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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Postdoc Yaqing Huang gave a fantastic talk at the Durham Center for Senior Life on her ongoing heart failure research 🧪 #scisky #academicsky #scientificoutreach

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We are pleased to share our most recent publication by postdoc Jiyeon Song! 🧪 We used a 3D vascular network model featuring on-demand stiffening to investigate whether matrix stiffening alone can induce vascular senescence Read more here: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #scisky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Our July Journal club ⬇️🧪 "4D force patterning enables spatial control of angiogenesis" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #scisky #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Check out our latest publication: an artery-on-chip (ARTOC)! Our ARTOC mimics mechanical and functional properties of smooth muscle and can be used to model two separate vascular diseases: polycythemia and Hutchinson-Guilford Progeria Syndrome 🫀🧪 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

For our June Journal Club, we discussed "Human microphysiological systems of aging recreate the in vivo process expediting evaluation of anti-geronic strategies" from the Stahl Lab! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Our latest paper is out now in Nature Biomedical Engineering! Co-led by Ying-Yu Lin and Parker Esswein, we developed a protocol to differentiate human induced pluripotent stem cells into retinal endothelial cells (iRECs) & showcase applications. Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Our latest work, led by Dr. Connor Amelung, explores the impact of in situ stiffening on vascular networks and found that stiffening reduced pericellular remodeling by endothelial cells. Our findings have implications in aging & fibrosis #scisky 🧪 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Dynamic Matrix Stiffening Reprograms Endothelial Angiogenic Remodeling via α2‐Integrin Mechanotransduction

Dynamic extracellular matrix stiffening reprograms endothelial progenitors from a matrix-remodeling, angiogenic state to a stress-adaptive phenotype. Using phototunable hydrogels and functional force...

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

We are excited to share our new study led by postdoc Jiyeon Song using mechanically tunable hydrogels, multimodal OCT, and deep learning for non-invasive, real-time tracking of granulation tissue formation and vascular remodeling during wound healing 🎉🧪 #scisky www.cell.com/cell-biomate...

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Multimodal OCT with deep learning reveals in vivo healing dynamics in hydrogel-treated wounds

Wound healing involves complex biological changes beneath the skin surface that cannot be captured by visual inspection alone. This work presents an AI-powered, non-invasive imaging platform to track ...

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

We are celebrating Dr. Connor Amelung's successful defense! Congratulations and we are so very proud. Excited to see all you accomplish in your next role, and we will miss you! 🧪 #scisky #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Travis Brady on his fantastic defense!! We are so incredibly proud of him and his accomplishments and can't wait to see what he does next. 🧪🫀🥹 #scisky #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Our February journal club! 🧪 We discussed human blood vessel organoids ⬇️ www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #scisky #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Our January Journal Club! We discussed the role of cystine in vascular growth and repair 🧪🫀 #scisky www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Mechano-Senenscence Notch as a mechanosensor for Matrix Stiffness in Endothelial Cell in 3D Col-MA/HA-MA Hydrogel Light-inducible crosslinking/stiffening Stiffness-induced SASP in 3D EC distinct from canonical pro-inflamm SASP @gerechtlab.bsky.social bioRxiv 2025 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

As we enter 2026, we are reflecting back on the past year and all we have achieved! It was a year filled with challenges but also immense growth and accomplishment by our trainees. Here's to a productive and fulfilling 2026 🥂🎉🧪 #scisky #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Huge congratulations to postdoc Yaqing Huang who was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association! She will be studying persistent endothelial cell activation during fibrosis. We are so proud! 🫀🧪 #scisky #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Happy Holidays from the Gerecht Lab! Wishing everyone a safe and relaxing end of the year #academicsky #scisky 🧪☃️

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Congrats to postdoc Jenn for winning 1st place poster in Bladder Physiology at her first CAIRIBU conference! 🧪 #scisky #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween!! The Gerecht Lab’s Louvre Heist Crew stole the show at this years’ BME Department Halloween party 🦺💎

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Our very first Gerecht Lab Bakeoff was a huge success!! 🧁Congratulations to winner Makenzie who made delicious rice krispies! We had a fantastic variety of entries with lots of creativity on show. #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

A full house for our October journal club! We discussed an organotypic atlas of human vascular cells 🧪🔬🫀 #scisky #academicsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Parker Esswein for winning First Place Poster Award at the Bioengineered Tissue Systems & Models Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor! We are so proud 👏🧪 #scisky #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

We are having a great time at the Bioengineered Tissue Systems & Models Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor! PhD candidate Emily Warren presented her work on endothelial cell and pericyte crosstalk. 🧪🔬 #scisky #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

🚨New Gerecht Lab Pub!🚨 Check out our latest work where we demonstrate that direct endothelial cell-pericyte contact in the retina downregulates VEGFR2 in endothelial cells, promoting barrier function 🧪 #angiogenesis #retina #scisky iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Congratulations to our newest PhD Candidate, Marcos Negrete, who passed his prelim last week! He has made some incredible progress in his work on vascularized prostate cancer organoids 🧪🔬 #scisky #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Our September Journal Club! We discussed small-diameter artery grafts engineered from pluripotent stem cells #scisky #academicsky 🧪🔬🫀 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

We are welcoming two new undergraduate researchers this fall! Welcome to Carmen and Fernando 🧪🎉🔬 We are excited to see what they accomplish! #scisky #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Our August Journal Club! ☀️ We discussed functional roles for senescent cells across the body #scisky #academicsky 🧪🔬 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Congratulations to our postdoc, Jenn, who received the Duke KURe Fellowship in benign urology! #scisky 🧪🔬🎉 We are very excited to see her new project develop!

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Congratulations to our postdoc Yaqing who was selected as a Duke Scholar in Molecular Medicine! This nine month training program will give her hands-on experiences and shadowing in the clinic. We're so excited to hear about what she learns and how she'll apply it to her research! 🎉🧪🔬🫀 #scisky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

High school student Will spent the summer with us, working with PhD student Marcos to make prostate cancer organoids, through the DukeREP Program! He won 3rd place at the final poster symposium. We are so proud of how much he learned so quickly! 🧪🔬 #scisky #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

We are also so proud of our undergraduate, Dimitrios Owen, who has spent the summer in an REU at Wake Forest, and presented his work there at the NIDDK R25 Symposium! We're excited to have him back in the fall semester & looking forward to hearing about his summer! 🧪🔬 #scisky #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

We have had an incredible time at the Biomechanics in Vascular Biology & Disease GRC! Congrats to PhD candidate Emily Warren and postdoc Jiyeon Song for outstanding poster awards! We are so proud! 🧪🫀🔬 #scisky #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Our July Journal Club! We discussed the contribution of perivascular cells to mediating mechanical and structural changes in capillaries 🧪🫀 #academicsky #scisky www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

We're celebrating our newest PhD Candidate, Katherine Tang, who passed her preliminary exam last week! She has done some fantastic work with engineered arterial grafts to study atherosclerosis! 🧪🫀🔬 #scisky #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

A big congratulations to Parker Esswein, who passed his preliminary exam and became a PhD Candidate in May! He's made incredible progress on engineering the inner blood-retinal barrier and we are so excited for him 🧪🧑‍🚀 #scisky #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

We are enjoying some beautiful weather here at Duke! We have a lot of exciting research to share in the coming months, so keep your eyes peeled 👀 Here's to a summer of progress & fun! ☀️ #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Postdoc @jennhammel.bsky.social representing the lab today at the 2025 North Carolina Postdoc Symposium at the NC Biotechnology Center. We have an incredible community of scientists here in NC! #scisky #academicsky 🧪🔬

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Julian Nicenboim, our new Research Assistant Professor! Julian earned his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science, followed by 8 years in the biotech industry. He is interested in immune-endothelial cell crosstalk and enjoys sailing, cooking and photography #scisky 🧪

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Our June Journal Club! We discussed an immune-infiltrated cancer spheroid Model with vascular recirculation 🧪🔬 #scisky #academicsky advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Having an incredible time at the Duke BME Retreat! 🧪🫀🔬 @dukeubme.bsky.social #scisky #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Congratulations to our newly hooded PhDs, Dr. Dimitris Ntekoumes and Dr. Danielle Yarbrough! So proud! 🧪🫀🎉 #scisky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Our April journal club! We discussed engineered heart muscle allografts 🫀🧪🔬 #scisky #academicsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

We’re welcoming new MD-PhD student Eli Lawrence. He received his bachelors from UC San Diego and is interested in cell fate, angiogenesis, and cellular response to hypoxia in the context of human disease. He also enjoys playing guitar, saltwater aquariums, cats, and weight lifting! 🧪 #scisky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

We’re welcoming new post-doc Yaqing Huang 🧪🎉 She received her PhD from Yale University and is interested in the aging microenvironment and endothelial cell interactions. She also loves hiking, tennis, boardgames, and exploring new places and food!

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

March journal club! We discussed a living biobank of breast cancer organoids 🧪🔬 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #scisky #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

We had a great time at UNC for the IVB/MHI 2025 Annual Spring Research Symposium. Fantastic to see the strong local community of vascular biology researchers. Parker Esswein presented our work on engineering an inner blood-retinal barrier model! 🧪🧑‍🚀 #scisky #academicsky

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

🚨 Check out our latest work! We use an engineered matrix to show that stiffening induces M2 macrophage polarization in 3D, mediated by CaMKK2, with implications for tumor development and wound healing. 🧪 #academicsky #skisky advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Gerecht Lab @gerechtlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

We're celebrating the newly minted Dr. Yarbrough! A masterful defense and beautiful work. We're so proud! Congratulations! #skisky #academicsky 🧪

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