Our lab’s work is featured in MicroTAS 2021 Youtube Live Series
Yi-Chin presented our lab’s latest work in the MicroTAS 2021 Youtube Live series research teasers.
Congratulations to our PhD students!
Our heartiest congratulations to our PhD students for passing important milestones in their PhD journey – Sarshar for passing her stage 1 and Jorge for acing his PhD confirmation exam. Best of luck going forward!
2020 Lab Retreat @ Kingston Park Raceway
15 July 2020 – 2020 has been a challenging year for everyone at the MicroTE lab to be dealing with transition to our new home amidst a pandemic. Nonetheless, we still managed to have some fun during our first lab retreat at Kingston Park Raceway. Go-karting is much harder than we thought!
Congratulations to Akshaya for successfully defending her PhD thesis
13 Jan 2020 – Dr Akshaya Srinivasan successfully completed her PhD thesis defence on “Neural Crest Derived Ectomesenchymal Stem Cells For Craniofacial Regeneration”. Even though I cannot join in person, I am glad to still share this momentous event with you through virtual meeting!
Presentations @ MicroTAS, TERMIS-AP and ICBME 2019
The second half of 2019 has been a really eventful year for our lab. We had a strong contingent at a number of major international major conferences. Our PhD students, Nina Chang and Chak Ming Leung, both had their work selected for oral presentations at TERMIS-AP, Brisbane Australia in Sept. For MicroTAS held in Basel, Switzerland, we had our fellows, Hsih Yin Tan and Chris Tostado both giving outstanding oral presentations while Terry Ching and Chak Ming had the chance to share their work at the poster sessions. Finally, Terry gave an oral presentation about 3D printed vasculatures at ICBME in Dec. It has been a fantastic year for the MicroTE Lab!
Lor Huai successfully defended her PhD thesis
5 Nov 2019 – Chong Lor Huai for successfully completing her viva for her thesis project on “Development of in vitro models for predicting systemic drug-induced skin sensitization”. Well done Dr Chong!
2019 Global 3Rs Award @ Colorado, USA
I am extremely honoured to receive the 2019 Global 3Rs Award sponsored by AAALAC International and the IQ Consortium for our paper on using modular microfluidics to mimic multi-organ systemic interactions.
An adrenaline-filled 2019 lab retreat with lots of running, dodging and shooting
26 July 2019 – Our lab retreat event this year is Tactical Archery Game (TAG)! Think paintball with bows and arrows. Everyone gets a shot at living out his / her fantasy of being Legolas from Lord of the Rings. Kudos to Salt and Light Archery for helping to set up this fun and exciting event at Sports Hall 1, NUS University Town. After 2 hours of running, laughing and lots of jumping jacks, we had a relaxing dinner with pizzas and beers.
Graduation ceremony of our PhD students
15 July 2019 – The first batch of our PhD students graduated! Congratulations to Dr. Seep (left), Dr Louis Ong (centre), and Dr Geetika Sahni. You have come a long way and all to best to your next phase of your career.
Yi-Chin was one of the selected young investigators to give a talk at this year’s Gordon Research Conference – Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics
20 June 2019 – Yi-Chin was selected as one of the young investigators to give a short talk on our modular microfluidic platforms at the Gordon Research Conference – Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics in Hong Kong