We are excited to welcome Tanner Walker, a MechE major and a rising junior, to join the MAFIA family. Tanner will take over the extremely challenging DNA origami project starting this summer. We are super psyched to work with you and … Continue reading →

Jenny and Brian presented their research at Day of undergraduate Research in Engineering, the Arts & humanities, Medicine, and the Sciences (DREAMS), where undergraduate students from all departments of JHU present their work. The goal of the event is to celebrate … Continue reading →

Prof. Arpita Upadhyaya visited and gave a wonderful department seminar about actin mechanics during T cell activation. The talk was followed by a equally wonderful dinner with lots of follow-up questions. We had a good Thursday.    

Commercial time: go to http://qcbnet.ucsf.edu/ and register for the Cells as Dynamical Systems workshop. Yun will be giving a talk.  

Responding to the popular demand, Brian, Jeyani and Yun participated in a photo-op at SOM. It turns out playing models who pretend to do experiments is harder than doing the experiments ourselves. It’s a first for everybody. What an experience! … Continue reading →

We welcome Nicholas Yam, a MSE student from Biomedical Engineering, joining the lab of MAFIA. Nick will be characterizing tissue microenvironment by multi-scale imaging approaches. Very excited to have you on board, Nick!

Bearded MAFIA members wish you a happy holiday and a prosperous 2017!!!  

We wished happy birthdays to Seungman and Yu and bid our temporary goodbye to Matt at Donna’s tonight. What’s better than getting together, having good food and bonding in the cold, pre-holiday days of December?

While waiting for the flight to return home from San Francisco after the ASCB meeting, we visited the notorious prison island Alcatraz. We needed to reach Alcatraz by boat. Despite the chilling rain, the spirit of adventure was quite high. We toured … Continue reading →