Group meeting holiday celebration with snack packs and interesting games December 10, 2020 Our last group meeting of 2020 had lots of fun: not only we had scientific talk and discussions, but also we had each a snack pack offered by Dave. In breakout room sessions, we enjoyed playing some interesting games like GeoGuessr, Draw…
85th New England Complex Fluids meeting – first and hopefully the last one on zoom organized by Harvard December 4, 2020 Dave Weitz (Dept. of Physics and SEAS, Harvard University), and Bob Graham (MRSEC, Harvard University) organized successfully the 85th New England Complex Fluids zoom meeting on Friday, December 4, 2020 from 9:00am – 5:00pm EST. The…
Kirk Mutafopulos, Peter J. Lu, Ryan Garry, & Pascal Spink’s paper published in Lab on a Chip as a cover article. November 10, 2020 Kirk Mutafopulos’ work on Selective cell encapsulation, lysis, pico-injection and size-controlled droplet generation using traveling surface acoustic waves in a microfluidic device published in Lab on a Chip as a cover…
Congratulations Dr. Wang! October 1, 2020 Yongcheng has successfully defended his thesis “Droplet microfluidics for high-throughput single-cell analysis” on zoom. Congratulations!…
Special moment, special connection! Weitz group continues with active research and remote events. September 18, 2020 During the lab shutdown (April – June 2020), seven weekly subgroup meetings were held to keep group members connected via zoom. Lots of interesting discussion happened inside these small communities. After successfully launching the online subgroups, we restarted full Group Meetings…
#ShutDownSTEM June 10, 2020 Today, members of the Weitz Group joined individuals at institutions, laboratories, scientific societies, and technical journals around the world to pause their work in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and efforts against racism in the scientific community and society at large. The day to reflect and plan action steps…
Congratulations Dr. Xia! May 13, 2020 Jing has successfully defended his thesis “Mechanics and Properties of Biopolymer Networks and Cells” on zoom. Congratulations!…
Graduate student Larissa Zhou managing integrated operations for Off Their Plate during the COVID-19 pandemic. Call for Donations! April 24, 2020 “During the COVID-19 pandemic, graduate student Larissa Zhou has been managing integrated operations in Boston for Off Their Plate, a grassroots movement that provides frontline COVID-19 healthcare workers with nutritious meals, while providing economic relief for restaurant…
Weitz’s lab donated a large proportion of its PPE stock to support our colleagues in the hospitals March 18, 2020 In the face of COVID-19, Weitz’s lab donated a large proportion of its PPE stock before the lab’s shutdown. The facility service of Harvard SEAS gathered all these up and delivered to our colleagues in…
Peter J. Lu reported some very exciting new results from the ACE-M2R experiment on the international space station. January 29, 2020 ACE-M-2 (Advanced Colloids Experiment-Microscopy-2): Sometimes it’s hard to tell a gas from a liquid. Advanced Colloids Experiment-Microscopy-2 (ACE-M-2) observes the microscopic behavior of liquids and gases separating from each other. The investigation examines the…
