news
2008
February 4 2008:
Congratulations to Jan, who received a Young Investigator Award from the European Calcified Tissue Society to present a poster at the 35th European Symposium on Calcified Tissues in Barcelona in May! Jan's abstract was ranked in the top 20 of all those submitted to the competition and will be considered for a Poster Prize.
January 29 2008:
Zahra is profiled in this month's Engineering Newsletter!
January 27 2008:
Congrulations to Chris who received a Student Travel Award to give an oral presentation at the 8th World Biomaterials Congress in Amsterdam in June. Chris is one of only 35 recipients of this award selected from over 450 applications!
January 27 2008:
Following up on November's news of George receiving a Golden Key Undergraduate Research Grant, George is now featured on the Golden Key website as one of only three recipients of the grant!
January 11 2008:
Congratulations to Jan who received the ASIP's 2008 Trainee Travel Award and Cindy who was named the A.D. Sobel - ASIP Education Fund Scholar. These awards will support their travel to present at the Experimental Biology 2008 Meeting in San Diego, CA in April.
January 8 2008:
Happy New Year! Congratulations to Chris, Cindy, and Edmond who received student travel awards to present at the SPRBM Annual Meeting in Miami, FL on Jan 10 2008.
2007
December 17 2007:
Congratulations to Krista, Ruogang, Wing-Yee, Jan, and Chris for being awarded Barbara and Frank Milligan Graduate Fellowships for 2007-08!
November 27 2007:
Congratulations to George, who was awarded a Golden Key Fall Undergraduate Research Grant from the Golden Key International Honour Society to support his thesis research! Bravo on an impressive accomplishment, George! Watch this space for the latest news, including a pending Golden Key press release featuring George's headshot...
November 15 2007:
Congratulations to Cindy for her recent publication in the Journal of Bacteriology!
November 11 2007:
Congratulations to Edmond for his recent publication in Soft Matter!
October 30 2007:
A big congratulations to Derek (a.k.a. Master D) for passing his Master's thesis defense!
September 30 2007:
The 2007 BMES conference took place in Los Angeles from September 26 - 29, and Craig and Edmond from the lab were there to participate. Craig (below) gave a sterling lecture on high-throughput mechanobiology, and presented current developments in that area that are being pursued within his own lab. Edmond presented his poster on matrix-dependent adhesion of vascular and valvular endothelial cells in microchannels. Also representing the University of Toronto was Irena Barbulovic-Nad (below) from the Wheeler Microfluidics Laboratory, who presented a poster on her novel work with droplet microfluidics and cell assays.
Craig wraps up his talk on high-throughput mechanobiology to a round of applause.
Irena Barbulovic-Nad from the Wheeler Microfluidics Laboratory discusses her work on droplet microfluidics and cell assays to a crowd of very enthusiastic and interested BMES attendees.
September 7 2007:
The Simmonslab had a party at Craig and Deb's to welcome the new students, and say goodbye to some former members. Good luck to Ron, Steph, and Emily on their future endeavors! And a warm official welcome to Krista and Kelly! Lab members only can click here for photos of the event.
August 20 2007:
We are pleased to welcome Zahra, our new research associate/technician, to the lab!
August 15 2007:
Simmonslab had their annual BBQ on Centre Island, and it was a blast!
July 14 2007:
Congratulations to Cindy, Jan, and Kristine for being appointed president, vice president, and treasurer respectively for the BMES Student Chapter (#100) at UofT! Edmond was also appointed secretary of the Student Chapter. For more information about the chapter and how to get involved, please email Edmond at edmyoung@mie.utoronto.ca.
June 8 2007:
One featured poster from UTCML was presented by Ruogang Zhao, Emily Won, and Kristine Wyss on studying valve interstitial cell biology using micropipette aspiration.
June 6 2007:
Cindy Yip discusses matrix stiffness effects on valve interstitial cells to several of Dr. Gottlieb's students, who also have experience working with VICs. The Joint Cardiovascular Research Day seems to have succeeded in bringing together researchers with similar interests.
June 4 2007:
Baosen Zhang, a former summer student in UTCML, presents his work on 3D hemodynamic shear stress predictions using CFD at the CANCAM 2007 Conference held at Ryerson University.
May 16 2007:
Congratulations to our newest lab members Ian Periera, Suthan Srigunapalan, George Ye, and Xiao Zhong, who were all awarded summer research scholarships
May 3 2007:
A really loud congratulations to Wing-Yee Cheung who was awarded a John D. Schultz Science Student Scholarship from the Heart and Stoke Foundation of Ontario for 2007!
Apr 19 2007:
Congratulations to Prof. Craig Simmons who has been appointed the Division of Engineering Science Biomedical Option Chair, effective July 1, 2007!
Apr 5 2007:
Congratulations to Kristine Wyss who was awarded an NSERC PGS M award for 2007-08!
Apr 5 2007:
Congratulations to Stephanie Ting and Emily Won who were both awarded an NSERC USRA for 2007!
Apr 2 2007:
Abstracts from Derek Watt and Cindy Yip accepted for oral presentation at the Society for Heart Valve Disease 4th Biennial Meeting in New York
Mar 26 2007:
Congratulations to Chris Moraes who passed his Ph.D. qualification exam!
Mar 2 2007:
Chris Moraes invited to speak on BioMEMS at the Undergraduate Nanotechnology Conference 2007 in Toronto on March 10, 2007.
Feb 23 2007:
Edmond Young and Cindy Yip receive travel awards to present their research at the Vascular Matrix Biology and Bioengineering Workshop sponsored by the North American Vascular Biology Organization.
Feb 7 2007:
Stephanie Ting awarded a prestigious graduate scholarship to study at the University of Tokyo.
Feb 5 2007:
Check out the recently published work in J Biol Chem by Chong et al (2007) from the CIHR Matrix Dynamics Group, with collaborative efforts from two members of UTCML.
Feb 4 2007:
Cindy Yip awarded scholarship from BIOTECanada to attend the BioPartnering North America Conference in Vancouver.
Jan 31 2007:
Chris Moraes writes about the marriage between cell mechanics and MEMS in his latest publication in the Fall 2006 CSME Bulletin.
Congratulations Jan! (2007-01-08)
Congratulations to Jan for his appointment as the new UTCML social coordinator! "Jan has been a very vocal member of the lab when it comes to social activities, so I think this appointment is perfect for him", said Cindy, the former social coordinator. "I'm pleased to be passing a fun job onto such capable hands." And with that, the new social coordinator was crowned. UTCML looks forward to the social calendar of 2007!
Congratulations Cindy! (2007-01-08)
Congratulations to Cindy on her success in her qualifying exam before the Christmas holidays!
Happy New Year! (2007-01-01)
UTCML wishes everyone a Happy and productive New Year!