Ritu Raman
@rituraman.bsky.social
Eugene Bell Assistant Prof at MIT • tissue engineering the neuromuscular system to restore mobility and power robots • RamanLab.mit.edu
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Ritu Raman
@rituraman.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Hello 🦋! An intro: I’m a tissue engineer + new PI at MIT, and my lab builds neuromuscular tissues for applications in regenerative medicine + biohybrid robotics. Looking forward to sharing our lab’s journey and newest scientific stories with all of you!
ramanlab.mit.edu
ramanlab.mit.edu
Preprint alert: Our latest study shows that "4D" force patterning enables spatial control of angiogenesis! Check out how we use Magnetic Matrix Actuation to precisely fabricate of 3D microvascular networks:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Led by @sinakheiri.bsky.social @shahjess.bsky.social!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Led by @sinakheiri.bsky.social @shahjess.bsky.social!
November 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Preprint alert: Our latest study shows that "4D" force patterning enables spatial control of angiogenesis! Check out how we use Magnetic Matrix Actuation to precisely fabricate of 3D microvascular networks:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Led by @sinakheiri.bsky.social @shahjess.bsky.social!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Led by @sinakheiri.bsky.social @shahjess.bsky.social!
Meet the Raman Lab at #TERMISAM2025! Excited to share presentations from Angel Bu, Jessica Shah, Dr. Tamara Rossy, Brandon Rios, and Dr. Ferdows Afghah highlighting our latest efforts in #TissueEngineering.
@termisam.bsky.social
@termisam.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Meet the Raman Lab at #TERMISAM2025! Excited to share presentations from Angel Bu, Jessica Shah, Dr. Tamara Rossy, Brandon Rios, and Dr. Ferdows Afghah highlighting our latest efforts in #TissueEngineering.
@termisam.bsky.social
@termisam.bsky.social
Visionary talk from Jennifer Lewis yesterday at the MIT.nano Dresselhaus Lecture, highlighting opportunities for 3D printing in soft robotics & tissue engineering! You can watch the full lecture and the q&a session (moderated by me!) here: mitnano.mit.edu/events/dress...
@wyssinstitute.bsky.social
@wyssinstitute.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Visionary talk from Jennifer Lewis yesterday at the MIT.nano Dresselhaus Lecture, highlighting opportunities for 3D printing in soft robotics & tissue engineering! You can watch the full lecture and the q&a session (moderated by me!) here: mitnano.mit.edu/events/dress...
@wyssinstitute.bsky.social
@wyssinstitute.bsky.social
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October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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We are recruiting new faculty in IMES at MIT!
IMES (Institute for Medical Engineering and Science) is the MIT home of the famous HST program. As faculty are also appointed in a department at MIT, we have diverse research programs, all focused on human health.
faculty-searches.mit.edu/imes-search/
IMES (Institute for Medical Engineering and Science) is the MIT home of the famous HST program. As faculty are also appointed in a department at MIT, we have diverse research programs, all focused on human health.
faculty-searches.mit.edu/imes-search/
MIT Faculty Searches MIT INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE FACULTY SEARCH
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October 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
We are recruiting new faculty in IMES at MIT!
IMES (Institute for Medical Engineering and Science) is the MIT home of the famous HST program. As faculty are also appointed in a department at MIT, we have diverse research programs, all focused on human health.
faculty-searches.mit.edu/imes-search/
IMES (Institute for Medical Engineering and Science) is the MIT home of the famous HST program. As faculty are also appointed in a department at MIT, we have diverse research programs, all focused on human health.
faculty-searches.mit.edu/imes-search/
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During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost!
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October 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost!
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We’re excited to report work led by postdoc Jennifer Porat in the lab, finding that DNA accumulates on the surface of living cells and that the secreted extracellular protein DNASE1L3 can modulate its levels on B and T cells. With a new twist for ATAC-seq as well www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
DNASE1L3 surveils mitochondrial DNA on the surface of distinct mammalian cells
The extracellular space is a critical environment for discriminating self versus non-self nucleic acids and initiating the appropriate immune responses through signaling cascades to relay information ...
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October 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
We’re excited to report work led by postdoc Jennifer Porat in the lab, finding that DNA accumulates on the surface of living cells and that the secreted extracellular protein DNASE1L3 can modulate its levels on B and T cells. With a new twist for ATAC-seq as well www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Lead by postdoc in the lab Ruiqi Ge and in collaboration with Bob Coffey’s lab, we are happy to share rPAL-seq for rapid and sensitive sequencing based profiling of glycoRNAs @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Lead by postdoc in the lab Ruiqi Ge and in collaboration with Bob Coffey’s lab, we are happy to share rPAL-seq for rapid and sensitive sequencing based profiling of glycoRNAs @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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.
September 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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
news.mit.edu/2025/new-3d-...
#3Dprinting #bioprinting #AI #manufacturing
September 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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
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
@nationalacademies.org
September 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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
@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...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Modular and AI-driven in situ monitoring platform for real-time process analysis in embedded bioprinting
Real-time monitoring and in situ data analysis are increasingly vital for enhancing precision, reproducibility, and defect detection in embedded biopr…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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...
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/
ramanlab.mit.edu/publications/
September 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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/
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-...
www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-...
Smarter Robot Bodies
Throughout history, humans have used tools and machines to reduce the burden of physical labour. Robots are increasingly able to act independently in complex and dynamic environments but advanced mach...
www.aria.org.uk
September 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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-...
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....
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
September 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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....
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
September 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
August 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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...
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/
August 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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/
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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...
August 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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!
July 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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!
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...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI ‘scientists’ joined these research teams: here’s what happened
Emerging ‘co-scientist’ systems use chatbots to mimic the deliberations of a research group. Nature asked researchers to test them out.
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July 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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...
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
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
July 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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
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
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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...
Check out our new pre-print on shape-programmable living surfaces.
Led by @pauguillamat.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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...
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 😊
June 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjX6...
Boston Dynamic: 40 years of development (1983 - 2023 )
YouTube video by Shortcake 🍰
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June 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjX6...