Lab News

Monday November 25, 2024

What a wonderful start to Thanksgiving week! Our newest Shukla Lab PhD, Dr. Zhaowei (Zoey) Jiang, did an amazing job defending her thesis today! We are so proud of you and all of your accomplishments! Up next, Pfizer!

Saturday October 26, 2024

Congratulations Alec McCall, Camila Carvalho, and Zhaowei Jiang on delivering amazing oral talks! Also, great job presenting your poster Julia Patterson! #BMES2024

 

Wednesday October 23, 2024

Happy first day of BMES2024!! Don’t forget to check out talks by Alec McCall, Camila Carvalho, and Zhaowei Jiang on Saturday. Julia Patterson will also be presenting her poster on Friday. Please see the attached image for more presentation details!… Biomedical Engineering Society

Friday August 2, 2024

Another great summer of undergraduate research in the books! 🔬🎉Congratulations, Jamiley Avila (mentored by Carolina Gomez Casas), Jared Sonkin (mentored by Alec McCall), and Julia Patterson (mentored by Zoey Jiang)

Thursday June 27, 2024

Adding to this week’s successes, Carolina Gomez Casas did an outstanding job on her qualification exam presentation! Congratulations on becoming the newest PhD candidate in the Shukla Lab!

Monday June 24, 2024

A big congratulations to the Shukla Lab’s next Ph.D. Candidate, Camila Carvalho! She did an excellent job on passing her qualification exam today! 

Tuesday June 11, 2024

Congratulations to the newest Ph.D. from the Shukla Lab, Dr. Ronnie LaMastro! She had an amazing and successful thesis defense!

Sunday May 26th, 2024

Warm congratulations to all Brown University students who are graduating today! Especially to all 7 of the Shukla lab undergraduates:
Brown BME students Chris Shin, Toby Meng-Saccacio, Joanne Liu, Mayayi Izzo, Carleigh Oberkfell, Injy El-Dib and Peter Gonzalez (Chemical Biology)!

Friday May 3rd, 2024

The Shukla Lab senior undergraduates defended their honors thesis last Friday!! All of them did an amazing job presenting their research! Carleigh Oberkfell (BME), Chris Shin (BME), Injy El-Dib (BME), Joanne Liu (BME),Mayayi Izzo (BME), Peter Gonzalez (Chemical Biology), Toby Meng-Saccoccio (BME). Can’t wait to see what they accomplish next!

Tuesday November 14th, 2023

Special congrats to PhD student Dominique Walker for being awarded a travel grant to present her work at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists! Her talk was titled ‘Targeting Candida infections with peptide-decorated liposomes’. Great job Dom!
   

Saturday September 16th, 2023

We would like to again visiting PhD student, Patricia M. Nagai De Lima, but this time for her great oral presentation at the nanoDDS conference! Her presentation was titled ‘Developing methylene blue-loaded liposomes for photodynamic therapy against Candida auris biofilms’

Friday September 15th, 2023

Congratulations to Zoey Jiang, and Patricia M. Nagai De Lima on their successful poster presentations at The Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery Symposium (nanoDDS)!

Tuesday August 8th, 2023

Last week our undergraduates presented their summer research at various symposiums. We are proud of them and excited to see what their future holds! Great job to mentors Akram Abbasi and Alec McCall!

Thursday June 29th, 2023

Congratulations, to the now Ph.D. candidate Alec McCall for passing his qualification exam today!! He did a great job!

Friday June 9th 2023

Good luck to all of our Shukla Lab undergraduates with their summer 2023 experiences! We would also like to welcome our summer undergraduate researchers in the lab.

  

Wednesday May 31st, 2023

Great job, Zoey Jiang, on a successful talk and poster presentation at the Stevens Conference on Bacteria-Material Interactions! Titled – ‘Impact of culture media on biofilm growth and virulence factor production by Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates’

Friday April 28th, 2023

Congratulations to Biotechnology student Olivia Carneiro and Biomedical Engineering student Yamini Singh (co-advised with the Coulombe Lab) on their successful masters thesis defense!!

Wednesday April 26th, 2023

Congratulations to the newest Ph.D. from the Shukla Lab, Dr. Carly Deusenbery! She had an awesome and successful thesis defense!

Friday April 21st, 2023

Ph.D. candidate, Ronnie LaMastro, had an amazing rapid fire presentation and poster session to follow during the SFB 2023!

 

Thursday April 20th, 2023

Postdoc, Akram Abbasi, had a great presentation at the 2023 Society for Biomaterials conference! 

Tuesday February 7th, 2023

Excited to share the most recent work from Ph.D. candidate Ronnie LaMastro, ‘Antifungal liposomes: Lipid saturation and cholesterol concentration impact interaction with fungal and mammalian cells‘ published in Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A!! 

Tuesday December 20th, 2022

Wishing everyone safe travels gnome for the holidays!!
Thursday November 10th, 2022

Our visiting undergraduate student, Joshua Acosta Gonzalez, presented his summer research at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) 2022 in Anaheim, CA. Great job, Josh!

 

Monday October 24th, 2022

PhD candidate Alec McCall traveled to Washington, DC to attend the American Institute for Medicine and Biological Engineering Public Policy Institute for Rising Leaders to learn about how public policy surrounding biomedical engineering and medicine!   

Wednesday October 12th, 2022

PhD candidate Ronnie LaMastro traveled to San Antonio, TX to attend the Biomedical Engineering Society 2022 Annual Meeting! Congratulations to Ronnie on their oral presentation “Lipid saturation and cholesterol impact liposome interactions with fungal and mammalian cells” on Friday October 14th, 2022!

 

Monday October 10th – 12th, 2022

PhD candidate Ronnie LaMastro traveled to Pittsburgh, PA to attend the Material Science & Technology Technical Meeting and Exhibition! Ronnie’s talk was during the Society for Biomaterials: Biological Response to Materials and Material’s Response to Biological Environments session titled “Effects of Phospholipid Saturation and Cholesterol Concentration on Liposome Interaction with Fungal and Mammalian Cells”

Wednesday September 21- Friday 23rd, 2022

 

Professor Shukla travels to Seattle, Washington to attend the Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2022 Symposium. The Frontiers of Engineering program brings together engineers from all engineering disciplines and from industry, universities, and federal labs to facilitate cross-disciplinary exchange. This year Prof. Shukla co-chaired one of the four session “Microbes – the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”!!

Tuesday September 27th, 2022

Congratulations, to the now Ph.D. candidate Zoey Jiang for passing her qualification exam today!!

Friday August 5th, 2022

It was exciting to see all the undergraduate students presenting their summer research at UTRA today! Great job Isabella MacNaughton (mentor: Ronnie LaMastro), Toby Meng-Saccoccio (mentor: Ronnie LaMastro), and Chris Shin (mentor: Alec McCall)!

  

Friday August 5th, 2022

Stop by to see the second day of Shukla Lab undergraduate students that are presenting their research research at the Brown’s Undergraduate teaching and Research Awards (UTRAs) today in Sayles Hall! Take a look at their research topics in the attached image! 

Thursday August 4th, 2022

So proud of all the undergraduates who presented today at the UTRA symposium! Awesome work Joshua Acosta Gonzalez (mentor: Akram Abbasi), Peter Gonzalez (mentor: Ronnie LaMastro), Kyle Lam (mentor: Zoey Jiang), Carleigh Oberkfell (mentor: Carly Deusenbery)!!

                     

Thursday August 4th, 2022

Come check out the first round of Shukla Lab undergraduate students that are presenting their research at the Brown’s Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards (UTRAs) today! See the attached image for their research topics!

Saturday July 30th, 2022
Congratulations to Joshua Acosta Gonzalez, a visiting student participating in the Leadership Alliance Summer Research Early Identification Program (SR-EIP), on his poster presentation for the work he and his Postdoc mentor, Akram Abbasi, have done this summer in the Shukla lab!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday July 29th, 2022
Congratulations to Shukla Lab Undergraduate Chris Shin on his great poster presentation at RI-INBRE Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium on the work he and his PhD student mentor Alec McCall have done this summer!

Friday June 10th, 2022
Our work on developing responsive antimicrobial biomaterials was featured in News from Brown! Check out the article here! 

Wednesday June 8th, 2022
How do we combat antimicrobial resistance? Check out our lab’s latest work published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces on a “β-Lactamase Responsive Hydrogel Drug Delivery Platform” aimed at developing biomaterials solutions for antimicrobial resistance! Work done by lab alum Dahlia Alkekhia & Cassi LaRose. 

Wednesday May 25th, 2022
Postdoctoral researcher Akram Abbasi, PhD receives the 2022 BME engaged Postdoctoral Scholar Award!! Congratulations, Akram!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday May 24th, 2022
PhD candidate Ronnie LaMastro gives a talk at the Brown Biomedical Engineering Retreat at the Audubon Nature Center and Aquarium!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday April 25th, 2022
Check out the latest work from recent PhD Yingying Wang on “Bacteria-Responsive Biopolymer-Coated Nanoparticles for Biofilm Penetration and Eradication” published in Biomaterials Science.

Wednesday April 13th, 2022
Congratulations to Cutler Whitely on successfully defending his Master’s thesis in Biotechnology titled “Active Targeting Antifungal Drug Delivery Systems: A Trends Report, Market Analysis and Roadmap to Commercialization”!

 

 

 

 

 

Monday April 11th, 2022
Congratulations to Sai Kurapati on successfully defending her Master’s thesis in Biotechnology titled “Bacteriophage Characterization for Antimicrobial Hydrogel Therapies”!

 

 

 

 

Friday April 8th, 2022
Congratulations to Alison Veintimilla on successfully defending their Master’s thesis in Biotechnology titled “β-lactamases Responsive Delivery of Bacteriophages for the Treatment of Multidrug Resistant P. aeruginosa“!

 

 

 

 

 

Monday April 4th, 2022
Congratulations to first year BME PhD student Alec McCall on being awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!!!!

Friday March 11th, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Yingying Wang on an amazing and successful thesis defense!! The first Chemistry PhD student out of the Shukla Lab!

 

Thursday February 24th, 2022
Congratulations to our postdoctoral researcher Akram Abbasi on the publication of her work on “Mesenchymal Stem Cell Behavior on Soft Hydrogels with Aligned Surface Topographies” in ACS Applied Bio Materials!

Thursday February 3rd, 2022
Bioorthogonal click chemistry is used widely for biomaterials fabrication and cellular engineering for biomedical applications. Check out our latest review written with lab alumni, Dr. Bethany Almeida and Dr. Alessia Battigelli! 

 

Monday November 15th, 2021
Congratulations to Shukla Lab Master’s student Alison Veintimilla and classmate Pranav Akella, who won first place in the RI Business Pitch Contest last week!! Their pitch focused on applications of gellan hydrogels patented for burn wound treatment. To learn more about the tunable properties of these hydrogels check out our previously published article in the Journal of Polymer Science https://lnkd.in/eRABF57R

Monday November 8th, 2021

Professor Anita Shukla, postdoctoral researcher Akram Abbasi, and doctoral candidate Yingying Wang attend the 2021 AIChE conference! Congratulations to post-doc Akram Abassi for being awarded the Women in Chemical Engineering travel award. Akram presents her work at the Women in Chemical Engineering poster session this morning. Check out all of the presentations from our group throughout the conference in the graphic below. 👇 

Thursday September 9th, 2021

Welcome to our new Shukla Lab graduate students! Happy first week of classes! 🙂

Thursday September 2nd, 2021
Congratulations to Jessica Powell on successfully defending her Masters thesis entitled ‘Vancomycin-loaded hemostatic hydrogels for the treatment of deep organ space surgical site infections’!

Wednesday June 16th, 2021
Congratulations Prof. Shukla and Prof. Arezoo Ardekani (Purdue University) on receiving the Grainger Grant to enhance interdisciplinary research! The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants provide seed funding for U.S. FOE participants who are at U.S.-based institutions to enable further pursuit of important new interdisciplinary research and projects stimulated by the U.S. FOE symposia.

 

 

June, 2021

Happy Pride month from all of us at the Shukla Lab!!

 

Wednesday June 2nd, 2021
We’re back!! Distanced, masked, and very happy to have our first in person lab meeting in over a year!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday May 1st – Sunday May 3rd, 2021
Congratulations to the Brown University 2021 graduates! Including our very own Kitty Moy, earning her Sc.B with honors in Chemical Engineering!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday April 23rd, 2021
We are at the virtual Society for Biomaterials 2021 #SFB2021 this week! Dont miss the “Targeted and Stimuli-Responsive Biomaterials for Drug Delivery” session #2 chaired by Prof. Shukla from 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM CDT this morning. And be sure to checkout the exciting new work from Yingying Wang on responsive nanoparticles for treating bacterial biofilms in the “Biomaterials for Detection, Drug Delivery and Treatment of Microbial Infections” session today 1:45 PM-3:15 PM CDT.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday April 7th, 2021
We have another BME PhD candidate in the lab!! Congratulations to Ronnie LaMastro on passing her qualifying exam today, an awesome presentation and job well done!

Monday March 29th, 2021
CONGRATULATIONS to our accomplished and all-star PI, Dr. Anita Shukla on her promotion to a tenured Associate Professor of Engineering here at Brown University!!

Friday September 18th, 2020
Graduate student Cassi LaRose attends the virtual Carnegie Mellon Forum on Biomedical Engineering  and presents her virtual poster (#152) on “β-lactamase responsive hydrogels for bacteria-triggered antibacterial drug delivery” in the afternoon poster session.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday September 17th, 2020
Congratulations to postdoctorate Noel Vera-González on the publication of his review paper encompassing the “Advances in Biomaterials for the Prevention and Disruption of Candida Biofilms” in Frontiers in Microbiology!!

Tuesday September 15th, 2020
Welcome to the lab postdoctorate Kayla Campbell!!

Thursday August 27th, 2020
Congratulations to graduate student Carly Deusenbery on passing her qualifying exam!!

Monday July 20th, 2020
Congratulations, Professor Anita Shukla, for being chosen to receive an award from the Brown Biomedical Innovations to Impact Fund which will support and accelerate translation of novel antifungal liposomal nanoparticles into commercial development!

Monday July 6th, 2020
How can we model the placental bilayer without cells? Check out alum, Dr. Christina Bailey-Hytholt’s, paper on work from her time in the Shukla and Tripathi labs entitled “Placental Trophoblast-Inspired Lipid Bilayers for Cell-Free Investigation of Molecular Interactions” in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces!!

Thursday June 25th, 2020
Congratulations to Professor Anita Shukla who has been chosen as one of 85 of the nation’s brightest early-career engineers and will take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 26th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium! The Frontiers of Engineering symposium brings together top-notch engineers, early in their careers, to learn about cutting-edge developments in fields other than their own, thereby facilitating collaborative work and the transfer of new approaches and techniques across fields. Highlighted here in the Brown News!

Thursday, June 11th, 2020
How can we covalently bond stem cells to biomaterial surfaces? Check out how our team, spearheaded by Dr. Alessia Battigelli, used strain-promoted click chemistry to attach mesenchymal stem cells to gellan hydrogels in our latest Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Communications paper, entitled “Inducing mesenchymal stem cell attachment on non-cell adhesive hydrogels through click chemistry“!!

Thursday, May 28th, 2020
Learn about our work controlling and extending the release of a promising new cancer drug from polymeric multilayer films in our latest Royal Society of Chemistry Advances paper, entitled “Controlled delivery of a protein tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor, SHP099, using cyclodextrin-mediated host–guest interactions in polyelectrolyte multilayer films for cancer therapy“!!

Wednesday, May 27th, 2020
Professor Shukla presents at the University of California San Diego’s Department of NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering seminar series virtually!

Sunday, May 24th, 2020
Congratulations to all of the Shukla lab graduates and the class of 2020!
Christina Bailey-Hytholt, Ph.D.
Dahlia Alkekhia, Ph.D.
Noel Vera-González, Ph.D.
Alexis Fairman, Sc.M.
Quentin Altemose, Sc.M.
Sumaiya Sayeed, Sc.B.
Bonnee Nie, Sc.B.
Luc Langlois, Sc.B.

Friday, May 22nd, 2020
Congratulations to Christina Bailey-Hytholt ’20 Ph.D., on receiving one of Brown’s 2020 Excellence in Teaching Awards! These awards are given to graduate students who have shown a passion for teaching that is recognized by their peers.

Monday, May 4th, 2020
Can nanoparticles increase drug efficacy? Learn more about our work developing antifungal liposomes, effective against both planktonic and biofilm Candida in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, co-first authored by Noel Vera-González ’20 Ph.D. and Christina Bailey-Hytholt ’20 Ph.D.! 

Wednesday, April 29th, 2020
Congratulations to the newest PhD from the Shukla Lab, Dr. Noel Vera-González!! Noel’s dissertation encompasses pioneering work on developing smart biomaterials for delivering antifungal drugs!!

Monday, April 21st, 2020
Congratulations to Quentin Altemose on successfully defending his master’s thesis entitled ‘Simulation and Synthesis of Functional Self-Assembling Amyloid Complexes for the Development of Antimicrobial Coatings’ !! Way to go Quentin, great work!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, April 20th, 2020
Congratulations to Alexis Fairman on defending her master’s thesis entitled ‘Coating Orthopeadic Implants with Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Films for Controlled Delivery of SHP099 to Inhibit Osteolysis’!! Great job, Lexie!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, April 13th, 2020
Check out: Development of probiotic formulations for oral candidiasis prevention: Gellan gum as a carrier to deliver Lactobacillus paracasei 28.4. A collaboration between researchers at São Paulo State University, Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital.

Friday, April 10th, 2020
Same release profile, different hydrogel formulation. Learn more about how polymer and ion concentration affect the mechanical and drug release behavior of gellan hydrogels in the Journal of Polymer Science, work by Shukla Lab alumni Shashank Shukla!

Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
Congratulations to postdoctoral researcher Akram Abassi on receiving the 2020 Excellence in Doctoral Research Award from the URI Graduate School!!

Congratulations to Professor Anita Shukla on receiving a Brown University Early Career Research Achievement Award!! This annual award is given out highlighting faculty members who’s work illustrates the high-impact research at Brown University. Find out more about Brown’s Annual Research Achievement Awards here.

Friday, March 27th, 2020
Congratulations to Professor Anita Shukla on receiving the NSF CAREER Award, the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty nationwide!! Highlighted here in the Brown Engineering News!

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020
Practicing social distancing, but keeping the science alive! 

Monday, March 2nd, 2020
Congratulations to Shukla Lab alumni Dr. Christina Bailey-Hytholt and Tanaya Puranik on the publication of their research work investigating the interactions of phthalate environmental toxicants with a lipid structure. Check out their work in Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces!

Tuesday, February 25th, 2020
Congratulations to Shukla Lab alumna Dahlia Alkekhia on the publication of her review ‘Layer-by-Layer Biomaterials for Drug Delivery’ in Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, a collaborative work with Professor Paula Hammond https://buff.ly/2PpMYML

Friday, February 21st, 2020
Professor Shukla travels to Hoboken NJ to present at the Stevens Institute of Technology Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Seminar.

Thursday, February 13th, 2020
Professor Shukla travels to Pittsburgh PA to present at the Carnegie Mellon University Biomedical Engineering Seminar.

Monday, February 8th, 2020
Check out graduate student Alexis Fairman’s poster #1738 from 10:15 to 11:15 AM and 5:30-7:30 PM at the Orthopaedic Research Society poster session!! #ORS2020
Poster No. 1738 Modification Of Biomaterials With Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Films For Controlled Delivery Of Osteolysis Inhibitors
Alexis Fairman; Soobin Wang; Dahlia Alkekhia; Alessia Battigelli; Wentian Yang; Douglas Moore; Valentin Antoci; Dioscaris R. Garcia; Christopher Born; Roy Aaron; Joseph Crisco; Anita Shukla

Graduate student Lexie Fairman with her poster at ORS 2020

Friday, January 17th, 2020
Professor Shukla travels to the University of Pittsburgh to present at the Chemical Engineering Graduate Seminar.

Monday, January 13th, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Dahlia Alkekhia for successfully defending her dissertation entitled “Bacteria-Responsive Biomaterials for Prevention, Detection and Treatment of Infections.”

Friday, January 3rd, 2020
PhD candidate Noel Vera-Gonzalez presents his work on engineering a fungi responsive anti-fungal delivery system at Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering in Puerto Rico!

 

Monday, December 9th, 2019
Congratulations Shukla lab alumna Bethany Almeida, PhD and PhD candidate Yingying Wang on the publication of their paper ‘Effects of Nanoparticle Properties on Kartogenin Delivery and Interactions with Mesenchymal Stem Cells‘ in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering!

Wednesday, December 4th, 2019
Congratulations to the newest PhD from the Shukla Lab and Tripathi Lab, Dr. Christina Bailey-Hytholt!! She defended her dissertation entitled “Using Trophoblast Cells to Develop Biotechnological Approaches that Advance Prenatal and Women’s Health”

Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Congratulations to our post-doc Chao Yu and Ph.D. candidate Dahlia Alkekhia on the publication of their paper “β‑Lactamase Responsive Supramolecular Hydrogels with Host−Guest Self-Healing Capability“ in ACS Applied Polymer Materials!!

Monday, November 18th, 2019
Congratulations to undergraduate researcher Luc Langlois for being awarded first place in engineering category at the Sigma Xi Annual Meeting  and Student Research Conference poster competition!

Professor Shukla travels to Tufts University to give a seminar presentation on “Advanced Biomaterials for Treatment and Detection of Microbial Infections.”

Thursday, November 14th, 2019
(735) Nanostructured Biomimetic and Biohybrid Materials and Devices
Sponsored by Bionanotechnology
3:30 PM Hyatt Regency Orlando, Discovery 45
Esmaiel Jabbari, Chair
Markita Landry, Co-Chair
Gozde Sultan Demirer, Co-Chair
4:40 PM Paper 735d: Effect of Di(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate and Mono(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate Interactions with a Lipid Membrane
— Christina M. Bailey-Hytholt*, Tanaya Puranik, Anubhav Tripathi, Anita Shukla

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
(267) Hydrogel Biomaterials: Dynamic and Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogels
Sponsored by Biomaterials
8:00 AM Hyatt Regency Orlando, Celebration 16
Steven Caliari, Chair
Adrianne M. Rosales, Co-Chair
Adam Ekenseair, Co-Chair
Anita Shukla, Co-Chair

(335) Hydrogel Biomaterials: Cell Culture and Delivery
Sponsored by Biomaterials
12:30 PM Hyatt Regency Orlando, Celebration 16
Steven Caliari, Chair
Adrianne M. Rosales, Co-Chair
Adam Ekenseair, Co-Chair
Anita Shukla, Co-Chair

(428) Topical Plenary: Fundamentals of Microbial Interactions with Interfaces (Invited Talks)
Sponsored by Microbes at Biomedical Interfaces
3:30 PM Hyatt Regency Orlando, Orlando Ballroom N
Whitney L. Stoppel, Chair
Anita Shukla, Co-Chair
Nancy J. Lin, Co-Chair
Tagbo H.R. Niepa, Co-Chair

Monday, November 11th, 2019
(91) Overcoming Hurdles for Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Sponsored by Women in Chemical Engineering Committee (WIC)
8:00 AM Hyatt Regency Orlando, Orlando Ballroom N
Whitney L. Stoppel, Chair
Anita Shukla, Co-Chair
Julie N. Renner, Co-Chair

(104) Topical Plenary: Microbial Interactions with Biomaterials and Host Cells (Invited Talks)
Sponsored by Microbes at Biomedical Interfaces
8:00 AM Hyatt Regency Orlando, Celebration 9
Angela C. Brown, Co-Chair
Elizabeth J. Stewart, Co-Chair
9:57 AM Paper 104f: Responsive Antibacterial and Antifungal Biomaterials for Infection Treatment
—Anita Shukla

(219) Panel Discussion: Advice and Mentorship from Female Leaders in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Invited Talks)
Sponsored by Women in Chemical Engineering Committee (WIC)
3:30 PM Hyatt Regency Orlando, Orlando Ballroom N
Whitney L. Stoppel, Chair
Anita Shukla, Co-Chair
Julie N. Renner, Co-Chair

(55) Biomimetic Materials II
Sponsored by Biomaterials
8:00 AM Hyatt Regency Orlando, Celebration 5
R. Helen Zha, Chair
Neha Kamat, Co-Chair
Marjan Rafat, Co-Chair
Xi Chen, Co-Chair
8:00 AM Paper 55a: Development of a Model Placental Lipid Bilayer
— Christina M. Bailey-Hytholt*, Tun-Li Shen, Anubhav Tripathi, Anita Shukla

(53) Biomaterials and Life Science Engineering: Faculty Candidates II
Sponsored by Biomaterials
8:00 AM Hyatt Regency Orlando, Celebration 7
Mark W. Tibbitt, Chair
Whitney L. Stoppel, Co-Chair
Handan Acar, Co-Chair
Audie Thompson, Co-Chair
10:06 AM Paper 53h: Investigating Molecular Interactions of the Placenta for Prenatal Treatment and Testing
— Christina M. Bailey-Hytholt*, Anubhav Tripathi, Anita Shukla

Sunday, November 10th, 2019
(6) Meet the Faculty and Post-Doc Candidates Poster Session
Sponsored by the Education Division
BIOMATERIALS & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
1:00 PM Regency Ballroom R/S
Poster 6af: Advancing Technologies for Prenatal and Women’s Health
—Christina M. Bailey-Hytholt

November 9th, 2019
Professor Shukla and Ph.D. candidate Christina Bailey-Hytholt travel to Orlando, Florida for the 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting

October 30th, 2019
Professor Shukla travels to Worcester Polytechnic Institute to present on “Smart Biomaterials for Treatment and Detection  of Bacterial and Fungal Infections.” as a part of their Chemical Engineering Colloquium Series!

October 23rd, 2019
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Christina Bailey-Hytholt for receiving the Women in Chemical Engineering (WIC) Travel Award!

Saturday, October 19th, 2019
BMES 2019 Philadelphia, PA
Posters 9:30AM-5PM Exhibit Hall DE
P-SAT-548 Targeted Antifungal Liposomes for the Treatment of Systemic Fungal Infections
L. Langlois*, N. Vera-Gonzalez, C. Bailey-Hytholt, A. Shukla.

Talks
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Room 115A Nanotechnologies for Global Health, Nano and Micro Technologies
Impact of Phthalate Environmental Toxicants with Lipid Structures
C. Bailey-Hytholt*, T. Puranik, A. Tripathi, A. Shukla.

Friday, October 18th, 2019
BMES 2019 Philadelphia, PA
Posters 9:30AM-5PM Exhibit Hall DE
P-FRI-317A Rapid Method for Label-free Enrichment of Rare Trophoblast Cells from Cervical Samples
C. Bailey-Hytholt*, S. Sayeed, M. Kraus, R. Joseph, A. Shukla, A. Tripathi.

Talks
4:15 PM – 4:30 PM Room 119A Natural and Bioinspired Biomaterials II, Biomaterials
Development of a Model Placental Lipid Bilayer
C. Bailey-Hytholt*, T. Shen, A. Tripathi, A. Shukla.

October 17th, 2019
BMES 2019 Philadelphia, PA
Talks
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM Room 119A Hydrogels II, Biomaterials
Responsive Multifunctional Hydrogels for Detecting and Treating Bacterial Infections
D. Alkekhia, S. Shukla, C. Deusenbery, A. Shukla.*

4:30 PM – 4:45 PM Room 115B Targeted or Responsive Drug Delivery Systems, Drug Delivery
Fungi-Responsive Hydrogels for the Delivery of Antifungal Therapeutics
N. Vera-Gonzalez*, A. Shukla.

October 16th, 2019
PhD candidates Christina Bailey-Hytholt and Noel Vera-Gonzalez, undergraduate Luc Langlois, and Professor Shukla travel to Philadelphia for BMES 2019!

October 5th, 2019
Congratulations to undergraduate researcher Sumaiya Sayeed on receiving one of the five Meredith Thoms Memorial Scholarships, as a part of the Society of Women Engineers Scholarships! 

September 26, 2019
Congratulations to master’s student Quentin Altemose for being awarded the Hazeltine Grant to fund his venture start-up! 

September 3, 2019
Welcome to the lab new graduate students Cassi LaRose and Veronica Lamastro!!

Monday August 26th, 2019
Brown University News highlights PhD candidate Christina Baily-Hytholt’s recent paper on Trophoblast enrichment!

Tuesday August 20th, 2019
Congratulations to Christina Bailey-Hytholt on the publication of her paper “A Rapid Method for Label-Free Enrichment of Rare Trophoblast Cells from Cervical Samples“ in Scientific Reports! A collaborative work with the Tripathi Lab and Perkin Elmer!

Wednesday August 14-16th, 2019
Graduate students Christina Bailey-Hytholt and Noel Vera-González travel to Princeton, NJ for the Future Faculty Workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation!

Friday August 2nd, 2019
Congratulations to UTRA student Luc Langois and undergraduate researcher Bonnee Nie on their poster presentations at Brown’s Summer Research Symposium!

Sunday July 28th, 2019 – Friday August 2nd, 2019
Dr. Shukla travels to Castelldefels, Spain for the 2019 Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Gordon Research Conference!

Thursday August 1st
6:00pm-8:00pm
Dr. Shukla is selected for a short talk in the Young Investigators session!

Monday July 29th
6:00pm-8:00pm
Dr. Shukla leads the Microfabricated Systems to Manipulate Single Cells discussion session!

Thursday July 25th, 2019

Professor Shukla travels to Washington DC to receive the PECASE award from Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Friday July 19th, 2019
Congratulations to PhD candidate Christina Bailey-Hytholt on the acceptance of her paper entitled “A Rapid Method for Label-free Enrichment of Rare Trophoblast Cells from Cervical Samples” to Scientific Reports!!

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019
Congratulations to Professor Shukla, on receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers! The PECASE award, presented by the United States Government, is given to outstanding scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent research careers and who show exceptional promise for leadership in science and technology. Highlighted here by Brown Engineering. We are thrilled and thankful to the Office of Naval Research for both their nomination and their support! 

Wednesday-Thursday, June 12-13th, 2019
Professor Shukla and graduate student Carly Deusenbery traveled to Hoboken, NJ for the 5th Stevens Conference on Bacteria-Material Interactions. Dr. Shukla moderated Session 1: Antimicrobials and Antimicrobial Action.

Carly Deusenbery presented her work titled “Utilizing IDR-1018 to develop antibiofilm gellan hydrogels” winning 2nd place in the poster competition. Congratulations, Carly!

Sunday, May 26th, 2019
Congratulations to the Brown University 2019 graduates! Including our very own, Dr. Bethany Almeida and Dr. Shashank Shukla (the first Ph.D. recipients from the Shukla Lab!), Hannah Safford, and Soobin Wang, and Tanyaya Puranik! We wish you all the best of luck and continued success! Congrats also to Dr. Shukla on being awarded a Tau Beta Pi 2019 Excellence in Research Award from the graduating class during commencement!

Saturday, May 25th, 2019
Professor Anita Shukla and the first Ph.D. recipients from the Shukla Lab, Dr. Bethany Almeida and Dr. Shashank Shukla, at the 2019 Engineering Award Dinner

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Congrats to Dr. Shashank Shukla for receiving the the 2019 Outstanding TA award!!

May 3rd, 2019
Dr. Shukla travels to the University of Toronto to attend the Chemical Biophysics Symposium as keynote speaker.

April 24th, 2019
Bethany Almeida successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Using Biomaterials to Control the Physical and Chemical Properties of the Mesenchymal Stem Cell Microenvironment.” Congratulations Dr. Almeida!

April 22nd, 2019
Shashank Shukla successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Investigating Tunable and Multifunctional Antimicrobial Gellan Hydrogels for Infection Treatment and Diagnosis.” Congrats, Dr. Shukla! The first PhD student to graduate from our lab!!

March 27th, 2019

Dr. Shukla receives a DURIP grant for the acquisition of a state-of-the-art 3D biological printer!

March 16th, 2019

Graduate students Bethany Almeida, Dahlia Alkekhia, Carly Deusenbery and Noel Vera-González acted as Judges at the Rhode Island Science and Engineering Fair. Outstanding work and congratulations to all of the presenters!

March 15th, 2019
Congratulations to graduate student Quentin Altemose on receiving B-Lab venture support!

March 15th, 2019
Congratulations to Luc Langlois and Alicia Rocha on receiving UTRA Summer Research Awards!

March 7th, 2019

Brown News highlights our recently published collaborative work on Auranofin Releasing Antibacterial and Antibiofilm Polyurethane Intravascular Catheter Coatings!!

February 27th, 2019
Congratulations to lab alumni Luke Liu and graduate students Shashank Shukla and Noel Vera-González on the publication of their paper Auranofin Releasing Antibacterial and Antibiofilm Polyurethane Intravascular Catheter Coatings in Frontiers Cellular and Infection Microbiology!

February 5th, 2019
Congratulations to graduate student Dahlia Alkekhia for having her paper on the Influence of poly‐L‐lysine molecular weight on antibacterial efficacy in polymer multilayer films accepted for publication to Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A! Check it out here.

January 28th, 2019
Welcome to the lab new post-doctoral fellow Chao Yu!

October 28th-November 2nd, 2018
Professor Shukla and Graduate student Dahlia Alkekhia travel to Pittsburgh, PA for the 2018 AIChE Annual Meeting.

Monday, October 29th, 2018
Westin Conventional Center, Pennsylvania East, Pittsburgh, PA

Section: Functional Interfaces to Control Pathogenic or Beneficial Microbes
2:15pm
Dahlia Alkekhia, Anita Shukla
Paper 154f: Effect of Poly-L-Lysine Molecular Weight on Antibacterial Activity of Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Coated Surfaces

Section: Graduate Student Competition in Microbiointerface Research
3:30pm
Anita Shukla, Chair
Huan Gu, Co-Chair
Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez, Co-Chair

October 25th-28th, 2018
Undergraduate Soobin Wang and Sumaiya Sayeed travel to San Francisco , California to present their work at the 2018 Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference!

Congratulations to Soobin Wang for winning the poster competition in the engineering division!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 20, 2018
Congratulations to graduate student Bethany Almeida for winning the Young Scholar Conference poster competition!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 18-20, 2018
Dr. Shukla, Postdoctoral Fellow Alessia Battigelli, Graduate Student Dahlia Alkekhia, and Undergraduate Students Hannah Safford, Soobin Wang and Sumiaya Sayeed travel to Atlanta, Georgia to present their work at the Biomedical Engineering Society 2018 Conference!