2012
February 2012
Orthopaedic Research Society Meeting
2011
December 2011
Graduate student Min Jae Song presented a podium presentation, "Optimization of Tissue Engineering Scaffold Geometry, Seeding & Flow Conditions to Steer Stem Cell Shape and Fate", at the TERMIS Conference (Tissue Engineering Regenerative Medicine International Society) in Houston, TX.
October 2011
The MechBio Lab presented four posters and a podium presentation at the Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting in Hartford, CT.
Shannon Moore, BME graduate student, presenting her work at the BMES.
August 2011
Professor Knothe Tate joined graduate student Sarah Evans in San Sebastian to carry out mechanobiochemistry experiments with Dr. Ralf Richter, as a basis for engineering multifunctional, living barrier membranes.
Winding her sabbatical year to a close, Professor Knothe Tate accompanied the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation study tour of leading German cultural, academic and industrial institutions.
July 2011
Professor Knothe Tate was awarded the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Life Sciences Award 2011, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. The award and associated grant funding will enable further development of a recently developed (patent pending) periosteum substitute membrane implant.
Photo courtesy of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
June 2011
Professor Knothe Tate taught an Advanced Course in "Multiscale Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Bone: from Cell Mechanics to Tissue Engineering, " at the University of Paris Est Créteil.
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation held its Annual Meeting in Berlin. German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel, a Ph.D. physicist by training, gave a keynote speech to Humboldtians at the opening ceremony. The following morning, Federal President Wolff Christian spoke to the Humboldtians and their families.
Dr. Angela Merkel, Professor of Physics cum German Chancellor, shows a deep understanding of technology and its potential as an engine for innovation as well as a catalyst for economic growth. Photo courtesy of MKT.
May 2011
Sara(h) H. McBride graduated and is now Dr. McBride! Congratulations to Sara on her well earned Ph.D.! Her thesis was entitled, "Multiscale Mechanobiology of Periosteal Bone Generation: Cell Scale Studies to Translational Models ".
Dr. McBride (left) and her proud advisor. Photo courtesy of Sara's mom.
NSF sponsored graduate student Sarah Evans joined Professor Knothe Tate in Munich and San Sebastian to engineer boundary membrane materials mimicking periosteum.
Congratulations to R. Matthew Miller, B.S./M.S. BME, who defended his M.S. Thesis entitled "Mechanobiological Investigation of Periosteum Through Finite Element Modeling and Histology"! Matt is continuing in the field as a doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh.
Congratulations to Joshua Zimmerman, B.S./M.S. BME, who defended his M.S. Thesis entitled "Controlling Mesenchymal Stem Cell Shape and Fate through
Prescribed Seeding Conditions"! Josh is also forging ahead in the field to pursue his doctorate at Georgia Tech.
March 2011
NIH doctoral trainee Hana Chang joined Professor Knothe Tate in Munich to carry out studies characterizing human periosteum multipotent stem cells and their mechanosensitivity.
February 2011
Professor Knothe Tate started her Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Senior Researchers at the Ludwigs Maximilians University in Munich.
January 2011
The mechbio group was well represented at the Orthopaedic Research Society Meeting in Long Beach, CA. We presented the following poster presentations (click for link to abstracts).
Professor Knothe Tate attended the National Science Foundation Biennial CMMI Meeting to present mechbio's work on Stem Cell Shape and Fate.
December 2010
November 2010
September - October 2010
August 2010
Graduate student, Shannon Moore, started her prestigious Whitaker Foundation Fellowship, spending half a year in Professor Stefan Milz's labs at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and half a year in Professor Ned Budisa's labs at the Technical University in Berlin.