Reinhart-King Laboratory

Multidisciplinary approaches to understanding cellular mechanics and cell-biomaterial interactions

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September 2024

  • - Sid Dsa starts researching in the lab as part of his Master's in Bioengineering!

August 2024

  • - Jose Hernandez and Keefer Boone join the lab as PhD students!

July 2024

  • - The lab moves to Rice University!!!

June 2024

  • - Chelsea Mariano successfully defends her Master's thesis!!!

March 2024

  • - Lindsey Sabo successfully defends her Master's thesis!!!

February 2024

  • - Wenjun Wang successfully defends her PhD!!!

January 2024

  • - Paul V. Taufalele successfully defends his PhD!!

November 2023

  • - Raghu Vamsi Kondapaneni, PhD joins the lab as a post-doctoral associate!!!

August 2023

  • - Santiago Lopez joins the lab as a first year PhD student!!

August 2023

  • - Jenna Mosier successfully defends her PhD!!!

June 2023

  • - VCOM Awards
  • - Katie Young, PhD awarded F32!!

March 2023

  • - Madison Bates is awarded a Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship!!
  • - Madison Bates is awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!!
  • - Emily Berestesky receives the Fall 2022 BME Teaching Assistant Award!

December 2022

  • - Katie Young's presentation wins an award at the annual Vanderbilt Cancer Biology Program Retreat!!

November 2022

  • - Construction begins in the ESB
  • - Sarah Libring, PhD joins the lab as a post-doctoral scholar and she is awarded the prestigious K00 NIH Fellowship!!
  • - Kyra Smart named as President of the Graduate Student Council!!
  • - Curtis Schunk successfully defends his MS thesis!!

October 2022

  • - Andrea Valero won Outstanding Undergraduate Presentation at "Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science" 2022 Conference in Puerto Rico!!!
  • - The lab heads to the BMES annual meeting in San Antonio, TX!!
  • - Jenna Mosier's and Sam Schwager's work is published in iScience!
  • - Katie Young's poster wins an award at the annual Vanderbilt Post-Doctoral Association Symposium!
  • - Cindy gets invited to the White House!

August 2022

  • - Emily Berestesky joins the lab as new first year PhD student!
  • - Jian Zhang, PhD leaves the lab to join the University of Arkansas as a tenure track Faculty with his own lab!
  • - The lab attends the Vanderbilt Center on Mechanobiology Inaugural Retreat and Katie Young receives a poster competition award!
  • - Wenjun Wang is awarded a prestigious F99 NIH fellowship!!
  • - Katie Young wins a BMES post-doctoral travel award!

May 2022

  • - Andrea Valero joins the lab through VINSE REU for the summer!
  • - Richard Xing joins the lab through VUSE for the summer!

April 2022

  • - The lab comes out strong during graduate fellowship season!
  • - Ismael 'Ish' Ortiz is awarded a Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
  • - Madison Bates received an Honorable Mention for the Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral fellowship!
  • - Emily Fabiano is awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
  • - Chelsea Faith Mariano is awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
  • - Ethan Oseas receives an Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
  • - Jenna Mosier is a finalist in the 3 Minute Thesis competition!

March 2022

  • - Katie Young, PhD joins the lab as a post-doctoral scholar!
  • - Samantha Schwager, PhD successfully defends her PhD!!
  • - Ethan Oseas successfully defends his MS thesis!!

February 2022

  • - Georgii Vasiukov, PhD joins the lab as a Research Assistant Professor!

December 2021

  • - Wenjun Wang is awarded the American Heart Association (AHA) Pre-Doctoral Fellowship!!

October 2021

  • - Cindy, Kyra, Ish, Jian, and Paul head to Orlando, FL for BMES 2022!

August 2021

  • - Emily Fabiano, Chelsea Faith Mariano, and Madison Bates join the lab as new first year PhD students!!

July 2021

  • - Kyra Smart is awarded the T32 training grant through the Integrated Training in Engineering and Diabetes [ITED] Program!!

April 2021

  • - Matthew R. Zanotelli, PhD successfully defends his PhD!!
  • - Ish is selected to receive the Richard Bennent/Dorothy Danforth Compton Prize!
  • - Kyra and Ish give talks at METABOLISM, IMMUNITY, & INFLAMMATION OF THE MID-SOUTH
  • - Paul V. Taufalele passes his qualifying exam!

March 2021

  • - Samantha Schwager is awarded the People's Choice Award at the 9th Annual Vanderbilt Three Minute Thesis Competition!

October 2020

  • - Emily joins lab as first MD PhD student!