Excited to be part of this year's society for biomaterials meeting #SFB2025. Check out the Segura lab talks that will be going on this week! Hope to connect with many of you at SFB.

Excited to host you Omid!

@cbteduke.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join us this Thursday, March 6th for Omid Veiseh's seminar "Bioengineering Cell-based Therapeutics." Noon in Wilkinson Auditorium.

Congratulations Tosh! Looking forward to celebrating at SFB! pratt.duke.edu/news/chilkot...

Chilkoti Receives 2025 Technology Innovation and Development Award | Duke Pratt School of Engineering

Ashutosh Chilkoti was recognized by the Society for Biomaterials for his pioneering work in protein-resistant polymer coatings and protein biomaterials

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Some holiday joy in lab! Meet Glaciela.

New publication ⚠️This study was led by the✨Dr. Alexa Anderson✨, who graduated with her PhD back in 2023. Here she investigated the process of vasculogenesis (not sprouting angiogenesis) in #MAPgel. She did a very comprehensive an amazing job! 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Engineering the Microstructure and Spatial Bioactivity of MAP Scaffolds Instructs Vasculogenesis In Vitro and Modifies Vessel Formation In Vivo

Both the microstructure and the spatial presentation of bioactive cues are tunable properties in microporous annealed particle (MAP) scaffolds responsible for guiding cell responses. When optimized, ...

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This was such a #proudPI moment! It is truly an honor to be part of @juhisamal.bsky.social 's mentoring team. It's the best to see great people become great PIs. It's not enough to be a great scientist.

@juhisamal.bsky.social · 2y ago

Couldn’t possibly overstate the role of my postdoc mentor Tatiana @seguralab.bsky.social in my academic career! She’s a forever champion of her trainees and everything I want to be for my mentees! Also the hugs are stellar! 😂 Exhibit A (signing my faculty job offer letter) here was followed by one!💕

Meet Noah Campbell our first year student. Took us a while but we now have his 📷. Noah graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in May of 2024 with a B.S. in Neuroscience and a minor in Chemistry & Biochemistry.

Based on my two posts (I know you all probably already know this), GIFs do not work in bsky but videos do! This is again NPCs growing in an RGD/IKVAV modified #MAPgel! Amazing work by former graduate student Katrina Wilson! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

NPC growing in #MAPgels! RGD and IKVAV modified scaffolds lead to spreading a neuronal lineage differentiation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Check out our latest research on #MAPgels #granularmatter and their characterization to enable better wound healing. In this video, Lindsay explains her research. pratt.duke.edu/news/void-sp...

Measuring 3D Pores for Better Wound Healing | Duke Pratt School of Engineering

By studying the empty spaces between particles rather than the particles themselves, researchers can better understand structural stability

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Lab Murder Mystery night! We had fun figuring out who was the culprit! Thanks to @jessicacanning.bsky.social for organizing and being our gamemaster and everyone in the lab for playing your part so well! Lots of fun!

Visited the amazing Mechanical Engineering department at MIT yesterday and had a blast. Great meetings with faculty and postdocs. Special thanks to 🌟Ritu and Carlos 🌟for their amazing hospitality including a visit to the exclusive The Quin for dinner. 💕

Thank you Michaela! So nice to be highlighted! The Duke BME community is indeed stellar ⭐

Michaela Martinez@michaelakmartinez.bsky.social · 2y ago

Duke BME has a stellar community of biomaterials experts, including @seguralab.bsky.social. Her team develops biomaterials that can harness the body’s own ability to repair itself. One of the applications of this work is in the brain, potentially limiting issues caused by strokes.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative invites applications for a five-year funding grant (2025–2030) that supports excellent biomedical researchers with a record of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in their scientific field 🧪 chanzuckerberg.com/rfa/science-...

Science Diversity Leadership Award

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Introducing the Humanity Unlocking Biomaterials (HUB) national coordinating center. Opportunity to become involved with an incredible community, $100k research grants, core resources, and much more. Come join us! See more at our new website, here: www.humanityunlockingbiomaterials.org

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We have a new banner! Check out seguralab.duke.edu! We are trying to figure out if we can have a rotating banner that looks ok. It is a shame to not bring back some old favorites!

Duke University - Segura Lab

We at Duke University engineer therapeutic materials to promote wound healing and tissue regeneration (think Wolverine without the blades).

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I am so behind on posts and really wanted to finish positing about the special issue I edited for Advanced Healthcare Materials. I got through half the papers in X... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... I do not think I will finish that project, too much work, but will start with new papers 😆.

From Soft Microgel Assemblies to Advanced Healthcare Materials

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