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!
Rachel Wins Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA)
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Ernest Visits
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.
Seungman Wins NIH/NIA Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award
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!
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Jen Passes DQE
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.
Welcome Rachel, Hannah, Shahad and Ryan!
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!
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Junjie’s paper about computational super-resolution algorithm evaluation is published
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!
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Keva Graduates
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!
Keva receives undergraduate research scholarship from Beta Beta Beta Research Foundation
We got good news that Keva is selected for research scholarship the Beta Beta Beta Research Foundation for her study in the mechanics of cell migration. Keva will use the fund to cover her research expense and is invited to present her work at the convention next year. Congratulations Keva, we are very happy for you and super proud of you!
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2020 Halloween Mask-On Party
We celebrated this year’s Halloween by convention – having a themed party on Friday. Due to safe measures for COVID-19, the theme of our 2020 Halloween Lab Party is cat and mask. After our Amazon order of cat masks went missing during the delivery, Junjie promptly and enthusiastically mobilized everybody in the lab to get artistically hand-made cat masks to wear at the gathering. We can proudly say that our creativity definitely flew from research to crafting! Incidentally 10/30 was also National Cat Day. The picture was taken in R House where we had snack and chatted happily. We were a bit sad that we missed our wonderful undergraduate group members this year. But at least we got the chance to see each other in person. Many of us did not meet since March until now.
Edit: Thanks to Keva, the processed image below records the virtual presence of our brilliant undergraduate research assistants. Happy Halloween!
Wei-Hung’s DNA origami paper is accepted
We are delighted to learn that Wei-Hung’s paper “Stretching DNA Origami: Effect of Nicks and Holliday Junctions on the Axial Stiffness” is now accepted to be published in Nucleic Acids Research. As true stretchologists, in our lab we try to stretch everything – from tissues, to cells, to molecules. When we stretched DNA origamis, a counterintuitive phenomenon regarding the mechanical properties of DNA was revealed – which launched years of exploration. This is a collaborative project between our group and the group of Prof. Stavros Gaitanaros at the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering , with great inputs and technical support from Prof. Remi Veneziano at the Department of Bioengineering, George Mason University. There are moments of scratching our heads for weeks, but mostly we had a lot of fun. Congratulations team!