We combined work with a little celebrating spirit of Halloween at our group meeting today. Note the tattooed arms. Note our dignified guest Prof. Barman. Note the pretentious bad-ass attitudes. The lovely MAFIA lab manager. All pumped up for another … Continue reading →

Matt’s birthday gave us a perfect reason for MAFIA family and friends to get together and bond at CVP. We had a memorable evening. What a lovely start of fall 2016!

We welcome Jeyani Narayan joining the lab of MAFIA. Jeyani is a sophomore in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. She will work on the stretching project with Brian. We are excited to have you working with us Jeyani!

Jenny is invited to present her work at the microsymposium of ASCB Annual Meeting at San Francisco in December about the micromolding method she developed to culture cells in  arbitrary 3D geometries. It is a rare honor for undergraduate students. Way to … Continue reading →

We said goodbye to our beloved summer intern Yancheng Du today and had a farewell lunch at Gertrude to wish him the best before he heads home to Tsinghua University, China, to finish his last year of undergraduate study in … Continue reading →

We welcome Wei-Hung Jung joining the lab of MAFIA. Wei-Hung is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering. He has been an Orioles fan for years. It is just appropriate that he decided to come to Baltimore!

We ventured to Harper’s Ferry for our first group outing outside Maryland. Despite the 100 degree heat we braved the nature and hiked for a mile with  Prof. Sung Hoon Kang and his group. We had been psyched all week … Continue reading →

We welcome Debonil Maity  joining MAFIA. Debonil is a PhD student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He will be working on the collaborative project of  exploring the effect of hydrostatic pressure in tissues with Prof. Sean Sun’s group.