Author Archives: Yun Chen

Rachel Wins Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA)

We are very happy for Rachel who is selected for 2021 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA). It is a prestigious award for  recognizing undergraduates who conduct  original research. More details can be found here. Rachel will use the fund provided … Continue reading

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Ernest Visits

We are delighted to host Ernest Iu from Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto for three days at Hopkins. We learned a lot from his wonderful talk “Motility, Mechanics and Microscopes: Regulation of cell migration by Ca2+ … Continue reading

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Seungman Wins NIH/NIA Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award

We are very happy to learn that Seungman to be awarded the prestigious transition fellowship from National Institute of Aging/ National Institutes of Health K25 “Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award” . Seungman will study the mechanics of skin aging … Continue reading

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Jen Passes DQE

We congratulate Jen for passing the departmental DQE, kicking off her second year of PhD study with a bang! We look forward brilliant findings as you use the well-learned skills to apply to our research.

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Welcome Rachel, Hannah, Shahad and Ryan!

As Johns Hopkins reopens we are pleased to welcome a new batch undergraduate research scientists to join MEOW lab, Rachel Li (BME), Hannah Qu (BME),  Shahad Ashkanani (ChemBE) and Ryan Retino (ME). We are excited to work with you as … Continue reading

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Junjie’s paper about computational super-resolution algorithm evaluation is published

We celebrate the publication of Junjie’s paper “Parametric comparison between sparsity-based and deep learning-based image reconstruction of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy“. This is an extension of the image processing course homework in which Junjie has been an outstanding student in 2019 … Continue reading

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Keva Graduates

We celebrate Keva’s graduation with pride and a little sadness in R house this graduation season. Keva has been an essential part of many research projects in our lab, before and during the pandemic.  Keva will start her postbac training … Continue reading

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Keva receives undergraduate research scholarship from Beta Beta Beta Research Foundation

We got good news that Keva is selected for research scholarship the Beta Beta Beta Research Foundation for her study in the mechanics of cell migration. Keva will use the fund to cover her research expense and is invited to … Continue reading

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2020 Halloween Mask-On Party

We celebrated this year’s Halloween by convention – having a themed party on Friday.  Due to safe measures for COVID-19, the theme of our 2020 Halloween Lab Party is cat and mask. After our Amazon order of cat masks went … Continue reading

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Wei-Hung’s DNA origami paper is accepted

We are delighted to learn that Wei-Hung’s paper “Stretching DNA Origami: Effect of Nicks and Holliday Junctions on the Axial Stiffness” is now accepted to be published in Nucleic Acids Research. As true stretchologists, in our lab we try to … Continue reading

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