Microsystems and Mechanobiology Lab

Tito's paper on improved shape annealing of DNA origami has been published in the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design!

Rebecca Taylor — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 02:41:53 GMT

Congratulations to Bolutito Babatunde on her recent paper An Improved Shape Annealing Algorithm for the Generation of Coated Deoxyribonucleic Acid Origami Nanostructures being published in the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. This joint project with co-advisor Prof. Jon Cagan has been an exciting adventure to explore a new approach for the automated design of DNA origami.

Many thanks to JMD for the invitation to publish in this special issue highlighting top papers from the 2023 IDETC International Design Engineering Technical Conference!

We captured the moment of celebration as Tito submitted the final revised version of the paper to JMD!

Sebastian is awarded the Neil and Jo Bushnell Fellowship in Engineering!

Rebecca Taylor — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:22:52 GMT

Congratulations to Sebastian for being awarded the 2024 Neil and Jo Bushnell Fellowship in Engineering!

This fellowship recognizes outstanding Ph.D. research in the areas of nanotechnology or electronic materials in the College of Engineering. Many thanks to Neil and Jo Bushnell for supporting this award.

College of Engineering celebration for Marc DeGraef and Rebecca Taylor

Rebecca Taylor — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 01:04:38 GMT

The CMU College of Engineering recently celebrated the naming of Prof. Marc DeGraef as the John and Claire Bertucci Distinguished Professor in Engineering and Prof. Taylor as the Ansys Career Development Associate Professor in Engineering.

Many thanks to Ansys for this tremendous honor. Details on this chair and partnership are available via the press release entitled Ansys and Carnegie Mellon University Name Professor Rebecca Taylor to Inaugural Ansys Career Development Chair in Engineering. This announcement was also covered by bizjournals.com in article Ansys endows chair at Carnegie Mellon University.

Prof. Taylor presents at the Corporate Startup Lab's 5th Annual Corporate Entrepreneurship Forum

Rebecca Taylor — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 00:53:40 GMT

Many thanks to the CMU Corporate Startup Lab (CSL) for the opportunity to speak at the 5th Annual Corporate Entrepreneurship Forum!

A recording of Prof. Taylor's talk is available on the CSL YouTube page.

Dr. Weitao Wang has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis!

Rebecca Taylor — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 20:18:04 GMT

Today Dr. Weitao Wang successfully defended his thesis entitled "Cell Membrane Engineering with Structural DNA Nanotechnology". Congratulations and fantastic work, Weitao!

Weitao's thesis committee included Prof. Rebecca Taylor, co-advisor Prof. Charlie Ren along with Prof. Markus Deserno and Prof. Phil LeDuc.

Susana's work on mechanical stimulation of cerebral organoids has been published in Scientific Reports!

Rebecca Taylor — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 20:22:06 GMT

Congrats to Susana on her paper Characterization of neural mechanotransduction response in human traumatic brain injury organoid model that was just published in Scientific Reports!

It was wonderful joining in this collaboration with lead PIs Phil LeDuc and Pascal Zinn!

Emma and Taryn's milliswimmers work has been published in Nanoscale!

Rebecca Taylor — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 12:05:48 GMT

Congrats to Emma and Taryn on their paper Buoyant magnetic milliswimmers reveal design rules for optimizing microswimmer performance that was just published in Nanoscale!

This has been a wonderful collaboration with PIs Sarah Bergbreiter and Matt Travers!

Nature publishes highlight piece about Weitao's recent work!

Rebecca Taylor — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:42:07 GMT

We are delighted that Nature has written a highlight entitled DNA origami provides a stout armour for cells about our team’s recent work on tunable DNA-based nanoshells for cells. Congrats to Weitao Wang for leading this! Thanks to Xi (Charlie) Ren for being such an amazing collaborator.

Cell armor paper published in Nano Letters!

Rebecca Taylor — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 00:16:14 GMT

Weitao's paper "Synthetic Cell Armor Made of DNA Origami" was published in ACS Nano Letters! Congratulations to Weitao, who is advised by Charlie Ren, on this exciting work!

Taryn wins Best Poster Award at the Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors GRC!

Rebecca Taylor — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 00:10:51 GMT

Congratulations to Taryn Imamura for winning a best poster award at the Artificial Molecular Motors and Switches Gordon Research Conference! The prize for this award was the opportunity to convert her poster presentation into a full conference talk on the last day of the meeting.

Thanks for the organizers of this GRC!