Congratulations to Vismaya Walawalkar for winning the "Excellent Poster Presentation" prize at the 19th Annual Conference on Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO 2022). Her presentation Physiological Impact of DNA Origami Anchored to Human Blood Platelets was selected by a poll of all conference participants and the comes with a monetary prize of $300 for Vismaya!

Many thanks to the FNANO conference organizers and community for this wonderful recognition of Vismaya's research accomplishments and science communication skills!

Congratulations to Taryn Imamura for winning the "The William and Barbara Goldsmith Family Fellowship" in Mechanical Engineering! This award recognizes your outstanding accomplishments.

Many thanks to the CMU Mechanical Engineering department!

Many congratulations to Susana Beltrán for winning the G. Sundback Graduate Fellowship! Gideon Sundback is recognized as the inventor of the modern day zipper, and Susana was recognized as exemplifying the same sort of tireless problem solving skills.

Many thanks to the CMU Mechanical Engineering department!

The College of Engineering has highlighted Caleigh Goodwin-Schoen's awesome, snap-assembling 3D printed models of proteins and DNA in their article 3D printing giant nanotech models

Many thanks to CIT for promoting this project that spans science, engineering, research and education! Congrats to Caleigh on the wonderful work!

In this year's 3 Minute Thesis competition Emma Benjaminson was the winner of Round #3 of competition! Congrats on your science communication awesomeness and on your exciting thesis project "Predicting Assembly of Nanorobots Built with DNA"!

March 31st 2022 Update: Another round of congrats to Emma for winning 3rd place in the overall CMU 3MT competition!! Her championship talk begins at minute 6:40 in the video below...

Our recent Biopolymers paper Rapid self-assembly of γPNA nanofibers at constant temperature has been published in a the Women in Polymer Science Virtual Issue of the Journal of Polymer Science!

The Microsystems and Mechanobiology group presented at the CMU MechE PhD Research Symposium, and a lab record of three students won poster awards!! Congratulations to Susana, Taryn, and Tito!

Susana presented her poster "Mechanical Stimulation of Cerebral Organoids Toward Understanding Human Neural Response" in the Bioengineering category. (co-advised with Phil LeDuc)

Taryn presented her poster "Analysis of Performance Uniformity for Customizable DNA Microswimmer Populations Assembled via TASR" in the Bioengineering category. (co-advised with Sarah Bergbreiter)

Tito presented her poster "A Formal Automated Approach for Controlling the Wall Thickness of Coated DNA Origami Designs" in the Micro/Nanoengineering category. (co-advised with Jon Cagan)

This January we are excited to welcome two new MechE Ph.D. candidates, Rebekah Adams and Indranil Sinha, as well as our first BME Masters candidate, Bhavya Chopra, to the group!! We are so happy to have you join the MMBL!

Many thanks to Ray Frizzell for the opportunity to present our lab's research on cell-DNA nanostructure interactions at the UPitt Cystic Fibrosis Research Seminar Series. Happy to share our work and connect with this fantastic community!

It was a pleasure to host Rick Reis for his virtual seminar "A Few Tips on Preparing for, and Exceeding in, an Academic Career". Rick is currently a part-time research liaison in the Nanoscale Prototyping Laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering department at Stanford University. For over 20 years he was the editor of the online Tomorrow’s Professor eNewsletter with over 65,000 subscribers world-wide. Today you can find all of his 1800+ Tomorrow's Professor Postings online in an easily searchable format!

Rick, your seminar and Q&A were extremely insightful and helpful. Many thanks from CMU!