Heilshorn Biomaterials Group

Materials Science & Engineering Department
Stanford University

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JANUARY

• The Heilshorn lab celebrated the New Year with dinner out at Celia's in Palo Alto and a white elephant gift exchange.

DECEMBER

• Alia Schoen had an article on protein-enabled nanoparticle synthesis published in Chemical Engineering Progress   Read the article here

NOVEMBER

• Alia Schoen presented two talks and Jordan Raphel presented a poster at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA

• Alia Schoen received a BioX Travel Grant to support her travel to the MRS meeting

• Cindy Chung and Kyle Lampe had a manuscript accepted to Biomacromolecules
  

• Karen Dubbin, Jordan Raphel, Nicole Romano, and Alia Schoen presented posters at the Stanford Chalmers Workshop on Advancing Materials Innovatively 

• Kelly Huggins and Alia Schoen presented posters at the Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Sciences (SIMES) DoE program review

• Congratulations to Debanti Sengupta who successfully defended her thesis in the Chemistry Department!
  

OCTOBER

• Kyle Lampe had a manuscript accepted to Acta Biomaterialia

• M.A. Arunagirinathan, Alia Schoen, and Meghaan Smith presented talks, and Kyle Lampe presented two talks at the American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA

• Kyle Lampe, M.A. Arunagirinathan, and Alia Schoen presented posters in the Meet the Faculty Candidate poster session at the American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA

• Meghaan Smith received a BioX Travel Grant to support her travel to the BMES and AIChE conferences

• Kyle Lampe presented a poster in the Meet the Faculty Candidate poster session at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA

• Becky DiMarco, Widya Mulyasasmita, and Meghaan Smith presented talks, and Patrick Benitez and Kyle Lampe presented posters at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA
  

SEPTEMBER

• Kyle Lampe was selected as the School of Engineering recipient of the Stanford University Postdoctoral Association Postdoc Research Award 

• Hui Xu had a manuscript accepted to Small
  

• Sarah Heilshorn joins the Editorial Board of Biomaterials Science, a new journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry

• Sarah Heilshorn presented an invited talk for the Chemical Engineering Department at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden

• Sarah Heilshorn presented an invited talk at a symposium on Nature-Inspired Materials organized by the Karolinska Institute, Rockefeller University, and the Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences held at the Nobel Forum in Stockholm, Sweden

• The lab welcomes new postdoctoral scholar Lei Cai who completed his PhD with Prof. Shanfeng Wang in Materials Science at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville

• Andreina Parisi-Amon, Widya Mulyasasmita, and Cindy Chung had a manuscript accepted to Advanced Healthcare Materials

• Alia Schoen attended the Future Faculty Workshop for Underrepresented Postdocs and Late Stage PhD Students at Rice University in Houston, TX
  

AUGUST

• Widya Mulyasasmita was selected as one of the two representatives from the Americas to serve on the Tissue Engineering Young Investigator Council. In this role, she'll work with the other five council members and the Tissue Engineering board members and editors to review manuscripts and organize a special issue of the journal.

• Widya Mulyasasmita was named to the 2013 Class of Siebel Scholars, which will provide a fellowship for her final year of PhD study

• Sarah Heilshorn presented an invited talk at the annual meeting of the Australian & New Zealand Orthopaedic Research Society

• Sarah Heilshorn presented an invited talk at a symposium hosted by the Sydney University Tissue Engineering Network

• Cindy Chung had a manuscript accepted in Soft Matter

• Patrick Benitez had a manuscript accepted in Advanced Healthcare Materials

• The Heilshorn Group enjoyed a weekend retreat in Kelseyville, California

• Welcome to new rotation student Ariane Tom, PhD student in Bioengineering
  

JULY

• Sarah Heilshorn presented an invited talk and Patrick Benitez, Cindy Chung, Kyle Lampe, and Widya Mulyasasmita presented posters at the Gordon Conference on Signal Transduction from Engineered Extracellular Matrices in Biddeford, ME

• Kyle Lampe served as co-chair of the Gordon Research Seminar for trainees in Biddeford, ME
  

• Sarah Heilshorn presented an invited talk at the International Conference of Young Researchers on Advanced Materials in Singapore

• Becky DiMarco had a manuscript accepted in Advanced Materials

• Welcome to Dr. David Chang, a resident in Otolaryngology at the Medical School who has recently joined the lab. Dr. Chang has initiated a new project in collaboration with Prof. Alan Cheng on the culture of cochlear progenitor cells on biomaterials
  

• Welcome to our two summer undergraduate research assistants, Wilson Torres and Victoria Robles

• Welcome to new rotation students Karen Dubbin and Adi de la Zerda, PhD students in Materials Science & Engineering
  

JUNE

• Sarah Heilshorn presented an invited talk at the UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium

• Sarah Heilshorn participated in an invitation-only workshop at the National Science Foundation on the future of biomaterials research in the United States

• Congratulations to Kyle Lampe who received 1st place in the Best Poster Competition at the ICBN Meeting!

• Patrick Benitez and Widya Mulyasasmita gave talks at the International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Berkeley, CA

• Midori Greenwood-Goodwin, Kyle Lampe, Alia Schoen, and Hui Xu presented posters of their work at the International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Berkeley, CA

• Kelly Huggins and M.A. Arunagirinathan presented posters at the 2012 Bioinspired Materials Gordon Research Conference in Davidson, NC

• Kelly Huggins received a Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship to support her participation in the Bioinspired Materials Gordon Research Conference
  

• Alia Schoen presented a poster of her work at the Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Sciences (SIMES) Advisory Council meeting 

MAY

• Alia Schoen received an ARCS Scholar Award from the Achievement Rewards for College Students Foundation

• Andreina Parisi-Amon presented a seminar at the Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg in Freiburg, Germany
  

• Sarah Heilshorn was an invited keynote speaker and Andreina Parisi-Amon gave a talk at the International Conference on Strategies in Tissue Engineering in Wuerzburg, Germany

• Debanti Sengupta had a manuscript accepted for publication in Advanced Healthcare Materials
  

APRIL

• Congratulations to Alia Schoen who received an MRS Graduate Student Gold Award at the MRS Spring Meeting!

• Congratulations to Andreina Parisi-Amon who received an MRS Graduate Student Silver Award at the MRS Spring Meeting!

• Congratulations to Becky Snyder who was a finalist for Best Poster Competition at the MRS Spring Meeting!
  

• Sarah Heilshorn presented one invited talk titled "Engineering 3D microenvironments to promote vascular sprouting morphogenesis" and one contributed talk titled "Materials strategies to prevent mechanical disruption of stem cell membranes during transplantation by direct injection" at the MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, CA

• Andreina Parisi-Amon and Alia Schoen presented talks, and Kelly Huggins and Becky Snyder presented posters at the MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, CA

• Patrick Benitez was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein NIH NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship through the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

• Jordan Raphel and Andreina Parisi-Amon had an invited manuscript accepted for publication in the Journal of Materials Chemistry
  

MARCH

• Sarah Heilshorn presented a seminar to the Departments of Bioengineering and Pharmacology at the University of Utah

• Kelly Huggins, M.A. Arunagirinathan, and Debanti Sengupta presented talks at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Diego, CA

• Kyle Lampe presented a talk, and Debanti Sengupta and Nicole Romano presented posters at the Annual Hilton Head Workshop on Regenerative Medicine in Hilton Head, SC

• Kyle Lampe attended the 2012 National Institute of General Medical Sciences Workshop for Postdocs Transitioning to Independent Positions

JANUARY

• Kyle Lampe had an invited review accepted for publication in Neuroscience Letters

• Sarah Heilshorn presented an invited talk at the Tissue Engineering Workshop hosted by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

• The lab welcomes visiting scientist Prof. Annika Enejder from the Chalmers Institute of Technology in Sweden. Prof. Enejder is funded by a Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Union

• The lab welcomes visiting student Sabrina Ullman from RWTH Aachen University. Sabrina is funded by a Bayer Fellowship
  

DECEMBER

• Andreina Parisi-Amon presented a talk and Kyle Lampe and Widya Mulyasasmita presented posters at the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (ISCBRM) retreat

• Hui Xu presented a talk at the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Conference
  

NOVEMBER

• Sarah Heilshorn presented an invited lecture at the Harrington Symposium on Advances in Biomedicine hosted by the University of Texas at Austin

• Sarah Heilshorn presented a seminar to the Department of Surgery at the University of Chicago

• Sarah Heilshorn presented an invited talk at the Materials Research Symposium in Boston, MA
  

OCTOBER

• Alia Schoen presented a poster at the Department of Energy Biomolecular Materials Contractors' Meeting in Annapolis ,MD

• Sarah Heilshorn presented a seminar to the Chemical Engineering Department at MIT

• The lab welcomes new member Meghaan Smith, a PhD student in Chemical Engineering
  

• Kyle Lampe presented two talks on his research at the national meeting of the American Institute for Chemical Engineers in Minneapolis, MN

• Brian Aguado, Widya Mulyasasmita, James Su, and Kyle Lampe had a manuscript accepted for publication in Tissue Engineering

• Sarah Heilshorn presented an invited seminar to the Polymer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Cindy Chung presented her research at the MicroTAS conference in Seattle, WA

• Alia Schoen, David Schoen, Kelly Huggins, and M.A. Arunagirinathan had a manuscript accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
  

SEPTEMBER

• Sarah Heilshorn presented an invited seminar to the Materials Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley

• The lab welcomes visiting student Johan Karlsson and visiting scientist Prof. Martin Andersson, both from Chalmers University of Technology
  

• Widya Mulyasasmita and Ji Seok Lee had a manuscript accepted for publication in Biomacromolecules

• Amir Shamloo and Hui Xu had a manuscript accepted for publication in Tissue Engineering

• The lab welcomes Jordan Raphel, a PhD student from Materials Science & Engineering
  

AUGUST

• The lab was awarded a new, collaborative R21 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute together with the Helen Blau laboratory

• Sarah Heilshorn, Kyle Lampe, and Debanti Sengupta taught a module on Materials Science to the Stanford Summer Engineering Academy

• The lab welcomes Ruby Eka Dewi, our new Lab Manager and Research Assistant
  

JULY

• Prof. Annika Enejder from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden was awarded a European Marie Curie Fellowship to initiate a three-year collaborative project with the Heilshorn laboratory

• Becky Snyder gave a talk and Alia Schoen presented a poster at the Bio-X Fellows Symposium

• Alia Schoen presented a seminar at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands

JUNE

• Kyle Lampe was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship through the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

• Congratulations to Ji Seok Lee and Katie Dwyer who graduated with MS degrees in Materials Science & Engineering

• The lab hosted Prof. Krishna Prasad Chennazi from Amrita Medical School in Cochin, India
  

MAY

• Sarah Heilshorn gave an invited talk at the 4th International Conference on Tissue Engineering

• The lab welcomes Praveen Govindh as a visiting graduate student from Amrita Medical School in Cochin, India
  

APRIL

• Alia Schoen will be spending three months at the FOM Institute AMOLF in Amsterdam, The Netherlands to study peptide-mediated self assembly

• Kyle Lampe and Sarah Heilshorn presented talks at the Materials Research Society Conference in San Francisco, CA. Sarah also co-organized a symposium on Engineering Polymers for Stem-Cell-Fate Regulation and Regenerative Medicine

• Sarah Heilshorn was an invited participant in the US-China Young Researchers Collaboration Workshop hosted by Northwestern University's Materials Research Institute and the NSF

• Sarah Heilshorn, James Su, Widya Mulyasasmita, Debanti Sengupta, and Cindy Chung presented their work at the Society for Biomaterials Conference in Orlando, FL

MARCH

• Sarah Heilshorn gave a talk and Alia Schoen and Becky Snyder presented posters at the Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium

• Sarah Heilshorn presented an invited talk at a joint NSF-German DFG workshop on bio-inspired materials

• Sarah Heilshorn was an invited participant in the 2011 China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering

• Becky Snyder was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship
  

FEBRUARY

• The Heilshorn laboratory hosted a visit from Annika Enejeder from Chalmers University, Sweden

• Sarah Heilshorn presented an invited seminar to the Department of Chemistry at Emory University

• Sarah Heilshorn presented an invited seminar to the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech

• The lab welcomes new postdoc M.A. Arunagirinathan, who will lend his cryo-electron microscopy expertise to our protein self-assembly projects

• The Heilshorn laboratory was awarded a research grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to develop new tools and technologies to improve the efficiency of stem cell transplantation therapies      Read the Stanford Report article     Read the press release 

• The lab welcomes Speranta Puiac, a visiting student from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, who will be learning how to use our microfluidic chemotactic chambers
  

JANUARY

• Andreina Parisi-Amon was awarded a Joshua E. Neimark Memorial Travel Assistance Endowment to support her travel to the national AAAS annual meeting

• Patrick Benitez will be spending the winter quarter at the Amrita Center for Nanosciences in India to initiate a collaboration on the electrospinning of protein engineered polymers. This exchange was funded by the Indo-US Science & Technology Forum

• The lab welcomes Cody Simmons, a visiting student from Brown University, who will be completing his master's thesis with the group

• Sarah Heilshorn presented two invited seminars and taught two workshops at the Amrita Center for Nanosciences in Cochin, Kerala, India. This visit was funded by the Indo-US Science & Technology Forum
  

DECEMBER

• The lab welcomes new postdoc Kelly Huggins who comes to us from Niels H. Andersen's lab at the University of Washington. She will be working on the biotemplating project

• Our joint Soft Matter manuscript with Theo Palmer, Mu-ming Poo, and Luke Lee was selected as the cover article
  

NOVEMBER

• The Heilshorn laboratory hosted Doug Lauffenburger from MIT as the featured Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences speaker

• Sarah Heilshorn presented an invited talk at the national meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in Salt Lake City, UT

OCTOBER

• Sarah Heilshorn presented an invited seminar at Rice University in the Department of Bioengineering
  

• Sarah Heilshorn gave guest lectures at the Medical Nanoscience Center at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden and at the Chalmers Institute of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden

• Amir Shamloo's joint manuscript with members of Calvin Kuo's laboratory was accepted for publication in Science

• A joint manuscript with Theo Palmer, Mu-ming Poo, and Luke Lee was accepted for publication in Soft Matter
  

• Amir Shamloo's recent manuscript in Lab on a Chip was selected as the cover article

SEPTEMBER

• Midori Greenwood-Goodwin was selected as a fellow for the Stanford NIH Biotechnology Training Grant Program

• Sarah Heilshorn attended the Gordon Conference on Biointerfaces in Les Diablerets, Switzerland

• Sarah Heilshorn attended the NIH Director's Pioneer and Innovator Awards Symposium in Bethesda, MD

• Sarah Heilshorn presented an invited seminar to the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at Johns Hopkins University

• Sarah Heilshorn was featured in the September issue of Discover magazine    Read the article here
  

AUGUST

• Sarah Heilshorn presented one invited talk and one refereed talk at the American Chemical Society meeting in Boston, MA

• Hui Xu was awarded a Postdoctoral Training Fellowship through the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute

• Congratulations to Amir Shamloo who successfully defended his thesis in the Mechanical Engineering Department!

• Alia Schoen attended the 19th International Materials Research Congress in Cancun, Mexico funded by an MRS/NSF Apprentice Science Reporter Award

• Alia Schoen had a manuscript accepted for publication in Nano Letters     Read the Stanford Report article    Read the Technology Review article 

• Cindy Chung presented a talk at the World Congress on Biomechanics in Singapore
  

JULY

• Amir Shamloo had a manuscript accepted for publication in Lab on a Chip

• Nicole Romano, Debanti Sengupta, and Cindy Chung had a review accepted for publication in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects

• Sarah Heilshorn is co-PI on a new joint Indo-US Center on "Cell Targeted Diagnostics and Therapy using Nanomaterials" - Lead PI's are Shanti Nair of Amrita Center for Nanoscience (Kochi, India) and Tony Mikos of Rice University (Houston, TX). The Center will facilitate the scientific exchange of faculty, postdocs, and students between Indian and US research laboratories to encourage the development of collaborative projects

JUNE

• Sarah Heilshorn was an invited speaker at the Gordon Conference on Signal Transduction from Engineered Matrices held at Biddeford, ME. Kyle Lampe and Sarah Heilshorn both presented posters on the group's research projects   

• Nicole Romano attended the 60th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany

• The group welcomes several summer interns to the laboratory: high school students Fatima Fernandez, Hector Lopez, and Kyle Tessier-Lavigne, undergraduate students Wyatt Ratliff and Jeff Sweet, and master's student Cody Simmons

• Alia Schoen and Becky Snyder presented posters of their work at the Stanford Bio-X Fellows Symposium

• The group welcomes two new PhD students: Becky Snyder and Midori Greenwood-Goodwin, both are first year students in the Bioengineering Department

• Congratulations to our recent graduates: Alex Mo received his master's degree in Materials Science and will be continuing his PhD studies at UC San Diego. Brian Aguado received his bachelor's degree in Biomechanical Engineering and will be continuing PhD studies at Northwestern University

• Debanti Sengupta's article in Tissue Engineering was selected by the editors to be featured on the front cover and as the highlighted article for the issue

 MAY

• Cindy Chung was awarded an American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Sarah Heilshorn attended a workshop for grant awardees from the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative in Chicago, IL

• Sarah Heilshorn was an invited lecturer at the Smart Polymers workshop in Atlanta, GA

• Congratulations to Brian Aguado who presented a poster at the 2010 Bio Mechanical Engineering Conference at Stanford and won 2nd place in the Best Poster Competition!

APRIL

• Debanti Sengupta and Amir Shamloo presented talks at the Society for Biomaterials meeting in Seattle, WA

• Sarah Heilshorn presented a talk at the Society for Biomaterials meeting in Seattle, WA

• Nicole Romano and Alia Schoen presented talks at the Materials Research Society Spring meeting in San Francisco, CA. Alia Schoen also contributed to the MRS Meeting Scene

• Congratulations to Alex Mo who presented a poster at the Materials Research Society Spring meeting in San Francisco, CA and was a finalist for the Best Poster Competition!
  

• Sarah Heilshorn presented a talk at the Materials Research Society Spring meeting in San Francisco, CA

MARCH

• Widya Mulyasasmita, Andreina Parisi-Amon, Nicole Romano, Alia Schoen, and Debanti Sengupta presented talks at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco, CA

• Sarah Heilshorn presented three talks at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco, CA
  

• Congratulations to Brian Aguado who presented a poster at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco and won Best Poster Presentation in the Undergraduate Research in Polymer Science symposium!

• Sarah Heilshorn gave a presentation at the American Physical Society meeting in Portland, OR

• Cindy Chung presented a poster at the National Science Foundation - Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation Workshop
  

FEBRUARY

• The group spent the weekend in Lake Tahoe skiing, snowboarding, and relaxing

• Congratulations to Nicole Romano for successfully passing her PhD oral qualifying exams in the Materials Science & Engineering Department!

• Brian Aguado received a travel award to the national American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco, CA from the Undergraduate Research in Polymer Science symposium within the POLY division

• Amir Shamloo presented two posters at the national Biophysical Society Conference

• Cindy Chung and Widya Mulyasasmita presented posters at the Caltech Workshop on Soft Biomaterials

• Sarah Heilshorn presented an invited seminar at the Caltech Workshop on Soft Biomaterials
  

JANUARY

• Todd Ostomel and Alia Schoen presented posters of their work at the Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Sciences (SIMES) Advisory Council meeting

• Congratulations to Alia Schoen for successfully passing her PhD oral qualifying exams in the Materials Science & Engineering Department!

• Sarah Heilshorn was invited to speak at UC Riverside by the Bioengineering Department
  

• The lab welcomes new postdoc James Su who comes to us from Christine Wildsoet and Kevin Healy's labs at UC Berkeley
  

DECEMBER

• The Heilshorn lab sucessfully initiated use of our  new 75-L fermentor. Congratulations Widya & Andreina!  

                             Widya holds up a pellet of E. coli from the first successful run of the new fermentor

• The lab welcomes new postdoc Kyle Lampe who comes to us from Melissa Mahoney's lab at the University of Colorado

• The lab welcomes new postdoc Todd Ostomel who comes to us after receving his JD at UC Davis. Prior to law school, he did his graduate work in Galen Stucky's lab at UC Santa Barbara

• The lab welcomes new postdoc Hui Xu who comes to us from Michael Shuler's lab at Cornell University

• Debanti Sengupta had a review accepted for publication in Tissue Engineering
  

NOVEMBER

• The Heilshorn lab hosted Dr. Richard Oreffo as part of a UK-US Stem Cell Collaboration Development Award, British Consulate

• Alia Schoen, Debanti Sengupta, and Amir Shamloo presented talks at the American Vacuum Society Symposium in San Jose, CA

OCTOBER

• Sarah Heilshorn presented a talk at the Department of Energy-sponsored Biomolecular Contractors' Workshop

• Sarah Heilshorn received an NIH Director's New Innovator Award - the New Innovator Award is designed to support exceptionally creative new investigators with highly innovative research ideas that have the potential for unusually high impact     Read the NIH press release      Read the Stanford Report article      Read the Stanford Daily article

SEPTEMBER

• Sarah Heilshorn gave an invited talk in the Tissue Engineering session at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology conference in Minneapolis, MN
  

• Sarah Heilshorn was an invited speaker at the International Conference on Advanced Materials (ICAM) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Karin Straley presented an oral paper at ICAM in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  

AUGUST

• The lab welcomes new postdoc Cindy Chung who comes to us from Jason Burdick's lab at the University of Pennsylvania.

• Sarah Heilshorn received a Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award from the American Chemical Society

• Sarah Heilshorn co-chaired a session on Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering and presented a talk at the ACS conference in Washington, D.C.

• Karin Straley had a manuscript accepted for publication in the Journal of Neurotrauma

• The lab ventured out to Palo Alto Bowl for an evening of friendly competition

• Brian Aguado, Widya Mulyasasmita, and Alia Schoen presented posters of their work at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium
  

JULY

• Sarah Heilshorn, along with Eric Chiao at Stanford's Stem Cell Institute, was awarded a seed grant from the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute for Vascular Tissue Engineering with Human Pluripotent Stem Cells and Designer Protein-based Scaffolds

• Sarah Heilshorn gave a talk at the 2009 European Biophysics Congress in Genoa, Italy
  

JUNE

• Sarah Heilshorn received an NSF CAREER Award - CAREER awards are highly selective grants that the National Science Foundation awards to junior faculty members who are likely to become academic leaders of the future

• Amir Shamloo gave a presentation at the 2009 Joint ASCE-ASME-SES Conference on Mechanics and Materials

• Karin Straley had a manuscript accepted for publication in Frontiers in Neuroengineering

• Karin Straley had a manuscript accepted for publication in Advanced Materials which was also featured on the cover (read the press release)
  

MAY

• Alia Schoen was awarded a Stanford Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowship

• Brian Aguado was awarded a Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Research Fellowship and a VPUE Individual Student Grant
  

• Sarah Heilshorn was awarded a seed grant through the National Acadamies Keck Futures Initiative together with mathematical biologist Amy Bauer at Los Alamos Lab.

• The lab welcomes first year Bioengineering graduate student Andreina Parisi-Amon 
  

APRIL

• Sarah Heilshorn presented three talks at the Spring MRS meeting and was featured in the MRS newsletter, Meeting Scene

• Undergraduates Vir Choksi, Kyle Johnson, and Ashley Seni will join the lab this summer as participants in the Materials Science & Engineering Department's VPUE undergraduate summer research program

• The lab welcomes first year graduate students Widya Mulyasasmita (Bioengineering) and Nicole Romano (Materials Science & Engineering)

MARCH

• Sarah Heilshorn gave a guest lecture at UC Berkeley as part of the Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute seminar series

FEBRUARY

• Sarah Heilshorn was an invited speaker at the Nanobio 2009 Conference organized by the Amrita Centre for Nanosciences in Kochi, India. Her talk was entitled "Protein Engineered Scaffolds: Soft Biomaterials with Nanoscale Precision"

JANUARY

• Sarah Heilshorn was featured in the 2007-2008 School of Engineering Annual Report. Read the article here.

DECEMBER

• Sarah Heilshorn gave a talk entitled "Engineered hydrogels for neural stem cell transplantation" at the Tissue Engineering & Regnerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) Conference in San Diego, CA

• Karin Straley successfully defended her thesis in the Chemical Engineering Department. Congrats, Karin!

NOVEMBER

• Alia Schoen and Sung Yeon Hwang presented a poster at SLAC for the Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Sciences (SIMES) DoE program review

• Going away party at Prof. Heilshorn's home for Tsuyoshi Kimura, who is returning to Japan. We'll miss you Tsuyoshi!

• Cheryl Wong Po Foo was awarded a 2008 UK-US Stem Cell Collaboration Development Award. She will be spending 3 weeks in Prof. Molly Stevens's lab at Imperial College, London next term.
  

• Sarah Heilshorn was invited to attend the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference on Complex Systems in Irvine, CA
  

OCTOBER

• Alia Majeed was married in her hometown near Chicago. Congrats Mrs. Schoen!

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• Heilshorn Group Outing to the Mystery Spot, the Santa Cruz boardwalk, and the Roaring Camp Railroads

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