Taryn's review "Microswimmers That Flex: Advancing Microswimmers with Templated Assembly and Responsive DNA Nanostructures" was published in Accounts of Materials Research. This invited review and perspective describes recent progress towards experimental realization of responsible microswimmers made with compliant DNA components.

Congrats to Taryn and co-advisor Prof. Sarah Bergbreiter on providing this exciting and useful guide to the micro/nanorobotics community!

This summer we are excited to welcome undergraduate researcher Irene Yap and our two new postdoctoral researchers, Grace Rohaley and Sarah Weintraub. Irene is Biochemistry undergraduate who is joining us from UCSD. Grace is a SAXS expert who will be working 50% MMBL on high-throughput nanotechnology production and 50% on SAXS research at the Materials Characterization Facility. Sarah is a cloning expert who will leading new lab efforts in automated science with with Prof. Rumi Naik.

Many thanks to Ellis Meng, Jack Judy and the DNA Devices session chairs Lourdes Basabe and Jungchul Lee for the invitation to speak at the 23rd International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers 2025).

Prof. Taylor presented our team's work on magnetic microswimmers, highlighting the PhD. research and upcoming review paper "Microswimmers that Flex" by Taryn Imamura (who is co-advised by Sarah Bergbreiter).

Congratulations to Shriya Sivakumar (class of 2027) for being awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to study novel DNA origami design approaches to support high throughput and automated research!

Congrats to Abraham Polanco (who is co-advised with Prof. Tagbo Niepa) for presenting his 1st year Ph.D. research at the 7th Stevens Conference on Bacteria-Material Interactions!

Congrats to Taryn Imamura and Nick Chung for presenting their exciting work on colloidal "DNA" robots presented at ICRA 2025! Taryn and equal co-author Teresa Kent (from co-advisor Sarah Bergbreiter's lab) developed a methodology for extracting locomotion information for magnetically actuated microswimmers in complex environments with dynamic fluid flows. This work is essential for translating, pun intended, this technology into target applications.

Undergraduate researcher, Nick Chung, worked closely with Taryn and the two have also developed a workflow for dynamic reorientation of microswimmers to control microswimmer heading irrespective of magnetic moment of an individual swimmer. Nick presented this this work at the Unusual Robots workshop at ICRA.

Prof. Taylor presented our team's work on peptide nucleic acid (PNA) nanotechnology, generative nanostructure design and our MoleculeCrafter software for making articulated molecular models at the 2025 Foundations of Nanoscience meeting in Snowbird, UT.

Thank you to the organizers of the FNANO 2025 meeting for the invitation to speak! And thank you our wonderful collaborators Bradley Pentelute (Chemistry, MIT) and Jonathan Cagan (MechE, CMU) for the exciting collaboration on PNA nanotechnology and generative nanostructure design.

Congratulations to Dr. Sebastian Arias for successfully defending his thesis today. Fantastic work!

Dr. Sebastian Arias shown celebrating immediately after his defense with a portion of his committee (left to right: Prof. Rebecca Taylor, Dr. Sebastian Arias, Prof. Markus Deserno, and Prof. Stephanie Tristram-Nagle [4th committee member Prof. Jonathan Cagan not pictured])

Congratulations to Research Masters student Karthik Subramaniam on winning a Best Poster Award at the MechE MS Research Symposium or his work simulating the locomotion of compliant microswimming robots.

Many thanks the National Academy of Sciences and PNAS for inviting me to present on AI and automated science at the 16th NAS 2025 Journal Summit in Washington, D.C. from March 19-20, 2025.

Inspiring talks by co-panelists Prof. Jeannette Wing (Columbia University) and Dr. Roy Perlis (Massachusetts General Hospital) and the insightful questions by moderator Dr. Roger Schonfeld (ITHAKA S+R) made for an exciting session focused on how AI (writ broadly) will change the practice of science and how those results are communicated!