Check out the paper here.
We are excited that our paper titled, "Biomaterial stiffness regulates the tight junction phenotypes and local barrier properties in tricellular regions in an iPSC-derived BBB model" has been accepted for publication in Acta Biomaterialia! Congratulations to first author Dr. Li Yan, along with co-authors Dr. Becca Moriarty (PhD alum), Cole Dwiggins (undergrad alum), Udit Gupta (current undergrad in lab), Jae Jung (undergrad alum), and Ken Brandon (current MD/PhD student in lab). Great job, team!
Check out the paper here. We are excited that our paper titled, "The multifaceted role of aquaporins in physiological cell migration" has been accepted for publication in the American Journal of Physiology Cell Physiology! Congrats to first author, Ian Smith, a PhD student in the lab!
Dr. Ariana DeCastro, who defended her PhD dissertation this spring, was hooded by Dr. Stroka today at the Clark School graduate commencement ceremony! Huge congratulations to Ariana!
Stroka lab undergrads Hiya Sawhney (left below, graduated in December 2022) and Allison Moses (right below, '23) walked at commencement today! Congrats to both of you! Hiya is currently a postbac researcher at the NIH and is in the process of applying to MD/PhD programs. Allison will be pursuing her PhD in Bioengineering (here at UMD!) starting this fall... we are thankful that we don't have to say good-bye!
Congratulations to undergraduate researcher, Esha Chopra, who has received the MTech ASPIRE Award! This award will fund her research in our lab this summer. Thanks so much to MTech for their support!
Congratulations to undergraduate researcher, Nikka Givpoor, whose research this summer will be supported through an NIH REU supplement on the lab's MIRA grant! A huge thanks to the NIH/NIGMS for their support! Nikka also received the MTech ASPIRE Award for this summer (congrats, Nikka!) but declined it due to receiving the REU award.
Congratulations to undergraduate researchers, Autumn Hengen and Udit Gupta, who have both received the Maryland Summer Scholar Award! This fellowship will support their research during summer 2023. Great job to both of you, and thanks to UMD for the support!
Congratulations to PhD candidate Ariana DeCastro who defended her PhD dissertation today! Her dissertation project focused on understanding functional behaviors of organotropic triple negative breast cancer cells. Ariana joined the lab in August 2018 and is the lab's 5th PhD student to defend their dissertation! Congrats, Ariana!
A huge congratulations to undergraduate researchers Udit Gupta, Autumn Hengen, and Allison Moses for being chosen to receive the MTech ASPIRE Award to support their spring 2023 research! Also, thank you to MTech for their support of our research!
Thank you to the organizers of the Physical Science of Cancer Gordon Research Conference for inviting Kim to present the lab's work at this GRC, which was held in Galveston, TX, this week. This was a fantastic conference and we're looking forward to the next one in 2 years!
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