Karen Kasza
Karen had a great time attending and giving a talk at the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) Annual Conference in Vancouver, WA!
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Karen had a great time attending and giving a talk at the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) Annual Conference in Vancouver, WA!
Karen had so much fun visiting NYU to give the Physics Colloquium and seeing so many good friends. A big thank you to Alexandra Zidovska for the invite!
Kasza Lab went to APS March Meeting in Minneapolis. Sassan and Christian gave fantastic talks in their sessions! A big thank you to Max Bi and Ming Guo for inviting Karen to give a talked in their invited session!
Andrew gave a great talk on using our new endogenous OptoRhoGEFs to study the mechanics of tissue furrowing in the VGZT seminar series!
Kasza Lab went to ASCB Cell Bio 2023 in Boston. Andrew and Erika gave fantastic talks in their sessions! Sassan, Christian, and Tammy presented posters on their projects!
Karen had a fantastic time visiting Vanderbilt to give the Physics Colloquium! Many thanks to Shane Huston for the invite and for hosting a great visit!
Kasza Lab Fall 2023!
Karen gave her final fellowship year talk at the Packard Fellows meeting in Colorado Springs! Such an honor to get to tell this amazing group of scientists and engineers about the recent research in our group. We can’t thank the The David & Lucile Packard Foundation enough for their tremendous support!
Karen had a blast at the Soft Condensed Matter Physics GRC on The Soft and Sustainable Building Blocks of Living and Active Systems. A huge thank you to Dan Blair and Daan Frenkel for the invite!
Check our new paper in the inaugural issue of PRX Life on using optogenetics to dissect the roles of actomyosin in tissue fluidity during embryonic development! Read the paper here.
You can read more about this work, including a great interview with Marisol Herrera-Perez, in this article in Physics Magazine.
Karen had so much fun attending and giving a talk at the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) Annual Conference! Guess who is the new chair of the Technical Division on Biological Systems & Materials?
A very big welcome to the newest lab members Mia and Bolu as part of the Columbia Engineering Summer@SEAS program!
Karen had a fantastic time visiting Stanford to give a talk in the Biomechanical Engineering Seminar Series! Many thanks to Sindy Tang and Ovijit Chaudhuri for the invite and for hosting a great visit!
Kasza Lab end of the semester lunch! And biggest congrats to Erika on passing the qualifying exam and to Maya on graduating and receiving the Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Research Award!!!
Karen had a blast visiting Duke and giving a seminar in the Thursday Series! A big thank you to Michel Bagnat for the invite and hosting a fantastic visit!
Sassan and Christian gave talks at APS March Meeting and got to catch up with Marisol!
Andrew presented a poster at the Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago!
Karen had a fantastic time visiting City College to give a seminar at the Levich Institute! A big thank you to Charles Maldarelli and Mark Shattuck for the invite!
Andrew presented a great poster at CellBio2022! So fantastic to be back to in-person meetings!