Mohammad, Shireen, and Ravi presented at the 2023 Auburn Research Symposium. Mohammad presented an oral presentation entitled “Scalable Production of Engineered Cardiac Tissue Microspheroids with Varying Geometries,” Shireen presented a poster titled “Directing HiPSC Differentiation Towards Left and Right Ventricular Cardiomyocytes in a Scaffold-Supported 3D Construct,” and Ravi presented a poster titled “Adaptation of a Microfluidic System for Use in Scalable Cell Encapsulation.”
Kayla Edwards and Zuri Rashad, two 2022 summer undergraduate CASE-REU students in Lipke Lab, presented their summer research at the 2022 CASE-REU Research Symposium on July 22, 2022. Kayla presented her work entitled “Scaffold Supported Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Laden Microsphere Heart Tissues,” and Zuri presented her work entitled “Production of Engineered Cardiac Tissues Through Differentiation of Self-Formed Aggregates Using Left Ventricular Reporter Cell Line.” With the completion of the program, Kayla will continue her research at her home institution, Alabama State University, collaborating with Lipke Lab and Zuri will begin graduate school at University of California Irvine getting her PhD in chemical engineering.
We want to wish a huge congratulations to our undergraduate researcher, Peter Abraham, who was named a Barry M. Goldwater scholar. Throughout the past several years, Peter has made numerous outstanding contributions to our cancer research projects and is highly deserving of this prestigious award! For more info on Peter’s research and the Goldwater award, check out this news release. This semester, Peter also had his research published in PLOS One, won 1st place at the AIChE Regional Conference Technical Presentation competition, and was elected to serve as the Auburn AIChE Internal Vice President. Congratulations on all of your accomplishments, Peter! We are so proud of you!
Congratulations to Lipke Lab undergraduate researcher Ravi Nataraj for winning 2nd place at the AIChE Regional Conference Poster Competition for his work, “Adaptation of a Microfluidic System for Use in High-Throughput Drug Screening”. Ravi was also recently elected to co-lead the BMES Design Team and will work towards developing a cost-effective, adjustable foot and ankle prothesis specifically targeted to female populations. This design will enable a multitude of shoe options ranging from tennis shoes to high heels! Keep up the awesome work, Ravi!
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!
The Lipke Lab is so proud of our undergraduate researcher, Hannah Brien, for being selected as the Spring 2021 Student Graduation Marshal for the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering! Hannah has been a part of our lab since 2018 and will be starting graduate school at Vanderbilt University this fall. Congrats, Hannah!
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!
Congratulations to Lipke Lab undergraduate researcher, Andrew Moore, for publishing his research in the Auburn University Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship! This work was performed as a part of Andrew’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship and we are so proud of Andrew’s contributions to our colorectal cancer research efforts! Check out his publication here.
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!
