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
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
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
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
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.
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!