Natalie Dye

Natalie Dye is an Assistant Professor at the Mechanobiology Institute and Department of Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore. She holds a B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Stanford University, where she studied bacterial cell shape regulation under Dr. Julie Theriot and Dr. Lucy Shapiro. During her postdoc at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, she pioneered live imaging techniques to study Drosophila wing disc morphogenesis.

• Education:
  • B.Sc., Biochemistry with High Honors in Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland
  • PhD, Biochemistry, Stanford University

Her research focuses on how cellular activity coordinates to form complex 3D tissue structures, integrating Drosophila genetics, human organoid models, and physics-based theoretical frameworks. Key areas include mechanosensitive feedback, planar cell polarity, and metabolic signaling in tissue growth. Current work explores self-organized human cell dynamics in culture.

Selected publications reveal expertise in mechanobiology, developmental systems, and quantitative imaging. Her lab at NUS includes Research Fellow Lois Yaw and PhD Student Kasie Au. While no scientific awards are explicitly listed here, her interdisciplinary approach bridges molecular biology, biophysics, and tissue engineering.