The Lipke Lab had a strong showing at the 2021 Graduate Engineering Research Showcase. Mayra and Mohammad each received honorable mentions for their poster presentations, putting their work in the top 8 out of 140 Presenters.
Lipke Lab undergraduate researcher, Peter Abraham, was awarded second place for his oral presentation, “Transcriptomic analysis to uncover the differential effects of obesity on the consensus molecular subtypes of colorectal cancer” at the 2021 Boshell Research Day!
Lipke Lab undergraduate researcher, Grace Hester, presented her poster entitled “in vitro 3D Engineered CRC Tissue Model to Mimic Non-obese and Obese Microenvironments” at the 2021 Boshell Research Day. Grace won 4th place out of 36 graduate and undergraduate presentations!
We want to send a huge congratulations to former Lipke Lab undergraduate researcher, Bryana Harris, for being named a 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellow! Bryana is currently a PhD student in biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia, working under the advisement of Dr. Saucerman. Congrats Bryana! We are so proud of you!
We are so proud of senior undergraduate researcher, Joshita Suresh, for her exceptional contributions to our lab throughout the past four years! Joshita was named an exceptional graduate by the Auburn University Honors College due to her academic excellence and phenomenal undergraduate honors thesis submission entitled, “Development of in vitro prostate cancer culture to recapitulate the native tumor microenvironment”. Congratulations Joshita, we wish you the best of luck as you pursue your graduate studies at the University of Colorado Boulder this fall!
We are so excited to share that Dr. Lipke was awarded the Senior Auburn Alumni Engineering Research Award for Excellence! This prestigious award recognizes excellence in engineering research at Auburn University and is a testament to Dr. Lipke’s leadership and the Lipke Lab’s research efforts as a whole.
Congratulations to Lipke Lab graduate researcher Nicole Habbit for being awarded the J. Alley Family Graduate Student Leadership Fellowship! This fellowship was awarded based on her academic excellence, extracurricular activities, and leadership abilities.
Congratulations to Lipke Lab graduate researcher Morgan Ellis for being named the Graduate Student Volunteer of the Year by the college of engineering! This award recognizes those students who go above and beyond to assist the college with its K-12 outreach initiatives. We are so proud of you, Morgan!
For the second year in a row, every Lipke Lab researcher who presented at the Auburn Graduate Engineering Research Showcase won an award! Iman Hassani won 3rd place overall, Morgan Ellis and Ferdous Finklea each won honorable mentions, and Mohammad Hashemi won best in chemical engineering. Over 120 graduate engineering students presented at the showcase and our lab members won 4 out of 9 awards they were eligible for! It is safe to say that we are very, very proud of their hard work and presentation skills.
Congratulations to Lipke Lab graduate researcher, Nicole Habbit, for winning 2nd place overall in the graduate student category at the 21st annual O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center Research Retreat! Her presentation was titled “Prostate Cancer-on-a-chip Platform for in vitro Anti-cancer Therapeutic Evaluation”.