Author Archives: Yun Chen
Dr. Pittman!
Matt successfully defended his thesis and earned his doctorate today. It has been a long and hard journey but Matt got through all the extraordinary challenges brought by experiments, publication process and the pandemic with perseverance and courage. We are … Continue reading
Humza wins Best Poster Award at 15th Nano-Bio Symposium
Humza’s presented his work ” Differential Effects of Extracellular Fluid Viscosity on Epithelial Cell and Fibroblast Migration and Proliferation” at the 15th Nano-Bio Symposium, and won the best poster award (2nd place). More information is available here. Congratulations for your … Continue reading
Welcome Daniel
We welcome the latest addition to MEOW lab, Daniel Yan, a recent graduate from University of Michigan . With his contagious enthusiasm, Daniel will study cell mechanics. We look forward to working with you, Daniel! Also, what an opportune time … Continue reading
Matt’s Paper is Accepted at Nature Physics
After months and months of blood, toil, tears and sweat, Matt’s masterpiece about why cells migrate faster in very viscous fluids has been accepted to be published in Nature Physics. We are very proud of your beautiful work, but we … Continue reading
Wei-Hung Gets His Doctoral Hood
We officially celebrated Wei-Hung’s academic achievement today with other newly minted doctors at Homewood field. We are so honored to have you work with us Wei-Hung!
Dr. Wei-Hung Jung!
We are very very happy to celebrate Wei-Hung’s successful defense that concluded his super-productive PhD training. It has been a journey full of challenges but also of rewarding moments. We are lucky to have Wei-Hung in the lab. He is … Continue reading
Junjie passes GBO exam
Junjie passes his GBO exam today and is one step closer to become Dr. Chen. Congratulations!
End of the year MEOW lab dinner 2021
In place of out annual ASCB MEOW family and friends dinner, this year we celebrated the passing of 2021, as well as Junjie’s timely birthday, in the charm city. We are grateful to have many young bloods joining use, after … Continue reading
Junjie Wins Travel Award to 2022 Biophysical Society (BPS) Annual Meeting
Junjie’s research abstract submitted to 2022 BPS Annual Meeting at San Francisco, CA, entitled “Chromatin Softening and Nuclear Envelope Breaching Potentiates Killing of Chemoresistant Cancer Cells” is selected for Travel Award. Junjie leads the project with a multidisciplinary team of … Continue reading
Halloween 2021
During the group meeting on the last Friday of October, we celebrated Halloween by dressing up as wizards. It was a day of flooding and storm, as evident in this blurred picture below where everybody was trying to hold on … Continue reading