Author Archives: Yun Chen
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
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!
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
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).
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
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!
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
Bye Huang
We bade goodbye today to our summer intern Huang. Huang has spent a very productive summer with us in MAFIA for the image processing research project. She is going back to China to finish her undergraduate degree. We wish Huang … Continue reading
Summer 2017 Group Outing at Rock Creek Park
As the tradition long established since 2016 dictates, braving the nature, lab-bound MAFIA members observed our mandatory summer hiking day today at Rock Creek Park in Washington DC. It was a nice cool day to hike. It also helped tremendously … Continue reading
MAFIA attends 2017 Global Grand Challenges Summit
Deb, Wei-Hung and Brian were selected to present their research at the 2017 Global Grand Challenges Summit (for details see http://ggcs2017.org/) in DC this week. The 2017 Global Grand Challenges Summit (GGCS) is the third in a collaborative series sponsored by … Continue reading