We're thrilled to announce that James Padgett, PhD defended his PhD dissertation yesterday on Aging and Pharmacologic Effects on Mechanically Driven in vivo Osteocyte Ca2+ Signaling. Congratulations Dr. Boorman-Padgett! 🎉🎊🎓

Dr. Padgett’s last day at City College‼️ His professionalism, knowledge, and enthusiasm have been a valuable asset to the team. We all are sad to see him go, but very excited for the new opportunities that lie ahead for him in San Diego! Best wishes on his new adventures🥂

Big career news!! I’ve accepted an industry postdoc working for Novartis Science at NIBR San Diego! I’m so excited to put my PhD to use contributing to their drug discovery efforts. A huge thank you to Schaffler Lab for preparing me for this role. Let’s do this! 💪🏼

#ASBMR Stop by our poster#PM044 Osteocyte Pre-meeting Symposium

If you want to know about BPs and Fatigue effects on material properties, come to see poster #16 by our PhD student, Niovi Dollas #ASBMR2023

The CUNY dinner party in Vancouver felt a bit empty without Dr. Schaffler!! didn't it?! Niovi Dollas Nadia Garibaldi Taraneh Rezaee #ASBMR2023 📍Granville Island, Vancouver, BC

Congrats Tamara Alliston on the 2024 Orthopaedic Research Society Outstanding Achievement in Mentoring Award 🏆! Your sponsorship, leading edge science and efforts to champion inclusive excellence in ortho & research broadly inspire so many UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery UCSF Musculoskeletal Center: tiny.ucsf.edu/ZftnZN

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#Ors2024 If you want to know about BPs and Fatigue effects on material properties, come to see poster #1499 by our PhD student, Niovi Dollas

Lab Dinner! #ORS2024 #LongBeach

NYC! Snow is making it's way to the city early tomorrow morning and we're expecting up to 5-8". ❄🌨⛄ Stay off the roads if possible, keep your sidewalks clear if you're a property owner, and sign up for NotifyNYC at nyc.gov/notify for up to date weather alerts.

50th Northeast Bioengineering Conference 📍Stevens Institute of Technology

Solar Eclipse, April 2024 🌘🌗🌑🌒🌓🌔

Amazing Talk by Dr. Tejal Desai on Therapeutic Biomaterials Engineering Material “Structure” to Modulate Biologic Delivery

Thanks Jay Patel and everyone at Emory Musculoskeletal Research for having me. I enjoyed our interactions and learning about your work very much!

Looking forward to seeing many of you at the Mechanobiology, Biomechanics and Bone Quality Session (Oral Presentation)!

13thAnnual Musculoskeletal Repair and Regeneration Symposium! 📍 Albert Einstein College of Medicine Montefiore

Our PhD student, Angel, had an absolute blast running the 2024 TCS New York City Marathon for a time of 2:56:10!! He truly put our lab's work on bone mechanobiology to the test—proving that when the going gets tough, the tough get tensile!" 🦴🏃‍♂️ #MarathonMechanobiology #RunForResearch

From running the Brooklyn Half to running PCRs—our lab team doesn’t slow down! Proud of these scientists for pushing boundaries on and off the course. #running #orthopedics