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Daniel is the reigning champion of cell counting
For two years in a row, Daniel won the world championship of Leica Cell Counting competition. By eyeballing images of cell culture, Daniel could estimate cell density down to single digit. He is a walking cell counter that beats any … Continue reading
Daniel, Hoff and Feiyu are selected for 2024 Cell Bio travel grants
We are very pleased to learn that Daniel, Hoff and Feiyu are awarded for the 2024 Cell Bio travel grants. They will be funded for the trip to present their research results at 2024 Cell Bio meeting to be held … Continue reading
Quantum-Enabled Dial (QED) is funded via NSF Trailblazer Engineering Impact Award
We are very delighted that our project “Quantum-Enabled Dial (QED) to control biochemical reactions and cell behaviors” based on Junjie’s preliminary data has been selected by National Science Foundation (NSF) for the inaugural Trailblazer Engineering Impact Award (https://new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-awards-inaugural-trailblazer-grants). The 3 … Continue reading
Samantha wins INBT symposium people’s choice poster award
We are very happy that Samantha’s work on quantum actuation under Junjie’s omnipresent supervision has won the people’s choice award at the annual Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) symposium! Samantha’s work attracted many people asking questions about her findings! There is … Continue reading
Daniel wins the championship of cell confluency estimation
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 … Continue reading
Junjie, Daniel and Eileen are selected for the ASCB Travel Award
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 … Continue reading
Junjie wins Bioluminsecence Diversity Travel Scholarship
We learned the good news that Junjie is selected to receive one of the three Bioluminsecence Diversity Travel Scholarships to attend the Laboratory of Fluorescence Dynamics (LFD) workshop 2022 in Irvine, California. Funded by the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, … Continue reading
Daniel wins the Dean Robert H. Roy Fellowship
We are very happy to learn that Daniel is selected for the Dean Robert H. Roy Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year by the Dean’s office of Whiting School of Engineering. Starting his PhD training only weeks ago, Daniel has … Continue reading
Humza wins Best Poster Award at 15th Nano-Bio Symposium
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 … Continue reading
Junjie Wins Travel Award to 2022 Biophysical Society (BPS) Annual Meeting
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 … Continue reading