Awesome talks all round! #BIC2022 UC Santa Barbara UC Santa Barbara's College of Engineering

How can we empower women to pursue and secure leadership roles? Learn about diverse paths to leadership from pruitt research Naomi Chesler Prof. Lola Eniola-Adefeso Jennifer L. West Andrew Alleyne Michele Grimm, Scott Simon, Susan Margulies, and AIMBE link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Congratulations to Prof. Aaron Streets Aaron Streets on receiving the Cal🌟 UC Berkeley Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity!! Honored to have him as a colleague in Berkeley Bioengineer and QB3-Berkeley

Super excited that Dr. Carolyn Mills Dr. Carolyn Mills will join our UCSB BIOE UC Santa Barbara's College of Engineering faculty and be my colleague in AY23-24 Welcome Carrie!!!

Absolutely thrilled that Dr. Marley Dewey Marley Dewey will join our UCSB BIOE UC Santa Barbara's College of Engineering faculty and be my colleague in AY23-24 Welcome Marley!!

Delighted to share a comphrehensive review by Liam Dow and co-authors from UCSB BIOE UCSB Physics online today in Biophysical Reviews! Engineering tools for quantifying and manipulating forces in epithelia pubs.aip.org/aip/bpr/articl…

Congrats to Emma Lejeune for an impressive new paper in JOSS, "SarcGraph: A Python package for analyzing the contractile behavior of pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes". joss.theoj.org/papers/10.2110…

Incredible and inspiring work presented today on “A decade of molecular cell atlases“ by our inaugural UCSB BIOE distinguished lecturer Stephen Quake !

Love it when I see my former PhD co-mentor’s name on such an awesome doc. 👏 pruitt research

Fantastic presentations today from the 3 UC Santa Barbara PhD students who are now finishing up summer placements Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway Fascinating projects and very useful new skills developed as well as enjoyable social outings with the CRT students! Zsófia Szegletes

Great time teaching the UCSB BIOE Netflux workshop. A full and engaged room of grad students, postdocs, and even a department chair (thanks Beth pruitt research!) learning how to model biological networks!

Multiscale problems require multiscale solutions. NIGMS funded research in PNASNews from RegnierLab @CTMR Stanford Medicine pruitt research Soah Lee with Allen Institute studies hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at protein, cell, and tissue levels. bit.ly/3Urus7i #HCM

Denisin et al. present a detailed guide to accurately performing traction force microscopy for measuring cell contractility. pruitt research UCSB BIOE UC Santa Barbara's College of Engineering link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Welcoming all the University of California Bioengineering departments and programs to sunny San Diego for the #BIC2024 Symposium! Excited to kick off our program this morning and still thinking about our awesome welcome beach party yesterday evening! 🌅

Pruitt lab of UCSB BIOE had a great time sharing science at the UC systemwide engineering symposium this week at UCSD Engineering. Great meeting, organized by Daniela Valdez-Jasso, PhD and Prof. Brian Aguado!

ME DOING MY BLACK JOB

Unconscious bias (which is rubbish anyway) isn't unconscious if you know about it. So here goes... yet again. I've only watched about half an hour of gymnastics so far, but I've clocked "elegant, graceful, elegant and smooth, full of grace, etc." for white gymnasts and...

Jeff Bridges: “I’m white, I’m the Dude, and I’m for Harris."

So many parallels between athletics and academics (from completing a PhD to building a lab or a startup) #dothework 👇

A $22 million U.S. National Science Foundation grant will allow UC Santa Barbara's College of Engineering to establish the BioFoundry for Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea, and Bacteria. The collaboration with UC Riverside and Cal Poly Pomona is the first in the nation to focus on extreme microbes. 🦠 news.ucsb.edu/2024/021593/uc…