In May Brendan traveled to Taiwan to spend a week giving lectures and meeting new colleagues as part of him being named the 2019-2020 Next Power Chair Professor in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering at National Tsing Hua University. Great science and many new friends!
Samantha awarded Best Oral Presentation at BIOE Graduate Research Symposium
Samantha Zambuto received the award during the Dept. of Bioengineering Annual Graduate Research Symposium for her presentation, “A Gelatin Hydrogel to Study Endometrial Angiogenesis and Trophoblast Invasion.”
Samantha named Mavis Future Faculty Fellow
Samantha was selected as a Mavis Future Faculty Fellow (MF3) at the University of Illinois for the 2019-2020 academic year. This program is designed to facilitate the training for the next generation of great engineering professors and she is following in the footsteps of previous MF3 alumni from the Harley Lab: Mai, Aidan, and Emily!
Harley lab crew heads to Seattle for Society for Biomaterials 2019 meeting
A large chunk of the Harley Lab members will be attending the Society for Biomaterials 2019 Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA from April 3rd to April 6th. If you are also attending, be sure to stop by any and all of the Harley Lab posters and presentations. You’ll be dazzled and amazed:
Wednesday
Marley Dewey: The Addition of the Amniotic Membrane to Mineralized Collagen Scaffolds for Immunomodulatory Bone Regeneration. (5 min rapid fire) at 4pm on Wednesday, also poster #125
Thursday
Raul Sun Han: Biomimetic Triphasic Scaffolds for Osteotendinous Junction Regeneration, 11:45am
Aidan Gilchrist: Exploiting biomaterial-modulated secretome production in artificial stem cell niches. 2:30pm
Samantha Zumbuto: Development of a Biomaterial Model of the Decidualized Endometrium. 6pm
Posters:
Marley Dewey: The Addition of the Amniotic Membrane to Mineralized Collagen Scaffolds for Immunomodulatory Bone Regeneration, poster #125
Julio Serrano: Gelatin-based Thiol/Disulfide Degradable Hydrogels to Encapsulate Cells, poster #775
CJ Hunter: Developing a Spatially-Defined Biomaterial Model of the Glioblastoma Perivascular Niche, poster #791
Emily Chen: Patient Derived Glioblastoma Cells Activate Microglia in a Three-Dimensional Gelatin Hydrogel, poster #816
Brendan elected as a Fellow of the AIMBE!
Brendan has been elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. This is a non-profit organization headquartered in Washington that focuses on leadership and advocacy in medical and biological engineering. This past weekend he traveled to Washington DC for the induction ceremony at the National Academies of Science building. Congrats!
Emily Chen invited to 2019 St. Jude National Graduate Student Symposium (NGSS)
Emily Chen was selected to participate in the 2019 St. Jude National Graduate Student Symposium (NGSS). Emily is one of 38 students selected from over 1400 by a faculty review committee for the 2019 symposium.
“St. Jude offers two annual invited events for select PhD students from around the U.S.: the National Graduate Student Symposium (NGSS), held in spring, and the Future Fellow Research Conference (FFRC), held in summer. Both events are all-expenses-paid and are hosted on the St. Jude campus in Memphis, Tennessee. These competitive symposia allow PhD-level graduate students from U.S. institutions to present their work, meet our faculty and learn about the cutting-edge research and facilities at St. Jude.”
Aidan Gilchrist receives F31 predoctoral fellowship from the NIH
We are super happy and super excited to announce that Aidan Gilchrist was recently awarded a Fellowship Research Award (F31) by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) for his proposal “Dynamics of autocrine and paracrine signaling domains in HSC maintenance”.
Dr. Julio Serrano awarded post-doc funding via NIH R01 postdoctoral supplement
The ever charismatic chemist, Dr. Julio Serrano, recently received 2-years of funding through a NIH R01 postdoctoral supplement! His labmates are pumped to know they have 2 years to soak up his chemical knowledge.
Harley lab receives new NIH funding!!
Dr. Harley is the PI of a new R21 research award from the National Institutes of Health entitled, ‘Amniotic membrane derived matrix for large bone defect repair.’ Working with Co-PI Matt Wheeler (Illinois) and Collaborator Kara Spiller (Drexel) we will explore new biomaterial designs to modulate the immune response immediately after injury as a means to accelerate craniofacial bone regeneration!
2 lab members take their Qualifying Exam…and 2 lab members pass!!
Tori Barnhouse and Samantha Zambuto both passed their qualifying exams! Now they can put that stress behind them and focus on the vastly more stressful research! yay!