Connie Chang

Congrats to Mallory & Carter in my lab who defended their PhDs this spring! #proudPI 🤩 Great to also see former members of the lab both in person and online. I am very grateful to have had such an amazing and supportive team all these years! Excited about their next steps. 🎉

Great to catch up with @dr_mptaylor at Mayo Clinic who gave a seminar on #HSV and #measles that I missed 😭 as I was headed back to MSU for a thesis defense.

On my way to #APSphysics in #DEN lounge. I ask the young man sitting next to me for the WiFi password. It turns out he is flying to #BZN working at #BigSky and grew up in #MN where his dad is a #MayoClinic doctor. Constantly surprised by how small the world is! 💙 See you at APS!

Long trip home from Singapore but good to see old friends and new. @VignuzziLab Pricilla Yang @biofadialnaji. Thank you @tzmatthew for hosting my visit to @idlabs_astar. @ASTARsg is a unique R&D agency doing innovative translational work bridging academia and industry! 🇸🇬

@VignuzziLab So good to catch up with you Marco!

Breakfast with Prof Connie Chang of Mayo Clinic before she heads back to the US. @thechanglab

My soldering skills have been put to use outside of the lab! Fixed up my espresso machine. First I tried changing the solid state relay, but it turned out to be a $4 transformer in the control box. Very excited to be properly caffeinated again #artofelectronics #thatsmeespeesso

Great to see this work with @thechanglab published! Digital droplet RT‐LAMP increases speed of SARS‐CoV‐2 viral RNA detection, Smart Medicine onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

@wilkinglab @environmicrobio Yes! See you there!

@environmicrobio @thechanglab

Was great to host my former undergraduate student and recent #NSF GRFP recipient Hannah Szafraniec from #UMN @UMNBME at #MayoClinic yesterday. Hannah talked about her work studying sickle cell rheology using #microfluidic flow imaging of blood in the lab of @davesbiochips.

@lihengcai Congrats Liheng! @KatieOakey @oakeylab

Congrats to my postdoc Danny Rau, who will start his own lab in Dept MechE at U Wyoming in Aug 2024!!! Danny has done remarkable work in 3D printing of soft materials! We have had two postdocs over the past years. And both of them secured faculty positions. So proud of them!

Excited that our collaboration with the Taylor lab @dr_mptaylor is now published in @ScienceAdvances. We cultured single #neurons on Matrigel #hydrogels created using #droplet #microfluidics and watched infection with herpes #virus (HSV-1). science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@MComasGarcia Congrats Mauricio! And the belt! 😂

I was Maria’s B.Sc. Thesis Advisor and she was the first student from our Biology Major to graduate with honors. Now she has been accepted as a PhD student at UCLA, here she visiting my PhD advisor Bill Gelbart. She has a successful scientific career ahead

Coming soon on January 9th! amzn.to/48kK5Di

@laurafabris77 @VignuzziLab Was so good to see you Marco!! Laura, yes!! Amazing time, collaboration, and the best Transformers team (as coined by Marco). Miss you and our team VIPER. 🐍

@VignuzziLab @thechanglab Oh man I miss you guys! Such great times during the INTERCEPT program. Scientific excellence and amazing people: a program that really changed my life for the better.

Last week I ran into Prof Laura Fabris @laurafabris77 in Singapore and this week I’m with Prof Connie Chang @thechanglab. I met these two during the DARPA INTERCEPT program developing defective viral genomes and they are even more successful now than ever before. Check out their labs and research.

Great time at #BMES2023 with @TheKunzeLab and @therealdidipam. High consumption rate of 小龍包dumplings over the past few days. 🥟

@GeiselBiofilm @m2p2_dartmouth @DartCF Yay Shawna!!! You're lucky O'Toole lab. 🙌🎉

I want to welcome two new people to the lab - Robert Montoya, a PhD student (left) and Shawna Pratt, who joined the group as a postdoc. Welcome! @m2p2_dartmouth @DartCF

Jamaican fruit bats are pretty cute. There are 1400 bat species in the world, 500 million worldwide that harbor all the #viruses! Thanks for the seminar @TSchountz aka Batman who studies a #bat colony of 600 with more to come in new bat vivarium aka Batcave @ColoradoStateU 2024🦇

New work in collaboration @LewCo406 @ronjune2 in Advanced Biology. Single primary human chondrocytes are cultured in alginate microgels, a robust PCM forms around each cell, single cell micromechanics show cells reach elastic moduli close to native PCM 🦴 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

Great job Jonathan Louis from #UIUC #Bioengineering presenting at the #MayoClinic Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) poster session. Impressive poster session with 110 posters. Thanks to grad students Mallory and Carter from #MontanaState for showing Jon the ropes!💙

@HumbertoSSanch1 Excited about your next adventure!

I successfully defended my thesis this week!