Biomodulatory Materials Engineering Laboratory

This week we will spotlight group member Mollie Harrison, a senior chemical engineering undergrad student. Mollie’s work focuses on investigating the use of hydroen peroxide as a simple signaling molecule for angiogenesis and creating a novel biomaterial for its controlled delivery. We hope to combine this technology with parallel work on osteogenesis and neurogenesis. She is currently working on a paper manuscript about her work, which hopefully will be published before she graduates! MIZ!

(Lab photo taken pre-COVID)

Happy Friday everyone! Chemical engineering MS student Bryce Lindamen conducting some synthesis work before the weekend!

We’re back with a group member spotlight! Lauren Sanford is a chemical engineering undergrad student. Over the summer, Lauren brought BioMEL all the way to CA working at Hilmar Cheese Company as a process engineering intern! She worked on projects addressing gap analysis across membrane units as well as protein content control in their products to ensure best practices and increase efficiency. MIZ!

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We’re back! BioMEL grad students are excited to get back to research this summer with proper social distancing and PPE in lieu of COVID-19. Stay safe and healthy everyone!

Thumbs up to our first BioMEL group member spotlight!

This is Austin Kimes, a bioengineering senior. He works on sterilization/characterization procedures for the upcoming in-vivo animal studies on complex hydrogels. Austin will begin Veterinary school here at Mizzou in August and has been to 46 US states and 9 countries!

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Happy finals week and happy holidays from all of us at BioMEL! The 6th Annual Ugly Holiday Sweater Party at the Ulerys’ was a success🎄

BioMEL members Julie Nguyen, Mollie Harrison and Ellie Snoke got out of CoMO this week to present their research at the AlChE Annual Meeting in Orlando.

@ Orlando, Florida

Happy Women in Engineering Week! Here’s a special shout-out to each of our current and former women lab members and all the women out there making moves in STEM fields. You go ladies!

Today our principle investigator, Dr. Bret Ulery, presented on some of the work we have accomplished in BioMEL as a part of the Medical Pharmacology and Physiology seminar series here at Mizzou. Check out our website for more info on what we’re doing in regenerative medicine and immunology!

@ University of Missouri

Tonight we heard from our ‘Poly (amino acid) Materials’ group on how amino acids can offer the opportunity to capture flora from the small intestine and help in pain management for arthritis patients. Keep up the good work in the lab!

Lab members Dr. Joe Herbert and grad student Blake Darkow spent some time at Northwestern this week making new friends and learning rabbit spine surgery for their upcoming animal study!

@ Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine