Excited to be part of this year's society for biomaterials meeting #SFB2025. Check out the Segura lab talks that will be going on this week! Hope to connect with many of you at SFB.

Some holiday joy in lab! Meet Glaciela.

We find that heterogenous MAPgels support vasculogenesis! Here we only studied binary mixtures. Imagine what higher order mixtures can do!

Congratulations Alex on a job well done.

To engineer ways to have nascent vessels transverse HMPs rather than wrap around them Alex turned to heterogenous MAP gels composed of different ratios of HMPs that have different biochemical composition.

An early feature of vasculogenesis is vacuole formation. Here we show that #MAPgel can support vacuole formation but only in MAPgel composed of #HMP that have 3D pore sizes of <20pL. But, after 24-hours the next stages of vasculogenesis do not continue and the cell instead spread along the HMP.

Meet Noah Campbell our first year student. Took us a while but we now have his 📷. Noah graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in May of 2024 with a B.S. in Neuroscience and a minor in Chemistry & Biochemistry.

Based on my two posts (I know you all probably already know this), GIFs do not work in bsky but videos do! This is again NPCs growing in an RGD/IKVAV modified #MAPgel! Amazing work by former graduate student Katrina Wilson! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

NPC growing in #MAPgels! RGD and IKVAV modified scaffolds lead to spreading a neuronal lineage differentiation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Lab Murder Mystery night! We had fun figuring out who was the culprit! Thanks to @jessicacanning.bsky.social for organizing and being our gamemaster and everyone in the lab for playing your part so well! Lots of fun!

Visited the amazing Mechanical Engineering department at MIT yesterday and had a blast. Great meetings with faculty and postdocs. Special thanks to 🌟Ritu and Carlos 🌟for their amazing hospitality including a visit to the exclusive The Quin for dinner. 💕