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Kumar Lab, UC Berkeley

@kumarlabucb.bsky.social

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Lab of Prof. Sanjay Kumar, QB3-Berkeley Director. Dissecting, modeling, and controlling biology with materials & mechanics kumarlab.berkeley.edu

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Kumar Lab, UC Berkeley @kumarlabucb.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Congratulations to all the new Berkeley NAE inductees, including our collaborator of ~20y and former @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social director Dave Schaffer! Well-deserved and long overdue!!

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Kumar Lab, UC Berkeley @kumarlabucb.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Terribly sad to learn of Dr. Michael Sheetz's passing. Mike was a foundational figure in mechanobiology and a strong advocate for the field. He also made us all better by holding himself and others to the highest intellectual standards. Condolences and best wishes to Mike's family and friends.

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Kumar Lab, UC Berkeley @kumarlabucb.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Outstanding opportunity to lead a world-class core facility within @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social. Check it out and spread the word!

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Kumar Lab, UC Berkeley @kumarlabucb.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Amazing JB thread on JHU biophysics. Despite (because of?) its complexity, the PMB delivered a superb education... The 1st y core course in biophysical chemistry – led in the late 90s by Doug Barrick and Bertrand Garcia-Moreno – laid a rock solid foundation that continues to pay off decades later 🙏

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Kumar Lab, UC Berkeley @kumarlabucb.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

💯. Not stated enough!

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Kumar Lab, UC Berkeley @kumarlabucb.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Excited to share our new paper in @PNASNews on mixed, reconstituted neurofilaments (NFs)! This work was led by ChemE PhD student Erika Ding and done in collab w Prof. Rui Wang and ChemE PhD student Takashi Yokokura here at Berkeley pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Kumar Lab, UC Berkeley @kumarlabucb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Remember the 2008 call from @jeremymberg.bsky.social well! The DP2 was our first NIH award and key to launching our lab. Fascinating to hear the inside story, and grateful to all who created this remarkable program.

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Kumar Lab, UC Berkeley @kumarlabucb.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

What a pleasure visiting the iconic @notredame.bsky.social to give the AME/BioE seminar! Exciting to hear about the push to build in Bioengineering & Life Sciences, including some brilliant recent faculty recruitments and new lab space. Many thanks to @dhpgroup.bsky.social and colleagues ☘️

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Kumar Lab, UC Berkeley @kumarlabucb.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

New paper in Advanced Materials! We develop a family of 3D viscoelastic HA matrices and use them to study effects of stress relaxation on GBM invasion. Led by ChemE PhD student Emily Carvalho in collaboration with Andreas Stahl (UCB) and Manish Aghi (UCSF) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Viscoelastic High‐Molecular‐Weight Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels Support Rapid Glioblastoma Cell Invasion with Leader–Follower Dynamics

Glioblastoma spheroids invade faster in stress-relaxing, high-molecular-weight (HMW) hyaluronic acid hydrogels than in more elastic-like, low-molecular-weight counterparts. The long HMW chains create....

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