bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026📣 CMBE Council Member Nominations are open Nominate a colleague or yourself to help lead the CMBE community Deadline January 30 2026 at 11:59 PM ET Submit here 👉 forms.gle/NwyHh1JB7CuV...forms.gle 012
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026🫀🔥 When inflammation flares, the heart feels it. Dr. Renita Horton (University of Houston) investigates how inflammation drives autoimmune-mediated cardiovascular disease. Decoding immune signals with cardiac consequences. #CMBE2026 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026🧬⚙️ When cells feel the beat, function follows. Dr. Kelly Vazquez (Wheaton College) links mechanical cues to oscillatory dynamics, cytoskeletal remodeling, and functional markers in β-cells. Mechanics set the rhythm. #CMBE2026 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026🚀🧬 Momentum isn’t just speed—it’s sustained impact. Congratulations to Momentum Award winner Jianping Fu (Univ Michigan) from BioMEMS to stem cells to developmental bioengineering and mechanobiology, always pushing the field to new directions and dimensions. #CMBE2026 031
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026⚡🎓3 talks. 3'. Grad Student Awardees David Gazzo (NotreDame) tunes mechanical Ca²⁺ signaling, Connor Devine (U Penn) assembles functional TCRs in a day, and Farnaz Naeemikia (Penn State) designs autonomous, reversible switches for smarter cell therapies. #CMBE2026 021
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026🫁🧬Organoids work better with immune cells inside. Rising Star Awardee Elizabeth Wayne (University of Washington) optimizes incorporation of monocytes and monocyte-derived macrophages into human airway organoids. Building airways with immunity included.🌟 #CMBE2026 #RisingStar 173
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026🧬🛡️ If you want to infiltrate tumors, send in the pros. Congrats to Postdoctoral Travel Awardee Charles Park (Harvard)! Charles reimagines macrophages as a platform for tumor-infiltrating immunotherapy. Built to enter. Engineered to fight. #CMBE2026 #PostdocAward 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026🗣️🧬 When healing hits the right note. Dr. Donald Freytes (NC State) shows how injecting vocal fold lamina propria–derived hydrogels can modulate fibrosis in injured vocal folds. Engineering recovery you can hear. #CMBE2026 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026🧠🍬In the brain, sugar matters. Rising Star Awardee Juhi Samal (Univ of Alabama Birmingham) reveals how microglial glycan remodeling—from the cell surface to mitochondria—shapes aging and stroke responses. Sweet chemistry. Serious consequences. 🌟 #CMBE2026 #RisingStar 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026🧬❄️ To heat up cold tumors, change the environment. Rising Star Pilar de la Puente (Sanford Research, Univ of North Dakota) engineers physiologically relevant, patient-derived tumor–immune models to target immunologically cold high-grade serous tumors.🌟 #CMBE2026 032
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026🧬🌱 Start early. Engineer carefully. Heal better. Rising Star Awardee Dake Hao (UC Davis) engineers the fetal environment to treat spina bifida bone defects. When timing is everything, so is design. 🌟 #CMBE #RisingStar 021
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026🌍🧬 Bioengineering works best when patients lead the way. Vision Keynote Speaker Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez (UT Austin Biomedical) putting patients at the center of design brings bioengineering innovation to the clinic. Innovation with purpose. #CMBE2026 022
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026⚡🎓 Graduate Student Awardees María del C. Ramos-Álamo (U Puerto Rico) uses deep learning image profiling to reveal morphological markers, while Yansong Peng (Cornell) shows how normalizing tumor lymphatic drainage can boost immunotherapy. Fast talks. Sharp insights. #CMBE2026 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026🧬⏳ Aging leaves signatures—immune cells keep the record. Congrats to Postdoctoral Travel Awardee Anthony Fung (Yale University)! Anthony uses multi-modal senotyping to map how immune cells change during aging. Reading immunity across time. #CMBE2026 #PostdocAward 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Audrey McCarthy (from Tejal Desai lab, Brown University) presents EGFR-targeted lipid nanoparticles to enhance endometrial uptake in vitro. Precision delivery, by design. #CMBE2026 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026👀🫁 Disease doesn’t ignore sex—models shouldn’t either. Mark Mondrinos (Tulane University) uses sex-specific microphysiological systems to study hormone effects in diabetic retinopathy and lung cancer. Context changes outcomes. #CMBE2026 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026🦠🫀When the gut talks, heart valves listen. Rising Star Awardee Ana Maria Porras (University of Florida) shows how TMAO induces valve cell activation and ECM production via PERK-dependent ER stress. Metabolites with mechanical consequences. 🌟 #CMBE2026 x.com/i/status/200...x.com 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026🧬🧭 Where mechanics change, function follows. Rising Star Jennifer Young (Nat. Univ. of Singapore) uses spatial mechanomics to uncover how extracellular matrix mechanics are regulated in ovarian aging dysfunction. Mapping mechanics to understand aging. 🌟 #CMBE2026 x.com/i/status/200...x.com 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026🌱🧬💡Resilient science doesn’t resist change—it uses it. Dr. Ariella Shikanov (Univ Michigan Ann Arbor) challenges us with a story of resilience, scientific adaptability, and accelerating women’s health innovation. Vision that adapts. Science that delivers. #CMBE2026 #WomensHealth 022
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026👀🧬 When the big picture includes every cell. Jie Luo (Purdue) pushes whole-body imaging to single-cell resolution. Big picture. Tiny details. #CMBE2026 #Imaging 011
Reposted by @bmes-cmbe.bsky.socialBrendan Harley @profharley.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Was disappointed to miss the conference. Thanks to the organizers, @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social, and everyone who made it out to #cmbe2026. A privilege to be invited and share my perspective on the future of bioengineering. ❤️ 174
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🧬⚡Healing isn’t one-size-fits-all. Vision Speaker Jenny Robinson (University of Washington) challenges how we think - reDEFINING: Hormones, Healing, and the Future of Sports Medicine. Science that changes the game. #CMBE2026 032
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🎯🧬 Adaptive immunity is programmable. Michelle Teplensky (Boston University), Rising Star Awardee, reveals how intracellular antigen processing can be tuned to bias immune outcomes. Precision immunoengineering. 🌟 #CMBE2026 #ImmunoEngineering 041
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🧬📦If cells could schedule deliveries, this would be it. Thunyapat Silpsamrit @thunyasilps engineer mammalian cells with synthetic control over secretory phenotypes—boosting bioproduction and enabling neuroendocrine-like regulated secretion. #CMBE2026 #SyntheticBiology 022
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🧠🧬 If you want to understand the brain, build one. Congrats to Postdoc Travel Awardee Xun Wang (MIT/MGH)! Xun engineers 3D human brain models to uncover the mechanical mechanisms driving Alzheimer’s disease. Thinking about neurodegeneration in 3D. #CMBE2026 041
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🧬🖨️ From soft to stiff—printed without limits. Yunzhi Peter Yang (Stanford) breaks boundaries with hybrid bioprinting across seven orders of mechanical magnitude. When biology spans the full spectrum. #CMBE2026 #Bioprinting 031
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🧬💪 When metabolism changes, muscle gets the message. Alis Balayan (UCSD) examine how obesity alters adipogenic regulation in human skeletal muscle. Context matters—even for muscle identity. #CMBE2026 #MetabolicBio 021
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🧬🕵️ Nanoparticles in disguise. Mark Kuei-Chun Wang (ASU), Rising Star Awardee, designs monocyte-mimetic nanoparticles that home to atherosclerotic plaques for targeted theranostics. When delivery systems blend in, precision follows. 🌟 #CMBE2026 #RisingStar 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Thanks to Dr. Kareem Azab, here with Cellatrix co-founder Dr. Pilar de la Puente (University of South Dakota), for leading the workshop From Idea to Industry: Navigating the Path from Lab to Market #CMBE2026 #benchtobusiness 🧪🧫💸 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Coming to #CMBE2026 is a great opportunity to learn about priorities of funding agencies - thanks to Dr. Beth Pruitt for a great overview of the Keck Foundation funding! 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🦴🩸 Strong bones need strong blood. Karina Nakayama @KarinaNakayama (OHSU) shows how treating injury-associated anemia with intravenous iron can regulate bone healing and reduce fatigue after orthopedic trauma. Healing starts in the bloodstream. #CMBE2026 #OrthopaedicResearch 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🔊🧬 Delivery platforms with volume control. Huiliang Wang (UT Austin), Rising Star Awardee, designs H-bonded organic frameworks that respond to ultrasound for programmable delivery. Precision you can tune. 🌟 #CMBE2026 #RisingStar 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Welcome to CMBE 2026! We are excited to kick off the CMBE Conference here in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Here's to an exciting few days of scientific discovery and collaboration. 🌴✨ #CMBE2026 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026An absolutely fantastic talk by Beth Pruitt (UC Santa Barbara) recipient of the Chris Jacobs Award for Excellence in Leadership - a life of service for science and the scientific community and moving tribute to the late Chris Jacobs #CMBE2026 021
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026💊🧬Diagnostics you can swallow. Insights you can trust. Rising Star Awardee Leslie Chan (Georgia Tech) develops ingestible molecular probes for non-invasive monitoring of microbiome drug metabolism. Precision from the inside out🌟 #CMBE2026 #RisingStar 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026From a wrist brace to engineering living materials to reduce carbon footprint - a visionary talk by Dr. Chris Hernandez (UCSF) on how to re-Imagine our expertise from what we know to all that we can actually do to change the world #CMBE2026 @UCSFMedicine 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026What better way to start the day than talking about "The things we do for love" (10cc) with Dr. Rob Mauck (UPenn) and Miss Mouse, the love of his life, and reFocusing on joint health and repair: Short circuiting mechano-biology to provide a New Leash on Life #CMBE2026 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Lightning Talks: context drives biology—from sex-dependent macrophage responses (@drerikamoore.bsky.social, Prof. Erika Moore, UMD), to ECM cues shaping cellular phenotypes (Abhishek Sharma, UCSB), to adhesion and paracrine “education” steering GBM invasion (Abhinaba Banerjee, UCSD). #CMBE2026 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🧬🧱When tissues get stiff, biology gets loud. Prof. Jacopo Ferruzzi (UT Dallas) explores the physical hallmarks of early-onset colorectal cancer—from tissue stiffening to altered epithelial proliferation. Sometimes the earliest warning signs are mechanical. #CMBE2026 #Mechanobiology 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🔍🦠 Patterns matter—especially in the microbiome. Ivana Parker (University of Florida) uses predictive modeling to understand bacterial vaginosis in a Tanzanian cohort of women living with HIV. Data-driven insights, real-world impact. #CMBE2026 #GlobalHealth 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🧬🔍 Same gene. Different context. Different story. Rising Star Jose L. McFaline-Figueroa (Columbia BME) decodes context-dependent gene function using scalable single-cell technologies. Because genes don’t act alone—they read the room. 🌟 #CMBE2026 #RisingStar 021
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🧬 Wired into living transcriptomes. Rising Star Awardee Jina (U Penn BioEng) showcases nanowire-based live cell profiling for dynamic, real-time transcriptomic monitoring. The future of single-cell analysis is live. ⚡🌟 #CMBE2026 #RisingStar 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Prof. Brendan Harley @profharley.bsky.social joining us virtually to bring his experience "at the intersection of health, society & imagination" trying to "identify new boundary conditions to make healthcare more equitable" working across #regeneration, #complexity & #cancervaccine #CMBE2026 052
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🧬🧱 When the matrix sets the direction. Congrats to Postdoc Travel Awardee Zihan Ling (Carnegie Mellon) who uses chemoselective tools to map new ECM deposition and reveal how the ECM guides bioengineered tumor development. Turns out, the matrix writes the roadmap. 🗺️ #CMBE2026 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🧬 Tumor survival isn’t just biological—it’s mechanical. Duy Nguyen (Moffit Cancer Center, University of South Florida) shows how matrix mechanics confer resilience when tumors are pushed to the limit. Built to withstand. #CMBE2026 #MatrixMechanics 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🔴⚡ When mitochondria light the way. Joyce Chen (University of Chicago) uses optogenetics to trigger mitochondria-carrying extracellular vesicles—then tracks glowing red signals from one cell to another, live. Seeing power&information transfer in real time. #CMBE2026 #Optogenetics 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Bin Jiang (Northwestern) shows how surface-engineered mitochondria can be transplanted to repair abdominal aortic aneurysms—using innovative, translatable approaches inspired by natural mitochondrial transfer👀. The powerhouse is on the move. #CMBE2026 #Bioengineering 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🧬📬 When RNA doesn’t just deliver a message—it rings the doorbell. Hua Wang (UIUC) shows how self-adjuvanting α-helical polypeptides deliver neoantigen mRNAs. When RNA shows up on the cell surface, the immune system listens. 👀 #CMBE2026 #ImmunoEngineering 021
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Native Puerto Rican Kevin Alicea-Torres brings us home with “REconnecting Cancer Research to People,” a talk about science, community, and reimagining impact where it truly matters. The perfect welcome to Puerto Rico - bienvenidos a Puerto Rico. 🌊📷 #CMBE2026 011
bmes-cmbe.bsky.social @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🏋️♀️🧬 Engineered muscle hits the gym. Tamara Rossy, Postdoctoral Travel Awardee, shares approaches to enhance the maturity of human iPSC-derived skeletal muscle. Because functional muscle doesn’t skip leg day. 💪 #CMBE2026 041
