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!
Happy Holidays!!
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!!
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Professor Shukla and undergraduate Hannah Safford travel to Seattle, WA for the Society For Biomaterials Annual Meeting and Exposition!
1:00PM-3:00 PM
Concurrent Session 1, Yamika 1
From Bench-to-Bedside: Translating Biomaterials Research
Co-moderated by Professor Shukla
3:15PM-4:15PM
Concurrent Session 2, Skagit 2
Biomaterials for Therapeutic Drug Delivery
Co-moderated by Professor Shukla
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
10:30AM-12:30PM
Concurrent Session 3, Skagit 3
Targeted and Stimuli-Responsive Biomaterials
1:45PM-3:45PM
Concurrent Session 4, Skagit 2
Recent Advances in Antimicrobial and Antibiofilm Materials 1
Friday, April 5th, 2019
- Influence of Poly-L-Lysine Molecular Weight on Antibacterial Activity of Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Films
- Shukla*, D. Alkekhia; Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Poster Session
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-Gonzalez 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!
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Saturday, October 20, 2018
September 27, 2018
Congratulations to graduate student Dahlia Alkekhia and undergraduate students Soobin Wang and Sumaiya Sayeed! Dahlia was one of 20 students awarded the BMES Student Travel Award! Soobin and Sumaiya were selected to present at the 2018 Sigma Xi Student Research Conference!
September 4, 2018
Congratulations to Shashank Shukla for having his paper on Tunable Antibiotic Delivery from Gellan Hydrogels accepted for publication to Journal of Materials Chemistry B!
Shukla, S., and Shukla, A.“Tunable Antibiotic Delivery from Gellan Hydrogels”, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, DOI: 10.1039/C8TB00980E.
September 3, 2018
Welcome to the lab new graduate student Carly Deusenbery!
August 27-31, 2018
Professor Shukla travels to the Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp, São José dos Campos campus) to present as keynote speaker at the International Meeting on Designer Biomaterials: Applications in Infectious Diseases and Regenerative Medicine.
International Meeting on Designer Biomaterials: Applications in Infectious Diseases and Regenerative Medicine
August 19-23, 2018
Graduate student Dahlia Alkekhia and Postdoctoral Fellow Alessia Battigelli will be presenting their work at the 256th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition in Boston, MA! Make sure to catch their presentations:
Alessia Battigelli and Anita Shukla, Ph.D.
“Gellan hydrogels for the immobilization of mesenchymal stem cells”
Monday August 20, 2018
4:45-5:15 pm
Session: PMSE Future Faculty Symposium
Dahlia Alkekhia and Anita Shukla, Ph.D.
“Effect of Poly-L-lysine Molecular Weight on Antibacterial Activity in Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Assemblies”
Wednesday August 22, 2018
4:55-5:10 pm
Session: Surface, Interface & Coating Materials
August 17, 2018
Engineering picnic fun!
Engineering summer picnic: PC: Brown Engineering Instagram
August 2, 2018
Congratulations to UTRA students Hannah Safford, Soobin Wang, and Sumaiya Sayeed and undergraduate researcher Alicia Rocha on their poster presentations at Brown’s Summer Research Symposium!
Hannah Safford – Characterizing Chromogenic Beta-Lactamase Substrates for Diagnostic Hydrogels
Soobin Wang – Assembly of Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Films for Controlled Delivery of SHP099
Sumaiya Sayeed – Enrichment of JEG-3 Cells by Intrinsic Surface Adhesion Properties
Alicia Rocha – Increasing Mesenchymal Stem Cell Viability on Gellan Hydrogels with Click Chemistry
May 27, 2018
Congratulations to our graudating students, Luke Liu, Sc.M. and Paul Addonizio, Sc.B.! We wish them both the best!
May 11, 2018
Welcome to the lab new graduate student Yingying Wang!
April 30, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Anita Shukla for receiving the Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship! Check it out here!
April 25, 2018
Congratulations to graduate student Luke Liu on successfully defending his Sc.M. thesis in BME!
April 20-22, 2018
Graduate student Bethany Almeida has been accepted as a finalist for the Graduate Collegiate Competition at the Society for Women Engineer’s Providence WeLocal Conference! Make sure to catch her presentations:
Bethany Almeida and Anita Shukla, Ph.D.
“Influencing the physical and chemical microenvironment to control mesenchymal stem cell differentiation”
Poster Presentation: Saturday April 21, 2018 from 9:00-10:00 am
Lightning Talk: Friday April 20, 2018 from 3:00-3:13 pm
April 15-19, 2018
Professor Shukla presents at the 14th American Society for Microbiology Conference on Candida and Candidiasis in Providence, RI.
Vera-Gonzalez, N.A., Ribeiro, F.C., Santos, J.D., Junqueira, J.C., Ph.D., Shukla, A., Ph.D.
“Candida albicans aspartic protease-triggered antifungal hydrogels”
Wednesday April 18, 2018
2:15-2:30 pm
Session: Fungal-drug interactions
April 11-14, 2018
Graduate students Shashank Shukla and Noel Vera-Gonzalez, and Postdoctoral Fellow Alessia Battigelli will be traveling to Atlanta, GA to present their work at the 2018 Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting! Make sure to catch their presentations:
Noel Vera-Gonzalez and Anita Shukla, Ph.D.
“Combating Fungal Infections Using Responsive Hydrogels for Drug Delivery”
Thursday April 12, 2018
4:45-5:00 pm
Session: Therapeutic Strategies for the Treatment of Infectious Diseases
Shashank Shukla, Sc.M., Joseph Favata, Anubhav Tripathi, Ph.D., Sina Shahbazmohamadi, Ph.D., and Anita Shukla, Ph.D.
“Evaluation of Gellan Hydrogel Mictostructure and Drug Release Kinetics”
Poster: 830
Track: Intelligent Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications
Alessia Battigelli, Ph.D., Bethany Almeida, and Anita Shukla, Ph.D.
“Clicking Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Hydrogel Surfaces: Towards Applications in Wound Healing”
Poster: 827
Track: Intelligent Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications
March 17, 2018
Graduate students Bethany Almeida, Christina Bailey-Hytholt, and Noel Vera-Gonzalez acted as Judges at today’s Rhode Island Science and Engineering Fair. Congratulations to all of the presenters!
March 16, 2018
Congratulations to Undergraduate Student Researchers Hannah Safford, Soobin Wang, and Sumaiya Sayeed on receiving the UTRA Award for Summer Research!
October 28, 2017
Congratulations to Christina Bailey-Hytholt on her wedding!
October 11-14, 2017
Graduate students Christina Bailey and Noel Vera-Gonzalez and undergraduate student Tanaya Puranik are off to Phoenix, Arizona for the 2017 Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting!
Make sure you catch their talks:
Christina Bailey
Flow Induced Liposome Rupture into a Lipid Bilayer on Solid Surfaces using QCM-D
Thursday, October 12th at 4:45 pm in Room 224B
Session: Advanced Characterization and Imaging of Biomaterial Environments
Tanaya Puranik
Investigating Cholera Toxin Infection During Pregnancy Using an In Vitro Placental Model
Saturday, October 14th at 9:03 am in Room 226C
Session: Undergraduate Research, Design & Leadership I
Noel Vera-Gonzalez
Combating Candida albicans: Aspartic Protease-Triggered Hydrogels for Drug Delivery
Saturday, October 14th at 9:00 am in Room 224B
Session: Drug Delivering Biomaterials IV
September 29, 2017
Graduate students Dahlia Alkekhia and Bethany Almeida present posters at Brown University’s Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation’s 10th anniversary poster session.
Graduate students Dahlia Alkekhia and Bethany Almeida
Congratulations to Bethany Almeida on winning 2nd place in the poster competition!
September 27, 2017
Congratulations to Christina Bailey for having her paper on Effects of Flow and Bulk Vesicle Concentration on Supported Lipid Bilayer Formation accepted for publication to Langmuir!
September 5, 2017
Congratulations to Noel Vera-Gonzalez on passing his qualifying exam!
August 28, 2017
Congratulations to graduate students Christina Bailey and Noel Vera-Gonzalez and undergraduate student Tanaya Puranik on receiving the 2017 BMES Travel Award! Keep an eye out for their presentations at BMES from October 11-14, 2017!
August 23, 2017
Congratulations to Christina Bailey on passing her qualifying exam!
August 19, 2017
Congratulations to Shashank Shukla on his wedding!
August 3, 2017
Congratulations to Tanaya Puranik on her UTRA poster presentation at Brown’s Summer Research Symposium!
Tanaya Puranik – Investigating cholera toxin infection during pregnancy using an in vitro placental model
June 16, 2017
Bethany Almeida presents a poster on her work titled “Advanced Approaches to Employing Chemical and Physical Cues for Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation” in the Tissue Engineering track at the 2017 International Society for Stem Cell Research Annual Meeting in Boston, MA!
May 28, 2017
At Sunday’s Commencement ceremony, Sarah Cowles was awarded the Joseph Kestin Award of Excellence, given to the most outstanding undergraduate in the field of Thermodynamics, and the Outstanding Senior in Chemical Engineering Award! Congratulations Sarah!
Grant Menon recieved the Outstanding Senior in Biomedical Engineering Award! Congratulations Grant!
May 28, 2017
Congratulations to the class of 2017! Sarah Cowles, Marina Adrianzen, Kiran Dhatt-Gauthier, and Grant Menon all earned their Bachelor of Science in Engineering.
May 19, 2017
Congratulations to Sarah Cowles for receiving the Society for Biomaterials Drug Delivery Special Interest Group Research Award!
May 4, 2017
Congratulations to Tinotenda Gwisai, Nisha Hollingsworth, and Sarah Cowles for having their paper titled “Repurposing niclosamide as a versatile antimicrobial surface coating against device-associated, hospital-acquired bacterial infections” accepted for publication to Biomedical Materials! This paper was the result of collaborative research between the Shukla Lab and the Fuchs and Mylonakis labs at Rhode Island Hospital.
May 1, 2017
Congratulations to Marina Adrianzen and Sarah Cowles for presenting their senior thesis at the Engineering Undergraduate Research Symposium! They both did an excellent job with their presentations!
April 28, 2017
Prof. Anita Shukla receives a 2017 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching! This award recognizes only two Brown University assistant professors or lecturers each year. She will receive a research grant in the amount of $3,000 for each of the following two academic years. Congratulations!!! Read more about it here.
April 5-8, 2017
Prof. Anita Shukla heads to Minneapolis to present at the 2017 Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting:
- Thursday, April 6, 5:15 PM, oral presentation, Surface Characterization and Modification Session: “Investigating the Degradation of Alkanethiol Self-assembled Monolayer Surfaces in Messenchymal Stem Cell Culture”
- Friday, April 7, 4:15 PM, oral presentation, Advances in Antimicrobial Biomaterials Session: “Antimicrobial Smart Materials: From Responsive Hydrogels to Polymer-Drug Conjugates”
Prof. Shukla will also be chairing:
- Thursday, April 6, 2:30 PM: Biomaterials for Therapeutic Drug Delivery
- Friday, April 7, 3:45 PM: Advances in Antimicrobial Biomaterials
March 22, 2017
Prof. Anita Shukla receives an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Director of Research Early Career Grant! Read about it here. Congratulations!!!
March 17, 2017
Congratulations to Sarah Cowles on becoming an NSF Graduate Research Fellow!!!!
March 16, 2017
Congratulations to undergraduate student Tanaya Puranik for receiving an UTRA Award for her upcoming summer research!
March 2, 2017
Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Shashank Shukla on passing his qualifying exam! He did a great job!
December 14, 2016
Congratualtions to Marina Adrianzen and her Capstone project team on winning 1st place at the Biomedical Engineering Capstone Design Poster Symposium! Their work was titled: Real-Time Kidney Blood Flow Monitoring Post-Transplant.
Team Members (from left to right): Regine Rosas, Cynthia Hale-Phillips, Saisanjana Kalagara, and Marina Adrianzen
November 28 – December 2, 2016
Bethany Almeida, Noel Vera-Gonzalez, Sarah Cowles, Lauren Levy, and Shashank Shukla present at the 2016 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting at Hynes Convention Center in Boston. Great job everyone!
Bethany Almeida, 11/28, oral presentation in BM3, Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine: “Timed-Dependent Effects of Confinement on Stem Cell Differentiation Using Degradable Protein Patterned Surfaces”
Noel Vera-Gonzalez, 11/28, poster presentation in BM3, Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine: “Combating Candida albicans: Aspartic Protease-Triggered Antifungal Hydrogels”
Sarah Cowles, 11/29, oral presentation in BM2, Stimuli Responsive Organic and Inorganic Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications and Biosafety: “Bacteria-Responsive Hyaluronic Acid-Penicillin Conjugates as Highly Effective, Versatile Antibacterial Polymers” (First author Nisha Hollingsworth)
Lauren Levy, 11/29 oral presentation in BM3, Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine: “Delivery of Kartogenin-Conjugated Hyaluronic Acid for Enhancing In Vitro Chondrogenic Differentiation”
Shashank Shukla, 12/01 oral presentation in BM1, Spatiotemporally and Morphologically-Controlled Biomaterials for Medical Applications: ‘Effects of Gellan Hydrogel Formulations on Drug Release and Mechanical Properties”
Congratulations to Noel Vera-Gonzalez on winning best poster in Monday’s Poster Session I!
November 11-14, 2016
Sarah Cowles presents at the 2016 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Student Conference in San Francisco, CA! Congrats Sarah!
Sarah Cowles, 11/13, oral presentation in the Undergraduate Research Forum I: “Functionalized Liposome Delivery Targeting Opportunistic Fungi”
October 27, 2016
Congratulations to Roya Sheybani for having her paper titled “Highly Sensitive Label-Free Dual Sensor Array for Rapid Detection of Wound Bacteria” accepted for publication to Biosensors and Bioelectronics!
October 5-8, 2016
Dahlia Alkekhia, Shashank Shukla, and Sarah Cowles present at the 2016 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN. Great job everyone!
Dahlia Alkekhia, 10/08, oral presentation in the Drug Delivery track: “Multilayer Polymeric Films Exhibiting Controlled & beta-Lactamase-Triggered Antibiotic Release”
Shashank Shukla, 10/08, oral presentation in the Hydrogel Biomaterials I track: “Analysis of Gellan Hydrogel Drug Release Kinetics and Rheological Properties”
Sarah Cowles, 10/08, poster presentation in the Undergraduate Research track: “A Novel Liposomal Formulation Targeting Candida albicans”
September 29, 2016
Congratulations to Bethany Almeida for having her paper on the degradation of alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers in mesenchymal stem cell culture accepted for publication to the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part A!
September 9, 2016
Congratulations to Dahlia Alkekhia on becoming a Ph.D. candidate!
September 6, 2016
Congratulations to graduate student Bethany Almeida on winning best poster in the category of Regenerative Engineering at the BME & Biotechnology Graduate Program Retreat!
August 28, 2016
Congratulations to Samantha Gates for having her paper on readily delaminating polyelectrolyte multilayers accepted for publication to the Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics!
August 22, 2016
Congratulations to Postdoctoral Fellow Roya Sheybani on her new job as Senior Research Engineer at Cytovale Inc. We all wish Roya the best!
August 12-14, 2016
Graduate students Bethany Almeida, Christina Bailey, Shashank Shukla, and Noel Vera-Gonzalez present their work at the 2016 IIT Leadership Conference here in Providence, RI!
Congratulations to Shashank Shukla on winning best poster in the Life Sciences and Health Care track!
Shashank: Advanced Nanoparticle-Loaded Antibacterial Gellan Hydrogels for Treatment of Burn Infections
August 5, 2016
Congratulations to Sarah Cowles and Kiran Dhatt-Gauthier on their UTRA poster presentations at Brown’s Summer Research Symposium!
Sarah: A Novel Liposomal Formulation Targetting Opportunistic Fungi
Kiran: Gellan-CENTA as a Beta-Lactamase Responsive Antimicrobial Hydrogel
June 6-8, 2016
Professor Shukla and graduate student Bethany Almeida present at the 90th ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA!
Professor Shukla, 6/7, Keynote Lecture, Biological Interfaces: Microorganisms, Cells, & Gells: “Antimicrobial smart materials: From responsive hydrogels to polymer-drug conjugates”
Bethany Almeida, 6/8, oral presentation: “Intrinsic degradation of alkanethiol self-assembled monolayer surfaces for cell confinement studies”
June 1, 2016
Welcome to the lab, undergraduate researchers William O’Gara and Zakir Tahiry!
May 29, 2016
Congratulations to our graduating students in the Class of 2016! Samantha Gates earned her Sc.M. in Biomedical Engineering. Johnathan Davis graduated with his Sc.B. in Biomedical Engineering. Tinotenda Gwisai earned an Sc.B. with honors in Biomedical Engineering. Lauren Levy earned an Sc.B. with honors in Biochemistry.
May 17-22, 2016
Graduate students Bethany Almeida and Nisha Hollingsworth present at the World Biomaterials Congress in Montreal, Quebec, Canada!
Check out their published abstracts here:
- Bethany Almeida, 5/18, 3 PM, poster presentation: “Intrinsically degradable protein patterns for temporal stem cell engineering”
- Nisha Hollingsworth, 5/22, 3:30 PM, oral presentation: “Antifouling coatings utilizing highly effective hyaluronic acid-penicillin conjugates”
April 11, 2016
Congratulations to graduate student Samantha Gates on successfully defending her Sc.M. thesis in BME!
March 29, 2016
Graduate student Nisha Hollingsworth receives an honorable mention for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship!
March 24, 2016
Professor Shukla awarded a grant from the Rhode Island Foundation to study stem cell chondrogenesis for osteoarthritis therapies!
March 22, 2016
Check out this article featured on the Brown website profiling Roya Sheybani as a Hibbitt Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow!
March 16, 2016
Congratulations to undergraduate students Sarah Cowles and Kiran Dhatt-Gauthier for receiving an UTRA Award for their upcoming summer research!
March 1, 2016
Welcome to the lab, undergraduate researcher Tanaya Puranik!
January 23, 2016
Welcome to the lab, undergraduate researcher Kiran Dhatt-Gauthier!
December 17, 2015
Check out Professor Shukla’s new publication on the effects of biomimetic geometries on stem cell differentiation!
December 9, 2015
Congratulations to the Shukla Lab’s first Ph.D. candidate, Bethany Almeida, for passing her qualifying exam!
October 8, 2015
Graduate student Shashank Shukla presents at the Biomedical Enginnering Society (BMES) annual meeting in Tampa, FL (10/7-10/10). Check out his poster presentation, entitled “Advanced Nanoparticle-Loaded Antibacterial Gellan Hydrogels for Treatment of Burn Infections”
September 9, 2015
Welcome to the lab, undergraduate student Sarah Cowles!
September 2, 2015
Welcome to the lab, graduate student Noel Vera-Gonzalez!
August 27, 2015
Welcome to the lab, graduate student Christina Bailey!
August 12, 2015
Welcome to the lab, postdoctoral researcher Roya Sheybani!
July 6, 2015
Welcome to the lab, undergraduate researcher Johnathan Davis!
June 17-18, 2015
Graduate students Nisha Hollingsworth and Shashank Shukla present at the 3rd Stevens Conference for Bacteria Material Interactions in Hoboken, NJ.
Check out their presentations:
- Nisha Hollingsworth, 6/17, 12 PM, oral presentation: “Facile, Aqueous Synthesis of Hyaluronic Acid-Penicillin Conjugates Exhibiting Superior Antibacterial Efficacy”
- Shashank Shukla, 6/18, poster presentation: “Tunable Antibacterial Gellan Hydrogels for Burn Infections”
June 8, 2015
Welcome to the lab, undergraduate researcher Christian Dosdos!
May 24, 2015
Congratulations to our graduating students in the Class of 2015! Shashank Shukla earned his Sc.M. in Biomedical Engineering. Theresa Cloutier earned an Sc.B. in Chemical Engineering. Samantha Gates and Jenna Norton earned an Sc.B. with honors in Biomedical Engineering.
May 20, 2015
Congratulations to our incoming postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Roya Sheybani, for being awarded the Hibbitt Engineering Fellowship (see USC news)!
May 1, 2015
Our undergraduate student Lauren Levy is featured on the Brown homepagefor her Royce Fellowship! Check out the full story here.
April 22, 2015
Congratulations to graduate student Shashank Shukla on successfully defending his Sc.M. thesis in BME!
April 15-18, 2015
Undergraduate student Samantha Gates and graduate students Bethany Almeida and Shashank Shukla head to Charlotte to present at the Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting
Check out their presentations:
- Bethany- Thursday, 4/16, 4 PM, oral presentation: “Towards Degradable Protein Patterns for the Characterization of Temporal Stem Cell Behavior”
- Shashank- Friday, 4/17, 10:45 AM, oral presentation: “Tunable Antibacterial Gellan Hydrogels for Burn Wounds”
- Samantha- Thursday, 4/16, and Friday, 4/17, poster presentation: “Detachable Polymeric Films for Applications in Drug Delivery”
Also, check out the sessions Professor Shukla is chairing:
- Wednesday, 4/15: Targeted and target-activated drug delivery
- Thursday, 4/16:
–Advances in programmable biomaterials for drug delivery and regenerative medicine
–Academic-industry collaborations in biomaterials research - Friday, 4/17: Advanced antimicrobial materials
- Saturday, 4/17: Advanced antimicrobial materials 2
March 31, 2015
Congratulations, graduate student Dahlia Alkekhia, on receiving the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! Incoming Ph.D. students Christina Bailey and Noel Vera-Gonzalez also received this presitigious award.
March 24, 2015
Professor Shukla presents in the Polymeric Biomaterials Symposium at the American Chemical Society National Meeting
March 20, 2015
Congratulations to undergraduate student Lauren Levy on receiving a Royce Fellowship to support her summer research proposal!
March 13, 2015
Congratulations to undergraduate student Tinotenda Gwisai on receiving an UTRA Award for her upcoming summer research!
January 21, 2015
Welcome to the lab, undergraduate student Grant Menon!
January 8, 2015
Professor Shukla presents at the Sigma Xi Lecture Series, U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development, & Engineering Center
November 17, 2014
Professor Shukla presents at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting 2014 Bionanotechnology Plenary Session
Congratulations, undergraduate student Theresa Cloutier, for winning third place in her category at the AIChE national student poster competition!
November 12, 2014
Professor Shukla presents at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
August 2014
Welcome to the lab, graduate students Dahlia Alkekhia and Nisha Hollingsworth!
June 2014
Welcome to the lab, undergraduate students Theresa Cloutier and Tinotenda Gwisai!
May 2014
Welcome to the lab, undergraduate student Lauren Levy!
July 23, 2014
Professor Shukla awarded a grant from the Office of Naval Research for antimicrobial field dressings
July 10, 2014
Professor Shukla receives DEANS Award for advances in pathogenesis and medical research
May 16, 2014
Professor Shukla presents in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology Seminar Series at Brown University.
April 10, 2014
Congratulations to Bethany and Prof. Shukla for publishing the first paper from the Shukla Lab!
March 20, 2014
Professor Shukla presents in the University of Rhode Island Amgen Seminar Series in Chemical Engineering
January 2014
Professor Shukla awarded Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award
November 15, 2013
Professor Shukla presents at Wellesley College
November 7, 2013
Professor Shukla presents at AIChE National Meeting in San Francisco, CA
November 5, 2013
Professor Shukla presents at IBM Research – Almaden, San Jose, CA
October 2, 2013
Professor Shukla presents at the COBRE and Orthopaedic Research Meeting
September 2013
Welcome to the lab, undergraduate students Jenna Norton and Samantha Gates!
September 2013
Welcome to the lab, graduate students Shashank Shukla and Bethany Almeida!
July 1, 2013
Professor Shukla starts her new position at Brown!
New Brown Faculty: Anita Shukla
New Engineering Faculty
Two Women Join Brown Engineering Faculty