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May 2025: Senior undergraduates Zoe Blumenkranz and Mark Fernandez present their project Optimizing Surface Properties and Gepmetries for Capillary Microfluidic Devices Produced on LCD 3D Printers at the annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium.

April 2025: Maya Singh passed her qualifying exam. Congratulations Maya!
April 2025: Our manuscript, Fabrication of Low-Cost, High-Resolution Open Capillary Microfluidics towards Self-Sustaining, Long-Term Hydration of Engineered Living Materials, was published in Progress in Additive Manufacturing.

April 2025: Willow Chernoske completed their rotation and joined our lab as a PhD student advancing our portfolio of enzyme activity assays for therapeutic drug monitoring. Welcome Willow!
February 2025: Aileen Sun ****passed her qualifying exam. Congratulations Aileen!
February 2025: Our manuscript, Rapid enzymatic assay for antiretroviral drug monitoring using CRISPR-Cas12a enabled readout, was published in the Diagnostics special issue of ACS Synthetic Biology.

January 2025: Willow Chernoske joined our lab as a PhD student working on therapeutic drug monitoring among transplant recipients.
January 2025: Dorothy Mims has completed her rotation and joined our lab as a PhD student working on point-of-care tests for HIV drug resistance screening. Welcome Dot!
January 2025: Sarina Barnes and George Tang joined our lab as Master’s of Applied Bioengineering students doing research in the lab. Welcome to the team!
October 2024: We went to MicroTAS 2024 in Montreal! Aileen Sun , Carrie Lin , Cosette Craig, and Kelsey Leong all presented posters. Kelsey was also one of the facilitators of the Frugal Diagnostics: Science Equity for Global Health workshop.

Left to Right: Ayo, Aileen, Megan, Carrie, Cosette, and Kelsey meet Chip the koala, the mascot for MicroTAS 2025.

Left to Right: Ayo, Aileen, Megan, Carrie, Cosette, and Kelsey meet Chip the koala, the mascot for MicroTAS 2025.

Kelsey stands by her poster on CandyCollect: Open-to-Closed (O2C) Microfluidic System for Rapid and User-Center Detection of Group A Streptococcus

October 2024: Cara Brainerd defended her PhD thesis: Towards Rapid Measurement of Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors in a Portable, Low-Cost Platform We were blown away by her storytelling and data on technology that could have real-world impact in HIV treatment and prevention. Congratulations Cara! This is a big milestone for you and the lab! 🎉