Lab News and Updates
Marissa Successfully Defends her Thesis!
Dr. Marissa Puzan successfully defended her thesis titled, "Investigating Intestinal Epithelial Crosstalk with the Enteric Nervous System: First Steps in the Gut-Brain Connection".
Minhal Named a Mitchell Scholar
Minhal was named a Mitchell Scholar, Northeastern's first, where he will pursue his masters under Professor John Cryan at University College Cork.
Dr. Koppes, Sanjin, and Adam Present at 2018 AIChE Annual Meeting
Dr. Koppes gave a plenary talk discussing ABNEL's work on the gut-brain axis as part of WIC's 20th Anniversary collection of talks celebrating promoting Women in Chemical Engineering. Conference proceedings can be found here. Sanjin gave a platform talk presenting his...
Tess, Sanjin, Dan, Marissa, Minhal, Caroline, and Prof. Koppes Present at BMES
Congratulations to Tess, Sanjin, Dan, Marissa, Minhal, and Caroline who presented at BMES!
ABNEL welcomes new PhD students Jessica and Adam!!
ABNEL welcomes Jessica Thompson and Adam Bindas as new PhD students. Jessica comes from University of Iowa (M.S. Biomedical/Medical Engineering) and Adam from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (B.S. Chemical Engineering).
Lab goes on a winter retreat in Vermont
Enjoying a fresh snowfall, the ABNEL and LNNR labs spent the weekend near White River Junction, Vermont. The members split the time playing ultimate spoons, playing in the snow, skiing at Killington, and racing in Mario Kart.
Dr. Koppes receives a $500K NSF CAREER Award
Dr. Koppes was awarded a $500K NSF CAREER Award titled Defining the regulators of enteric plasticity in engineered microfluidic environments". A news article detailing the award can be found at the link below....