Mechanical Engineering of Wet-materials (MEOW) Laboratory

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!

A regular Saturday for MAFIA gang is some R&R and fun in the lab. Today we extended our R&R all the way to Gettysburg PA, with, of course, our buddy group led by Prof. Sung Hoon Kang.

We learned a lot about Civil War in the Gettysburg National Park Museum, and enjoyed the great scenic auto-tour route afforded by the nice Autumn weather.

We headed back to Baltimore with happy thoughts and were charged with new energy!

Yun was in the background presenting Brian’s work to the audience.