PhD student Kelsey Gray has been selected to receive a competitive travel award and was also invited to give a talk at the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Conference in January 2017 on the Big Island of Hawaii! Her talk is titled "Biomimetic Matrices for Blood-brain Barrier-on-chip: Potential of Microelectronics" and will focus on her recent efforts to create an electrodeposited blood-brain-barrier-on-chip. 

Kelsey recently gave a talk on her work at the 19th International Signal Transduction at the Blood-Brain Barriers Symposium in Copenhagen, Denmark (September 2016) and will also be giving a talk at the American Society for Matrix Biology Annual Meeting in St. Petersburg, FL in November 2016.

Congratulations, Kelsey!!!

This week Dr. Stroka gave an invited talk at Penn State's Biomedical Engineering Department's seminar series. Dr. Stroka was part of the Big 10 BME Exchange program, where junior faculty from Big 10 schools travel to other Big 10 schools to give seminar talks. Thanks to Dr. Cheng Dong, Penn State BME Chair, for the invitation, and to all faculty and students at Penn State, in both BME and Engineering Science and Mechanics for a great visit!

Dr. Stroka attended the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society in Minneapolis, MN, this week. She presented a talk titled, "Biomimetic Models to Study Cell Mechanobiology at the Blood-Brain Barrier" which focused on PhD student Kelsey Gray's research. She also chaired the "Drug Delivering Biomaterials" session.