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Journal Club (10/30): Murine gut microbiota dysbiosis via enteric infection modulates the foreign body response to a distal biomaterial implant
The next Seminar Series Journal Club hosted by QBP will be on Thursday, October 30 at 1:00pm in CILSE 106A.
Our upcoming speaker is Dr. Jennifer Elisseeff from JHU. Rocky Tang will present the group's paper "Murine gut microbiota dysbiosis via enteric infection modulates the foreign body response to a distal biomaterial implant" (https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2422169122).
As always, all are welcome to participate in this journal club. Please come join us for discussion and free refreshments!
Journal Club (10/23): mPatch: A Wearable Hydrogel Microneedle Patch for In Vivo Optical Sensing of Calcium
The next Seminar Series Journal Club hosted by QBP will be on Thursday, October 23 at 3:00pm in CILSE 106B. 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. Sam Sia from Columbia University. Dev Mehrotra will present the group's paper "mPatch: A Wearable Hydrogel Microneedle Patch for In Vivo Optical Sensing of Calcium" (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39625999/).
As always, all are welcome to participate in this journal club. Please come join us for discussion and free refreshments!
Journal Club (10/15): Lipid nanoparticle screening in nonhuman primates with minimal loss of life
The next Seminar Series Journal Club hosted by QBP will be on Wednesday, October 15 at 4:00pm in CILSE 106B. 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. James Dahlman from Georgia Tech. Juan Jaramillo Montezco will present the group's paper "Lipid nanoparticle screening in nonhuman primates with minimal loss of life" (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-025-02711-y).
As always, all are welcome to participate in this journal club. Please come join us for discussion and free refreshments (vegan/vegetarian options included)!
Journal Club (3/24): In Vitro Spinal Cord Stimulation Modulates Dorsal Horn Neurons
Our next QBP journal club will be Monday (3/24) at 12:00pm in CILSE 106D.
This week we will be reading a paper from Dr. Warren Grill, entitled "In Vivo Measurements Reveal that Both Low- and High-frequency Spinal Cord Stimulation Heterogeneously Modulate Superficial Dorsal Horn Neurons". Please come join us for discussion and lunch!
If you have suggestions for papers for the upcoming speakers, please send an email to dmehro@bu.edu.
Save the Date!
The 2025 QBP Retreat will be help on February 19th at Hotel Commonwealth! Events will include lightning talks by trainees, interactions with alumni, a discussion of how we can improve the program, meals together, and a cocktail reception at the end of the day.
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!