Graduate researchers, Nicole Habbit and Mohammadjafar Hashemi, traveled to Orlando to present their work at the 2021 Biomedical Engineering Society annual meeting. Both had the opportunity to learn about exciting advances in the BME field and make networking connections.
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!
Lipke Lab graduate researcher, Justin Harvell, completed his first oral presentation at the 2021 ACS annual meeting. His talk was entitled “HiPSC encapsulation geometry impacts engineered cardiac tissue homogeneity and functionality”. This talk highlighted data collected by both Justin and Dr. Morgan Ellis.
As the Vice-President of the Auburn Council of Engineering Graduate Students, graduate researcher Nicole Habbit was heavily involved in planning and executing the annual Graduate Engineering Research Showcase. This is the second consecutive year that Nicole has planned this event and we are so proud of her commitment to representing our lab and department on campus!
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”.
Our Lipke Lab cancer research team (along with our mascot, Archie the Lab lab) traveled to Birmingham to attend the UAB O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center Research Retreat! Mohammad, Benny, Iman, and Nicole (and Archie) each presented their work during the poster session competition. We had a wonderful time learning all about the cancer research efforts going on in our region and sharing our own research.
Lipke Lab undergraduate researchers Gabi, Michaela, Joshita, Emma, Bryana, and Luke, as well as graduate researcher Iman, presented their work at the Auburn Student Research Symposium. We are so proud of their hard work and dedication to the Lipke Lab!
Congratulations to Iman Hassani for receiving the Society for Biomaterials STAR Award, which recognizes research excellence, outstanding contribution to the meeting, and develops future leaders within SFB! Iman was very excited to have the opportunity to travel to Seattle for the first time, present our lab’s cancer tissue engineering work, and to network with other SFB members throughout the meeting. Morgan Ellis also received an Honorable Mention for the STAR Award!
