Your source for monthly updates on BMEGG events and news!

June Events

BMEGG Annual Meeting

• June 4 at 3 p.m. Check your email for Zoom details!

BESA Meeting

• June 11 at 1 p.m. via Zoom. Please join us if you can! 

Student Seminar Series

Are you interested in practicing your QE presentation to get feedback and QE tips from peers? Please email Amy Becker at aebecker@ucdavis.edu to set up a time.

SARS-CoV-2 Updates

Stay up-to-date with Yolo County COVID-19 measures

While the countywide shelter-in-place order has been lifted, there is a continued requirement for face coverings in public and social distancing. Check out the full guidelines here. Additionally, some businesses in Yolo county are slowly being allowed to re-open. Stay informed by visiting the Yolo County novel coronavirus website.

Announcements and Awards

Congratulations to the Şeker lab on receiving a National Science Foundation award! 

The Şeker Lab received a National Science Foundation award, titled “Experimental and Computational Study of Pore Morphology Evolution Mechanisms in Nanoporous Metal Thin Films Under Thermal/Electrical/Mechanical Stress Fields”, in collaboration with the Mason Lab. Great job and we look forward to seeing the work that comes out of this award! 

Many of our students were recently awarded fellowships and scholarships!

• Congratulations to Jun Zhu on her recent scholarship! Jun, a PhD candidate in Prof. Srinivasan's lab, has been awarded a 2020 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship for her potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics, or related field. Jun encourages other students doing optics related research to apply during the 2021 application cycle. Applications open in October 2020; visit the scholarship page for more info. Congrats, Jun! 
• Congratulations to Katie Griffin on receiving the Lodric Maddox Graduate Fellowship! Katie is a dual DVM/PhD student in the Leach Lab working on integrating immunology and tissue engineering. Congratulations on receiving this highly selective fellowship!
• Congratulations to Emmet Francis on receiving a 2020-2021 ARCS Fellowship! ARCS supports scientific scholars throughout the U.S., check out the Northern California chapter's website to learn about ARCS scholars in the Bay Area.
• Congratulations to Alex Vargas on receiving the H. A. Lewin Family Fellowship! This award will help cover research expenses and conference travel, exciting stuff!

Join in on the Virtual Symposium on Bioengineering Cell-ECM Interactions on June 2 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT

This virtual symposium will be presented, moderated, and organized by PhD and Postdoc trainees from all over the country. Check out presentations by UC Davis Postdocs Tomas Gonzalez-Fernandez, PhD (9:15 a.m.) and Tanaya Walimbe, PhD (10:55 a.m.). Registration is free but required. RSVP here. For more information, check out this Twitter thread or contact co-organizers Claudia Loebel, PhD or Woojin Han, PhD. 

Support BESA by ordering business cards or buying some BESA swag!

Business cards are available through Repro Graphics for interested students and post-docs. Standard cards are $28.55 for 500. Please contact our treasurer Caitlin for more info. Christal also has a variety of BESA items for purchase in her office, including some BESA pint glasses, the most recent BESA T-shirt, and a variety of older BESA T-shirts. You can find pictures of the shirts here!

Funding Opportunities

T32 Training Grants  

The purpose of the T32 training programs is to prepare predoctoral and/or postdoctoral trainees for careers that have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the nation. See below for current funding opportunities through the T32 training program: 

• Animal Models of Infectious Diseases (AMID) T32; application due June 5 by 5 p.m.

Know of more funding opportunities and want them featured in the next newsletter? Email them to Tima or Emmet before the first of each month. 

Publications

Gonzalez-Fernandez T, Tenorio AJ, Leach JK. Three-dimensional printed stamps for the fabrication of patterned microwells and high-throughput production of homogeneous cell spheroids. 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing. (2020). DOI: 10.1089/3dp.2019.0129 

Goshi N, Morgan RK, Lein PJ, Seker E. A primary neutral cell culture model to study neuron, astrocyte, and microglia interactions in neuroinflammation. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 17:155 (2020). DOI: 10.1186/s12974-020-01819-z

Kilmer CE, Battistoni CM, Cox A, Breur G, Panitch A, Liu JC. Collagen type I and II blend hydrogel with autologous mesenchymal stem cells as a scaffold for articular cartilage defect repair. ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. (2020). DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.9b01939 

Selfridge AR, Cherry SR, Badawi RD. Characterization of four readout circuits for an MR compatible, preclinical PET detector. Physics in Medicine & Biology (2020). 

Seminars

Locations and links subject to change. Check department website for updates

On a lighter note...

2020 Virtual BMEGG Research Symposium

BESA virtual game night

BMEGG's favorite at-home activites

This month, we asked the members of BESA a few questions about quarantine. See the results below! 

BESA Calendar
 

Click the button below to add the BESA google calendar (view only) to your other google calendars to stay up to date! 

Have feedback, questions, or something you'd like added to the next newsletter? Email Emmet Francis and Tima Dehghani.