Skeletal Mechanobiology & Biomechanics Lab

Our lab is excited to share that our amazing PI, @EliseFMorganPhD, has been selected as the next Dean of the College of Engineering!! Congratulations, Elise!🥂

@EliseFMorganPhD gave an outstanding keynote at @ORSsociety Asian Leadership Forum Network Breakfast fast. It is greatly appreciated that both @ORSsociety Presidents Susan Bukata and Suzanne Maher joined to support the community as well as Dr. Savio Woo and Dr. Rocky Tuan, previous Keynote speakers. Also wonderful to welcome @HeoLab as Co-chair of ORS ALF.

(4/4) And our newest post-doc, Mengyao, will be presenting findings from her previous work entitled “PRMT5 Deficiency Under Low Se Status Exuberates Cartilage ECM Degradation” at Poster #2331 from 6:15 - 7 PM.

(3/4) Next up, @NeilFrings will be presenting his work on the “Biomechanical, Structural, and Composition Characterization of the Vertebra-disc Interface” at Poster #1591 from 6:15 - 7 PM.

(1/4) Want to connect with our lab on Monday at #ORS2025? You can find our lab at Poster Session 2! Check out the info below 👇 for topics being presented:

If you're an undergraduate interested in a orthopaedics-based summer research opportunity in Boston, apply today for the Center for Skeletal Research's Summer Scholars Program! Deadline to apply is Feb 14 ❤️csr-mgh.org/summer-interns…

The SMBL is excited to attend #ORS2025 starting next FRIDAY!! 🙌 Be sure to catch @EliseFMorganPhD speaking at the Bone Quality in Osteoporosis session (5:00 PM), about the vertebral bony endplate’s role in osteoporosis!

Happy Halloween from the SMBL!🎃It's bound tibia good one. - love, the SMBL skeleton

Had a great time presenting my work at #ASBMR2024!

(5/5) How do these designs perform in vitro and in vivo, and how can we use this optimization approach to better understand skeletal cell mechanobiology? Stay tuned!

(4/5) We show that our microenvironment-focused mixed-topology optimization approach generates enhanced scaffold designs using literature-based scoring functions while also controlling for other scaffold properties, like apparent modulus.

(1/5) How can cues from the microenvironment inform scaffold design for bone tissue engineering? Check out our new paper “Mechanobiological optimization of scaffolds for bone tissue engineering” in Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology rdcu.be/dO654 @TimOJosephson

Next up: @TimOJosephson from the @MorganLabBU presenting his work in tissue engineering meshing software development! #mechanobiology

Congratulations to all the winners of the MS-level Student Paper Competition at #SB3C2024!

Congratulations, Chelsea!

Magnificent example of biological feedback control

Very excited to share our new preprint where we use a deep learning-based feedback algorithm to control gene expression in real time in thousands of single E. coli cells in parallel. This work was led by @jblugagne and @cblassick. 1/