostructure Arrays" is now accepted in Nano Letters. Congratulations to Huanwen! [DOI]
2021/12/13 #Grant# Our project on "Nanotopography Engineering for Deciphering the Cell Membrane Disruption by Antimicrobial Conjugated Oligoelectrolytes (COEs)" is funded by the Ministry of Education. Congratulations to the Team!
2021/12/01 #Grant# Our project on "Nanopillar-based Nuclear Grading for Digital Cancer Pathology" is funded by the NTUitive Pte Ltd. Congratulations to the Team!
2021/09/21 #Welcome# Welcome Mengya to officially join us as Research Fellow!
2021/09/01 #Welcome# Welcome Jesslyn to officially join us as Research Assistant!
2021/08/30 #Celebrate# Congratulations to Li Qi for receiving the URECA Undergraduate Research Excellence Award 2021.
2020/08/23 #Paper# Our collaborated work with 4 other pioneering groups on "Tutorial: using nanoneedles for intracellular delivery" is accepted in Nature Protocols. Congratulations to Huanwen! [DOI]
2021/08/16 #Welcome# Welcome Jiawei (Visiting Student) to join us!
2021/08/05 #Welcome# Welcome Xiangfu (Ph.D student) and Lizhen (Master Student) to join us!
2021/08/01 #Media# Dr. Zhao joined Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) as a Co-PI. [link]
2021/07/01 #Grant# We are part of the team funded by the Ministry of Education Tier 3 Project!
2021/06/01 #Welcome# Welcome Benjamin to officially join us as Research Assistant!
2021/04/01 #Grant# We are awarded the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Young Investigator Grant jointly with Dr. Xiaolei SU @ Yale and Dr. Francesca BOTTANELLI @ Freie Universität Berlin!
2021/02/03 #Celebrate# Congratulation to Xinwen for passing her PhD Qualify Exam!
2021/02/03 #Paper# Our collaboration work with Dr. Seok Woo Lee @ EEE in NTU on "Tear-Based Aqueous
Batteries for Smart Contact Lenses Enabled by Prussian Blue Analogue Nanocomposites" is published in Nano Letters. Congratulations to Yongpeng! [DOI]
2021/02/01 #Welcome# Welcome Runbing to officially join us as Student Assistant!
2021/02/01 #Farewell# Farewell to Dr. Li returning back to China! We will miss you...
2021/01/02 #Welcome# Welcome Susanti to officially join us as Student Assistant!
2020/12/04 #Media# Dr. Zhao shared her experience on review writing in Nature Career. [link]
2020/12/16 #Grant# Our project on "Engineering the Nanoscale Membrane Topography to Pattern Oncogenic
Ras Clustering on Cell Membrane" is funded by the Ministry of Education. Congratulations to the Team!
2020/10/01 #Paper# Our work collaborate with Dr. Min Wu @ Yale on the intrinsically disordered region (IDR) of FBP17 is accepted in iScience. Congratulations to Yinyin, Xinwen, and Yongpeng! [DOI]
2020/09/18 #Celebrate# Sin Yi's URECA paper emerged as Highly Commended Entrant of the Global UA 2020. Congratulations to Sin Yi and her mentor Xinwen!
Contact
Dr. ZHAO Wenting
Assistant Professor
School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CCEB)
College of Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Address: 70 Nanyang Drive Singapore 637457
Office: N1.3-B3-10
Lab: N1.3-B3-25
Tel: (+65) 6514-1028
Email: wtzhao@ntu.edu.sg