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  • Now we are hiring new Ph.D. students and Post-doctoral fellows (both with financial supports): 

    • Desired background, in order of priority: solid and fluid mechanical engineering; physics; optical microscopy and image processing; mathematics; in vivo/ex vivo/in vitro neuroscience; and chemistry. If interested, please email cover letter, CV and names of references to Xin Tang. Here is the full job posting.

      

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  • (9/1/2024) Congratulations to both Angela Liang and Georgios Glynatsis for being selected into UF University Research Scholars Program! Warm Welcome our new rotation student, Ms. Zainab Alshakarchi, from the UF Scripps Biomedical Research Institute and UF College of Medicine! Thank you very much to UF BMS faculty and graduate programs and UF MAE Department !

  • (4/19/2024) Congratulations to Miao Huang for successfully completing the PhD qualifying Exam and receiving the 2024 Graduate Innovator Scholarship. Thank you very much to all Miao's PhD committee members, our collaborators, mentors, and graduate/undergraduate/K12 URM students! ​

  • (4/5/2024) Congratulations to our lab for receiving the 2024 MAE Researcher of the Year Award. Congratulations to Andrea Kannita Noy for receiving American Heart Association (AHA)’s Cardiovascular Research Summer Scholars Training Program in Summer of 2024 and the MAE Sung and Yvonne Lu Outstanding Senior Award! Great efforts, Andrea and All Our Lab Members! Thank you very much to the MAE Department and American Heart Association (AHA) !

  • (4/2/2024) Congratulations to Chenyu Liang for completing the PhD defense/dissertation and for receiving the 2024 MAE Graduate Student Research Award! All Hail, Dr. Liang! Thanks to all Chenyu's PhD committee members (Chenyu's mentors), our students, and all our internal/external collaborators whose fantastic innovations brought this about! Thank you very much to the MAE Department! ​

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  • (3/14/2024) Congratulations to Chenyu Liang and Laura Garzon for receiving NSF Supplement Fund to pursue neuronal mechanobiology and imaging research! Thank you very much to the NSF!

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  • (2/16/2024) Congratulations to Erica Hengartner for being selected to join University Scholar Program from UF Health Cancer Center! Congratulations to Abygale Cochrane for presenting a WEBIO seminar in Herbert Wertheim Laboratory for Engineering Excellence! Congratulations to Dylan, Cole, Riley, and Andrea for presenting 3 research posters in MAE Spring Visit 2024! Thanks to all our collaborative graduate/undergraduate/K12 students and our collaborators! Thank you to the MAE Department, UF Health Cancer Center, McKnight Brain Institute, and  WEBIO student organization!​

  • (10/15/2023) Congratulations to Chenyu being selected to receive Certificate of Outstanding Merit from Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering  and the International Center! Thanks to all Chenyu's mentored students in our lab and our collaborators whose innovative work brought this about! Thank you to the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering! ​

  • (10/12/2023) Congratulations to Quang, Cole, Erica, Abygale, Chenyu, Miao, and other lab members for winning 2 best poster awards: "The Overall Best Poster" and "The Best Poster in Nano-Medicine", in 2023 Nano Day! Thank you: Nanoscale Research Facility (NRF), and all our high-school (K-12), undergraduate, graduate students, post-doctoral associates, and collaborators Drs. Warren Dixon, Mark Sheplak, Hugh Fan, Larry Ukeiley, Matthew Traum, Ting Dong, Bruce Carroll, Mike Stapleton, Jack Judy, Robert Caudle, Christopher McCurdy, Yuqing Li, Habibeh Khoshbouei, Landon Lin, Chris Martyniuk, and Ann Donnelly ! 

  • (09/01/2023) We received an AFOSR/DoD award to support our research on real-time visualization of the "neuronal happy-hour party" in living zebrafish's brain. Thanks to all students in our lab and our collaborators whose creative research brought this about! Thank you very much to the AFOSR/DoD! ​

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  • (07/01/2023) We received an NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA R35) to support our lab's long-term goal of developing new methodologies for revealing mechanical dynamics in cells and tissues. Thanks to all our students in lab and collaborators whose hard work and great innovation brought this about! Thank you very much to the NIH/NIGMS! ​

  • (06/15/2023) We received an NSF award to support our research on 3D all-optical machine-learning(AI/ML)-enabled framework and neuronal mechanics. Thanks to all students in our lab and collaborators whose hard work brought this about! Thank you very much to the NSF! 

  • (05/12/2023) Congratulations to successful awards and milestones for our great team members: 

    • Erica Hengartner: International Chemistry REU Fellowship (UF/France)

    • Charles Liang: MAE Department Graduate Fellowship (UF)

    • Mitchell Litchell: Fellowship to Biomedical Science Research Workshop (Harvard University)

    • Cole Mackey: Best Poster Award (UF Chapter of the American Society for Microbiology)

    • Huang Miao: MAE Department Graduate Fellowship (UF)

    • Amanda Snyder: Fellowship to RNA Research Program (Yale University)

    • Hayley Sussman: Acceptance to Graduate School (University of Virginia)

    • Andrea Kannita Noy: Best Poster Award in Nano-Fluidics (NANO Day)​

    • Andrea Kannita Noy: University Scholar Program Award (UF HWCOE & UFHCC)​

    • HeYang Wang: Acceptance to Graduate School (Northwestern University)

    • Izabela Zmirska: Fellowship to Bioengineering Research Workshop (Harvard University)

         Thanks to all students: Your great contributions are key to our wonderful lab !  

  • (04/21/2023) Congratulations to successful completion of our CURE class. Many young students productively participated in and will continue to proceed our exciting projects. Multiple research articles and book chapters will appear online soon (one paper by Cole Mackey is here: Mechanobiology and Drug Resistance). Thanks to all students: Your great creativity and passion are key to these rewarding education and outreach STEM activities!  

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  • (01/11/2023) Congratulations to Erica and Abygale for successfully presenting research posters as UFHCC Cancer Research Day 2023. Thank you: All our invaluable high-school (K-12)/undergraduate/graduate  students, post-doctoral fellows, internal and external collaborators, and UF MAE department's colleagues. Your great contributions are key to this work!  

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  • (12/22/2022) Congratulations to our Andrea Kannita Noy, Chenyu Liang, and other lab members for winning the best poster awards for the Nano-Fluidics Division 2022! Thank you: Nanoscale Research Facility (NRF), and our high-school (K-12), undergraduate, graduate students, post-doctoral associates, and collaborators Drs. Warren Dixon (MAE), Blanka Sharma (BME), Daniel Ferris (BME), Mike Stapleton (ECE), and Jack Judy (ECE) ! Photos coming soon. 

  • (11/24/2022) Congratulations to Erica Hengartner, Abygale Cochrane, Mitchell Litvinov, Chenyu Liang, and Dr. Tian He, for winning the best poster awards for the NanoDay Nano-Photonics 2022 event! Thank you very much: Nanoscale Research Facility (NRF) and our high-school (K-12), undergraduate, graduate students, and post-doctoral research associates from the laboratories of Drs. Robert Caudle, Christopher McCurdy, Yuqing Li, Habibeh Khoshbouei, Landon Lin, Justin Hilliard, and Lance McMahaon!

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  • (10/01/2022) Our research on the calcium waves in human cancer cells is in Biomaterials (IF: 15.3).   Tour de force from Chenyu Liang, Mai Tanaka, Dr. Shu Wang, Sharon Lepler, and all high-school (K-12)/undergraduate/graduate members from the laboratories of Drs. Bo Zeng, Dietmar Siemann, Ji-Hyun Lee, Blanka Sharma, Edward Phelps, and Yong Huang!

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  • (07/01/2022) Our new 3D magnetic force system that can apply nano-Newton force on cell nucleus,  has been accepted by Journal of Visualized Experiments. Congratulations to Miao Huang, HeYang Wang, Hayley Sussman, and all other members from the laboratories of Drs. Ashok Kumar (MAE), Hitomi Greenslet (MAE), Malisa Sarntinoranont (NSF REU), Chelsey Simmons (MAE), Tommy Angelini (MAE), Douglas Spearot (NSF REU), Juan Guan (Physics), and Christopher Batich (MSE)! 

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  • (06/26/2022) Congratulations to Zeyuan Jin for winning 2022 the University of Florida Glenn and Deborah Renwick Engineering Scholarship! 

  • (06/01/2022) Our lab received 2022 the University of Florida Research Opportunity Seed Fund. Congratulations to everyone! 

  • (02/01/2022) Our mechanobiology review on the calcium, YAP, and miRNA signals has been accepted by Soft Matter. Congratulations to Charles (Chenyu) Liang, Miao Huang, Tianqi, Lu Li, Hayley Sussman, , and all other members from the laboratories of Drs. Mingyi Xie, Yao Dai, and Dietmar Siemann!

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  • (12/01/2021) Our all-optical mechanobiology interrogation research is published on Journal of Visualized Experiments. The data shows that living cells apply traction forces from the peri-nuclear regions. Congratulations to Qin Luo, Miao Huang, Justin Zhang, Gaoming Lin, Mai Tanaka, Sharon Lepler, and all other members from the laboratories of Drs. Juan Guan, Diermar Siemann, Youping Chen, Jack Judy, and Youhua Tan (Hong Kong PolyTech University)! 

  • (11/01/2021) Congratulations to our Hayley Sussman (with guidance and help from Miao, Dr. Malisa Sarntinoranont, and Dr. Douglas Spearot) for presenting her NSF REU research posters at BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society)! Thank you very much: NSF REU site, Engineering for Healthcare and all MAE staff members. Your great collaborations and time are key to this work!

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  • (10/01/2021) Congratulations to both Sydney Yu and HeYang Wang for presenting new research posters as UFHCC University Scholar Program awardees.

  • (05/01/2021) Congratulations to Sydney Yu for winning both 2021 Fernandez Scholar and National Merit Scholar and Benacquisto Scholarship!

  • (04/01/2021) Congratulations to HeYang Wang for winning UFHCC 2021 University Scholar Program award! Thank you: UF Health Cancer Center (UFHCC)!  

  • ​(04/01/2020) Congratulations to Sydney Yu for winning 2020 University Scholar Program award! 

  • ​(08/01/2018) Congratulations to our lab for winning UF Health Cancer Center Research Pilot award. Congratulations to everyone! 

We are heartily grateful for the generous funding supports from: 

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