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Marino visits from Queensland and a new microscope is built
We welcomed our collaborator Marino Lara from Prof. Warwick Bowen’s lab in University of Queensland visiting the MEOW lab for a month. Marino helped us build a new microscope where we can study cellular states in a label-free manner. We … Continue reading
Commencement 2024
This week we celebrated many milestones. Friends and family of the MEOW lab graduated and visited Homewood from far-away places. Wei-Hung visited from Boston. Sumayah came back and is ready to go on to her next journey in the medical … Continue reading
Feiyu graduates
Today we celebrated Feiyu’s graduation as she was granted the MSE degree in Biomedical Engineering. Deiyu joined the MEOW lab as a rookie in biophysics and mechanobiology. She has made strides in research. Feiyu successfully authored a comprehensive dissertation and … Continue reading
Samantha wins INBT symposium people’s choice poster award
We are very happy that Samantha’s work on quantum actuation under Junjie’s omnipresent supervision has won the people’s choice award at the annual Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) symposium! Samantha’s work attracted many people asking questions about her findings! There is … Continue reading
Embassy of France and Mycelium Visit
We met scientific attaches from Embassy of France today and the founder of the startup company Mycelium from France. We demonstrated the tools that we use for research in biofabrication and biomaterials characterization for our guests of honor. Daniel was … Continue reading
Congratulations Samantha for the medical admission offer!
We celebrated Samantha’s graduation last December and admission offer to medical school today! Samantha joined our lab in 2021 when we just returned to the normal operation in the lab. She has been working with Junjie through many projects. Samantha … Continue reading
Day of Unibrows
On this bright and sunny Friday in March we all grew unibrows. Unibrows are the symbol of intelligence, wisdom, scientific rigor, research productivity, engineering excellence and ingenuity in many cultures since ancient times. This symbolism traces all the way back … Continue reading
Dr. Alex Jones from National Physics Laboratory UK visits
We are pleased to learn about the research results at the cross section between cell biology and spin chemistry from Dr. Alex Jones‘ group. Dr. Jones leads his highly innovative research at the Biometry Division of National Physics Laboratory. Recently … Continue reading
Junjie chairs the Bioengineering Platform and gives a talk on quantum actuation at BPS Annual Meeting 2024
Junjie served as the chair of the Bioengineering Platform in Biophysical Society Annual Meeting at Philadelphia this year (2024). More coverage can found at this link. Junjie also was invited to give a talk on his exciting discovery that we … Continue reading
Daniel presents the discoveries from the quantum-limited light imaging project at BPS Annual Meeting 2024
We are happy to see the debut presentation of the results acquired from latest project launched last September. Using quantum-limited laser light, we were able to detect the organelle dynamics in cells in a label-free, non-destructive and longitudinal manner. Daniel … Continue reading