Category Archives: Uncategorized
Daniel wins the championship of cell confluency estimation
We are delighted to learn that our Daniel has the skill to eye-stimate cell confluency to the accuracy of 4 decimal place. Daniel defeated many skilled cell biologists and won the contest (sponsored by Leica) square and fair. We are … Continue reading
MEOW’s Cell Bio 2023 meeting
We attended the American Society of Cell Biology annual meeting (Cell Bio 2023) held in Boston during December 2-6. Not only we learned a lot about the latest research in the community of cell biology, mechanobiology and biophysics, we met … Continue reading
Junjie is selected to give a talk at the Biophysical Society (BPS) Annual Meeting 2024
We are delighted to learn that Junjie’s project about developing quantum actuator is been selected for oral presentation at the BPS 2024 annual meeting at Philadelphia in February 2024 . We are very glad Junjie’s novel ideas are getting noticed … Continue reading
Dinner with Prof. Plotnikov
We dined with our beloved collaborator Prof. Sergey Plotnikov from University of Toronto who was visiting Hopkins for an invited seminar at the Department of Cell Biology. We are very pumped for your one year-long sabbatical stay with us next … Continue reading
Happy Halloween 2023
This year almost everyone in the group was caught in a web of deadlines. So much so we decided to set the theme of our Halloween photoshoot as half-ass Barbies. The following pictures accurately reflect our minimum efforts this year. … Continue reading
Junjie, Daniel and Eileen are selected for the ASCB Travel Award
Congratulations to Junjie, Daniel and Eileen who were notified that they are selected for the Travel Award to attend the 2023 American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB) meeting in Boston MA. Great job! We look forward to sharing the projects … Continue reading
Visiting University of Queensland
This September, we embarked on a 10-day trip, crossing oceans and continents to visit University of Queensland and work with our collaborators, a team led by Prof. Warwick Bowen. Together we measured intracellular activities with a new label-free optical microscopy. … Continue reading
End of Summer 2023
As the Fall semester starts next week, we celebrated a busy and productive summer this year. We are fortunate to host many outstanding visiting students all over the world, Alejandro, Ivy, Amman, Nishith and Jeremy. Thank you for contributing to … Continue reading
Daniel Passes Doctoral Qualifier Exam
Our brave Daniel passed the DQE exam with flying colors today, also his birthday. His exam was scheduled 3 months earlier than the regular exam set by the department. This sets the record in his class and in our lab. … Continue reading
Junjie’s presentation at Center for Cell Dynamics
We marked the end of Spring 2023 semester by attending Junjie’s talk given at Center for Cell Dynamics (CCD), entitled “Quantum Actuation in Cells with Recombinant Magneto-sensitive Protein”. We are very excited about this work and its applicational potential in precise … Continue reading