Congratulations to Francesca Teo for winning the Best Poster Presentation Award at the AMGEN Symposium!
Francesca Teo, our AMGEN scholar this summer, took home the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 2026 AMGEN Scholars Asia symposium held at the University of Tokyo!
Joe presents the lab’s latest research at the National Institute of Biological Sciences mini-symposium in Beijing!
Grateful for the invitation to present our lab's latest research at the mini-symposium on biophysics and modelling at the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing. Looking forward to future exciting collaborations!
Celebrating the Chan lab’s 5th Anniversary with its first ever Lab retreat!
Lots of fun sharing crazy science and round table discussions on career development and lab culture.
Great to host Saanjbati Adhikari, Reviews Editor at Development, at MBI
Saanjbati gave a lovely seminar to the MBI community on publishing in Development and her personal journey in academic publishing. It was also a huge privilege to share my own research journey through the Transitions in Development series (read here).
Check out the latest preprint from the lab!
Dual curvature sensing governs cell orientation and curvotaxis. Read the preprint here!
Welcoming the latest summer interns to the lab!
The Chan Lab kicked off the summer by welcoming our incoming interns over a hearty meal together!
Check out the lab’s latest publication and preprint!
Access the publication or the preprint here!
Congrats to Kelly and Gefei for passing their Qualifying Exams!
Looking forward to the exciting science ahead!
The Chan Lab is delighted to host visitor Norah Spears from U. Edinburgh!
The scientific exchange was fantastic and we deeply appreciated her sharing her scientific journey. It was both inspiring and humbling for our early career researchers!
She is a Scientist: Confidence Formed by Curiosity Over Time
February 11th celebrates The International Day of Women and Girls in Science to promote full, equal access and participation in STEM fields. MBI talks to two of our posdoctoral research fellows about their career as a woman in science.

