https://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/Website for the Microsystems and Mechanobiology Lab at CMUenContents © 2026 <a href="mailto:bex@andrew.cmu.edu">Rebecca Taylor</a> Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:21:34 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/lainie-presents-her-work-on-pna-condensates-at-dna32/Rebecca Taylor<p>Congratulations to Lainie Beauchemin presenting her work "Peptide Nucleic Acid-Based Biomolecular Condensates Enable Enzyme-Resistant Cargo Retention" at DNA32: The 32nd International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming!</p> <p>And thank you to the DNA32 organizing committee co-chairs Prof. Matt Patitz and Prof. Trent Rogers for organizing such an exciting meeting.</p>https://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/lainie-presents-her-work-on-pna-condensates-at-dna32/Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:53:23 GMThttps://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/taylor-team-attends-and-presents-at-the-first-mid-atlantic-dna-nanotech-midnano-workshop/Rebecca Taylor<p>The contingent from the Taylor Lab recently attended the first-ever Mid-Atlantic DNA Nanotech Workshop (miDNAno) hosted by Prof. Carlos Castro at Ohio State. This was a tremendous opportunity to bring the community together and share our research. I look forward to many more!</p> <p>Here are two photos: the Taylor Lab attendees (left-to-right: Rebecca "Bex" Taylor, Lainie Beauchemin, Isabella Ferranti, Logan Carpeter, A.J. Vetturini, Praneetha Sundar Prakash and Pei-Ying "Emily" Lin.) and whole group photo of all of the miDNAno attendees!</p> <img alt="/images/miDNAno_Taylor_group.jpg" src="https://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/images/miDNAno_Taylor_group.jpg"> <img alt="/images/miDNAno_group_2.jpg" src="https://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/images/miDNAno_group_2.jpg">https://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/taylor-team-attends-and-presents-at-the-first-mid-atlantic-dna-nanotech-midnano-workshop/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:18:17 GMThttps://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/professor-taylor-presents-at-the-cold-spring-harbor-synthetic-biology-2026-summer-course/Rebecca Taylor<p>Many thanks to Prof. Christian Cuba Samaniego (CMU) and Prof. Leopold Green (Purdue) for inviting me to present at the <a class="reference external" href="https://meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=C-SYNBIO">Cold Spring Harbor Synthetic Biology 2026</a> summer course. Congratulations to the CSHL teaching team for recruiting such a fabulous group of engaged students and for creating such an exciting and supportive environment for research and learning! It was an absolute pleasure to present our lab's work.</p>https://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/professor-taylor-presents-at-the-cold-spring-harbor-synthetic-biology-2026-summer-course/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:16:02 GMThttps://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/professor-taylor-joined-the-arpa-h-go-team-for-a-capitol-hill-fly-in/Rebecca Taylor<p>Many thanks to Max Bronstein and Carnegie Mellon University for organizing the <a class="reference external" href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maxgbronstein_if-the-us-wants-to-remain-a-global-biotechnology-ugcPost-7485692690064449536-cyjv">ARPA-H Go fly-in to Capitol Hill</a>. It was a pleasure presenting on our transformative science and the impact of biotechnology moonshots.</p>https://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/professor-taylor-joined-the-arpa-h-go-team-for-a-capitol-hill-fly-in/Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:13:38 GMThttps://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/taryn-imamura-has-been-awarded-a-2026-llnl-lawrence-fellowship/Rebecca Taylor<p>Congratulations to Taryn Imamura for being named one of the three <a class="reference external" href="https://www.llnl.gov/article/54426/three-lawrence-fellows-selected-2026-cohort">2026 Lawrence Fellows</a> from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).</p> <p>Taryn will begin her 3-year fellowship this Fall at LLNL, and we look forward to her continued work at the intersection of robotics, materials and bioengineering!</p>https://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/taryn-imamura-has-been-awarded-a-2026-llnl-lawrence-fellowship/Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:04:17 GMThttps://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/congrats-to-shriya-vanessa-and-ivy-for-presenting-at-the-meeting-of-the-minds/Rebecca Taylor<p>Congrats to undergrads Shriya Sivakumar, Vanessa Wu and Ivy Zhen for their poster presentations at the 2026 Meeting of the Minds! Here are the poster titles:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li><p>Shriya presented "Modular DNA Origami Design for Staple Conservation"</p></li> <li><p>Vanessa presented "Simulation-Guided Design of Tetrahedral Framework Nucleic Acid for Enhanced Mechanical Stability"</p></li> <li><p>Ivy presented "Investigating Local and Bulk Condensate Properties of Novel DNA Nanostar Geometries"</p></li> </ul>https://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/congrats-to-shriya-vanessa-and-ivy-for-presenting-at-the-meeting-of-the-minds/Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:08:54 GMThttps://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/congratulations-on-undergrad-researcher-nicholas-chung-for-being-awarded-an-nsf-graduate-research-fellowship/Rebecca Taylor<p>Congrats to undergraduate Nicholas Chung on being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!</p>https://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/congratulations-on-undergrad-researcher-nicholas-chung-for-being-awarded-an-nsf-graduate-research-fellowship/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:29:51 GMThttps://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/congrats-to-isabella-for-winning-the-mary-jane-and-milton-c-shaw-graduate-fellowship-in-mechanical-engineering/Rebecca Taylor<p>Congratulations to Isabella Ferranti for winning the Mary Jane and Milton C. Shaw Graduate Fellowship in Mechanical Engineering! Hooray, Isabella!</p>https://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/congrats-to-isabella-for-winning-the-mary-jane-and-milton-c-shaw-graduate-fellowship-in-mechanical-engineering/Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:01:00 GMThttps://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/aj-presents-his-work-on-the-generative-design-of-hollowframe-dna-origami-at-fnano2026/Rebecca Taylor<p>Congratulations to AJ for winning a Seeman Student Travel Award and for presenting his work "Automated design of hollowframe DNA origami nanostructures" at FNANO26 in Munich, Germany.</p> <p>Many thanks to the organizing committee co-chairs Profs. Kurt Gothelf (Aarhus), Hao Yan (ASU) and Friedrich Simmel (TUM) for organizing such an exciting meeting!</p>https://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/aj-presents-his-work-on-the-generative-design-of-hollowframe-dna-origami-at-fnano2026/Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:17:53 GMThttps://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/sebastians-lamina-emergent-mechanism-article-was-published-in-nanoscale/Rebecca Taylor<p>Congratulations to Sebastian Arias on the publication of his article <a class="reference external" href="https://doi.org/10.1039/D5NR02175H">"Engineering non-linear mechanical advantage in DNA nanostructures: a wireframe adaptation of a lamina emergent mechanism"</a>!</p>https://andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex/posts/sebastians-lamina-emergent-mechanism-article-was-published-in-nanoscale/Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:29:01 GMT