Department of
BIOMEDICAL EngInEErIng
Newsletter
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ING 2016
IN THIS ISSUE
From the Chair ...................2
Research Highlights ....... 3–4
Quick Hits .........................4
Congratulations to
our Graduates ....................5
BMES ................................5
On and Off Campus ......... 6–7
TUBERS ............................7
Biopsies Without Knives
Lasers could help doctors diagnose cancer earlier
and more reliably, and in a less invasive way
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“If we could identify the changes that occur early on, before a cancer invades blood vessels and other areas of the body,
in most cases we could cure the patient,” says Associate Professor Irene Georgakoudi.
Photo: Kelvin Ma
Associate Professor Irene Georgakoudi is researching
methods to diagnose cancer at a cellular level, well be-
fore it grows into a visible lesion or tumor. In a process
she calls an “optical biopsy,” she eschews needles and
knives, and turns to much more exotic tools—finely
tuned lasers.
By employing a high-powered pulse of light, she says,
her team can take a “snapshot” of the complex chemi-
cal reactions at work inside a cell, revealing abnormal
activity before any tumor actually forms.
Molecules to Watch
Georgakoudi’s team is able to spot those changes
thanks to a unique property shared by two enzymes
called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH)
and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD). These mol-
ecules play a key role in every cell’s metabolism, the
process through which it breaks down sugars to create
the energy it needs to survive.
Hit the molecules with the right frequency of laser
light, Georgakoudi says, and they’ll momentarily glow,
or “fluoresce.” Researchers can measure how bright the
glow is, how fast it decays and where it occurs in the
cell, picking up clues about how active the enzymes
are—and, by extension, how healthy the cell’s metabo-
lism appears to be.
Georgakoudi notes that her team doesn’t yet have a
clear sense of how NADH and FAD are linked to spe-
cific shifts in metabolism. At the moment, they’re using
the molecules almost like a car’s “check engine” light—
although they don’t point directly to the root problem,
they provide a useful sign that something is amiss. Still,
Friends and Colleagues,
It has been another eventful year
in the Department of Biomedical
engineering! we are excited to see
that our undergraduate student pop-
ulation has significantly increased,
as the main course concentration
leading to the Bachelor of science
in Biomedical engineering is now
open to all students. students have
the option of taking lecture-based
courses as concentration electives
or, alternatively, a set of limited-
enrollment research and design
courses (BMe 3-6). For more details,
please visit: engineering.tufts.edu/
bme/undergraduate/bsbme.htm
expansion of our program has come
in other forms as well, all reflective
of the vibrant growth and impact of
biomedical engineering at tufts and
beyond. Our faculty and students
continue to publish in prominent
journals and see growth in research
support. recognitions include: As-
sociate Professor Irene Georgakoudi,
elected Fellow of the Optical society
of America; sarah lightfoot-Vidal,
awarded a National Defense
science and engineering Graduate
Fellowship; recent graduates Alana
lustenberger and emily Gosselin, as
well as current senior Yusi Gong won
tufts Awards in recognition of their
scholarly achievements; and Olivia
Hallisey, a high school student,
won the 2015 Google science Fair
for her temperature-stable test
for the ebola virus that she
worked on alongside post-doctoral
scholar Benedetto Marelli in
Professor Fiorenzo Omenetto’s lab.
we welcome Xiaocheng Jiang who
joined our faculty as an Assistant
Professor. His lab explores nano-/
micro-technologies that can be
integrated with living systems for
interrogating and directing biological
processes. Prior to tufts, Xiaocheng
was an American Cancer society
postdoctoral fellow at Harvard
Medical school and Massachusetts
General Hospital. this year, we also
hired our first Professors of the
Practice, Jean-Michel Molenaar and
Janet Krevolin, who will develop new
engineering design courses and co-
ordinate the senior design projects.
As always, your thoughts are wel-
come. we value your continued
involvement and rely on you as our
compass, offering the best direction
for our students and programs.
to a wonderful 2016 together,
David
notables...
Sarah Lightfoot Vidal, a doctoral student
in the NsF IGert soft Material robotics
program received a National Defense
science and engineering Graduate
(NDseG) fellowship. sarah’s prestigious
fellowship is sponsored by the Air Force
Office of scientific research for her
research in material science.
Graduate students Kelly Sullivan and
Joe Lyons both received 2016 school of
engineering awards for outstanding
academic scholarship for their doctoral
and master’s research, respectively.
Doctoral student Pami Anderson
received the 2016 school of engineering
Award for the Commitment to the
Practice of engineering for her work in
completing a clinical study on breast
cancer patients undergoing neoadjuvant
chemotherapy at the tufts Medical
Center in collaboration with Drs. roger
Graham and shital Makim.
In Assistant Professor lauren Black’s
lab, doctoral student Lauren Baugh won
a Best thematic Poster award from the
American society for Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology at the experimental
Biology Conference in April 2015.
Doctoral student Ayhan Atmanli received
a competitive travel award to attend the
International society for stem Cell
research Annual Meeting in 2015.
tufts summer scholar Elim na
worked with Professor David Kaplan
on her project on the “evaluation of
silk Fibroin stabilization of Doxorubicin
and Vincristine.”
with a donation from lloyd Klickstein,
the department supported Peter Clark,
e18, who worked with graduate student
sarah Knupp Altinoglu in the Xu lab,
developing lipid-based nanoparticles for
intracellular delivery of proteins for
targeted cancer therapy.
Alana Lustenberger, e15, Emily
gosselin, e15, and Yusi gong, e16,
won tufts awards in recognition of their
scholarly achievements.
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from the Chair
Bme reunion Banquet
Please mark your calendars for the fifth annual BMe alumni reunion banquet dinner
on May 20, 2016 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston. look for e-mails from
BME_Alumni@tufts.edu and check for upcoming details on our alumni page.
Inkjet Inks Made of Bioac-
tive Silk Could Yield Smart
Bandages, Bacteria-Sensing
Surgical Gloves & More
silk inks
containing
enzymes,
antibiotics,
antibodies,
nanoparticles
and growth
factors could
turn inkjet printing into a new, more effective
tool for therapeutics, regenerative medicine and
biosensing, according to new research led by
tufts university biomedical engineers and
published June 16 in the journal Advanced
Materials online in advance of print.
Inkjet printing is one of the most immediate and
accessible forms of printing technology
currently available, according to the research-
ers, and ink-jet printing of biomolecules has
been previously proposed by scientists.
However, the heat-sensitive nature of these
unstable compounds means printed materials
rapidly lose functionality, limiting their use.
enter purified silk protein, or fibroin, which
offers intrinsic strength and protective proper-
ties that make it well-suited for a range of
biomedical and optoelectronic applications. this
natural polymer is an ideal “cocoon” that can
stabilize compounds such as enzymes,
antibodies and growth factors while lending
itself to many different mechanically robust
formats, said Fiorenzo Omenetto.
read more at: go.tufts.edu/smartbandages
this work was supported by funding from the Office of
Naval research (N14-13-1-0596) and the AFOsr
(FA9550-14-1-0015).
tao, H., Marelli, B., Yang, M., An, B., Onses, s., rogers,
J. A., Kaplan, D. l. and Omenetto, F. G. (2015), Inkjet
Printing of regenerated silk Fibroin: From Printable
Forms to Printable Functions. Adv. Mater. doi:10.1002/
adma.201501425
3-D Engineered Bone Marrow
Makes Functioning Platelets
researchers
at tufts
university
school of
engineering
and the
university of
Pavia have
reported development of the first three-dimen-
sional tissue system that reproduces the
complex structure and physiology of human
bone marrow and successfully generates
functional human platelets. using a biomaterial
matrix of porous silk, the new system is capable
of producing platelets for future clinical use and
also provides a laboratory tissue system to
advance study of blood platelet diseases.
“there are many diseases where platelet
production or function is impaired,” says
Alessandra Balduini, M.D., tufts research
associate professor and associate professor in
the Department of Molecular Medicine at the
university of Pavia, and co-corresponding author
on the paper. “In this tissue system, we can
culture patient-derived megakaryocytes—
the bone marrow cells that make platelets—
and also endothelial cells, which are found
in bone marrow and promote platelet
production, to design patient-specific drug
administration regimes.”
the new system can also provide an in vitro
laboratory tissue system with which to study
mechanisms of blood disease and to predict
efficacy of new drugs—providing a more
precise and less costly alternative to in vivo
animal models.
see more at: go.tufts.edu/3Dbonemarrow
this research was supported by the Cariplo Foundation
(2010-0807), National Institute of Biomedical Imaging
and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health
under award number eB016041-01, Italian Ministry of
Health (grant rF-2009-1550218 and rF-2010-2316198)
and Italian Ministry of universities and research, FIrB
(rBFr1299KO).
“Programmable 3D silk bone marrow niche for platelet
generation ex vivo and modeling of megakaryopoiesis
pathologies,” Christian A. Di Buduo, lindsay s. wray,
lorenzo tozzi, Alessandro Malara, Ying Chen, Chiara e.
Ghazi, Daniel smoot, Carla sfara, Antonella Antonelli,
elise spedden, Giovanna Bruni, Cristian staii, luigi De
Marco, Mauro Magnani, David l. Kaplan, Alessandra
Balduini, Blood, pre-published online January 9, 2015;
doi: 10.1182/blood-2014-08-595561
Efficient Genome Editing
Protein Delivery Using Novel
Lipid-based Nanoparticles
Assistant professor Qiaobing Xu and Associate
Professor Irene Georgakoudi, in collaboration
with Professor David liu from Harvard
university and Professor Qi wu from Baylor
College, reported that combining bioreducible
lipid nanoparticles and negatively supercharged
Cre recombinase or anionic Cas9:single-guide
(sg)rNA complexes drives the self-assembly of
nanoparticles for potent protein delivery and
genome editing. the design of bioreducible
lipids facilitates the degradation of nanopar-
ticles inside cells in response to the reductive
intracellular environment, enhancing the
endosome escape of protein. In addition,
modulation of protein charge through either
genetic fusion of supercharged protein or
complexation of Cas9 with its inherently anionic
sgrNA allows highly efficient protein delivery
and effective genome editing in mammalian
cells and functional recombinase delivery in the
rodent brain. the paper was accepted for
publication in journal the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1073/
pnas.1520244113
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researCh hiGhLiGhts
Biopsies without Knives
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Continued on page 4
that might be enough to identify cancerous tissue, she says. The
challenge is to get this information without harming the cell itself.
Georgakoudi uses lasers that emit light in extremely short,
repeated pulses, each one lasting less than a trillionth of a second.
“By delivering high-powered pulses that quickly, we keep the av-
erage amount of energy that reaches the cells relatively low,” she
says. “We’re still delivering enough photons to cause a fluorescent
response, but we’re not cooking the tissue in the process.”
Penetration is also an issue, she adds. A focused laser beam reaches
less than a millimeter into human tissue, so Georgakoudi is limited
to examining cells only on the surface of the skin or organs. Yet
this isn’t necessarily a disadvantage, she says. More than 80 percent
of cancers initially form in the epithelium, a thin network of cells
that form the lining of our skin, mouth, cervix, intestines, stomach
and ducts in found in the breast, lung and prostate.
Most of those tissues are accessible to doctors using minimally
invasive techniques—the skin, throat and gums are all easily ex-
amined, for instance, and even breast ducts and internal organs
like the colon and bladder can be reached using special scopes that
don’t require doctors to cut into the body. In theory, this would al-
low “optical biopsies” in areas where most common cancers form.
Read more about the future direction of Georgakoudi’s research at:
now.tufts.edu/articles/biopsies-without-knives
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QuiCK hits
associate professor
irene Georgakoudi
was
named a fellow of the optical society of america
for “contributions to the use of endogenous
markers for optical imaging of metabolic pro-
cesses in normal and diseased tissue and for
tissue engineering.”
professor
sergio fantini
was elected to the
aiBme’s College of fellows for “outstanding
contributions to the development of quantitative
techniques for diffuse optical spectroscopy and
imaging of biological tissue.”
assistant professor
Lauren Black
was awarded
a competitive visiting professorship to the
university of pavia’s Department of Drug
sciences as part of the Boston-pavia
exchange program.
professor
David Kaplan
was named a tufts
Distinguished professor, an appointment
reserved for senior faculty members who
have made exceptional contributions to their
disciplines, their students, and the university
as teachers and scholars.
in october, frank C. Doble professor
fiorenzo omenetto
gave a lecture at the
annual science festival, Bergamoscienza.
omenetto and Kaplan were both featured on
npr’s science friday. Learn more here:
sciencefriday.com/spotlights/silk/
Xiaocheng Jiang joined the department
in fall 2015 as an assistant professor.
prior to joining tufts, Jiang was an
american Cancer society postdoctoral
fellow at harvard medical school and
massachusetts General hospital where
he worked with professor mehmet toner
on microfluidic isolation and character-
ization of circulating tumor cells for early cancer diagnostics.
in 2011, he received his ph.D. in physical Chemistry from
harvard university under professor Charles Lieber with focus
on the design and development of nanoscale materials and
electronic devices for biomolecular detection, electrophysi-
ological recording, and bioenergy conversion. his research
lies at the interface of materials science and biomedical
application, with specific interests in nanobiotechnology,
bioelectronics, and microfluidics.
NEW FACES
XiaoChenG JianG
Students Build Biomedical Instruments
In Professor Mark
Cronin-Golomb’s
BMe100 class,
students worked in
teams to build devices
such as a heart and
chest sound monitor,
wound healing
monitors, and an
electronic interface for
implantable cortical
recording. students
combined knowledge
of physiology, electronics, electrochemistry, and data acquisition via the
graphical user interface of National Instrument’s labview. seniors Alex
wolfe, Nathaniel skillin, ryan leung and Jake Hellman designed an inter-
face for microelectrodes mounted on silk microneedles.
Ultrafast Lasers Offer 3-D Micropatterning
of Biocompatible Silk Hydrogels
tufts biomedical engineers, led by
Professor Fiorenzo Omenetto, are
using low-energy, ultrafast laser
technology to make high-resolution,
3-D structures in silk protein
hydrogels. the laser-based
micropatterning represents a new
approach to customized engineering
of tissue and biomedical implants.
the work is reported in a paper in PNAS
Early Edition published september 15, 2015.
Artificial tissue growth requires pores, or voids, to bring oxygen and
nutrients to rapidly proliferating cells in the tissue scaffold. Current
patterning techniques allow for the production of random, micron-scale
pores and the creation of channels that are hundreds of microns in
diameter, but there is little in between.
tufts researchers used an ultrafast, femtosecond laser to generate
scalable, high-resolution 3-D voids within silk protein hydrogel, a soft,
transparent biomaterial that supports cell growth and allows cells to
penetrate deep within it. the researchers were able to create voids at
multiple scales as small as 10 microns and as large at 400 microns over a
large volume.
Further, the exceptional clarity of the transparent silk gels enabled the
laser’s photons to be absorbed nearly 1 cm below the surface of the gel—
more than 10 times deeper than with other materials, without damaging
adjacent material.
the study received funding from the Office of Naval research. see more at:
go.tufts.edu/hydrogels
Applegate M.B. (2015) “laser-based 3-Dimensional multiscale micropatterning of
biocompatible hydrogels for customized tissue engineering scaffolds” PNAS Early
Edition. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1509405112.
(top) electrode
backing profile cut
into silk film with
FPl. (Bottom) film
with deployed
backing (in red)
successfully
inserted into
brain phantom.
researCh hiGhLiGhts
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Congratulations to our Graduates
alumni
Bmes 2015
Once again the department was well repre-
sented at this year’s Biomedical engineering
society (BMes) Annual Meeting, held October
7-10 in tampa, Florida. Professors Black and
Kaplan attended and a number of graduate
students and postdocs presented their work in
both poster and platform presentations. we’re
looking forward to another strong tufts
contingent in Minneapolis next fall!
Posters
Kelly Sullivan (PI: Black): Isotropic
silk Patches for Myocardial repair
Following Infarction
Yuki Ito (undergrad) (PIs: Kaplan and
Omenetto): efficacy of electrical stimulation
on Accelerating wound repair with Full
thickness In Vitro skin Models
Ashwin Sundarakrishnan (PI: Kaplan):
self-reporting Phenol red-silk
Protein Dityrosine Crosslinked
Cytocompatible Hydrogels
Disha Sood (PI: Kaplan): Bioengineering Brain
Matrix Composition to establish In Vitro 3D
Physiological Brain Cultures
Lauren Baugh (PI: Black): two-Photon excited
Fluorescence Imaging of Heart Valves
Non-Invasively Identifies Calcific Nodules
Presentations
Assistant Professor Lauren Black – 2015
CMBE Journal Young Innovator Award
Presentation: Depolarization of resting
Membrane Potential stimulates Neonatal
Cardiomyocyte Proliferation In Vitro
rosalyn Abbott (PI: Kaplan): Human Mature
white Adipose tissue Model for studying
lipolytic responses
Kyle Quinn (PI: georgakoudi): Multiphoton
Microscopy reveals Altered Cell Metabolism
During skin wound Healing
Maria rodriguez (PI: Kaplan):
Characterization of Gel-spun silk
Vascular Grafts
Keep in touch
1. e-mail Bme_alumni@tufts.edu with your news, stories, and updated contact information.
If you’re not receiving e-mails from us, please let us know!
2. Join our graduate and undergraduate linkedIn groups.
3. Visit the new tufts Online Community: www.tuftsalumni.org/olc.
4. the department is considering starting an Alumni Association to continue to bring alumni
together and also as a resource for future alumni. If you’re interested in being involved in the
formation of the association, please contact Assistant Professor Lauren.Black@tufts.edu.
Dr. Jana Kainerstorfer, a postdoc in Professor
Fio Omenetto’s lab (2012–2013) and Professor
sergio Fantini’s lab (2012–2015), is now an
Assistant Professor of Biomedical engineering
at Carnegie Mellon university.
Dr. Arvind saibaba, a postdoc in Professor
sergio Fantini’s lab and Professor eric Miller’s
lab in tufts Department of electrical and
Computer engineering (2013–2015), is now
Assistant Professor of Mathematics at North
Carolina state university.
Bachelor of Science in
Biomedical Engineering
sydney Char
scott m. Delisle
Jesse a. eaton
emily r. eickhoff
robert W. Gifford
emily Gosselin
allison Greaney
Derek Kallarackal
samuel Kessel
alana Lustenberger
eric C. peterson
michael ren
Doctoral Recipients
Dominick Blasioli iv
The Development of a Progressive In Vitro Cell
Based Model Of Osteoarthritis
Advisor: David Kaplan
alexander mitropoulos
Silk Fibroin Nanostructured Materials for
Biomedical Applications
Advisor: Fiorenzo Omenetto
rodrigo r. Jose
Design of 3-D Bioinks, Printing Hardware and
Printable Devices
Advisor: David Kaplan
Master of Engineering
Christopher proulx
michael a. Weinstein
Master of Science
Carlos arellano
steven C. Bench
Bryan Choi
nicole Danek
nikolaos
Dimitrakakis
Kaori Graybeal
Dylan s. haas
Jen-yu Lan
varuna rao
anthony m. rinaldi
Daniel L. smoot
Joshua D. spitzberg
Zachary tochka
friedrich von flotow
Qianrui Wang
on anD off Campus
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Industry Days
BME Retreat
Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
the tufts chapter of the Biomedical engineering
society has three main goals: hold social events,
provide opportunities for career development,
and serve our community through volunteer
activities. with an increasingly large depart-
ment, we have decided to focus on social events
to ensure we maintain a close-knit community.
we’ve started initiatives such as an anonymous
questions forum for BMes to ask questions to
our executive board, and we’ve also launched a
mentorship program to connect underclassmen
to upperclassmen. lastly, we’ve started to hold
general meetings for BMes members twice a
semester to ensure that everyone is heard.
last semester kicked off with a General Interest
Meeting that featured “Periodic table Cookies”
followed soon after by Community Day, where
we volunteered our time helping children make
rubber band guitars. Our biggest event to date
was our department barbecue, where profes-
sors, graduate students, and undergrads played
soccer and shared some delicious grilled foods.
we also helped organize the annual BMe depart-
ment dinner at Nijiya, where students and
professors socialized over all-you-can-eat sushi.
the executive board bonded when we went to
the tufts Mountain Club loj in New Hampshire
to go hiking. For career development, we were
lucky enough to have alumnus Nick Bayhi take
us on a tour of Immunogen. BMes also
organized a resume workshop with tufts Gordon
Institute’s Professor of the Practice sam liggero
to help prepare for the career fair. In addition,
we held our first internship panel, where
general members were able to hear about the
internship experiences of BMe upperclassmen.
we plan to hold a tour of the BMe labs soon in
order to inform the underclassmen of all the
opportunities that are available to us. For the
upcoming semester, we plan to explore other
BMe-related companies in the area. we also
plan to interact with the community on Kids Day,
organize another department dinner, and hold
another barbecue event. we will continue to
focus on our three main goals in order to ensure
that future BMes will have the same great
opportunities as the past classes. If you are
interested in getting involved, please email bme-
stufts@gmail.com or visit f acebook.com/
tuftsBmes/
—Yuki Ito, President, BMes
Assistant Professor Qiaobing Xu continued
the career-networking program “Industry
Days” to help BMe undergraduate students
find internship opportunities and gain insights
about life in industry. Companies including
ImmunoGen Inc., Bard Inc., teleflex Inc.,
triton systems, Inc., Monsanto Inc., and eMD
Millipore participated in the events, which
included a question and answer session with
the industry professionals. Please email
Qiaobing.Xu@tufts.edu if you would be
interested in participating in future Industry
Days events!
the 2015 BMe retreat took place at the
longfellow wayside Inn on september
18, 2015 in sudbury, Mass. More than 85
students, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate
students attended. the day was filled with
outdoor social activities and scientific podium
and poster presentations, including this
poster by Nishanth Krishnamurthy (right,
Fantini lab), discussing his research with
Xiaocheng Jiang (left).
Clockwise from top: Ava saneyei, Zack lowenstein, and a tufts police
officer enjoy the BMe BBQ; BMes executive board hike around the
tMC loj; department dinner at Nijiya; Megan tse (left) and Arin
Naidu (right) make rubber band guitars with tufts Community Day
visitors; periodic table cookies at GIM.
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Quantitative Biomedical
optics: theory, methods,
and applications
authors: irving Bigio
(Boston university),
sergio fantini
Date of publication:
January 31, 2016
publisher: Cambridge
university press
isBn: 978-0521876568
this text covers a broad range of areas in
biomedical optics, from light interactions at the
single-photon and single-biomolecule levels, to
the diffusion regime of light propagation in
tissue. subjects covered include spectroscopic
techniques (fluorescence, raman, infrared,
near-infrared, and elastic scattering), imaging
techniques (diffuse optical tomography,
photoacoustic imaging, several forms of modern
microscopy, and optical coherence tomography),
and laser-tissue interactions, including optical
tweezers. topics are developed from the
fundamental principles of physical science, with
intuitive explanations, while rigorous mathemat-
ical formalisms of theoretical treatments are
also provided. For each technique, descriptions
of relevant instrumentation and examples of
biomedical applications are outlined, and each
chapter benefits from references and suggested
resources for further reading, and exercise
problems with answers to selected problems.
“Bigio and Fantini’s comprehensive text on
biomedical optics provides a wonderful blend of
accessible theory and practical guidance
relevant to the design and application of
biomedical optical systems. It should be
required reading for all graduate students
working in this area.”
— rebecca richards-Kortum
rice university, Houston
Research Scholars—TUBERS
this past summer was the fourth year of the
tufts university Biomedical engineering
research scholars Program (tuBers). In this
program, we invite applications from high school
students who want to gain laboratory experience
over the summer. selected students—who were
all either rising juniors or seniors at high
schools in Medford, somerville, Arlington,
Quincy or Concord—were invited to tufts for
eight weeks this past summer to gain hands-on
laboratory experience. students were assigned
to work with a grad student or postdoc in one of
the faculty members’ labs, and were encouraged
to work on their own independent projects. In
addition to gaining lab experience, students in
the program attended biweekly presentations by
faculty members on their lab’s research. the
summer culminated in a poster presentation
session where tuBers students were able to
present their summer work to members of the
department as well as family, friends, and their
high school science teachers. several students
continued their work as part of their state
science fair projects, and two students were able
to qualify for the Intel International science and
engineering Fair. If you have suggestions for
schools that might have interested students or
know someone to contact at your local high
school, please email Lauren.Black@tufts.edu.
in press
siLKLaB Goes
to faB11
tuBers
In August, Doble Professor Fio Omenetto’s
silklab team participated in the International
Fab lab Network gathering at MIt, birthplace of
the Fab lab concept. the silklab presented a
moveable demonstration of silk fiber spinning
and 3D silk printing, along with other demon-
strations of silk products.
Professor Fantini talking with tuBers
member shivam rastogi about his summer
project in Professor Georgakoudi’s lab.
Final poster session for tuBers participants
silk inspires Google science fair Winner
Olivia Hallisey, winner of the 2015 Google science Fair, was inspired by Doble Professor Fio Omenetto’s teD talk on the uses of silk.
Olivia worked with Omenetto and postdoc Benedetto Marelli to develop a thin-film silk that could stabilize the chemicals used to
detect ebola without the need for refrigeration.
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