We are grateful that 2023 treated us gently enough that we made progress in research, we travelled far to establish collaboration, and welcomed new members into our MEOW family. To celebrate a year of hard work,we dined together and reminded each other that all the sweat, tears and blood are worth it. And we willingly to do it again all over in 2024, maybe even more!
Happy 2024 everyone!
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 very impressed. With your sharp eyes and sharper brain, we look forward to many wonderful discoveries from you!
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 old friends and former group members. We presented our progress and got helpful inputs.
Wei-Hung, Ed and Rachel joined us at ASCB. It was great to catch up.
We also dined with MEOW friends. Over the delicious food, more science was discussed.
We were very happy that Cell Biology can be so much fun. Friendship, good food and science- what more can one asks from a meeting?
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 by the community. Congratulations!
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 year. We look forward to doing some awesome research together, Sergey! Can’t wait!
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.
We decided to push for another picture so we might appear to rise above the minimum efforts.
Here!
Ever-competitive Daniel (horse-head Barbie) as usual won the competition. He was named “the prettiest second-year PhD student in the MEOW lab Halloween photoshoot”. Eileen’s raincoat Barbie and Hoff’s blackbelt Barbie were honorable mentions. Congratulations! Others did not put any efforts in this event and merely meekly donned the glittering hays on their heads as they were told. Fortunately they had some cookies and candies during the group meeting after the photoshoot to make up the energy to pose for the pictures.
Happy Halloween everyone!
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 in our lab at the conference and learning the latest advances in the field of mechanobiology.
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. We also enjoyed the first-grade hospitality during our visit!
We gained a lot of insights by working side-by-side with our collaborators.
We also visited other groups at UQ who helped us tremendously with the access to cell culture.
It was a fruitful trip. We learned a lot and we had fun!
A big shout-out to Dr. Nicolas Mauranyapin who is so patient and so knowledgeable. Nico coordinated with us planning our visit and made our visit so special.
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 our research and for doing an excellent job!
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. Congratulations and HAPPY BIRTHDAY Daniel! Now go print a cake!
