Author Archives: Yun Chen

Nick, Jenny, Guo-Hao Graduate

We said goodbye to Nick, Jenny, Guo-Hao, who graduated this summer. It has been wonderful having you working with us. We did not only make some good and novel discoveries together, we also have fun doing research. You will be missed!

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MOB Participates in the 12th Annual Nano-Bio Symposium

Wei-Hung, Deb, Nick, and Oludunsin presented their works at the 12th Annual Nano-Bio Symposium. We also learned many excellent works by our colleagues at the Engineering school. It was a fun day.  

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Wei-Hung Wins Technology Fellowship

Wei-Hung is selected to be awarded for a one-year Technology Fellowship with his  proposal entitled “Implementing Virtual Reality Technology to Power Interactive Visualization of Multivariate Data”. This project will pave the way of virtual reality-guided protein structure exploration and non-image … Continue reading

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Jeyani Wins the First Place Award at Women in STEM Symposium Poster Competition

We are very excited that Jeyani  took first place in the poster session at the Women in STEM Symposium for her poster on DNA origami! The first annual Women in STEM Symposium was hosted by the Women of Whiting on … Continue reading

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Oludunsin Mentors WISE Program Student Shyamaa

We welcome Shyamaa Khan who is the high school student participating in Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program. Oludunsin will mentor Shyamaa to investigate muscle atrophy at microgravity. We hope you have fun, Shyamaa!

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MAFIA Attends ASCB 2017 in Philly

After weeks of anticipation, MAFIA members attended the ASCB annual meeting in Philly with excitement. Of course we met old and new friends, dined, chatted, and laughed together, thanks to Matt P’s super organizing power! We learned a lot from … Continue reading

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A Random Moment in the Lab

A fleeting moment of the daily routine at the lab is captured. People are working (and wearing lab coats).

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Prof. Wallace Marshall Visits JHU (and Lab of MAFIA)

Prof. Wallace Marshall from UCSF visited Hopkins to give a highly anticipated departmental seminar. As the hosting lab, MAFIA members got to hang out with Wallace and discuss our projects in length. We learned a great deals of science and … Continue reading

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Group Meeting Halloween 2017

This year MAFIA members disguised themselves as bearded/fanged pirates and a shiny pony to celebrate Halloween. With the thinking beard on, we had a spookily good group meeting!

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Wei-Hung, Jenny, Debonil and Khalid Win 2017 ASCB Travel Awards

We are very excited to learn that Wei-Hung, Jenny, Debonil and Khalid  are selected for Travel Award to attend and present their Research at The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) – European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) 2017 Annual Meeting this December (see http://ascb-embo2017.ascb.org/# for details).  … Continue reading

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