Had such a fun visit to GeorgiaTech, hosted by @gregory-sawicki.bsky.social! Always exciting to share the latest from the lab and meet other folks working at the intersection of #biomechanics + #robotics. Please enjoy my adorable souvenir courtesy of @drblackboots.bsky.social, Buzz the YellowJacket.

Love this MIT news feature of our work at the intersection of AI + bio-manufacturing, showcasing a method to make 3D bioprinting more reliable, scalable, and efficient! news.mit.edu/2025/new-3d-... #3Dprinting #bioprinting #AI #manufacturing

Honored to be selected to participate in the NAE Grainger Frontiers of Engineering meeting, alongside other scientists spanning neural engineering 🧠, quantum computing 🖥️, fusion energy⚡️ & sustainable aviation ✈️.The future of science is inspiring, as are the people shaping it! @nationalacademies.org

Our lab’s first 3D #bioprinting paper out today in Device @cellpress.bsky.social! Our modular + cost-effective + AI-driven platform enables monitoring the quality of bioprinted tissues, improving reproducibility + limiting material waste in #TissueEngineering www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Had a great time presenting a keynote at the European Society of Biomaterials #ESB2025 meeting! The perfect place to share our latest work on tissue engineering biological actuators and catch up with #biomaterials friends from around the world! ramanlab.mit.edu/publications/

Great to see this Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) feature of our collaborative work in dexterous biohybrid robotics with Pietro Valdastri and team! www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-...

Super excited to welcome Dr. Arielle Berman, PhD to our lab as an MIT Engineering Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow, following her recent PhD with Prof. Zhenan Bao at Stanford! Check out some of Arielle's exciting prior work here: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Loved speaking at the Engineering Life symposium exploring science at the interface of Mechanics and Biology this week, hosted by Prof. Mariana Medina-Sánchez (@bcube-tud.bsky.social)! Great to share our work on using magnetic matrix actuation (MagMA) to program tissue function. #25EngLife

Excited to welcome Dr. Inkyu Lee to our lab as a new postdoc! Inkyu brings tremendous expertise in bioelectronics from his training with Prof. Tzahi Cohen-Karni at Carnegie Mellon University - check out some of his excellent PhD thesis research here: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Wrapping up a stellar summer with our MIT summer research program (MSRP) interns - huge congratulations and thank you to our interns and their mentors! You can learn more about MSRP here: oge.mit.edu/msrp/

RNA N-glycosylation enables immune evasion and homeostatic efferocytosis by chemically caging acp3U. Excited to report this work lead by Vinnie @vinnieviruses.bsky.social and in collaboration with @vijayrathinam.bsky.social in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Celebrating summer with the trainees of both the Raman Lab and the Flynn Lab ( @raflynn5.bsky.social ) at our first joint social - grateful for these folks and many exciting conversations at the intersection of engineering and biology!

Less than *2 weeks* left to apply for the MIT Mechanical Engineering Rising Stars Program (applications due July 25, 2025)! Rising Stars will be hosted at MIT (October 23-24) and supports top women graduate students + postdocs in the US who are considering careers in academia: risingstarsme.mit.edu

We're all still figuring out the role that AI plays in our lives as biomedical researchers - our lab took its first step in this direction by leveraging Google's Co-Scientist tool to study neuromuscular diseases that impact healthy mobility. Fun highlight in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

a ~whirlwind~ week of science giving 3 talks on our work in tissue engineering, mechanobiology, & robotics at the: 1) European Solid Mechanics Conference 2) Society for Experimental Biology 3) Biohybrid Robotics Symposium Presenting work on several preprints (!) you can find here: ramanlab.mit.edu

How to turn a layer of fibroblasts into a tulip 🌷? Check out our new pre-print on shape-programmable living surfaces. Led by @pauguillamat.bsky.social‬ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Always a blast introducing new folks to the history + future of #biohybrid #robotics - today at the University of Bristol SoftLab Seminar! Great to get feedback on what we've done so far + an exciting reminder of how much we have left to keep us busy in the coming decades 😊

I've always loved this video of Boston Dynamics robots over the last 40 years. Highlight of this week: being invited by BD founder Marc Raibert to give a talk about our early work in #biohybrid #robotics at the Robotics and AI Institute! Wonderful full circle moment ☺️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjX6...

Please share widely: the MechE Rising stars program will be hosted at MIT this year on October 23-24, 2025! Our program provides mentorship for top women graduate students and postdocs pursuing careers in academia. Nominations are due *July 11*: risingstarsme.mit.edu

Had a great time helping edit and put together this themed collection on Soft Robotics for Chemical Reviews! Please check out this excellent series of articles featuring the latest in soft bioinspired and biohybrid machines: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Loved presenting at the @museumofscience.bsky.social luncheon focused on encouraging the next generation of women and girls in science! Particularly happy that the museum has acquired the AAAS IF/THEN collection featuring the careers of women in STEM: www.mos.org/discover/if-...

Great to work on this review with Miguel Castilho, @ruidomingues.bsky.social and colleagues - we outline methods to design responsive #biomaterials that enable fabrication of more complex multicellular systems: www.cell.com/trends/biote... #TissueEngineering

Huge shout out to the creative team that produced this beautiful video capturing our teaching efforts at the intersection of mechanics and biology! Learn more about our work to integrate hands-on experiences in biomechanics and mechanobiology for students at MIT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tult...

Our latest paper made it to the cover of Biomaterials Science! We leverage an efficient method for hydrogel micropatterning (STAMP) to fabricate complex muscle tissues like this #biohybrid iris that actuates in response to light: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #TissueEngineering #MyoBlue

Proud of the work we've done to integrate hands-on labs for the first time into our class on molecular, cellular, and tissue mechanics at MIT! Check out the story and video: news.mit.edu/2025/mechani...

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

Are you a grad student pursuing the life sciences or biomedical research outside the U.S.? Applications now open for the Angelika Amon Young Scientist Award until June 13. Enter to win $1,000 USD & a chance to present your work & network w/ MIT faculty. buff.ly/F7s94vW

Huge thanks to Monize Caiado Decarli for asking me to speak about being a #NewPI in #TissueEngineering @eutermis.bsky.social! Great questions from the audience on being a woman in science, building a lab from scratch, and how my childhood growing up around the world shaped the professor I am today.

Honored to give a keynote at the 4D Tissue Engineering session @eutermis.bsky.social organized by Miguel Castilho, @ruidomingues.bsky.social, and @rita-s-almeida.bsky.social! Particularly exciting to receive questions on our unpublished work - coming soon to a preprint server near you ☺️💪🏽

Best way to wrap up the end of a busy semester? Lab clean out + ice cream!

What an honor to learn about the history and future of mechanosensory biology from Dr. @ardemp.bskyverified.social himself (and his Piezo tattoo)! Such an exciting and inspiring talk for everyone studying science at the intersection of mechanics and biology 🙌🏽 Thank you for visiting us at MIT!

Wow, I cannot believe >120 people showed up to my *9 pm* seminar! A tribute to the incredible dedication of the young minds participating in the Topics in Cell & #TissueEngineering international webinar series (@compass-rg.bsky.social)! Check out the rest of the seminar lineup: topicscteng.web.ua.pt

It was an exciting week for the Flynn Lab - our first PhD student has successfully defended his thesis: congrats to Dr. Jonathan Perr! @harvardmcb.bsky.social @bostonchildrens.bsky.social

🎙️ We're excited to welcome Professor @rituraman.bsky.social from the @mit.edu! 📢 Her talk, titled “4D Tissue Engineering of the Neuromuscular System,” will take place today in a few hours - May 8th at 21h00 (PT/UK time). 👉 Don’t miss it—register now for free: lnkd.in/deYvydXn

I’m usually early to bed and early to rise, but some experiences are worth staying up late for - thanks to Seung-Kyun Kang for the invitation to give a virtual seminar at Seoul National University! Check out the Kang Lab’s exciting work in bioelectronics: bielab.snu.ac.kr/main/

Applications for the Advanced Science Young Innovator Award are due May 18 - I found this a great opportunity to highlight our lab's early work last year! If you're <10 years into #newPI life, check it out: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚

Abstract submission deadline extended to Monday May 19! If you're working on developing new tools/materials for dynamically controlling intercellular electrical, biochemical, or mechanical signaling, we want to hear from you! @termisam.bsky.social

My undergrad training at Cornell introduced me to science at the intersection of mechanics & biology, playing a large part in shaping my lab's vision today. Happy to share our latest research on soft biological actuators at the Cornell Soft Matter Seminar! www.engineering.cornell.edu/events/soft-...

Super cool new postdoctoral fellowship opportunity at MIT via the HEALS initiative. Biswas Fellows receive *4 years* of funding to pursue independent research with *any* MIT faculty member! Please share widely with the trainees in your life! heals.mit.edu/biswas-fello...

Excited to see our paper on biohybrid iris robots highlighted as an Editor's Choice in Science Robotics! www.science.org/doi/full/10....

“Cell surface RNA biology: new roles for RNA binding proteins” Jennifer Porat and I discuss this new cellular topology on which to study RNA–RBP interactions and consider how changes in the csRBPs may drive autoimmune responses. @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to share the latest in 2.5D and 3D biohybrid robots from our lab with a packed room at RoboSoft! Thanks to all the organizers for putting together an exciting workshop on "Soft Robotic Actuation and Sensing Based on Functional Materials"! robosoft2025.org

Excited to share Benson’s and Maria’s work in collab w/Kostas Tzelepis: we found the nucleolar protein NPM1 is a marker of AML and can be targeted therapeutically connecting ‘cell surface RNA biology’ to cancer biology @natbiotech.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to help organize a session on "Dynamic Extracellular Matrices to Control Cell Signaling" at #TERMISAM2025! The deadline for abstract submissions is April 28 - please consider joining our session and sharing your work in this space: am2025.termis.org/abstract-ins... @termisam.bsky.social

What would it take to build a meter-scale autonomous biohybrid robot? Postdoc Dr. Ronald Heisser takes a visionary swing at this question in our new review. Take a deep dive into the grand challenges that remain at the interface of #TissueEngineering & #Robotics: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Enjoying the RNA Medicine Symposium @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social, featuring #glycoRNA pioneer @raflynn5.bsky.social

Last week was full of exciting (bio)materials research! Kicked off the week with two talks on our work in both 2D and 3D biohybrid robots at the MRS spring meeting in Seattle, and wrapped up with talks on biofabrication from lab members at the annual SFB conference in Chicago. Feeling ~energized~ 💪🏽

Really enjoyed my visit to Harvard yesterday - extra special to speak at a seminar series coordinated by trainees! Thanks to the Mitragotri lab for hosting my visit and introducing me to some very bright early career scientists in bioengineering: events.seas.harvard.edu/event/4d-tis...

Some communities just feel like home - loved the symposium on multicellular engineered living systems (MCELS) last week! Highlights included sharing our labs early stories, a panel on #scicomm, and @shahjess.bsky.social giving her first presentation on her graduate work! m-cels.mit.edu/symposium/