Reinhart-King Laboratory
Multidisciplinary approaches to understanding cellular mechanics and cell-biomaterial interactions
News
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!