2025
31 Dec 2025: Darren Suandi leaves the lab for his PhD in Australia
23 Dec 2025: Yang Yixiao leaves the lab to start his lab at Beijing Institute of Technology (China)
1 Dec 2025: Tan Yan Wei Justin completes his internship with the lab
1 Nov 2025: Stella Sultan joins the lab as a visiting PhD student
12 Sep 2025: Huang Haonan completes his internship with the lab
8 Aug 2025: Martin Christian Munoz completes his internship with the lab
29 Jul 2025: Gabriel Shen Xuan joins the lab as a PhD student
29 Jul 2025: Wang Xu joins the lab as a PhD student
7 Jul 2025: Huang Haonan joins the lab as an URAPS intern
25 May 2025: Francis Hans Napay Castillo completes his UROPS with the lab
23 May 2025: Rawan Shekhani completes his PhD and leaves the lab for post-doc in Japan
19 May 2025: Martin Christian Munoz joins the lab as an URAPS intern
15 May 2025: Tan Yan Wei Justin joins the lab as a polytechnic internship student
24 Apr 2025: Wei Yuanyuan joins the lab as a research fellow joint with Professor Ashok Venkitaraman
6 Jan 2025: Huang Qing joins the lab as a research associate joint with Associate Professor Sun Ji and Assistant Professor Hu Chunyi
2024
24 Dec 2024: Yang Yixiao joins the lab as a research fellow joint with Associate Professor Duane Loh
4 Nov 2024: Francis Hans Napay Castillo joins the lab as a UROPS student
10 Sep 2024: Ho Jia Yu leaves the lab for her PhD in UK
9 Sep 2024: Tan Yong Zi was named on the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (TR35) Asia Pacific List 2024
5 Sep 2024: Lim Si Jie joins the lab as lab manager
9 Aug 2024: Lemuel John Nuesca completes his internship with the lab
21 May 2024: Tan Li Xin completes her FYP with the lab
20 May 2024: Lemuel John Nuesca joins the lab as an URAPS intern
29 February 2024: The Second Singapore Structural Symposium, co-organised by Tan Yong Zi, was successfully held
8 January 2024: Darren Suandi joins the lab as a research assistant joint with Professor Ashok Venkitaraman
8 January 2024: Niu Muyuan joins the lab as a PhD student
2023
18 December 2023: Allan Pang joins the lab as Research Fellow
20 October 2023: Tan Yong Zi was awarded with the Young Scientist Award 2023 (Biological & Biomedical Sciences Category)
10 October 2023: Rawan Shekhani joins the lab as a KI-NUS Exchange PhD student
8 October 2023: Cheryl Tan has graduated from the lab with her Masters
15 September 2023: Isaac Chan completes his internship with the lab
16 August 2023: Tan Li Xin joins the lab as an FYP student
1 August 2023: Assistant Professor Ann-Marie Chacko (Duke-NUS) was awarded with the MOE AcRF Tier 2 grant, with Tan Yong Zi as co-PI.
31 July 2023: Yukie Grace Chang completes her internship with the lab
21 July 2023: Emily Yuan completes her internship with the lab
26 June 2023: Isaac Chan joins the lab as an intern
5 June 2023: Yukie Grace Chang joins the lab as an AMGEN intern
15 May 2023: Emily Yuan joins the lab as an URAPS intern
12 May 2023: Tan Yong Zi was awarded with the NRF Fellowship 2023
4 January 2023: Ming Zhang (Paul) joins the lab as a PhD student
2022
26 December 2022: Aicha Gharbi Ayachi joins the lab as a Research Fellow
7 November 2022: Our research on the cryo-EM structures of kidney V-ATPase was featured on the NUS website
13 October 2022: Deng Jiaming joins the lab as a Masters student
16 Sep 2022 to 23 Sep 2022: The Workshop on Machine Learning for cryoEM, co-organised by Tan Yong Zi, was successfully held
2 August 2022: Tammy Toh completes her internship with the lab
3 June 2022: Tammy Toh joins the lab as an AMGEN intern
2 June 2022: Tan Siwei joins the lab as a laboratory technologist
18 April 2022: Ho Jia Yu joins the lab as a research assistant
7 March 2022: Cheryl Tan joins the lab as a Masters student
17 February 2022: Our lab was awarded with the MOE AcRF Tier 1 grant
2021
25 October 2021: Our scientific manager, Tan Shi Min, joins the lab
1 September 2021: The Tan lab is officially opened
7 August 2021: Tan Yong Zi was awarded the NUS Presidential Young Professorship (PYP)
1 August 2021: Tan Yong Zi was awarded the 2021 George Palade Award by Microscopy Society of America
2020
6 May 2020: Tan Yong Zi was awarded the Titus M Coan Prize for Excellence in Research (Basic Cell and Molecular Biology) by Columbia University