The lab went bowling at PiNZ Bowl to celebrate the new semester and some new members joining the lab! .

Our lab received a R35 MIRA Award from NIGMS. This grant will support our research in the mechanobiology of gap closure process. See the news article here.

Beatriz: Advanced to PhD Candidacy; Finalist for the HHMI Gilliam Fellowship

Narciso: Paper on patterned ganglionic eminences organoids published by Cell Report Methods. Internship with Eli Lilly in fall 2024

Bella: MIE Research Star Award.

Congratulations to everyone!

We have received a NSF grant, in collaboration with Dr. Jun Yao, and are part of a NIH Trailblazer Award to Dr. Guangyu Xu. Those grant will support our research in exploring novel bioelectrical interfaces with patterned brain organoids. Look forward to the collaborations.

Congratulations to Lauren for winning this prestigious award. She is also featured on the CoE website and UMass Website.

Jamar and Feiyu successfully defended their Ph.D. theses in Dec. 2022. Congratulations on their achievements! Jamar will start his new position in Colossal Biosciences to bring back Mammoths and Feiyu will join JHU BME as a postdoctoral scholar. Best wishes for their future endeavors.

We received a new R21 grant from NIMH to derive properly patterned brain organoids using the gradient generation devices we developed. This will be an exciting collaboration with Dr. Changhui Pak.

Our collaborative work with Dr. Wei Cui’s lab, led by Jamar and Sue, revealed that blocking nonselective adsorption of PDMS facilitates embryo culture in vitro. Congratulations on their paper! [link]

Congratulations, Dr. Xie! (12/2021)