Author Archives: Yun Chen

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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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

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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

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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

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Discovery Award 2017

We are happy to receive Discovery Award for our work of developing an image-based high-throughput drug screening system. The novel system is designed to optimize personalized treatment for patients with heart diseases while minimizing the cardio-toxicity. It is one of … Continue reading

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Welcome Huang!

We welcome Huang Huang joining the lab of MAFIA for the summer. Huang is a rising senior from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, with double majors in ocean engineering and computer science. Huang will be working in the team of the computational … Continue reading

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Welcome Mingshi

We welcome Mingshi Li, a master student at Mechanical Engineering, joining the Lab of MAFIA. Mingshi will work on simulation of cardiac tissue contraction. Welcome on board, Mingshi.

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Welcome Ed

We are happy to have Yoon Ki (Ed) Joo join the lab of MAFIA. Ed is a rising junior from Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. During the summer 2017 Ed will work on single- cell force measurement and study biophysics. Welcome Ed!

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