Recent News

Shukla Lab Group

May 26 2019

Congrats 2019 Graduates!!

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!

May 25 2019

2019 Engineering Award Dinner!

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 3 2019

Dr. Shukla travels to the University of Toronto!

Dr. Shukla travels to the University of Toronto to attend the Chemical Biophysics Symposium as keynote speaker.

April 25 2019

Congratulations Dr. Bethany Almeida!!

This morning 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 22 2019

Congratulations Dr. Shashank Shukla!!!

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 27 2019

Dr. Shukla receives a DURIP grant!

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

March 16 2019

Graduate Students act as Judges in the Rhode Island Science and Engineering Fair

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 15 2019

Congratulations Luc and Alicia!

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Congratulations to Luc Langlois and Alicia Rocha on receiving UTRA Summer Research Awards!

March 7 2019

Brown News highlights recent lab publication!



Luke Liu, Shashank Shukla and Noel Vera-González’s paper Auranofin Releasing Antibacterial and Antibiofilm Polyurethane Intravascular Catheter Coatings is highlighted in the Brown News!

March 1 2019

Congratulations Luke, Shashank and Noel!

Congratulations to lab alumni Hanyang 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 in Cellular and Infection Microbiology!