Category: News
21st Annual Graduate Research Symposium
On December 13th, graduate trainees, their advisors and other faculty from the QBP, TRB, SB2 and BFC training programs gathered for the 21st Annual Graduate Research Symposium. We started with talks from some of our fantastic trainees and then heard a fascinating keynote lecture on nuclear mechanobiology from Dr. Jan Lammerding (Cornell). The event was capped off with trainee poster session and networking. Congratulations to the following trainees who were recognized with oral and poster awards this year:
Best Oral Presentations:
- Sydney Bailes
- Gabrielle Grifno
Best Poster Presentations:
- Caitlin Colicchio
- Audrey Van Heest and Megan Hopton (co-first-authors)
Keynote speaker Jan Lammerding, Ph.D. of Cornell University presents at the 21st annual BME QBP, TRB, SB2, BFC Research Symposium. The Lammerding laboratory has made significant contributions to the emerging field of ‘nuclear mechanobiology’ by integrating biomedical engineering approaches with cell and molecular biology techniques.
PHD students and faculty representing the QBP, TRB, SB2, BFC interdisciplinary training programs
Journal Club (12/04): Mechanisms of Improved Cas9s Specificity
The next Seminar Series Journal Club hosted by QBP will be on Wednesday, December 4 at 12:00 in CILSE 106C. The journal club is formatted such that we will read a paper from each department seminar speaker prior to their talk. Our upcoming speaker is Dr. Taekjip Ha from JHU, and on Wednesday we will be reading his group's paper "Mechanisms of improved specificity of engineered Cas9s revealed by single-molecule FRET analysis" (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-018-0051-7).
As always, all are welcome to participate in this journal club. Please come join us for discussion and free lunch!
Journal Club (10/31): Quasi-integral Controller for Adapting Genetic Modules to Ribosomal Demand
Our next QBP journal club will be tomorrow, October 31 at 12 pm in ERB 401. As always, the journal club is formatted such that we will read a paper from each department seminar speaker prior to their talk. This week we will be reading the paper “A quasi-integral controller for adaptation of genetic modules to variable ribosome demand" (https://scripts.mit.edu/~ddv/publications/Quasi-integralcontrol.pdf ) from Dr. Domitilla Del Vecchio. Please come join us for discussion and free lunch!
All are welcome.
Journal Club (10/03): Aligned Polymeric Nanofibres
Our next QBP journal club will be this Thursday, October 3 at 1 pm in ERB 705. As always, the journal club is formatted such that we will read a paper from each department seminar speaker prior to their talk. This week we will be reading the paper “Guiding intracortical brain tumor cells to an extracortical cytotoxic hydrogel using aligned polymeric nanofibres" (https://www.
Journal Club (09/05): DNA-Stabilized Silver Nanoclusters as Dopamine Sensors
Welcome back for a new semester!
Our next QBP journal club will be this Thursday (September 5) at 1 pm in ERB 705. As always, the journal club is formatted such that we will read a paper from each department seminar speaker prior to their talk. This week we will be reading the paper "DNA-Stabilized Silver Nanoclusters as Specific, Ratiometric Fluorescent Dopamine Sensors" from Dr. Sumita Pennathur. Please come join us on Thursday for discussion and free lunch!
Journal Club (12/12–TODAY!): Microfluidics
Our next QBP journal club will be TODAY (Wednesday, 12/12) at 12 pm in CILSE 106B. The journal club is formatted such that we will read a paper from each department seminar speaker prior to their talk. This week we will be reading a paper about wearable microfluidic devices from John Rogers, the keynote speaker in the upcoming QBP/TRB symposium. Please come join us on Thursday for discussion and lunch!
Also, if you have suggestions for papers for the upcoming speakers, please send an email to jkays@bu.edu.
Journal Club (10/11): Tissue Repair and Regeneration
Our next QBP journal club will be this Thursday (10/11) at 1 pm in ERB 203. The journal club is formatted such that we will read a paper from each department seminar speaker prior to their talk. This week we will be reading a paper about tissue repair and regeneration from Dr. Boris Hinz. Please come join us on Thursday for discussion and lunch!
Also, if you have suggestions for papers for the upcoming speakers, please send an email to jkays@bu.edu.
Journal Club (9/20): Microfabricated Systems for Cellular Analysis
Our next QBP journal club will be this Thursday (9/20) at 12:00 in ERB 705.
This week we will be reading a paper from Dr. Nancy Allbrighton, entitled "A microengineered collagen scaffold for generating a polarized cryptvillus architecture of human small intestinal epithelium". Please come join us on Thursday for discussion and lunch!
If you have suggestions for papers for the upcoming speakers, please send an email to jkays@bu.edu.
Welcome back!
The Fall 2018 semester is upon us! :) Join us at the annual QBP Kick Off meeting on Friday, September 14th from 4–5 PM in ERB203. Professor White will be giving an overview of the program for new students and also working out assignments for activities (i.e., journal club, monthly dinners, etc.).
14th Annual Symposium in Quantitative Biology and Physiology and Translational Research in Biomaterials
On December 15th, BU's Department of Biomedical Engineering the 14th Annual Symposium in Quantitative Biology and Physiology and Translational Research in Biomaterials. We were joined by Dr. Jef D. Boeke of the Institute for Systems Genetics at NYU Langone Medical Center, who presented a talk entitled "Writing Genomes". The event also included student speakers and a poster session presenting the latest work in biomedical engineering. Thank you all for attending!
