We had lunch after the group meeting to celebrate recent papers and the beginning of the Fall semester. More importantly, we bid goodbye to our amazing summer interns, Zheming, Zixian and Yuhan. They left us with fond memory of working with talented young scientists, and tons of good data! As we send off the summer with the summer interns back to their school, we wish the best for them and hope our paths will cross again soon!
Seungman’s methods paper “Versatile and High-throughput Force Measurement Platform for Dorsal Cell Mechanics” is accepted. Seungman not only came up with the idea for the paper but also did a terrific job training our beloved former undergrad research assistant Ed, aka the second author of the paper. Missions well accomplished all around!
We welcome Junjie Chen to be the newest addition to the Lab of MOBS. Junjie double-majored in Biomedical Engineering and Anthropology during his undergraduate study at Purdue University. We hope you will enjoy and excel in Mechanical Engineering as well. We are very excited to have you on board, Junjie!
Wei-Hung’s paper “cell-cell adhesion and myosin activity regulate cortical actin
assembly in mammary gland epithelium on concaved surface” is accepted to be published in Cells, a well-timed good news. It has been a long battle. Thanks for trooping on, Wei-Hung! And congratulations to all the authors. Special thanks are due to our wonderfully amazing collaborator Prof. Sung Hoon Kang – thanks for believing in a crazy idea – your blind faith in us finally pays off.
Yuhan Ju, Zixian Guo and Zheming Gou joined us as research interns this summer. We are very impressed by everything about them. They have been productive and creative in the lab, and learning cell mechanics with commendable enthusiasm. It’s been a blast to have you guys around, Yuhan, Zixian and Zheming!
Yuhan
Zheming
Zixian
the prototyping team
Seungman’s paper “Economic, Modular and Portable Skin Viscoelasticity Measurement Device for in situ Longitudinal Studies” is accepted to be published in Molecules. We had fun building the device and measuring the skin properties on human volunteers and granny mice. Congratulations!
Deb’s paper “Collagen Matrices Under Pressure and Hydraulic Resistance in Hydrogels” was accepted to be published in Soft Matter. Congratulations, Deb!
It is a happy day that Matt passed the doctoral qualifier exam. Congratulations, Matt! Now on to the next mission.
Our collaborator Prof. Ryan Petrie from Drexel University, visited Hopkins and gave a special seminar entitled “high intracellular pressure promotes epithelial tissue integrity”. Many cell motility aficionados showed up at the talk to hear the latest development on the frontier of understanding how cells move. We had a great time discussing hot science in cold weather!
Ed presented his research project of developing high-throughput force measurement techniques at the annual Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology undergraduate research symposium. He won the best poster award with a cash prize. Congratulations, Ed!