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.
We are very happy for Rachel who is selected for 2021 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA). It is a prestigious award for recognizing undergraduates who conduct original research. More details can be found here. Rachel will use the fund provided by PURA to support her ongoing project in investigating wound healing under various biophysical and biochemical conditions. Congratulations Rachel!
We are delighted to host Ernest Iu from Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto for three days at Hopkins. We learned a lot from his wonderful talk “Motility, Mechanics and Microscopes: Regulation of cell migration by Ca2+ signaling” and learned useful techniques about TFM too. It is such a refreshing pleasure as the school slowly reopens. Thank you for traveling to visit us, Ernest! Thank you Prof. Sergey Plotnikov for sponsoring the trip.
We are very happy to learn that Seungman to be awarded the prestigious transition fellowship from National Institute of Aging/ National Institutes of Health K25 “Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award” . Seungman will study the mechanics of skin aging and its relation with skin cancer propagation. Congratulations!
We congratulate Jen for passing the departmental DQE, kicking off her second year of PhD study with a bang! We look forward brilliant findings as you use the well-learned skills to apply to our research.
As Johns Hopkins reopens we are pleased to welcome a new batch undergraduate research scientists to join MEOW lab, Rachel Li (BME), Hannah Qu (BME), Shahad Ashkanani (ChemBE) and Ryan Retino (ME). We are excited to work with you as a team!
We celebrate the publication of Junjie’s paper “Parametric comparison between sparsity-based and deep learning-based image reconstruction of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy“. This is an extension of the image processing course homework in which Junjie has been an outstanding student in 2019 and then a super-helpful TA in 2020. The decision to write up an article based solely on computational results was partly because of the limited lab access for bench work imposed by COVID-19. Congratulations, Junjie!
We celebrate Keva’s graduation with pride and a little sadness in R house this graduation season. Keva has been an essential part of many research projects in our lab, before and during the pandemic. Keva will start her postbac training at NIA/NIH in June . We wish you the best Keva!
