Author Archives: Yun Chen

Dr. Alex Jones from National Physics Laboratory UK visits

We are pleased to learn about the research results at the cross section between cell biology and spin chemistry from Dr. Alex Jones‘ group. Dr. Jones leads his highly innovative research at the Biometry Division of National Physics Laboratory. Recently … Continue reading

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Junjie chairs the Bioengineering Platform and gives a talk on quantum actuation at BPS Annual Meeting 2024

Junjie served as the chair of the Bioengineering Platform in Biophysical Society Annual Meeting at Philadelphia this year (2024). More coverage can found at this link. Junjie also was invited to give a talk on his exciting discovery that we … Continue reading

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Daniel presents the discoveries from the quantum-limited light imaging project at BPS Annual Meeting 2024

We are happy to see the debut presentation of the results acquired from latest project launched last September. Using quantum-limited laser light, we were able to detect the organelle dynamics in cells in a label-free, non-destructive and longitudinal manner. Daniel … Continue reading

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Bye-Bye 2023

We are grateful that 2023 treated us gently enough that we made progress in research, we travelled far to establish collaboration, and welcomed new members into our MEOW family. To celebrate a year of hard work,we dined together and reminded … Continue reading

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Daniel wins the championship of cell confluency estimation

We are delighted to learn that our Daniel has the skill to eye-stimate cell confluency to the accuracy of 4 decimal place. Daniel defeated many skilled cell biologists and won the contest (sponsored by Leica) square and fair. We are … Continue reading

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MEOW’s Cell Bio 2023 meeting

We attended the American Society of Cell  Biology annual meeting (Cell Bio 2023) held in Boston during December 2-6. Not only we learned a lot about the latest research in the community of cell biology, mechanobiology and biophysics, we met … Continue reading

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Junjie is selected to give a talk at the Biophysical Society (BPS) Annual Meeting 2024

We are delighted to learn that Junjie’s project about developing quantum actuator is been selected for oral presentation at the BPS 2024 annual meeting at Philadelphia in February 2024 . We are very glad Junjie’s novel ideas are getting noticed … Continue reading

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Dinner with Prof. Plotnikov

We dined with our beloved collaborator Prof. Sergey Plotnikov from University of Toronto who was visiting Hopkins for an invited seminar at the Department of Cell Biology. We are very pumped for your one year-long sabbatical stay with us next … Continue reading

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Happy Halloween 2023

This year almost everyone in the group was caught in a web of deadlines. So much so we decided to set the theme of our Halloween photoshoot as half-ass Barbies. The following pictures accurately reflect our minimum efforts this year. … Continue reading

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Junjie, Daniel and Eileen are selected for the ASCB Travel Award

Congratulations to Junjie, Daniel and Eileen who were notified that they are selected for the Travel Award to attend the 2023 American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB) meeting in Boston MA. Great job! We look forward to sharing the projects … Continue reading

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