Spring brought a bunch of exciting activity for the Muir Lab! Victoria shared our work at several regional and national meetings, including the Mid-Atlantic Synthetic Biology Network (MASBM) meeting at UD, the APS March Meeting in California, and the Mid-Atlantic Soft Matter Meeting (MASM) in May.

     We celebrated Bala's graduation and the successful completion of his senior thesis, "Investigating E. coli Chemotaxis in Spatially Structured Porous Media." He is headed to Ardent, congrats Bala!

     Miles was selected for the UD CHARM REU Program to continue summer research in the lab, and we’re excited to have him back!

     A big congratulations to Lawrence for being awarded the Schipper Fellowship at UD, and to Ruth for being selected as a Laird Fellowship Finalist! We’re so proud of their accomplishments and excited to support their continued growth.

     We also received our first grant through the Delaware Center for Musculoskeletal Research (DCMR) COBRE program, a Pilot Project exploring microbial living hydrogels for musculoskeletal tissue engineering.

     We're heading into summer energized to keep building the lab, doing impactful science, and learning and growing together as a team!