Samantha will participate in the NIH T32 Tissue Microenvironment Training Program to aid in the advancement of biomedical sciences and healthcare in topics ranging from regenerative medicine to managing cancer.
Samantha presented at the Society for the Study of Reproduction Virtual Meeting last week
Samantha presented at the Society for the Study of Reproduction Virtual Meeting last week. Her poster (#1870) was titled “Gelatin Hydrogel Platforms to Model the Endometrium and Trophoblast Invasion in Three-Dimensions”.
Samantha will be presenting at the Virtual Symposium on Bioengineering Cell-ECM Interactions
Tune in on Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at 2:35 pm – 2:50 pm EDT to listen to Samantha’s talk on “Engineering the Endometrial Microenvironment Using Methacrylamide Functionalized Gelatin Hydrogels”. She will be presenting in Session 3: Organ & Tissue Modeling of the Virtual Symposium on Bioengineering Cell-ECM Interactions. Follow this link to register for free!
Emily accepts postdoc position in Prof. Cecilia Leal’s group
Congratulations to recent graduate Dr. Emily Chen, who has accepted a postdoc position in Prof. Cecilia Leal’s group in the Material Science and Engineering department here at UIUC starting in June. Emily you will be missed, and we wish you all the best in this next stage of your career.
Mai wins graduate shooting star award at CMBE
Mai was awarded the graduate shooting star award at the 2020 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Conference (CMBE).
Aliki wins the NSF GRFP!
Excited to announce that second-year Aliki Kolliopoulos has been awarded a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship by the NSF! Aliki’s work focuses on using biomaterial strategies to modulate the kinetics of the immune response post-injury as a means to accelerate implant integration and subsequent bone regeneration.
Seed funds from alumnus furthers cell culture models of neurological diseases
Read the article here:
https://www.igb.illinois.edu/article/seed-funds-alumnus-furthers-cell-culture-models-neurological-diseases
Emily’s research image is now on NCI’s social media
Check out National Cancer Institute’s Twitter (@theNCI) and Instagram (@nationalcancerinstitute) to see Emily’s research image on s a patient-derived glioblastoma cell invading a hydrogel. Thank you NCI for funding and sharing!
https://twitter.com/theNCI/status/1196469540227616768
https://www.instagram.com/p/B5AZHHMH8GP/
Aliki returns from Drexel University where she worked with Dr. Kara Spiller for a month
Aliki spent the past month collaborating with Dr. Kara Spiller’s lab at Drexel University. During her time there she investigated the effects of mineralized collagen scaffolds on macrophage polarization. This collaboration allows for the combination of biomaterial expertise from the Harley lab with macrophage expertise from the Spiller lab. We are excited to see where this collaboration takes her.
Marley makes it as a finalist at the Women in Engineering 2019 (WE19) conference
Marley was a finalist for the graduate student rapid fire competition at the WE19 conference in Anaheim, CA. Congrats Marley!
