A big congratulations to Xun and Christian! Their poster won the Most Informative Poster Award in the IMECE 2020 NSF Poster Competition.

Karen gave a virtual talk in the conference “From Molecules to Organs:
The Mechanobiology of Morphogenesis” at the Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore in a really fantastic session on Tissue Shaping!

Karen gave a talk in the Cell Migration Seminar Series. A big thank you to Jennifer Mitchel, Adam Shellard, and Becky Jones for the invitation and for organizing such an amazing virtual seminar series!

More info here: https://www.cellmigrationseminars.com/.

If you missed the seminar, you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r27Yo4vhmK0

Karen gave a zoom seminar at the Department of Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto. A big thank you to Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez for the invitation! Had such a great time “visiting” Toronto, seeing old friends and meeting so many fantastic scientists!

Congrats to high school students Abdhel, Alex, and Sham on excellent research contributions to the group this summer and great final presentations, all as part of the Columbia E.N.G. Program. Thank you to Columbia Engineering Outreach for organizing the program!

Congrats to undergrad and masters students Annie Lin, Cole Allan, Andrea Quinones, Kennedi Wade, Hugo Favila, and Estevan Mesa on outstanding research contributions in their summer projects. Great presentations today in group meeting!

Congrats to Xun on winning a 1st place in ASME-Bioengineering Division PhD Student Paper Competition at the SB3C Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference!

Kasza Lab Summer 2020! Welcome to all the new members of the group!

Check our new paper in PNAS on tissue flows in developing embryos! This was a really great collaboration with Lisa Manning’s group at Syracuse University. Read the paper here! And read more here!

Congratulations to Kaitlyn and Alejo on being honored with Mechanical Engineering Excellence in Undergraduate Research Awards! And another big congrats to Alejo on being honored with the William A. Hadley Award in Mechanical Engineering!

Karen gave a talk as part of the BioMed Club Seminar Series at Baruch College. Had a really great time visiting the faculty and students in the Department of Natural Sciences. A big thank you to Krista Dobi for the invitation!

 Christian hosted high school students from ELLIS Prep for an Inside Engineering lab tour. It was great showing the students around the lab and telling them about our research!

Marisol and Xun presented their research at the ASCB/EMBO 2019 Meeting in Washington, DC!

Karen gave a seminar at the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Arkansas. A big thank you to Adam Paré for the invitation! Had such a great time visiting Fayetteville!

Karen gave the Physics Colloquium at Lehigh University. Thank you to Dimitrios Vavylonis for the invitation and for making this such a great visit!

Karen gave a seminar at the Center for Studies in Physics and Biology at the Rockefeller University. Thank you to Jasmine Nirody for the invitation and for organizing a great visit!

Congrats to Xun on a successful thesis proposal presentation!

Check our new paper in PNAS on using fruit flies to study the cellular mechanisms that translate disease-related mutations in the myosin II motor protein into tissue-level defects. This work was done in collaboration with Jennifer Zallen’s group at the Sloan Kettering Institute. Read it here!

Karen gave a talk in a fantastic series of sessions on the “Mechanics of growth, morphogenesis and evolution of biological solids” at the Society of Engineering Science annual meeting (SES2019) at Washington University in St Louis. A big thank you to Andrej Košmrlj, Zi Chen, and Franck Vernerey for the invite!