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April 2024

Farewell lunch with senior members of the Biomedical Microdevices Lab, who will be graduating this May.

Our research group participated in the 11th Annual BioE Day, organized by University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, with the following work:

  • Sara Knox, Olivia Sullivan “High throughput GPCR affinity assay for psychedelic inspired drug discovery” (poster)

Our research group participated in the 16th Undergraduate Research & Scholarship Symposium (URSS) at Duquesne, with the following work:

  • Gram Hepner, Norah Delaney, Heran Pradan, “Engineering a Novel Bioreactor for Mechanobiological Studies in Congenital Heart Disease” (oral)
  • Raegan Gouker, Kate Flannery, “Simultaneous multi-particle trapping using serially coupled stagnation flows” (poster)
  • Emily McCarty, Jacob McKinley, Mitchell Fox, “Microfluidic Platform for Generating and Analyzing Single-Cell Pairs” (poster)
  • Gram Hepner, Jake Laws, Chandler Last, “Dual hydrodynamic trap based on coupled stagnation point flows” (poster)
  • Sara Knox, Olivia Sullivan, “High throughput GPCR affinity assay to screen for potential non-opioid pain medication” (poster)

Dr. Tanyeri presented a poster titled “Development of a Microfluidic Viscoelastic Hemostatic Assay towards Point-of-Care Testing of Coagulopathies” at the 2024 Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC) held at Stevens Institute of Technology. He was being selected as one of the recipients of the Faculty Innovator Award!

March 2024

Shawn has successfully defended his MS thesis titled “Development of a Rapid Bacterial Quantification Method based on Droplet Microfluidics“. Congratulations Shawn !

Shawn also gave an oral presentation on his research at the 10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium at Duquesne.

January 2024

Crew #290 consisting of 2 Duquesne BME alumni (Madelyn Hoying and Benjamin Kazimer) and 4 additional members, will be pursuing “Project MADMEN: Martian Analysis and Detection of Microbial ENvironments” at Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) during January 7-21 2024. Supervised by Dr. Tanyeri, the crew will pursue an analog-based proof-of-concept designed to explore potential signs of life on the Martian surface and study microorganisms’ adaptation to the harsh Martian environment. The mission is funded partially by a competitive mini-grant from NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium (PSGC).

Dr. Merve Ertas Uslu joins our lab to work on our NSF-funded project on developing a microfluidic platform to study cellular mechanotransduction mechanisms!

November 2023

October 2023

Our collaborative paper with Dr. Bin Yang and Dr. John Viator titled “Cost-Effective Full-Color 3D Dental Imaging Based on Close-Range Photogrammetry” is accepted for publication in Bioengineering.

Dr. Tanyeri gave an invited talk at the Biological Sciences Seminar at Duquesne University.

Dr. Tanyeri delivered a presentation titled “A Microfluidic Tweezer for Simultaneous Confinement of a Pair of Cells and Particles” at the 2023 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington.

September 2023

Raegan Gouker and Katherine Flannery delivered a virtual poster presentation titled “An Assay for Measuring Water Permeability of Mammalian Cells” at the 5th Carnegie Mellon Forum on Biomedical Engineering.

August 2023

Our collaborative paper with researchers in UK and Turkey titled “Machine learning based microfluidic sensing device for viscosity measurements” is accepted for publication in Sensors and Diagnostics.

July 2023

Our students presented their work at the BME Summer 2023 Mini-symposium.

June 2023

Our grant proposal, titled “A novel multifunctional platform for studying cell and nuclear mechanosensing“, has been approved for funding through the NSF Engineering – UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Lead Agency Opportunity (ENG-EPSRC). We will be collaborating with Dr. Michael Smutny and Dr. Till Bretschneider at the University of Warwick.

DU Infinity and Beyond, our BME student group led by Dr. Tanyeri, is awarded a competitive mini-grant ($5k) from NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium (PSGC) to pursue “Project MADMEN: Martian Analysis and Detection of Microbial ENvironments” at Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) during Spring 2024 Field Season.

Dr. Tanyeri gave a talk titled “A senior-level course in biomedical engineering to develop skills for comprehensive analysis of primary scientific literature and communication of science to the public” at the ConnectUR 2023 Annual Conference in Pittsburgh.

May 2023

Our paper titled “Dual hydrodynamic trap based on coupled stagnation point flows” is accepted for publication in Physics of Fluids. Congratulations Jarrett, Gram, Maxwell, and Shawn !

April 2023

Our research group participated in the 10th Annual BioE Day, organized by University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, with the following work:

  • Emily McCarty, Jacob McKinley, Mitchell Fox, “A multielectrode array (MEA) for electrophysiological measurements from neural spheroids” (poster)
  • Aidan O’Donnell, Sara Knox, “High throughput GPCR affinity assay to screen for potential non-opioid pain medication” (poster)

Our research group participated in the 15th Undergraduate Research & Scholarship Symposium (URSS) at Duquesne, with the following work:

  • Shawn Bliss, “Application of Supervised Machine Learning for Bacteria Analysis in Droplet Microfluidics” (oral)
  • Raegan Gouker, Kate Flannery, “An Assay for Measuring Water Permeability of Mammalian Cells” (oral)
  • Emily McCarty, Jacob McKinley, Mitchell Fox, “A multielectrode array (MEA) for electrophysiological measurements from neural spheroids” (oral)
  • Gram Hepner, Maxwell Ujhazy, “Dual hydrodynamic trap based on coupled stagnation point flows” (poster)
  • Aidan O’Donnell, Sara Knox, Michelle Bohn, “High throughput GPCR affinity assay to screen for potential non-opioid pain medication” (poster)
  • Ryan Slusser, Jackson Jewell, “A Biomimetic Cardiac Tissue Model Towards Understanding Etiology of Congenital Heart Disease” (poster)

October 2022

Our research group participated in the 2022 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas with the following work:

  • Caroline Daggett, “PsychLight: a Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Sensor for Drug Discovery” (poster)
  • Shawn Bliss, “Application of Supervised Machine Learning for Bacteria Analysis in Droplet Microfluidics” (poster)
  • Melikhan Tanyeri, “A Microfluidic Viscometer based on Micropillar Deflection and Machine Learning” (poster)

Dr. Tanyeri served as a co-chair in two sessions: 1) Micro/Nano Tools for Precision Medicine, and 2) Advanced Technologies for Infectious Disease.

August 2022

Shawn Bliss will continue his work as a graduate student in our lab!

July 2022

Our research group participated in the 25th Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium with the following work:

  • Caroline Daggett, “PsychLight, a genetically encoded fluorescent sensor for drug discovery” (poster)
  • Shawn Bliss, “Application of Supervised Machine Learning for Bacteria Analysis in Droplet Microfluidics” (poster)
  • Gram Hepner, “Microfluidic Trapping of Particles with Coupled Stagnation Flows” (poster)

May 2022

Caroline Daggett joins the group as a summer researcher as part of the PURE/NURE program!

Graduation time! Selvin Hernandez is headed to Case Western University to pursue a PhD degree at Sen Gupta Lab.

April 2022

Shawn Bliss presented his work at the 2022 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) through a virtual presentation titled “Microfluidic-Photoacoustic Flow Cytometry for Diagnosis of Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia”

Amanda Trusiak and Anelise McGee presented their work at the 48th Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC 2022) at Columbia University with a poster presentation titled “A Microfluidic Assay for Single Cell Bacterial Adhesion Studies Under Shear Stress”.

Our research group participated in the 14th Undergraduate Research & Scholarship Symposium (URSS) at Duquesne with the following work:

  • Gram Hepner and Maxwell Ujhazy, “Simultaneous multi-particle trapping using multiple coupled stagnation flows” (poster)
  • DU Infinity and Beyond, “Project MADMEN: Adapting the ALIEN Martian Mission Framework for Terrestrial Based Validation” (poster)

March 2022

Amanda Trusiak has successfully defended her MS thesis titled “A Microfluidic Assay for Single Cell Bacterial Adhesion Studies Under Shear Stress“. Congratulations Amanda !

Amanda Trusiak and Anelise McGee presented a poster presentation titled “A Microfluidic Assay for Single Cell Bacterial Adhesion Studies Under Shear Stress” at the 9th Annual BioE Day, organized by University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, and at the 8th (Virtual) Annual Graduate Research Symposium at Duquesne.

Madelyn and Ben will be presenting their work titled “Project MADMEN: Proposed Analogue Fidelity Comparison to ALIEN Martian Mission” at the 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference in Big Sky, Montana.

October 2021

Dr. Tanyeri gave a talk titled “A Microfluidic Viscometer towards Real-time, Continuous Measurement of Blood Viscosity” at the 2021 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida.

September 2021

Dr. Tanyeri gave an invited talk at the Biophysics Seminar at Ohio State University.

August 2021

Amanda Trusiak will continue her work as a graduate student in our lab!

July 2021

Shay Kent has successfully defended her MS thesis titled “Development of a Microfluidic Viscoelastic Hemostatic Assay for Real-Timeviscosity Measurements of Blood“. Congratulations Shay !

Our research group participated in the 24th Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium with the following work:

  • Gleymi Hernandez, “High Throughput Sensitive Microfluidic Assay for the Measurement of Fluorescently Labeled 5-HTc Binding Kinetics to GPCRs” (poster)
  • Shawn Bliss, “Microfluidic-Photoacoustic Flow Cytometry for Diagnosis of Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia” (poster)

May 2021

We filed a provisional patent application on our bacteria enumeration technology.

Gleymi Hernandez joins the group as a summer researcher as part of the PURE/NURE program!

April 2021

Our research group participated in the 13th (Virtual) Undergraduate Research & Scholarship Symposium (URSS) with the following work:

  • Alex Evans, “A High Throughput Microfluidic Plaque Assay for Rapid Screening of Potentially Therapeutic Phages” (poster)
  • Rebecca McCallin (DU Infinity and Beyond), “Project ALIEN” (oral)

March 2021

Shay Kent presented her work at the 7th Annual Graduate Research Symposium at Duquesne with a poster presentation titled “Development of a Microfluidic Viscoelastic Hemostatic Assay”.

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