Author Archives: Yun Chen

Wei-Hung’s Paper about Biophysical Characterization of the Tumor Microenvironment is Accepted

Wei-Hung’s paper entitled “Force-Dependent Extracellular Matrix Remodeling by Early-Stage Cancer Cells Alters Diffusion and Induces Carcinoma-Associated Fibroblasts” has been accepted to be published in Biomaterials  . This project is a long time coming. We are pleased that it finally has … Continue reading

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Matt Wins Travel Award for 2020 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting

Matt is selected for the Travel Award to present his work on the cytoskeleton dynamics during extreme cell migration at the 2020 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting (https://www.biophysics.org/2020meeting#/) . Congratulations!

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Keva Wins the 2nd Place at the 5th Annual INBT Undergraduate Research Symposium Poster Competition

Keva presented her research work at the 5th Annual INBT Undergraduate Research Symposium and was awarded as the 2nd place for her outstanding work. Each presenter was judged on criteria like the project’s impact on the scientific community and the … Continue reading

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Keva wins Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA)

We are very pleased to learn that Keva has been selected to receive Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) for 2019. Keva has been working on the project of extreme cell motility with Matt’s supervision. Her work is also selected to … Continue reading

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Halloween 2019

This year we dressed as princesses for Halloween at the weekly group meeting. Everybody felt pretty and shiny and empowered. Go MOBsters!  

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The iPSC-derived Cardiac Tissues Paper is Featured on World Heart Day

To bring awareness of cardiovascular disease, Wiley compiled a World Heart Day (September 29th) collection. Our paper “Mechanical Characterization of hiPSC‐Derived Cardiac Tissues for Quality Control” is featured in the collection. We are glad we are part of the efforts … Continue reading

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End of Summer Group Lunch 2019

We had lunch after the group meeting to celebrate recent papers and the beginning of the Fall semester. More importantly, we bid goodbye to our amazing summer interns, Zheming, Zixian and Yuhan. They left us with fond memory of working … Continue reading

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Seungman’s Force Measurement Paper is Accepted

Seungman’s methods paper “Versatile and High-throughput Force Measurement Platform for Dorsal Cell Mechanics” is accepted. Seungman not only came up with the idea for the paper but also did a terrific job training our beloved former undergrad research assistant Ed, … Continue reading

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Welcome Junjie

We welcome Junjie Chen to be the newest addition to the Lab of MOBS. Junjie double-majored in Biomedical Engineering and Anthropology during his undergraduate study at Purdue University. We hope you will enjoy and excel in Mechanical Engineering as well. … Continue reading

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Wei-Hung’s Curvature-Sensing Paper is Accepted

Wei-Hung’s paper “cell-cell adhesion and myosin activity regulate cortical actin assembly in mammary gland epithelium on concaved surface” is accepted to be published in Cells, a well-timed good news. It has been a long battle. Thanks for trooping on, Wei-Hung! … Continue reading

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