Happy 2nd lab-iversary to the #AguadoLab ! 🎉 Celebrating papers, grants, fellowships, talks, JEDI, classes, friendship, & everything in btwn!
Fun things today, ❤️ full
🦁SD Safari Park San Diego Zoo Safari Park
👕 Lab tshirts, logo design winner: UG Megan Chavez
🦥 🦏 Lab mascots names TBD!

Happy Friday!! 🙌 Congratulations to Talia Baddour on her acceptance to the T32 NIH NHLBI predoctoral fellowship program AND the San Diego Match Fellowship! All 4 PhD students in the #AguadoLab have their own funding!! 💰

Celebrating our lab’s many accomplishments and the amazing trainees and lab members who made these possible!

Congrats to the Research Expo 2023 poster winners! Grand prize this year went to UC San Diego electrical and computer engineering PhD student Ross Greer for his work on safe, autonomous driving tech. More here: today.ucsd.edu/story/safe-aut… Rayyan Gorashi, MS nikolai

first platform talk yesterday ✅ last sunset of Ramadan today ✅

So happy to attend my first SFBiomaterials and feel so welcomed by the community. It’s been an absolute blast so far!

Eid Mubarak to all who celebrate ❤️

All set for SFBiomaterials conference at San Diego, California! I will be presenting two posters: 1. Decellualrized procine sciatic nerve based hydrogel for tissue regeneration, on 19th April (7 to 9 pm; Poster #1161)

More #AguadoLab conference celebrations - congrats to Talia Baddour and Nicole is getting her PhD on presenting their awesome posters at the #SexDifferences in Immunity Gordon Research Conferences! Thanks to Sabra Klein for organizing - Talia & Nicole say the meeting was outstanding! 🙌

Bursting w excitement for Nicole is getting her PhD & Brandon Vogt - HUGE CONGRATS on your U.S. National Science Foundation #GRFP awards!! 🎉🎉Scored TWO awards for the #AguadoLab ! I can’t wait to celebrate with you and the whole lab when I return from Spain. - you are amazing!! 🤩🤩 LatinXinBME UCSD Engineering UC San Diego Bioengineering

Second time’s the charm! 🤩

Woke up to the wonderful (& all too surreal 👀) news that I’ve been awarded the NSF GRFP! Thanks to my fantastic mentors and all who helped me thru this process! 💖

Congratulations to all the awardees and honorable mentions! #CienciaBoricua

Excited to say I am joining @Tufts BME w/ Nisha Iyer to pursue a PhD supported by U.S. National Science Foundation GRFP! Thank you so much to my wonderful mentors Christine E. Schmidt , Eleana M , norahlavac, Josephine Allen, Stephanie Ishii, Shannon Calloway, and my Schmidt Lab @ UF peers💙

Another round of great undergraduate research presentations! We appreciate all the amazing UGs who contribute to the research in our lab!

Had a wonderful evening celebrating the holidays with our lab members! Kudos to all for an amazingly successful year!

#NewProfilePic so maybe it’s time for a reintroduction!

Been on #AcademicTwitter for a while but I’m now a 2nd yr PhD student at UC San Diego Bioengineering using biomaterials to study the epigenetic mechanisms that drive sex differences in heart valve disease progression in the #AguadoLab 🫀👋🏽

Schmidt lab rocked the pirate theme for the annual UF BME Halloween Lab Decorating contest!

Thankful for a great end to my summer REU UCSD Engineering in the #AguadoLab . Thankful to be able to present my research at #BMES2022 in San Antonio, Tx. Thanks to Prof. Brian Aguado Talia Baddour Rayyan Gorashi, MS Nicole is getting her PhD for the support.

That’s a wrap for the #AguadoLab at #BMES2022 ! 👏 Talia Baddour Rayyan Gorashi, MS Steven Robles Blasini rocked their presentations as always, and the “Implementing Inclusive Research Practices” panel w Ariella Shikanov Erika Moore BellasFATLab was so inspiring for me. See you in 2023!

Thanks NSF ENG Chief for 12 years of supporting great #undergraduate #engineers at UCSD Engineering and UC San Diego Bioengineering REU program. #bmes2022

Dr. Eleana Manousiouthakis presenting on Hyaluronic Acid Conductive Biomaterials for 3D printing Applications. ⁦Eleana M⁩ ⁦Schmidt Lab @ UF⁩

Schmidt Lab at #BMES2022 . So proud of all our amazing trainees! UF BME

Congratulations to all our incredible LatinXinBME Rising Stars speakers! 🤩🤩🤩 Thank you also to Christopher Hernandez for his inspiring keynote - don’t be afraid to innovate and color outside the lines! Dra. Ana Maria Porras Corredor and I never cease to be amazed by our growing familia!! #BMES2022