Author Archives: Yun Chen
Commencement Week 2026
This week we celebrated the accomplishment of many in the MEOW team with family and friends. Junjie was hooded for his PhD degree. Junjie’s family traveled to celebrate with us! Stefan also attended his Master’s degree ceremony this week. Stefan’s … Continue reading
Jackson won PURA 2026
We are very excited to learn that Jackson has won PURA award for summer 2026. Summer PURA is a research award program offering a $6000 stipend to help offset expenses related to working on a research, creative, or scholarly project at JHU … Continue reading
NSF Trailblazer Workshop 2026
We were very honored to be tasked to organize the Trailblazer Workshop 2026, commissioned by National Science Foundation. The workshop took place at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington DC, on April 2nd and 3rd . This work brought together the inaugural … Continue reading
BPS Annual Meeting 2026
Junjie, Alejandro, Daniel and Jackson attended the BPS annual meeting 2026 in San Francisco. Junjie and Daniel won Travel Awards and celebrated the honor with beaming smiles. Alejandro was invited to give a talk on the development of hydrophobicity sensor … Continue reading
Alejandro is invited to give a talk at BPS 2026
Alejandro is invited to give a talk in the Biophysical Society Meeting 2026 in San Francisco. Alejandro will present the development of genetically encoded hydrophobicity sensors for dynamic mapping of hydrophobicity in cells. The probe is the first-of-its-kind, and Alejandro … Continue reading
Junjie and Daniel are selected for Travel Awards to attend Biophysical Society Meeting 2026
Junjie and Daniel who are selected for Travel Awards granted by Biophysical Society. Junjie and Daniel will present their findings of controlling enzymatic behaviors using magnetic field-dependent spin dynamics, and dynamic scattering of quantum-limited infrared light in cells, respectively. Congratulations!
Cell Bio 2025 Meeting
Many of us from MEOW lab attended the Cell Bio 2025 Meeting in Philadelphia during 6th- 10th December. We showcased our research progress in the past year. And Daniel gave a splendid talk about neutrophil migration in mucus. We proudly … Continue reading
The paper about mesoscale modules of tissue functions is published in Cell
We are happy to share our perspective on studying life across length scales and the emergent properties as the scale increases. Recent studies at molecular and genomic scales have enriched our understanding of life’s most fundamental building block: the cell. … Continue reading
Apple and Pumpkin Picking 2025
After more than a year staying indoors for group activities, MEOW lab finally ventured out to the wilderness. On a sunny Sunday morning, we switched to the mode of hunting and gathering for food, instead of swiping cards. We picked … Continue reading
Princess Halloween 2025
On last day of October, we greeted the beginning of the holiday season by celebrating Halloween. This year, we dressed up as princesses. Assorted princesses with fancy hairdos, accessories and imperial attitudes showed up at our Friday group meeting. We … Continue reading