WELCOME TO ABNEL!
Dr. Abigail Koppes, Principal Investigator
Bryan Just Keeps Winning – BioEl2025 Student Talk Award
Looking for more of a challenge, ABNEL's PhD student, Bryan Schellberg, headed to Austria to attend the BioEl2025 conference. During this event, Bryan gave a talk titled "In-situ monitoring of cellular function on-chip via automated, non-invasive luminescence sensing"...
Katelyn and Bryan’s publication is accepted!
Congrats to Katelyn and Bryan on the acceptance for their article titled "Electrical and magnetic stimulation separately modulates the extent and direction of neurite outgrowth in an ionically conductive hydrogel". This article will be officially published soon in the...
Bryan Schellberg – Quickest turn around review publication
Congratulations to our PhD student, Bryan Schellberg, on his recent review publication in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research! Bryan's publication not only marks the lab's first in 2025 but also set a new record for fastest turn around review publication in...
What a tiny, 3D gut can tell us about gastrointestinal disorders
Principal investigators of ABNEL and LNNR, Dr. Abigail Koppes and Dr. Ryan Koppes, recently made headlines on Northeastern Global News. This recognition arises from their collaborative efforts on the development of microphysiological systems aimed at investigating the...
Kat Nilov Wins Funding from Department Fellowship
Congratulations to Kat Nilov, ABNEL's PhD student extraordinaire. Kat just recently won $10,000 in project funding through the Chemical Engineering Chair Fellowship. With these new financial resources, Kat will be able to further their research into the effects of...
Tori Duback Becomes a PhD Candidate
Congratulations to Tori Duback, ABNEL's industry graduate student from Sana Biotechnology, on passing her thesis proposal! Tori joined ABNEL back in the fall of 2022, and despite having her thesis topic changed part way into the program, she's still managed to stay on...
Dr. Ryan Koppes Presents at FluidicMEMS Meetup
Dr. Ryan Allen Koppes presented his lab's work at the FluidicMEMS Meetup this past Thursday. This event (held in the Samberg Center at MIT) was organized by FluidicMEMS, a dynamic community focused on bringing together individuals with a passion for microfluidics and...
Dr. Kyla Nichols Earns her PhD
Congratulations to Dr. Kyla Nichols for successfully defending her thesis. Kyla joined ABNEL back in the Fall of 2019, and she began her lab work just as the pandemic hit. However, despite this set back, she fully utilized her time in lab, investigating both the...
Dr. Koppes Invited to Give Keynote at 7th TERMIS World Congress
The Principal Investigator of ABNEL, Dr. Abigail Koppes, will be presenting a keynote during this year's TERMIS World Congress. TERMIS is the "Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society". As the name suggests, researchers from around the globe...
Undergraduate Researchers Win Big with PEAK Awards
The ABNEL lab could not be prouder of our outstanding group of undergraduate researchers! We have three PEAK award winners: Christina Aniolek (top left) won the Base Camp award, Iris Chang (bottom left) won the Ascent award, and Stephen Landry (right) also won the...
Research in the Advanced Biomaterials for Neuroengineering Laboratory (ABNEL) focuses on neural engineering and the interface between neurons and surrounding tissues. Specifically ABNEL develops novel and transformative devices, biomaterials, and biophysical-based therapies for this aims. Current work centers on the gut, heart, and central/peripheral nervous system.
Please feel free to also visit our sister lab Laboratory for Neuromodulation and Neuromuscular Repair (LNNR)
NEWS
Dr. Koppes was awarded a 2020 CMBE Young Innovator award for the recent paper: Cholinergic Activation of Primary Human Derived Intestinal Epithelium Does Not Ameliorate TNF-α Induced Injury. The paper (first author by lab alumni Sanjin Hosic) was published as part of the eponymous special issue. Congrats Dr. Koppes!
Editorial:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12195-020-00659-4
Tweet from the journal:
https://twitter.com/CMBEjournal/status/1317093574035505155
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Bryan Just Keeps Winning – BioEl2025 Student Talk Award
Looking for more of a challenge, ABNEL's PhD student, Bryan Schellberg, headed to Austria to attend the BioEl2025 conference. During this event, Bryan gave a talk titled "In-situ monitoring of...
Katelyn and Bryan’s publication is accepted!
Congrats to Katelyn and Bryan on the acceptance for their article titled "Electrical and magnetic stimulation separately modulates the extent and direction of neurite outgrowth in an ionically...
Bryan Schellberg – Quickest turn around review publication
Congratulations to our PhD student, Bryan Schellberg, on his recent review publication in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research! Bryan's publication not only marks the lab's first in 2025 but...