Mohammad, Shireen, and Justin Present at 2022 GERS and Justin Coorganizes

Mohammad, Shireen, and Justin participated in the 2022 10th Annual Graduate Engineering Research Showcase. Mohammad presented his poster entitled “Scalable Production of Engineered Cardiac Tissue Microspheroids with Varying Geometries“, Justin’s titled “Production of Large Heart Tissues Using Stem-Cell Laden Microspheres as Building Blocks,” and Shireen’s titled “3D Differentiation of a Left Ventricular Reporter Stem Cell Line to Produce Engineered Heart Tissues.” In addition to this, Justin coorganized the event as an executive member on the Council of Engineering Graduate Students.

Mohammad presents his poster.
Shireen presents her poster.
Justin coorganized the event.

Like Lab Presents at the 2022 BMES Annual Meeting

Lipke Lab traveled to San Antonio, TX to present at the 2022 BMES Annual Meeting. Mohammad presented an oral presentation entitled “Stem Cell Encapsulation in Engineered Tissue Microspheres During Suspension-Based Differentiation Provides Enhanced Cardiomyocyte Yield and Cardiac Tissue Functionality.” Yuan presented an oral presentation entitled “Peptide Combinations Support Endothelial Colony Forming Cells Dynamic Adhesion,” as well as the poster “Production of Breast Cancer Hydrogel Microspheres for Drug Screening.” Dr. Lipke presented an oral presentation titled “3D Engineered Prostate Cancer Tissues for in vitro Investigation of Fibroblast Impact on CRPC and ADPC.” Justin presented a poster entitled “Stem Cell-Laden Microspheres as Building Blocks for Large Cardiac Tissue Production.” Ravi presented a poster entitled “Adaptation of Microfluidic System for Use in Scalable Cell Encapsulation.”

The group gets a photo in front of the BMES sign. From left to right: Ravi, Mohammad, Dr. Lipke, Yuan, and Justin
Mohammad presents an oral presentation.
Yuan presents a poster presentation.
Ravi presents a poster presentation.
Justin presents a poster presentation.

2022 SummerExpo Outreach

  • Publication date April 20, 2023
  • Categories: Outreach

Members of Lipke Lab, including Yuan, Nicole, and Peter, introduced high school students to potential future careers in biomedical engineering in both lectures and hands on activities at the Auburn Engineering 2022 SummerExpo. Students were also able to tour Lipke Lab to see what a tissue engineering lab is like.

Nicole and Yuan present to high school SummerExpo students.

2022 NSF REU Biomanufacturing Workshop at Alabama State University

  • Publication date April 20, 2023
  • Categories: Outreach

Members of Lipke Lab (Dr. Lipke, Mohammad, Justin, Shireen, Zuri, Skyler, and Kayla) and the Selen Cremaschi Research Group (Samira and Shenba) lead a day-long workshop to summer REU students at Alabama State University covering topics including biomanufacturing of engineered tissues, machine learning for use in decision making processes, and scale up of heart tissue production using machine learning. The workshop composed of interactive presentations and hands-on demonstrations including machine learning demonstrations, cell encapsulations, hydrogel production, and pig heart demonstrations.

Mohammad demonstrates hydrogel crosslinking.
Justin performs a cell encapsulation of cancer cells within a crosslinkable hydrogel to demonstrate production of engineered tissues.
The group takes an end-of-day photo! From left to right: Shenba, Mohammad, Justin, Skyler, Shireen, Zuri, Kayla, and Samira.
Samira presents about machine learning.

Kayla and Zuri Present Their Work at the CASE-REU Research Symposium

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.

The Lipke Lab Presents and Wins at the 2022 SFB Annual Meeting

Members of the Lipke Lab, including Dr. Lipke, Nicole, Mohammad, and Justin, presented two posters, one rapid fire, and three oral platform presentations at the 2022 SFB Annual Meeting. Mohammad was awarded both a STAR award and an honorable mention and Justin was awarded the Tissue Engineering SIG poster competition award. Congratulations to all! We were very excited for the opportunity to share our work with the biomaterials community.

Peter is Named a Goldwater Scholar

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!

Ravi wins at AIChE Regional Conference

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!

Dr. Lipke and Nicole Present at AACR Annual Meeting

Dr. Lipke and Nicole recently had the wonderful opportunity to attend and present at the 2022 AACR Meeting in NOLA. We were excited to learn about the newest advances in cancer research, meet with collaborators, and share our work towards developing pathophysiologically-relevant tissue engineered cancer models!