8/18/08: Congratulations to DBGer and Harvard College senior Lauren Chin who was
named a 2008 PRISE scholar and is working on cardiac
tissue engineering.
8/18/08: Congratulations to Peyton Nesmith of Auburn University (working on cardiac tissue engineering) and Josh Guerra of Harvard University (working on traumatic brain injury) who were NSF REU students in the Disease Biophysics Group this summer.
8/4/08: Welcome back Josh Goss as the new lab boss!
8/2/08: Congratulations to Dr. Parker and wife Kimberly for the birth of their baby girl!
7/1/08: Congratulations to Crystal Ripplinger, recipient of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) Women's Postdoctoral Fellowship Award at Harvard University, sponsored by the National Science Foundation!
7/1/08: Congratulations to Megan McCain, recipient of the two-year, American Heart Association Founders Affiliate Predoctoral Fellowship!
6/28/08: Congratulations to Adam Feinberg and wife Ayelet for the birth of their baby girl!
6/5/08: Congratulations to Poling Kuo, MD who earned his Ph.D. on June 5, 2008 and accepted a faculty position at National Taiwan University!
4/21/08: Congratulations to Mark Bray, Ph.D. for accepting a position at the Broad Institute.
3/31/08: The DBG welcomes post-doctoral fellow, Patrick Alford!
3/1/08: The DBG welcomes post-doctoral fellow, Crystal Ripplinger, as well as visiting scientists Sylvain Gabriele and Kate Scholtz, and Harvard undergraduate Josh Guerra!
1/2/08: Muscular Thin Film article in the January/February issue of Technology Review: [Technology Review article link]
12/3/07: The DBG recognizes the following posters and presentations at the recent Materials Research Society fall meeting, November 26-30, 2007:
- "Engineering Contractility of Myocardial Sheets." (Received Best Poster Award). Adam W Feinberg, William J Adams, Mark-Anthony Bray, Sean P Sheehy and Kevin Kit Parker.
- "Building Tissue Engineering Scaffolds Directly from Extracellular Matrix Proteins with Microscale Spatial Control." Adam W Feinberg, Sean P Sheehy and Kevin Kit Parker.
- "Finite Deformation of a Biotic-Abiotic Thin Film in a Fluid." William J Adams, Adam W Feinberg and Kevin Kit Parker.
- "Cardiac myocyte cytoskeletal architecture as a function of cell shape." Mark-Anthony Bray, Sean P Sheehy and Kevin Kit Parker.
- "Nuclear morphology and deformation in micropatterned cardiac myocytes." Mark-Anthony Bray, Nicholas A Geisse, and Kevin Kit Parker.
- "Dynamic Control of Protein-Protein Interactions." Megan O'Grady and Kevin Kit Parker.
- "Modeling Cytoskeletal Assembly and Organization in Engineered Muscle Cells." Po-Ling Kuo, Chinlin Guo, Nicholas A. Geisse, Mark-Anthony Bray, William J Adams, Sean P. Sheely, and Kevin Kit Parker.
- "Characterizing Mechanical Interaction Between Myocytes and Substrates." Po-Ling Kuo, William J Adams, Nicholas A Geisse, Sean Sheehy, and Kevin Kit Parker.
11/29/07: Congratulations to Postdoctoral fellow Adam Feinberg for receiving the Best Poster Award at the Materials Research Society fall meeting yesterday evening, and congratulations to Postdoctoral fellow Mark Bray for being recognized as a finalist in the Science in Art competition.
11/19/07: The DBG heartily thanks Kimberly Parker and Ayelet Feinberg for their fantastic hosting at the DBG group retreat this past weekend in Kittery, Maine.
10/1/07: The DBG recognizes the following posters and presentations at the recent Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) National Meeting, September 26-29, 2007:
- “Microstructured Multi-Component Protein Scaffolds for Cardiac Tissue Engineering.” Adam W Feinberg, Sean P Sheehy, Kevin Kit Parker (Presentation)
- "Modeling Nuclear Deformation during Cardiac Contraction." William J Adams, Po-Ling Kuo, Mark-Anthony Bray, Sean P Sheehy, Kevin Kit Parker (Presentation)
- "Myofibrillogenesis and Cytoskeletal Self Assembly in Cardiac Myocytes." Po-Ling Kuo, ChinLin Guo, Nicholas A Geisse, Mark-Anthony Bray, Sean P Sheehy, Kevin Kit Parker
- "Nuclear Morphology and Deformation in Micropatterned Cardiac Myocytes." Mark-Anthony Bray, Nicholas A Geisse, Sean P. Sheehy, Kevin Kit Parker
- “In Vitro Contractility Assay Correlates Sarcomere Alignment With Systolic Stress In 2D Myocardium.” Adam W Feinberg, Sean P Sheehy and Kevin Kit Parker.
- "Distribution Of Calcium Sparks In Micropatterned Cardiac Myocytes." Nicholas A Geisse , Mark-Anthony Bray, Borna E Dabiri, Sean P Sheehy, Kevin Kit Parker
- "An In Vitro Model of Integrin Mediated Force Transduction in Traumatic Brain Injury." Borna E Dabiri, Eric H Weiss, Adam W Feinberg, Kevin Kit Parker
9/17/07: Course Announcement: Kit Parker is teaching ES 211/HST.543 Cardiac Biophysics this semester on Mondays from 12-2pm in Maxwell Dworkin Room 22. It is NOT too late to sign up for this course. For more information, please contact Dr. Parker directly at kkparker at seas.harvard.edu.
9/14/07: The DBG is keeping DBGer and USMC Sgt. Josue Goss in our thoughts and prayers while he completes his second tour in Iraq.
9/7/07: The laboratory has published a Muscular Thin Films article in Science magazine. Muscular Thin Films overview video: [Video Download, 11 MB] . Press coverage: New Scientist, Ars Technica, National Geographic, Nature.
6/11/07: Welcome to new REU undergraduate student David Rodriguez, who will be joining the Disease Biophysics Group for the summer.
6/7/07: Congratulations to DBG graduates Sean Sheehy (Masters), Terrence Pong (Masters), Borna Dabiri (Bachelors), Rosa Ng (Bachelors), to Poling's wife Chia-Yi Lu (Masters), and to collaborator Cliff Brangwynne (PhD). And congratulations to Sean Sheehy for his Masters thesis being selected as the best biotechnology thesis of the year at the Harvard Extension School.
5/9/07: Graduate student Megan McCain and postdoctoral fellow Adam Feinberg have been chosen to represent Harvard at the 57th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Physiology and Medicine in Lindau, Germany this summer. 17 Nobel Prize Winners will
give lectures and pariticipate in discussions with over 500 students from around the world.
5/9/07: Congratulations to graduate student Megan O'Grady for being awarded a Harvard University GSAS Merit Fellowship.
4/20/07: Congratulations to undergraduate group member Borna Dabiri for winning first prize in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Senior Design Project competition - the second year running for a DBG lab member!
4/19/06: Congratulations to undergraduate Will Adams for earning first prize for his DEAS Senior Design Project. (Article).
Fall 2005: Read about Dr. Parker's featured Cellular Engineering class. (DEAS Newsletter: page 12 ).
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