Kevin Stindt recently published a News and Views on the exometabolome in Nature Microbiology.
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Collaborative paper with the Kreeger Lab is out in APL Bioengineering
Collaborative paper with the Kreeger Lab is out in APL Bioengineering. BME graduate student Harris Krause pushed this over the finish line despite COVID and all the other challenges 2020 threw his way. In this …
Congrats to Neydis on her first first-author paper!
Neydis’ first first-author paper is out today in mSphere! Neydis developed optogenetic control of cell-to-cell cooperative interactions in communities of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Megan is tenured!
Happy to announce that Megan’s tenure is finalized! She is officially an Associate Professor!
Kevin earns a WARF Accelerator Microbiome Challenge Grant!
Congrats to Kevin for earning a WARF Accelerator Microbiome Challenge Grant for his project entitled “A smart probiotic for programming fungal members of the microbiome”. Looking forward to developing this cool technology!
Stephanie’s talk at Candida and Candidiasis!
Stephanie gave a stellar talk entitled “Novel microfluidic and optogenetic tools for studying dispersion of Candida albicans” at the Candida and Candidiasis 2021 Meeting! Congrats Stephanie on being selected for a talk and knocking it …
National Science Foundation GRFP Awardees from the McClean Lab!
Excited to announce that the McClean Lab applicants were very successful with their applications to the NSF GRFP! Undergraduate Laura Guerrero was awarded a fellowship, graduate student Zack Harmer won an Honorable Mention and research …
The McClean lab receives a joint R01 with the Beebe lab!
The Beebe and McClean labs have received a joint R01 entitled “Under-oil open microfluidic system (UOMS) for studying systemic fungal infection”. This grant will fund technology development to better understand the process of dispersion from …
Megan receives an NSF CAREER award!
Megan and the research group received an NSF CAREER award entitled “Synthetic approaches to unravel heterogeneous decision-making in individual microbes and populations”. This award will fund research in the McClean lab for the next five …
Nice UW Madison article on Bhuvana and Megan’s work bridging biology and electronics for hybrid biosensing!
Article is available here
Megan presented in the UW-Madison Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) Seminar Series
Megan presented in the Systems Biology Seminar series at Boston University
Megan presented an invited talk entitled “Single-cell measurement and control to unravel yeast gene expression heterogeneity” in the Boston University Systems Biology Seminar series.
Bhuvana and Megan’s work on hybrid biosensing recognized by a WARF Innovation Award Nomination!
Bhuvana and Megan’s work on hybrid biosensing has been recognized by a nomination for a WARF Innovation Award! Check out this video on our work here.
Megan co-chaired a session “Insights into Pathophysiology of Infectious Diseases” at BMES2020
Despite the need for a remote conference, the Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases track at BMES contained great research. Megan co-chaired a session entitled “Insights into Pathophysiology of Infectious Diseases”. Stephanie Geller also presented her …
Bhuvana presented at ACM NanoCom 2020!
Bhuvana Krishnaswamy presented Megan and Bhuvana’s paper entitled “Shining light on molecular communication” at NanoCom 2020.
Edvard and Kieran’s paper is out at Biotechniques!
Edvard and Kieran wrote a handy protocol to calibrate the optoPlate. Super useful for high-throughput optogenetics. Paper is here and protocol is here.
Megan and Bhuvana’s paper entitled “Shining light on molecular communication” accepted to ACM Nanocomm
A paper written by Megan McClean and Bhuvana Krishnaswamy has been accepted in the Proceedings of the Seventh Annual ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computer and Communication. Congratulations!
The McClean lab receives an NIH equipment supplement to do high-throughput optogenetics!
Thanks to a $240,329 equipment supplement from NIGMS the McClean Lab will be able to develop and acquire equipment for high-throughput optogenetics. Congratulations all!
Kevin and Neydis’ article is out at Nature Microbiology!
Kevin and Neydis wrote a News & Views for Nature Microbiology. Congratulations all!
Alex, Emily, Jehad and Jack’s paper is out at MethodsX!
A pilot project from the Biomedical Engineering Design course is now published at MethodsX describing a unique microfluidic sampler. Congratulations all!
Paper out at Science Advances!
Our collaboration with the Beebe Lab to develop under-oil microfluidics with applications to studying pathogenic fungal biofilms is now out a Science Advances! Congratulations all!
Megan gave an invited talk in the Microbiome Seminar Series at Duke University
Megan gave the BIOE seminar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Megan visited UIUC to give the BIOE seminar. She gave a talk entitled “Single-Cell Measurement and Control to Unravel Yeast Gene Expression Heterogeneity”