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 … Continue reading →

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+ … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

We are very happy to have Jen Flournoy, who won multiple honors and was invited to multiple talks for her research during her undergraduate years in our our lab back as a brand new PhD student. Jen will continue her … Continue reading →

We are happy to welcome Jason Kim to join the MEOW lab. Jason is an electric engineer by training but his impressive industrial experience made him knowledgeable about biomedicine too. We are very happy after a summer of rollercoaster ride … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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. … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →