Mechanical Engineering of Wet-materials (MEOW) Laboratory

Commercial time: go to http://qcbnet.ucsf.edu/ and register for the Cells as Dynamical Systems workshop. Yun will be giving a talk.

Responding to the popular demand, Brian, Jeyani and Yun participated in a photo-op at SOM.

It turns out playing models who pretend to do experiments is harder than doing the experiments ourselves. It’s a first for everybody. What an experience!

Brian thinks he will stick to modeling tissue formation and put on hold his professional career of modeling FOR tissue formation for the time being.

photo credit: our own photographer Wei-Hung.

We welcome Nicholas Yam, a MSE student from Biomedical Engineering, joining the lab of MAFIA. Nick will be characterizing tissue microenvironment by multi-scale imaging approaches. Very excited to have you on board, Nick!

Bearded MAFIA members wish you a happy holiday and a prosperous 2017!!!

We wished happy birthdays to Seungman and Yu and bid our temporary goodbye to Matt at Donna’s tonight. What’s better than getting together, having good food and bonding in the cold, pre-holiday days of December?

While waiting for the flight to return home from San Francisco after the ASCB meeting, we visited the notorious prison island Alcatraz.

We needed to reach Alcatraz by boat.

Despite the chilling rain, the spirit of adventure was quite high.

We toured the whole charming island with a grim history.

(The backdrop is the city of San Francisco.)

(The backdrop is the penitentiary building and the light house.)

The tour made a wonderful conclusion to our trip westward. We headed home feeling super-charged!

Yun, Seungman, Deb, Wei-Hung and Matt attended the ASCB meeting in San Francisco between December 3rd and 7th.

The trip back and forth was long and bumpy. The schedule was hectic and demanding. But we met old friends, made new friends, discovered cool toys and learned a lot.

(Prof. Ikuko Fujiwara from Nagoya University, Prof. Tim O’Brien from UNC, Prof. Moumita Das from Rochester Institute of Technology and Prof. Ying Lu from Harvard joined us at B44 to have a night of good tapas, good wine, good conversation and good memory.)

We had fun and will be back for more cell biology and biophysics next year in Philly!

We welcome Oludunsin Samuel-Ojo, a MechE senior, joining the lab of MAFIA. Oludunsin will be studying the mechanics and nano-structure of DNA, in collaboration with Prof. Stavros Gaitanaros. We are excited to have you on board, Oludunsin!

We welcome Guohao Sun, a MechE junior, joining the lab of MAFIA . Guohao will be part of the exciting and growing PDF project. We look forward to working with you, Guohao!