Matt successfully defended his thesis and earned his doctorate today. It has been a long and hard journey but Matt got through all the extraordinary challenges brought by experiments, publication process and the pandemic with perseverance and courage. We are very proud of what you accomplished. Congratulations!
We had a great celebration lunch after the defense at a Creole restaurant.
Humza’s presented his work ” Differential Effects of Extracellular Fluid Viscosity on Epithelial Cell and Fibroblast Migration and Proliferation” at the 15th Nano-Bio Symposium, and won the best poster award (2nd place). More information is available here. Congratulations for your good work and the recognition, Humza!
We welcome the latest addition to MEOW lab, Daniel Yan, a recent graduate from University of Michigan . With his contagious enthusiasm, Daniel will study cell mechanics. We look forward to working with you, Daniel!
Also, what an opportune time to join us – Happy birthday, Daniel!
After months and months of blood, toil, tears and sweat, Matt’s masterpiece about why cells migrate faster in very viscous fluids has been accepted to be published in Nature Physics. We are very proud of your beautiful work, but we are even prouder of the tenacity that you demonstrated through this dramatic and challenging project. You are a true MEOWan Matt!
We officially celebrated Wei-Hung’s academic achievement today with other newly minted doctors at Homewood field. We are so honored to have you work with us Wei-Hung!
We are very very happy to celebrate Wei-Hung’s successful defense that concluded his super-productive PhD training. It has been a journey full of challenges but also of rewarding moments. We are lucky to have Wei-Hung in the lab. He is heading to Harvard for his postdoc training. We wish you the best, Dr. Jung!
Junjie passes his GBO exam today and is one step closer to become Dr. Chen. Congratulations!
In place of out annual ASCB MEOW family and friends dinner, this year we celebrated the passing of 2021, as well as Junjie’s timely birthday, in the charm city. We are grateful to have many young bloods joining use, after a long hiatus of undergraduate activities in the lab. Here is to a better, brighter, happier new year, everyone!
Junjie’s research abstract submitted to 2022 BPS Annual Meeting at San Francisco, CA, entitled “Chromatin Softening and Nuclear Envelope Breaching Potentiates Killing of Chemoresistant Cancer Cells” is selected for Travel Award. Junjie leads the project with a multidisciplinary team of engineers, cell biologists, biophysicists and gynecologists. He has found promising clues to biophysically eliminate chemoresistant cancer. Our colleagues are equally excited about Junjie’s finding, it turns out. Congratulations for the recognition, Junjie.
During the group meeting on the last Friday of October, we celebrated Halloween by dressing up as wizards. It was a day of flooding and storm, as evident in this blurred picture below where everybody was trying to hold on the wizard hat against the bluster. Hair was flying wildly too.
Luckily we got a moment of calm amidst the tempest. A non-blurred picture was acquired to commemorate our costumed meeting this year.
