Congratulations to recent graduate, Dr. Sriram Kumar, whose article Rapid self-assembly of γPNA nanofibers at constant temperature has been published in Biopolymers!
This work is the result of a collaboration with Danith Ly's lab in Chemistry at CMU. Many thanks to our wonderful co-authors Danith Ly, Isha Dhami, and Shivaji A. Thadke.
Professor Taylor has been officially promoted to Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering! Many thanks to all of the members of the MMBL past and present! This has been a fantastic 5 years in Mechanical Engineering at CMU, and I am humbled daily by my wonderful students and colleagues, who make CMU such a fantastic place for science and engineering.
The Hispanic Scholarship Fund has recognized Sebastian Arias as a 2021 HSF Scholar! Congratulations Sebastian!
Piyumi and Ying are first co-authors of a new article in Nano Letters! Their work shows how DNA origami can be attached to cells through direct glycocalyx anchoring, and provides a comprehensive comparison of this technique to cholesterol anchoring approaches. They also show how tethered anchoring of DNA nanotiles can be used as a functional measure of glycocalyx barrier integrity.
Many thanks to the Ren Lab for the continued collaboration!
Congratulations to Sriram Kumar for successfully defending his thesis "Self-assembly of synthetic nucleic acid nanostructures for the development of mechanical biosensors."
Congratulations to Ying and Piyumi, whose new paper "The effects of overhang placement and multivalency on cell labeling by DNA origami" was published in Nanoscale!
Many thanks to Charlie Ren for this fascinating collaboration! This work would not be possible without close collaboration between Mechanical Engineers and Biomedical Engineers.
Congratulations to both Tito and Chalie for winning NSF GRFP awards! And many thanks to the National Science Foundation for this tremendous support.
And congrats to Tito a second time! She has also been offered a DoD NDSEG award!
We are excited to announce that Tito's paper "Generating DNA Origami Nanostructures through Shape Annealing" was published in Applied Sciences! This paper is part of a special issue on Mechanical Design in DNA Nanotechnology with Special Guest Editor Dr. Alexander E. Marras.
Congratulations to Tito for implementing a shape annealing process to automatically route scaffolds to form multilayer DNA origami from arbitrary polyhedral inputs! Congratulations to Sebastian for computational validation of these resulting designs! And many thanks to Jon Cagan for the exciting and productive collaboration!
Many thanks to Dr. Marras and Applied Sciences for inviting us to submit this work!
Update: The College of Engineering has written an article about Tito's work and our collaboration with Jon Cagan's group. Thanks to CIT for the recognition!
Congratulations to Sebastian for winning the CMU MechE Research Symposium award in the Micro/Nanoengineering category for his poster about his FRET functionalized DNA origami device! Awesome work and fantastic presentation!
Congratulations to Weitao and Sebastian on the publication of their review article "Emerging applications at the interface of DNA nanotechnology and cellular membranes: Perspectives from biology, engineering, and physics" in APL Bioengineering. This work brought together expertise in biology, engineering and physics to introduce current applications and opportunities for structural DNA nanotechnology at the interface with cellular membranes.
Due to high interest in the article and its accessible presentation, APL Bioengineering has highlighted this work as a Featured Article on the website.
