Check out our latest work on elastin condensates! (The protein that phase separated before it was cool 😎). Congrats to the amazing Alfredo Vidal ! + awesome collaborators Ronald Koder + J.Preston + alum J. Diaz!, pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Beyond excited for my PhD work to be out in press! This is my first first-author primary research article. Thankful for the strong mentorship from Bin Wu Lab who got me through this challenging project and to Yang Liu, Inoue Lab at JHMI, and Leslie for their brilliant contributions!

For your visual pleasure: silk protein crystals. 🐛❄️

A biobased #RareEarthElement (REE) extraction using silk nanofibril (SNF) and SNF/silk-elastin-like protein membranes functionalized with two lanthanide binding tags. David Kaplan Tufts Biomedical Engineering Tufts University Read in ACS ES&T Engineering: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Met Babis Babis Pappas, friends from UlijnGroup after a long time in Boston who is on his way to Portland, ME for Gordon Conference on Systems Chemistry and chairing a session. It was great to refresh a lot of good memories in UlijnGroup

We have a PhD position on phosphate-driven non-equilibrium assemblies funded from European Research Council (ERC) at FIT - Uni Freiburg Universität Freiburg Freiburg Chemistry Institutes. Deadline for application is 01/08/24. More information can be found here: static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc3928… RT appreciated!

Both Editor-in-Chief and Executive Editor of ACS Biomat Sci & Eng got inducted into US National Academy of Inventors National Academy of Inventors the same year #NAI2024 Congrats David! American Chemical Society

Protein design for ...checks notes... growing semiconductors (!!) Biology is nanotechnology.

What a nail-biter of a World Cup final #IndiaVsSouthAfrica 🏏💪

Check out recent paper from the group led by Taehwan et al., Development of Serum-Reduced Medium for Mackerel Muscle Cell Line Cultivation | ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Tufts University School of Engineering Tufts Biomedical Engineering Tufts University Center for Cell Ag (TUCCA) Michael Saad #CellAg

Check out new paper from the lab led by Connor, Edward et al., on 'Methods to Screen the Adhesion of Fish Cells on Plant-, Algal- and Fungal-Derived Biomaterials' | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… Tufts University Center for Cell Ag (TUCCA) Tufts University School of Engineering Tufts Biomedical Engineering

Towards improved biofilm models rdcu.be/dQf4Z In this Perspective, Rumbaugh and Whiteley explore the advantages and limitations of current medical biofilm models and outline a framework for quantitatively assessing model accuracy. Kendra Rumbaugh Marvin Whiteley

🔥Out now in Angewandte Chemie Avishek, Elma and colleagues demonstrate metallo-peptide nanofibers that are erasable by exposure to 🫧water vapor! CUNY ASRC ASRC Nanoscience Initiative Avishek Dey Elma Naranjo onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Amazing research symposium by 14 of our summer undergraduates, organized by Lauren A Blake. They have gone through research training for the past 12 weeks supervised by different lab mentors. Good luck on their future research experience! #KaplanLabUndergradExperience #cellag #silk

My new review on spider silk bioproduction is out in ACS Biomat Sci & Eng Thank you to my co-authors for being a great group to learn from and with on this riveting topic and to my PI David Kaplan for encouraging us to submit the work we were doing in a peer reviewed journal!🕷️🕸️

Injectable biomaterials can be delivered in a minimally invasive way, but are complex to design. In their Review, Christman Lab outline design considerations for injectable bulk and particle materials, and examine safety and testing considerations UC San Diego Bioengineering go.nature.com/3Xkkx6e

New in Science Magazine, we introduce EBCare, a smart mask platform for real-time in situ monitoring of biomarkers in exhaled breath condensate (EBC) in daily activities. Congratulations to Wenzheng and the team! Caltech Caltech Division of Engineering & Applied Science Caltech Medical Engineering science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Check out the short YT video on our latest work on rare earth sequestration using silk membrane by Logan Morton Silk based reusable, mesoporous membrane for recovery of rare-earth elem... youtu.be/QFMG7UWHpKs?si… via YouTube #Sustainability #Silk

Check out Camilo, Andrew's (Andrew Stout ) new paper on 'Unlocking the potential of cultivated meat through cell line engineering'- published in iScience Tufts University Center for Cell Ag (TUCCA) Tufts University School of Engineering sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Emily's latest paper on 'Exploration of Stimuli‐Responsive, Elastin‐Based Coatings for Textiles' - is now published in Advanced Functional Materials - Check out onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…