{"id":7,"date":"2021-02-16T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/dclin\/home\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:48:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:48:45","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/dclin\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Lin Lab innovates materials that interface with neurons and beyond<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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3\/2026\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0New Paper:<\/strong> Our new intracellular recording tool GEMINI, led by PhD students Yuqing Yan and Jiaxi Lu, has been published online in Nature<\/em><\/a>!<\/p>

10\/2024<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 Award: <\/span>Dr. Lin joined the\u00a0<\/span>2024 class of Packard Fellows<\/a>, with<\/span>\u00a0a generous 5-year fund from the Packard Foundation! Congratulations!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>

10\/2024\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>New Member:\u00a0<\/span>Yifu Yang joined the Lin Lab as a M.S. Research Assistant! Welcome!<\/span>
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10\/2024\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>New Member:\u00a0<\/span>Chu Ouyang joined the Lin Lab as a Lab Technician! Welcome!<\/span>
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09\/2024\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>New Member:\u00a0<\/span>Zuohan Zhao joined the Lin Lab as a PhD student! Welcome!<\/span>
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09\/2024\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>New Member:\u00a0<\/span>ChangWoo Song joined the Lin Lab as a Postdoc Fellow! Welcome!<\/span><\/p>

08\/2024\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>New Grant:\u00a0<\/span>The Lin Lab received an NIH BRAIN Initiative R21 Award to develop spatially resolve nueral interface!<\/span><\/p>

07\/2024\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>New Member:\u00a0<\/span>Kat Schuller joined the Lin Lab as an undergraduate Research Assistant! Welcome!<\/span>
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06\/2024\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>New Grant:\u00a0<\/span>The Lin Lab and the\u00a0Bergles Lab<\/a>\u00a0received a\u00a0JHU Discovery Award\u00a0to apply our protein recorders to study astrocyte dynamics!<\/span><\/p>

06\/2024\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>New Grant:\u00a0<\/span>The Lin Lab and the Janak Lab<\/a> received a JHU Discovery Award to apply our neural probes to study reward circuits!<\/span><\/p>

06\/2024\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>New Member:\u00a0<\/span>Haoyang Guo joined the Lin Lab as a M.S. Research Assistant! Welcome!<\/span><\/p>

06\/2024\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>New Member:\u00a0<\/span>Michael Jiang joined the Lin Lab as a M.S. Research Assistant! Welcome!<\/span><\/p>

06\/2024\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Award:<\/span>\u00a0Yuqing (Eugene) Yan received the\u00a0<\/span>Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Distinguished Doctoral Award<\/a>!\u00a0<\/span>Congratulations!<\/span><\/span><\/p>

06\/2024\u00a0 \u00a0New Grant:\u00a0<\/b>The Lin Lab received a grant from NSF DMR to support our research on protein functional biomaterials!<\/span><\/p>

05\/2024\u00a0<\/b> \u00a0Award:<\/b>\u00a0Rishi won the\u00a0MSE Senior Design Oral Presentation Award!\u00a0<\/span>Congratulations!<\/b><\/span><\/p>

01\/2024\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>New Member:\u00a0<\/span>Yingkai Jiao joined the Lin Lab as an undergraduate intern! Welcome!<\/span>
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01\/2024\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>New Member:\u00a0<\/span>Ariel Chen joined the Lin Lab as a M.S. research assistant! Welcome!<\/span><\/p>

10\/2023\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>New Member: <\/span>Hongru Yang joined the Lin Lab as a Postdoc Fellow! Welcome!<\/span><\/p>

11\/2023\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>New Member:\u00a0<\/span>Judy Zhou joined the Lin Lab as an undergraduate research assistant! Welcome!<\/span><\/p>

09\/2023\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>New Member:\u00a0<\/span>Casyie Jumpp from\u00a0<\/span>Garrison\u00a0 School\u00a0<\/span>joined the Lin Lab as a high-school research intern! Welcome!<\/span><\/p>

08\/2023\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>New Member:\u00a0<\/span>Yimei Wang joined the Lin Lab as a PhD student! Welcome!<\/span>
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07\/2023\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>New Member:\u00a0<\/span>Aileen Qi from\u00a0<\/span>Montgomery Blair High School\u00a0<\/span>joined the Lin Lab as a summer intern! Welcome!<\/span>
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02\/2023<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0The protein ticker tape<\/a> work was highlighted by Nature Methods! [Link<\/a>]<\/p>

02\/2023<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0New Member: <\/strong><\/b>Roy Yaghi and Rishi Sheth joined the Lin Lab as undergraduate research assistants! Welcome!<\/p>

01\/2023<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 The protein ticker tape<\/a> work was highlighted by Nature Reviews Genetics! [Link<\/a>]<\/p>

12\/2022\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 New Grant: <\/strong><\/b>Dr. Lin received the DoD AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award! The Award will support our endeavor on developing programmable\u00a0functional biomaterials! [News<\/a>]<\/p>

12\/2022\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 New Member: <\/strong><\/b>Jiaxi Lu joined the Lin Lab as the 2nd PhD student! Welcome!<\/p>

11\/2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0New Member: <\/b><\/strong>Nathaniel Sheps joined the Lin Lab as a ChemBE undergraduate research assistant! Welcome!<\/p>

11\/2022<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0New Member: <\/strong><\/b>Dr. Liang Zou joined the Lin Lab as a postdoctoral Fellow! Welcome!<\/p>

10\/2022\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0New Member: <\/strong><\/b>Shiori Harima joined the Lin Lab as a MSE undergraduate research assistant! Welcome!<\/p>

09\/2022\u00a0 \u00a0New Member: <\/strong><\/b>Kai San Chen joined the Lin Lab as a BME Master Student! Welcome!<\/p>

08\/2022\u00a0 \u00a0New Member: <\/strong><\/b>Yuqing (Eugene) Yan joined the Lin Lab as the 1st PhD student! Welcome!<\/p>

08\/2022<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0New Grant:<\/strong> The Lin Lab received NIH NIGMS MIRA (R35) Award ($2.05M for 5 years) to support our development of in-cellulo protein assemblies for cell biology and cell mechanics research! [News<\/a>]<\/p>

08\/2022<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0New Paper: <\/b>The work on in-cellulo protein ticker tape for intracellular recording was accepted for publication in Nature Biotechnology<\/i>.<\/b><\/p>

07\/2022\u00a0 \u00a0 New Grant: <\/strong><\/b>The Lin Lab received the JHU Discovery Award to support our research on in-cellulo protein crystals!<\/p>

07\/2022\u00a0 \u00a0 New Member: <\/b>Tiara Safaei joined the Lin Lab as a ChemBE undergraduate research assistant! Welcome<\/p>

07\/2022\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/b>The Lin Lab is officially launched! We are actively and aggresively recruiting PhD students, postdocs, master students, and undergraduates<\/p>

10\/2021\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0New Member:<\/strong> Yongzhi Sun joined the Lin Lab as a BME Master Student and the 1st Lin Lab member! Welcome!G\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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MATERIALS-BRAIN NEXUS The Lin Lab innovates materials that interface with neurons and beyond Openings We have TWO postdoc positions available immediately! If you are interested, please send inquiry with your CV to dclin@jhu.edu. News 3\/2026\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0New Paper: Our new intracellular recording tool GEMINI, led by PhD students Yuqing Yan and Jiaxi Lu, has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"disabled","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"disabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/dclin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/dclin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/dclin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/dclin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/dclin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":216,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/dclin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3413,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/dclin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/3413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/dclin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}