It was fun hosting UMN CSE Dean Andrew Alleyne Andrew Alleyne in the David Odde Lab this week.

I had a great time doing an escape room puzzle with my lab group today. Completed with 6 seconds to spare!

Repurposing Revisited: Exploring the Role of Metformin for Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 academic.oup.com/cid/article-ab… Commentary on our CID paper showing metformin reduced SARS-COV-2 viral load vs control, in addition to our previous papers on acute outcomes and long COVID.

Glioma cells using the motor-clutch to claw their way through brain tissue. Our new paper out in CMBE journal . doi.org/10.1007/s12195…

Here’s the story with link to the CID article.

Enjoyed speaking at the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota event for Doors Open Minneapolis this morning ! Goldy stopped by too. @doorsopenmpls

Last week, David Odde ’s lab members had a great time at the @CCBIR/Cancer TEC joint annual meeting in Johns Hopkins Medicine Baltimore, MD. The talks and posters were fantastic! A big thanks to the coordinators for putting together such a great program! #CancerResearch #cancer

Wonderful kick off meeting in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago with my Cornell University and TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY collaborators on this U.S. National Science Foundation grant! w/ Adrienne Jenny Sabin Studio, Marceline Egnin, Jonathan Butcher, and Steven Adie. Finding the Rules of Shapes med.umn.edu/iem/news/findi…

Our new paper is out on cell traction forces with Wendy Gordon lab UMN Mutual antagonism between CD44 and integrins in glioblastoma cell traction and migration pubs.aip.org/aip/apb/articl…

Odde lab road trip to Madtown! Retreat for our C-MITIE CCBIR U54 center with UW LOCI (Eliceiri lab) Paolo Provenzano out on the terrace with some Spotted Cow and open mic.

Excited to be a part of this cohort and to share snippets from my future research program. Tune in for my seminar on 09/23/24 at 12pm ET!

Congratulations Roberto Alonso Matilla !

Nice try Ingraham.

So proud of Louis, both his accomplishments and his presence. Reading the interview reminds me what an honor and privilege it is to mentor young people in their journey of becoming.

Glad to hear this good outcome.

Thank you NFL and Minnesota Vikings for sponsoring #crucialcatch for cancer awareness and screening. It was an honor to be recognized at halftime with the M Health Fairview team! #skolstrong

Very proud of my group’s presentations at the Biomedical Engineering Society annual meeting, including our high school intern Lily, Ali Mohammad , Roberto Alonso Matilla , and former PhD student Louis Prahl (presenting his Postdoc work with @HughesLabPenn).

Let’s double the NIH budget! New treatments and cures for dread diseases! Let’s go! Who hates cancer? Who hates diabetes? Who hates strokes? I know I do and I bet you do too. Let’s make it a priority today and gift ourselves with better health tomorrow.