Our newest eLife paper, in collaboration with Dr. Min Wu @ WPI, established that cell alignment in a confined monolayer in mechanical equilibrium states can be regulated by a condensation tendency (prestretch) and a tissue stiffness gradient. Congratulations to all the authors!
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Ningwei and Feiyu’s paper published
Ningwei and Feiyu’s paper on differentiating hPSCs using a chemical gradient generation device is accepted by ACS Biomaterials Sci. & Eng. Congratulations!
Jamar’s review paper on the biophysics of embryos
12/15/2020 Jamar’s review paper, in collaboration with Dr. Cui Wei, on what mechanics can offer ART is accepted by Molecular Human Production. Congratulations!
New members
Narciso Pavon joined the lab in Jan 2020 (co-advised with Dr. ChangHui Pak), and Han Jiang joined the lab in Sept 2020. Welcome!
New publications
We have published several papers recently. Tianfa’s paper is accepted by Matter; our collaborative work with Dr. Mingxu You is accepted by Chemical Science, and Peiran and Jamar’s work is accepted by ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering. Congratulations to everyone.
Neuroengineering Seed Grants
Our lab received an IONs Neuroengineering Seed Grants in collaboration with Dr. ChangHui Pak. We thank the The Initiative on Neurosciences (IONs) at UMass for the support. [news]
Farewell dinner for Ningwei
Subi presented in the CoE REU poster session
EJ won the second place in the Innovation Challenge
E.J. Chen and his venture “Renovare” won second place in the final of the Innovation Challenge and received $21,000 equity free investment. His company seeks to accelerate the wound healing process by developing “massaging bandages”, leveraging the mechanosensitivity of epithelial cells. Congratulations!
See the CoE news article here.
Grant support
Dr. Sun received the NSF CAREER Award to support our study on the mechanobiology of planar cell polarity. [UMass News]