Author Archives: Yun Chen

Daniel wins the championship of cell confluency estimation

We are delighted to learn that our Daniel has the skill to eye-stimate cell confluency to the accuracy of 4 decimal place. Daniel defeated many skilled cell biologists and won the contest (sponsored by Leica) square and fair. We are … Continue reading

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MEOW’s Cell Bio 2023 meeting

We attended the American Society of Cell  Biology annual meeting (Cell Bio 2023) held in Boston during December 2-6. Not only we learned a lot about the latest research in the community of cell biology, mechanobiology and biophysics, we met … Continue reading

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Junjie is selected to give a talk at the Biophysical Society (BPS) Annual Meeting 2024

We are delighted to learn that Junjie’s project about developing quantum actuator is been selected for oral presentation at the BPS 2024 annual meeting at Philadelphia in February 2024 . We are very glad Junjie’s novel ideas are getting noticed … Continue reading

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Dinner with Prof. Plotnikov

We dined with our beloved collaborator Prof. Sergey Plotnikov from University of Toronto who was visiting Hopkins for an invited seminar at the Department of Cell Biology. We are very pumped for your one year-long sabbatical stay with us next … Continue reading

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Happy Halloween 2023

This year almost everyone in the group was caught in a web of deadlines. So much so we decided to set the theme of our Halloween photoshoot as half-ass Barbies. The following pictures accurately reflect our minimum efforts this year. … Continue reading

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Junjie, Daniel and Eileen are selected for the ASCB Travel Award

Congratulations to Junjie, Daniel and Eileen who were notified that they are selected for the Travel Award to attend the 2023 American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB) meeting in Boston MA. Great job! We look forward to sharing the projects … Continue reading

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Visiting University of Queensland

This September, we embarked on a 10-day trip, crossing oceans and continents to visit University of Queensland and work with our collaborators, a team led by Prof. Warwick Bowen. Together we measured intracellular activities with a new label-free optical microscopy. … Continue reading

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End of Summer 2023

As the Fall semester starts next week, we celebrated a busy and productive summer this year. We are fortunate to host many outstanding visiting students all over the world, Alejandro, Ivy, Amman, Nishith and Jeremy. Thank you for contributing to … Continue reading

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Daniel Passes Doctoral Qualifier Exam

Our brave Daniel passed the DQE exam with flying colors today, also his birthday. His exam was scheduled  3 months earlier than the regular exam set by the department. This sets the record in his class and in our lab. … Continue reading

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Junjie’s presentation at Center for Cell Dynamics

We marked the end of Spring 2023 semester by attending Junjie’s talk given at Center for Cell Dynamics (CCD), entitled “Quantum Actuation in Cells with Recombinant Magneto-sensitive Protein”.  We are very excited about this work and its applicational potential in precise … Continue reading

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