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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D.

@monicaohnsorg.bsky.social
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Bottlebrush polymers and bioengineering! 🦡 Assistant Prof, UW-Madison BME • 🥼 Postdoc, CU Boulder • Anseth Lab • 🎓PhD, UMN • Reineke/Bates • 📚BS, Hope College • ohnsorglab.engr.wisc.edu Hobbies: ☕️ 🖼️ 👩‍🎨⛷️🏕️🏔️🪴🍁🥾

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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The Ohnsorg Lab has officially launched at UW-Madison in the Department of Biomedical Engineering! One week down. Looking forward to this semester starting and continuing to learn the ropes on campus! ✨ Check out our shiny and new lab website! ohnsorglab.engr.wisc.edu
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whitney loo @whitneysloo.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
first Loo Lab paper is out now in @pubs.acs.org! here we show how polymer blends can tune Li ion solvation site and enhance ion transport read it here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I love this book! I am convinced that this book should be a new reading assignment in high school language arts classes! So many good themes and perspectives on vocation.
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Thanks so much, Sam! You and your team have been such a great resource!! 🔬
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Thank you so much, Stanna!!! I’m excited to see where you end up in the future! 😊
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Absolutely! I would love to chat. I will be on campus starting in January.
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Thank you!!! 😊
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Thanks, Victoria!! 😊
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Thank you, Cole!! Feeling very grateful and excited to start this next step!
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
So excited to get to campus!! On Wisconsin! 🦡
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Thanks, Taimoor!!
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Thank you!!
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Absolutely! Excited to keep using bottlebrush polymers in the future!
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Thank you so much!
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Louis and I are beyond excited to be moving back close to family and friends in Wisconsin and Minnesota come January! This is a dream position, and I am so grateful for the opportunity!
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Finally thank you to my parents, partner, and whole family for their unwavering support while I have pursued this goal! Now on to new goals of great science, mentoring, and teaching the next generation of scientists when we need them most!
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Nate Richbourg @nrichbourg.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I am incredibly excited to share that I will be starting as an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the CBE Department at FAMU-FSU College of Engineering this fall! Ready for some Florida sunshine 😁
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🌟 I would not be here without the help of mentors like Kristi Anseth, Theresa Reineke, Frank Bates, and Beth Anderson! Thank you to everyone who helped answer questions along the way - specifically Michael Blatchley, Brian Aguado, Adrianne Rosales, Guilhem De Hoe, Teresa Rapp, and Natalie Boehnke!
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I am THRILLED to officially announce that I have accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison starting January 2026! My lab will use expertise in polymer science, biomaterials, and ECM engineering study osteochondral disease! 🦡 🔬🧪🧫 🦴
Me holding a scarf that says biomedical engineering while wearing a UW-Madison branded winter hat and quarter zipA pin that says MAD-ison Scientist Me popping a bottle of champagne while wearing UW-Madison quarter-zip standing on a balcony in front of the Flatirons
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Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 16/05/2025
This is incredible. This is the kind of stuff that's why we do science.
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Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This is so demoralizing. We are losing critical ECR funding from all sources..and in doing so, losing the future of science. Who will stand up for these vulnerable communities?!
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
It’s graduation season! 🎓I am incredibly proud of Kayla Mash, double major in Biochem and Applied Math with a minor in Biomedical Engineering who has conducted research with me the past 3 years! Today she graduates with honors and was awarded Outstanding Biochemistry Student Award at graduation!
Kayla receiving the Outstanding Biochemistry Award on a graduation stageKayla and I standing in front of her Honors thesis defense title slide
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/05/2025
The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion. Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more. If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
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Dr. Froggy Banjo @froggybanjo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Tell me how tariffs are good?
Letter from Millipore Sigma explaining why they are going to have to add a tarrif surcharge to orders.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
180 higher education leaders from US colleges & universities released a joint statement condemning Trump’s efforts to control universities. The government’s “political interference” and “overreach” is “now endangering higher education in America,” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
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More Than 180 Academic Leaders Condemn Trump’s ‘Overreach’
The statement came a day after Harvard University sued the administration over its decision to freeze billions of dollars in federal funding, following the schoo’s refusal to submit to a list of deman...
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Bri Barbu @bribarbu.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The NSF cut the number of graduate research fellowships awarded this year by about half, further eroding US grad students' opportunities to secure career-boosting $$$ for 🧪⚛️🔬 Words by me + Data analysis by @leighkboerner.bsky.social now online @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/policy/resea...
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NSF halves graduate fellowship awards
Students from all fields lose out on tens of millions of dollars in career-boosting funds this year
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Nate Richbourg @nrichbourg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Sharing all my research via a tutorial website was the most unique idea I had during my PhD. I took advantage of my years of blogging experience via Wordpress, but it still took a lot of work. I'm glad it has connected me to scientists across the globe. Visit hydrogeldesign.org to learn more!
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Hydrogel Design - Make better hydrogels.
A scientific communication platform for hydrogel design by Nate Richbourg
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Mark Levin @levinchem.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
M. Gessen hits the nail on the head, yet again www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
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Nicole Friend, PhD @nicolefriend.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I am excited to share that the final paper from my graduate work has now been published! Thank you to everyone at UM who helped me push this over the finish line! This work focuses on the development of vascularizing PEG-based microgels! Check it our here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Biofabrication and Characterization of Vascularizing PEG‐Norbornene Microgels
Establishing a robust, functional microvascular network remains a critical challenge for both the revascularization of damaged or diseased tissues and the development of engineered biological materia....
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Several thoughts about this very helpful interview on NYT w Chris Eisgruber, president of Princeton, about existential attacks on higher ed, how and what solidarity among American universities looks like. And why it's worth the listen. (Also a dopey headline.) 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...
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The University President Willing to Fight Trump
Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Since starting as a #NewPI, I've been feeling the weight of my impact on the future of my students. Which makes it so difficult to empathize with the people that have so much more power than me when they don't appear to be affected by the weight of the people whose lives they directly alter.
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Congratulations to the NSF GRFP awardees! This was an especially competitive year because the number of awardees was down by 51%. To the students who didn't get it: my heart goes out to you. This was an especially competitive year. I hope this doesn't deter you from research.
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Ugh… I hate “liking” things on here. Can it be changed to an “acknowledgement” button for the time being?
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
just started watching and he's talking about the importance of NIH funded research: "let me repeat 99.4% of FDA approved drugs were funded by NIH research" 🧪
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Ryan Poling-Skutvik @rpslab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Welp. It happened. Our NIH training grant was terminated on Friday. Just highlighting this incredibly derisive language used in our termination notice. To focus on the positives, see some of the great things our undergraduates have done over the last couple of years: web.uri.edu/esteemed/
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
graph of NIH basisfor new drugs
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
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Yuen Huo, Ph.D. @yuenhuo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
University of California announced a systemwide hiring freeze. This affects not 1 but 10 campuses (including UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, UC San Diego among others) plus 3 national labs with impact on medical and scientific research and local economies. www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...
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University of California sets hiring freeze in anticipation of Trump cuts
The University of California has imposed a system-wide hiring freeze and made additional cuts, its president said on Wednesday, as part of efforts to try to mitigate the impact of sharp cuts in federal funding.
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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵
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Bri Barbu @bribarbu.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I'll be at the Stand Up for Science Rally in DC tomorrow! #ChemSky #SciSky Feel free to ping me on here or on Signal (bribarbu.95) if you want to chat about your motivations for being there & what standing up for science means for you! Particularly interested in basic chem research!
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Debbie Bangasser @bangasserlab.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This checks out! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Behind every great woman in science, there’s another great woman in science
To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, six award-winning female scientists highlight women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others.
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Peter Wich - Wichlab @peterwich.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Well said 👏
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Very excited about using this in the future!!! The door is wide open to answer so may interesting ECM questions.
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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"Imagine a DAPI-like stain, but for the extracellular matrix." That's basically how this work was pitched to me by Kayvon and Antonio a year or so ago. Now the final product really delivers. Read about their versatile label for ECM in living tissues here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Yes! Absolutely!
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
We got the same Wordle! 🤓 Wordle 1,302 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I agree that negative data is important haha
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Jeff Ting @jting1.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Happy start of the new year! @acspoly.bsky.social is kicking things off by continuing our Career Development Series, a virtual workshop on "Pivoting Careers as a Polymer Scientist/Engineer in Industry" POLY members only #polysky- space is limited so please register 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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POLY Career Development Series: Pivoting Careers as a Polymer Scientist/Engineer in Industry
ACS POLY is pleased to initiate a broad portfolio of technical knowledge and career development resources to enable our members to thrive. This workshop focuses on pivoting careers in industry: wheth...
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UMN Department of Chemistry @umnchemistry.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Hi Bluesky 👋 We're looking forward to sharing our departmental news on this new platform. Please spread the word that we've joined!
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Victoria Grace Muir, Ph.D. @victoriagmuir.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
It's so exciting to welcome the lab's first #PhD students - Hannah, Ruth, and Lawrence! Starting in January, they will be working on exciting projects at the intersection of #biomaterials, #hydrogels, #microbiology, and #softmatter. I feel so grateful to work with this team as a #NewPI! Welcome!😊
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