Need a new podcast? Check out this super special episode from Drug Discovery News featuring how Anseth Group Dr. Kristyn Masters & #AguadoLab research builds off each other to understand sex differences in aortic valve disease! ❤️ drugdiscoverynews.com/sex-differs-in…

🥳 We are thrilled to share that one of our phenomenal undergraduate researchers, Delaney McNally, has been awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship — an incredible achievement, and well deserved! Congratulations to Delaney and her lab mentors Laura Macdougall and Kaustav Bera.

We had a fantastic time working with Tayler Hebner 👩‍🔬 on this project! Thiol-maleimide crosslinks irreversibly degrade in the presence of radicals, expanding the accessible properties of hydrogels crosslinked by Michael addition. Read now at Advanced Sci News! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

A belated birthday present from Advanced Sci News! 🎉 “Nonlinear Elastic Bottlebrush Polymer Hydrogels Modulate Actomyosin Mediated Protrusion Formation in Mesenchymal Stromal Cells” is now officially peer-reviewed and published! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

🍾🎊 CONGRATULATIONS to Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. for her first postdoctoral publication, out in its final version in Advanced Materials Advanced Sci News. Monica made strain-stiffening, bottlebrush-crosslinked hydrogels and revealed how these affect hMSC responses! doi.org/10.1002/adma.2…

👏🎊🍾 Congratulations to Ali Alexandra Borelli, our latest PhD graduate! Ali developed hybrid PEG-HA hydrogels for tuning stress relaxation and delivering MSCs. We’re so excited to see what she does next! CU Boulder Engineering 🦬

We had a fantastic time at our annual lab BBQ yesterday, celebrating our achievements and bonding as a team. Here’s to another great year of collaboration and exciting research! 💫

🔬🧫🤖👏 Congratulations to Alex Khang for his new preprint on automating predictions of fibroblast phenotypes! In this work, Alex showed how an objective shape descriptor metric may reveal morphological features associated with myofibroblast activation. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share my ongoing Helen Hay Whitney Foundation fellowship work in the Anseth Group at #WBC2024 in the beautiful city of Daegu! Will give a short presentation about what I learnt from intestinal organoids in hydrogels at 8:50 am on Tue (May 28, room 321-B) 12th World Biomaterials Congress (WBC 2024) 🇰🇷🧑‍💻

What better way to start your day 3 at the #wbc2024 in Daegu 🇰🇷 than learn about modulating the cellular micro environment to direct EV content towards anti-inflammation and bone regeneration! Our latest work in the Anseth Group tomorrow 5/28 at 9am in room 324-A!

I'm stoked to see this work finally published! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… We applied materials science and biophysical approaches to reveal how muscle cells align on mechanically anisotropic liquid crystalline polymer networks! Anseth Group R+PM Group

What better way to welcome summer and new undergrad students to the Anseth Group than to have ice cream with everyone! 😎🍦

🥳🍾 Congratulations to Nathaniel Skillin (co-advised with Tim White 🦬 R+PM Group) for his successful PhD defense on Monday. Nat developed anisotropic liquid crystalline biomaterials for his thesis. We’ll miss him in the lab, but he’ll still be in the area as he finishes his MD!

We’ve had a fantastic summer with our three NSF REU students, Josh, Magaly, and Makayla. They worked hard and made amazing contributions to our research projects. Wishing them all the best in their future endeavors!

Check out some of our latest work at #ACSFall2024! Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D., Bruce Kirkpatrick, Ben Nelson, Nathaniel Skillin, and Mark Young will be giving talks on subjects ranging from bottlebrush polymer hydrogels to in vivo actuation of liquid crystal elastomers.

Burdick Lab will be at #ACSFall2024 in Denver! Stop by our talks to hear about the latest in dynamic, granular materials and biofabrication. We are excited to connect with all attendees in CO! Safe travels.

Yesterday's Elevating Polymer Science in the State of Colorado symposium went off without a hitch! A huge thank you to all of our amazing speakers. It was so great seeing all of the amazing polymer chemistry happening in CO!

The BioFrontiers Institute BioFrontiers 💻🦠🧬🧪🧫💉📊📓 CU Boulder 🦬 is recruiting new faculty across diverse research areas. Come join our exceptional faculty in beautiful Boulder Colorado. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail…

‼️New preprint ‼️using fast relaxing and synthetic boronate ester based hydrogels to robustly differentiate intestinal organoids in the absence of supplemental laminin Anseth Group Bruce Kirkpatrick Michael Blatchley F. Max Yavitt Laura Macdougall Kaustav Bera BioFrontiers 💻🦠🧬🧪🧫💉📊📓 🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…