BESA Newsletter

September 2024

Your source of monthly updates from the UC Davis Biomedical Engineering Student Association!

Upcoming Events

 

BESA Welcome Orientation (9/24)
Welcome Orientation will start at 10AM in GBSF 1005. Join us for a popsicle social afterwards!

Popsicle Event (9/24)

Please join BESA outside of GBSF at 4PM for a welcome popsicle social! Come meet your fellow students and ring in the new year with a cold treat! RSVP using the link below:

 https://forms.gle/dLizXBaFgh3WMqJF7 

 

Welcome BBQ (10/2)

Join BESA with the largest event of the year, the BBQ at Putah Creek! We will be serving burgers and other delicious sides all on October 2nd! Be on the lookout soon for an RSVP link with more specific details! 

 

Trivia Night (10/9)

We want to welcome all the new students to a fun event that happens every week in Davis downtown, Woodstocks Trivia. Join your social chairs for a fun trivia night, held on October 9th! 

Announcements and Awards

Congratulations to the UC Davis Neuroprosthetic Lab for being covered on several news sources on their most recent publication: "An Accurate and Rapidly Calibrating Speech Neuroprosthesis". Some coverage can be found in the New York Times, Scientific American, Bloomberg, NBC News and the NEJM Podcast. Watch this video for a nice summary of the project!  

Congratulations to the Yang Research Lab for being covered on the Optica news release! Read more about their most recent publication in this article titled "New microscope offers faster, high-resolution brain imaging".

Publications

 

Check out these new publications from BMEGG students and faculty! 

 

  1. Babey ME, Krause WC, Chen K, Herber CB, Torok Z, Nikkanen J, Rodriguez R, Zhang X, Castro-Navarro F, Wang Y, Wheeler EE, Villeda S, Leach JK, Lane NE, Scheller EL, Chan CKF, Ambrosi TH & Ingraham HA. A maternal brain hormone that builds bone. Nature, 2024.

     

  2. Baghdasaryan O, Contreras-Llano LE, Khan S, Wang A, Hu CMJ & Tan C. Fabrication of cyborg bacterial cells as living cell–material hybrids using intracellular hydrogelation. Nature Protocols, 2024.

     

  3. Card NS, Wairagkar M, Iacobacci C, Hou X, Singer-Clark T, Willett FR, Kunz EM, Fan C, Nia MV, Deo DR, Srinivasan A, Choi EY, Glasser MF, Hochberg LR, Henderson JM, Shahlaie K, Brandman DM & Stavisky SD. An Accurate and Rapidly Calibrating Speech Neuroprosthesis. New England Journal of Medicine, 2024.

     

  4. Li Y, Guo S, Mattison B, Hu J, Man KNM, Yang W. High-speed two-photon microscopy with adaptive line-excitation. Optica, 2024.

     

  5. Lowe NM, Mizenko RR, Nguyen BB, Chiu KL, Arun V, Panitch A, Carney RP. Orthogonal analysis reveals inconsistencies in cargo loading of extracellular vesicles. Journal of Extracellular Biology, 2024.

     

  6. O'Toole HJ, Lowe NM, Arun V, Kolesov AV, Palmieri TL, Tran NK, Carney RP. Plasma-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) as biomarkers of sepsis in burn patients via label-free Raman spectroscopy. Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, 2024.

     

  7. Wohlgemuth RP, Sriram S, Henricson KE, Dinh DT, Brashear SE, Smith LR. Strain-dependent dynamic re-alignment of collagen fibers in skeletal muscle extracellular matrix. Acta Biomaterialia, 2024.

 

Know of more events, announcements and funding opportunities and want them featured in the next newsletter? Email them to Emily (esylee@ucdavis.edu) before the first of each month.

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