Author Archives: Yun Chen

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

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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

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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

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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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