Tag Archives: milestones
Commencement Week 2026
This week we celebrated the accomplishment of many in the MEOW team with family and friends. Junjie was hooded for his PhD degree. Junjie’s family traveled to celebrate with us! Stefan also attended his Master’s degree ceremony this week. Stefan’s … Continue reading
BPS Annual Meeting 2026
Junjie, Alejandro, Daniel and Jackson attended the BPS annual meeting 2026 in San Francisco. Junjie and Daniel won Travel Awards and celebrated the honor with beaming smiles. Alejandro was invited to give a talk on the development of hydrophobicity sensor … Continue reading
Welcome Alejandro
MEOW has a returned member! We welcome Dr. Alejandro Sánchez-Pedreño Jiménez aboard, joining forces to study quantum biology and develop techniques to be applied in tissue engineering, imaging and beyond. Alejandro worked in MEOW lab back in 2023 as a … Continue reading
Junjie defends his PhD dissertation
We are very happy to celebrate Junjie’s successful defense for his PhD dissertation. Junjie joined MEOW lab in 2019. The journey of his PhD training has been bumpy because of the pandemic. Yet, Junjie persevered. Junjie stayed productive despite the … Continue reading
The newest hyper-spectral confocal is up and running
After a super efficient lab renovation, we welcomed our fourth microscope to our lab! We had to knock down the benches, and re-route the plumbing systems, with a new sink installed. Thanks to Patrick, our most helpful lab manager at … Continue reading
Bioprinting Lab is set up
Thanks to everyone’s (mostly physical) efforts, now the bioprinting lab has been set up for serious bioprinting. We have the fridge, the incubator, the water bath and gas tanks all up and running. . We have two biosafety cabinets installed. … Continue reading
Marino visits from Queensland and a new microscope is built
We welcomed our collaborator Marino Lara from Prof. Warwick Bowen’s lab in University of Queensland visiting the MEOW lab for a month. Marino helped us build a new microscope where we can study cellular states in a label-free manner. We … Continue reading
Feiyu graduates
Today we celebrated Feiyu’s graduation as she was granted the MSE degree in Biomedical Engineering. Deiyu joined the MEOW lab as a rookie in biophysics and mechanobiology. She has made strides in research. Feiyu successfully authored a comprehensive dissertation and … Continue reading
Junjie chairs the Bioengineering Platform and gives a talk on quantum actuation at BPS Annual Meeting 2024
Junjie served as the chair of the Bioengineering Platform in Biophysical Society Annual Meeting at Philadelphia this year (2024). More coverage can found at this link. Junjie also was invited to give a talk on his exciting discovery that we … Continue reading
Junjie is selected to give a talk at the Biophysical Society (BPS) Annual Meeting 2024
We are delighted to learn that Junjie’s project about developing quantum actuator is been selected for oral presentation at the BPS 2024 annual meeting at Philadelphia in February 2024 . We are very glad Junjie’s novel ideas are getting noticed … Continue reading