We said goodbye to our helpful and delightful summer interns Brian Hu and Li Sun during the happy hour at R house. It has been a productive and pleasant experience working with you. We will miss you, Brian and Li!
Bye Brian and Li: Group Happy Hour Summer 2018
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Matt’s Paper Is Accepted
Matt’s paper “3D-printed magnetic tweezers for dorsal traction force measurement” has been accepted to be published at the journal Biotechniques. Congratulations, Matt. We look forward to many more papers to come shortly!
Seungman Wins 2018 Maryland Stem Cell Research Foundation Award
Seungman’s proposal to develop implantable cardiac patches to treat heart failures has won the MSCRF postdoc fellowship (http://www.mscrf.org/content/awardees/2018Awardees.php). Seungman will be investigating how to improve the treatment outcome for heart failure patients by establishing standardized quality control protocols for clinical applications of 3D printed cardiac patches. We congratulate Seungman for his outstanding accomplishment and are reminded of his tireless efforts in biomechanical research.
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Nick, Jenny, Guo-Hao Graduate
We said goodbye to Nick, Jenny, Guo-Hao, who graduated this summer. It has been wonderful having you working with us. We did not only make some good and novel discoveries together, we also have fun doing research. You will be missed!
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MOB Participates in the 12th Annual Nano-Bio Symposium
Wei-Hung, Deb, Nick, and Oludunsin presented their works at the 12th Annual Nano-Bio Symposium. We also learned many excellent works by our colleagues at the Engineering school. It was a fun day.
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Wei-Hung Wins Technology Fellowship
Wei-Hung is selected to be awarded for a one-year Technology Fellowship with his proposal entitled “Implementing Virtual Reality Technology to Power Interactive Visualization of Multivariate Data”. This project will pave the way of virtual reality-guided protein structure exploration and non-image data transformation. Congratulations, Wei-Hung!
Jeyani Wins the First Place Award at Women in STEM Symposium Poster Competition
We are very excited that Jeyani took first place in the poster session at the Women in STEM Symposium for her poster on DNA origami! The first annual Women in STEM Symposium was hosted by the Women of Whiting on the Johns Hopkins campus on March 25, 2018.
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Oludunsin Mentors WISE Program Student Shyamaa
We welcome Shyamaa Khan who is the high school student participating in Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program. Oludunsin will mentor Shyamaa to investigate muscle atrophy at microgravity. We hope you have fun, Shyamaa!
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MAFIA Attends ASCB 2017 in Philly
After weeks of anticipation, MAFIA members attended the ASCB annual meeting in Philly with excitement.
Of course we met old and new friends, dined, chatted, and laughed together, thanks to Matt P’s super organizing power!
We learned a lot from the talks, and gave some talks ourselves. Seven talks to be exact.
Seungman talked about mechanical characterization of engineered tissues.
Jenny talked about drastic morphological changes and cell motility modulation in multiple cell types upon sudden mechanical stimuli.
Khalid talked about tunable bioink development for 3D printing.
Nick talked about cancer cells mechanically remodel the microenvironment.
Deb and his beanie talked about the responses of epithelium to hydrostatic pressure changes under physiologically representative conditions.
We also presented our research progress during the poster sessions.
Seungman explained how immunosupression can be coupled with mechanosignaling.
Nick and his TME poster (and Yun).
Tanner explained how to build a new computational model to predict the mechanical properties of DNA origami.
It was a blast!
A Random Moment in the Lab
A fleeting moment of the daily routine at the lab is captured. People are working (and wearing lab coats).
