11/2025 - Emily’s paper is accepted! Congratulations!
11/2025 - Keefer is awarded the MD Anderson-Rice Cancer Nanotech T32 Predoctoral Fellowship (MDACC-Rice T32). Congratulations!
10/2025 - Dr. Reinhart-King is awarded the BMES 2025 Herbert Voigt Distinguished Service Award to recognize her extraordinary contribution to the Biomedical Engineering Society. Congratulations!
10/2025 - Sarah, Katie, Emily, Madison, and Jose travel to BMES in San Diego. Sarah and Katie give a talk and a poster, Emily and Madison give a talk, and Jose gives a poster on their current research. We meet up with Avril who was selected to present her REU work as a lightning talk. Congrats everyone!
10/2025 - Keefer is invited to NextProf Pathfinder in San Diego, CA.
10/2025 - Kyra passes her thesis proposal. Congratulations!
09/2025 - Santiago passes his thesis proposal. Congratulations!
09/2025 - Madison gives a talk at the Rice Bioengineering Retreat. Congratulations!
08/2025 - Keefer is awarded a Rice BioE Collaborative Proposal with Bakai Sheyitov in the Richards-Kortum lab titled, “Influence of Surface Defects on DeepDOF Image Fidelity.” Congratulations!
08/2005 - Baris is awarded a Rice BioE Collaborative Proposal with Jarrett Fowler in Dr. Grande-Allen’s lab. Congratulations!
08/2025 - Sarah and Katie are awarded a Rice BioE Collaborative Proposal Award with Edgar Ruiz in Dr. Vlassakis’s lab titled, “Mechanobiological Heterogeneity and its Association with Metastatic Potential.” Congratulations!
07/2025 - Keefer gives a talk and Jose gives a poster at the Smalley-Curl Institute Summer Research Colloquium. Congratulations!
07/2025 - Kyra is awarded an NCI F31 Pre-doctoral Fellowship, titled “Linking Mechanosensation and Cancer Progression in the Hyperglycemic Extracellular Matrix”. Congratulations!
07/2025 - Sarah and Katie are accepted into the Rice Future Faculty Level 3 Program. Congratulations!
05/2025 - Xavi and Elle, CRK undergraduates, continue their research over the summer with the lab
05/2025 - Avril Gallegos, a BME and premed student from Columbia College, joins the lab for the summer. Welcome!
05/2025 - Sarah presents at the Midwest Tumor Microenvironment Meeting
04/2025 - Katie gives a talk at the 2025 Rice Bioengineering Retreat. Congratulations!
01/2025 - Baris joins the lab. Welcome!
11/2024 - Jose wins the STEM research poster competition at the SHPE National Conference in Anaheim, CA ($2000 reward). Congratulations!
11/2024 - Sarah presents at AAEV 2024 on her extracellular vesicle work!
11/2024 - Jose and Santiago are awarded at Rice’s “Take the Cake” event for their fellowship awards (GEM and NSF GRFP)
10/2024 - Madison presents at SACNAS conference in Pheonix, AR.
10/2024 - Cindy completes her last BMES as BMES president!
10/2024 - Emily, Jose, Ish, Madison, and Katie present at BMES in Baltimore, MD! Alumni Wenjun presents work from the lab as well!
10/2024 - Jose wins a conference travel award. Congratulations!
09/2024 - Keefer Boone and Jose Hernandez join the lab as incoming PhD students. Sid Dsa joins the lab as a Master’s student. Welcome!
09/2024 - Sarah is invited to give a talk at the BME Emerging Leaders Symposium at the University of Virginia.
08/2024 - Katie is invited to NextProf Nexus in Ann Arbor, MI.
07/2024 - The lab moves to Rice University! We will miss Georgii and Emily B. who have transferred to other Vanderbilt labs, and our Vanderbilt undergraduate researchers. Good luck!
06/2024 - Madison presents at the Ford Fellows Conference.
06/2024 - Chelsea Mariano successfully defends her Master’s thesis. Congratulations!
05/2024 - Emily and Madison pass their qualifying exams and become PhD candidates. Congratulations!
03/2024 - Lindsey Sabo successfully defends her Master’s thesis! Congratulations!
02/2024 - Wenjun Wang successfully defends her PhD! Congratulations!
01/2024 - Paul V. Taufalele successfully defends his PhD! Congratulations!
12/2023 - Ish passes his qualifying exam and becomes a PhD candidate. Congratulations!
11/2023 - Raghu Vamsi Kondapaneni joins the lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!
07/2023 - Santiago Lopez joins the lab as a first year PhD student. Welcome!
07/2023 - Jenna Mosier successfully defends her PhD. Congratulations!
06/2023 - Katie, Madison, and Liz Holliday (PI: Dr. Matt Lang) are awarded VCOM (Vanderbilt Center on Mechanobiology) Collaborative Research Proposal Grants ($15,000)
06/2023 - Katie is awarded an NIH NCI F32 postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations!
03/2023 - Madison is awarded a Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship and an NSF GRFP. Double congratulations!
03/2023 - Emily Berestesky receives the Vanderbilt Fall 2022 BME Teaching Assistant Award. Congratulations!