August '12: Melissa Pope's manuscript on the dynamics of multicellular aggregation was published on PLOS ONE. Congrats, Melissa! More info here.
May '12: Adam Arkin and Anand Asthagiri co-edited a volume in Methods in Cell Biology titled Computational Methods in Cell Biology. More information on the volume is available here and the front material for the book can be downloaded here.
Feb '12: Congrats to Kei Kushiro! His manuscript describing a modular approach to design micropattern shapes that direct cell motility was accepted for publication in Langmuir.
Feb '12: Congrats to Jacob Notbohm and Jin-Hong Kim! Their work on quantifying the effect of EGF on cell-cell adhesions using measurements and modeling of 3D traction forces will be published in Biophysical Journal.
Dec '11: Congrats to lab alum, Kei Kushiro, who will join the faculty in the bioengineering department at Univ. of Tokyo in Spring 2012. Good luck, Kei!
Nov '11: Congrats to Emily Nelson! She was awarded a Provost Undergraduate Research Award to investigate cell behavior on compliant materials!
Nov '11: Welcome Dan Milano to our group! He is a first-year graduate student in the chemical engineering Ph.D. program.
Oct '11: Congrats to Peter Ries! He was awarded a Provost Undergraduate Research Award to conduct his work on engineering biomaterials to guide cell motility!
Oct '11: Welcome to Emily Wisniewski! She is a second year undergraduate student in the chemical engineering department.
Oct '11: Kei, Robert, Emily and Anand attended the Biomedical Engineering Society meeting in Hartford, CT.
Sep '11: Welcome to Peter Ries, a senior chemical engineering student!
Sep '11: Welcome to Emily Nelson! She is a senior undergraduate student in the chemical engineering department.
Jul '11: Our work on measuring 3D traction forces generated by cell clusters was published in Applied Mechanics and Materials. This work was conducted with collaborators at Caltech. See Publications for more information.
May '11: Welcome to Emily Gong! She joins our group from the graduate program in chemical engineering.
Apr '11: Congrats to Jin! His work revealing the effect of matrix stiffness on the contact-inhibition of cell proliferation is now available in the Journal of Cell Science. It is featured in the journal's In This Issue.
Jan '11: Welcome to Robert Natividad! He joins our group from the graduate program in bioengineering at Northeastern Univ.
Nov '10: Congrats to Kei on his manuscript on reprogramming directional cell motility, available now in the journal Advanced Materials.
Oct '10: Postdocs from our lab will present 3 talks at the upcoming BMES meeting in Austin. Good luck!
Sep '10: Congrats to Dr. Keiichiro Kushiro on his successful Ph.D. defense!
June '10: Congrats to Melissa Pope for winning the Best Poster award at the 1st Annual USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Symposium!
May '10: Congrats to lab alum, Ehsan Jabbarzadeh, who will join the faculty in the chemical engineering department at Univ. of South Carolina in Fall 2010. Good luck, Ehsan!
May '10: Congrats to Dr. Melissa Pope on her successful Ph.D. defense!
May '10: Now Dr. Jin-Hong Kim successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congrats, Jin!
Mar '10: Congrats to Jin and Larry on their paper on mechanotransduction in multicellular systems. It appears in J. Royal Society Interface, and a PDF is available here.
Feb '10: The Asthagiri lab has received a R01 award from the National Cancer Institute to investigate multicellular dynamics during cancer progression.
Nov '09: Press release on our computational model of multicellular phenotypic variations in C. elegans vulval development. A PDF is available here.
Oct '09: Our lab is part of the newly awarded USC Physical Sciences-Oncology Center supported by the National Cancer Institute. More info.
Sep '09: Congrats to Steve on paper accepted for publication in Molecular Systems Biology.
Aug '09: Anand visiting the new Mechanobiology Centre at the National University of Singapore.
Jun '09: Press release on our PNAS publication on tuning spatial patterns in cell proliferation in human epithelial clusters
May '09: Congrats to Jin on paper accepted for publication in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
Feb '09: Congrats to Claudiu on paper accepted for publication in PLoS Computational Biology.
Jan '09: Congrats to Dr. Steve Chapman on his successful Ph.D. defense!
