Group News & Events
Two new members join the group in Fall 2023 – Ali Alkalin and Eric Williamson. Ali starts his PhD study in Fall 2023. Ali got his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from Middle Eastern Technical University (METU) in Turkey. Interestingly, he was trained by our alum, Dr. Ozcelikkale, during his MS study. Eric also …
Hye-ran is finally hooded for her Ph.D.! Due to COVID, she missed her commencement and hooding ceremony. It is a way overdue, but congratulations!
Cih successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled “Drop-on-demand printing of hydrogels from subgroup transport phenomena to functional materials.”
Our Alumnus, Seungman Park, will start his faculty appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) from July 2022. He plan to pursue research related to aging. Congratulation and best wishes!
Although it was cold, Sae Rome, Hye-ran, Jackson, Yingnan and Bumsoo ran the 5K this year!!!
Jon successfully defended his MS Thesis entitled “Effects of thrombin on the growth of pancreatic cancer cells and cancer associated fibroblasts using a microfluidic model.” He will continue his PhD study at Purdue.
It is long overdue, but we could finally have a group picnic at Happy Hollow Park.
Anu received an Outstanding Researcher Award at 2020 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium. She has performed a computational research and presented her poster as below. Research Title: Effects of Cell-Cell Contact During Multicellular Migration Graduate Mentor: Hye-Ran Moon PI: Dr. Bumsoo Han Department: School of Mechanical Engineering
Hye-ran successfully defended her Ph.D. defense via WebEx. She will stay at the group as a Postdoc. DIRECTED CELL MIGRATION INDUCED BY MULTIPLE CUES IN THE ENGINEERED MICROENVIRONMENT ABSTRACT Directed cancer cell migration induced by the environmental signals is a critical process in cancer metastasis. Cancer cells are exposed to complex chemical and mechanical signals …