News and Announcements
June 2008: Sanjay is awarded the Hellman Family Faculty Research Award from the UCB Chancellor's Office for 2008-2009. Details here.
April 2008: Theresa passes her qualifying exam and advances to Ph.D. candidacy. Congratulations, Theresa!
April 2008: Check out our recent highlight in the College of Engineering newsletter:
http://innovations.coe.berkeley.edu/vol1-issue1-fall07/cellularconnections
March 2008: Albert wins an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award from the UC Berkeley Teaching & Resource Center. Congratulations, Albert!
February 2008: Elena departs for Spain to start her new faculty position at TECNUN/CEIT, University of Navarra. Good luck, Elena!
February 2008: Theresa, Anuj, Matt, and Elena present posters at the Biophysical Society meeting in Long Beach, CA.
January 2008: Sanjay's paper on nanomagnetic control of receptor-mediated signaling (work started when he was a postdoc with Don Ingber at Harvard) comes out in Nature Nanotechnology. Read about it here: http://focus.hms.harvard.edu/2008/012508/nanotechnology.shtm
January 2008: Joanna passes her preliminary exams. Congratulations, Joanna!
December 2007: Sanjay is named to the organizing committee of the AFM BioMed Conference, to be held in Monterey, CA, in October 2008. More information can be found here: www.afmbiomed.org
December 2007: Rosalía completes her visit and returns to Spain to defend her undergraduate thesis. She will begin a new position in London in January. Good luck, Rosalía!
November 2007: Shamik Sen, Ph.D., has joined the lab from the University of Pennsylvania to start a postdoctoral fellowship. Welcome, Shamik!
October 2007: Joanna MacKay, a first-year PhD student in chemical engineering, has joined the lab for her thesis research. Welcome, Joanna!
October 2007: Sanjay is recognized with the first annual award for Excellence in Graduate Advising by the UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering. Congratulations, Sanjay!
July 2007: Sanjay is named as a UC Berkeley Presidential Chair Fellow for the 2007-2008 academic year. Through this program, Sanjay will participate in a series of seminars and workshops focused on teaching and learning strategies, and he will receive a grant for course improvement. Read more here:
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/preschairfellows/index.html
June 2007: Theresa and Amit earn Best Poster Award honors at the UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium at UCSF for their presentation, Mechanobiology of Glioblastoma Multiforme. Well done, Theresa and Amit!
April 2007: Theresa has been awarded both a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations, Theresa!
