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2024
Dr. Mistriotis honored at the Auburn University Faculty Awards ceremony
Dr. Mistriotis was among 19 distinguished faculty members from nine colleges that were honored at the 18th annual Auburn University Faculty Awards ceremony. Read the full article here. Gallery
Cell Reports Q&A with Dr. Mistriotis
Dr. Mistriotis shared his scientific journey and inspiration with Luca Gasparoli from Cell Reports and highlighted the lab’s recent publication in Cell Reports, which investigates how spatial confinement affects the response of migrating cells to fluid flow. Read the full article here.
Celebrating Farshad Amiri's PhD dissertation defense!
🎉 🎓 We are excited to share that on August 27, 2024, Farshad Amiri successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation! His relentless effort and commitment to research during his time at our Lab have truly come to fruition, and we couldn’t be more proud of him. Adding to the celebration, his first-author publication entitled “Confinement controls the directional cell responses to fluid forces” providing novel insights into how fluid forces influence cell migration in confining environments, was r...
Dr. Mistriotis named 2024 Young Innovator by leading scientific journal
Thrilled to share that Dr. Mistriotis received the “2024 Young Innovator” award by the scientific journal of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering! This recognition comes for the three-year study Leveraging Cell Migration Dynamics to Discriminate between Senescent and Pre-senescent Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells published in the same journal and authored by Farshad Amiri and Dr. Mistriotis. Dr. Mistriotis will give an invited talk at the Biomedical Engineering Society’s annual meeting on Octo...
Celebrating a PhD Milestone in Our Lab!
🎉 Our lab recently had a fantastic dinner out to celebrate a huge milestone — Our student, Farnaz Hemmati successfully defended her PhD thesis! We’re so proud of Farnaz and can’t wait to see the amazing things she will achieve next! Congratulations, Dr. Hemmati!👩🎓 Gallery The Mistriotis Lab celebrating the thesis defense of Farnaz Hemmati!
Congratulations to our lab's first PhD graduate!
We are thrilled to announce that Farnaz Hemmati has successfully defended her dissertation, making her the very first PhD student to defend from our lab! Her hard work and dedication have truly paid off, and we couldn’t be prouder of her incredible achievement. Congratulations Farnaz on this remarkable milestone! Well done!🎓👏 Gallery Farnaz Hemmati defending her dissertation
Dylan Bowen recognized as National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow
We are delighted to share that Dylan Bowen, a second-year doctoral student and graduate researcher in Mistriotis Lab, was named National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow for 2024. We are proud of you Dylan!🎉 For more details on this exciting news, please read the full article here. Gallery Dylan Bowen
Ayuba Akinpelu awarded with an American Heart Association Award
We are delighted to share that Ayuba Akinpelu was awarded an American Heart Association (AHA) research supplement to promote diversity in science. Congrats Ayuba!🎉 For more details on this exciting news, please read the full article here. Gallery Ayuba Akinpelu receiving the AHA award
2023
Anya McDaniel and Collins Keith awarded by Auburn University’s Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society chapter
We are thrilled to share that Anya McDaniel and Collins Keith were recently awarded by Auburn University’s Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society chapter. Anya was presented the Phi Kappa Phi Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award while Keith was given the Phi Kappa Phi Outstanding Senior Scholar Award. We are so proud of them! Congrats Anya and Collins!🎉 For more details on this exciting news, please read the full article here. Gallery Anya McDaniel and Collins Keith
📣 New paper published in Advanced Science!
Our paper, entitled “Downregulation of YAP Activity Restricts P53 Hyperactivation to Promote Cell Survival in Confinement” has been published in Advanced Science!🎉 This work integrates photopatterning with microfluidics to fabricate a novel high-throughput microchannel device that permits prolonged culture of single cells in physiologically relevant confined microenvironments. We found that constant exposure to confined microenvironments that deform the nucleus can reduce cell viability. How...
We are delighted to share that Dr. Mistriotis has received the Junior Research Award for Excellence from the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering and the Oustanding Graduate Mentor Award (OGMA) from the Graduate School of Auburn University! Dr. Mistriotis was honored with the Junior Research Award for Excellence on Friday, April 14 during the Spring Student, Faculty, and Alumni Awards Ceremony. He will receive the Oustanding Graduate Mentor Award on April 28 during the Graduate Awards Ceremony...
2022
New study showing the effects of fluid viscosity on cell migration now published in Nature!
We are delighted to share our new collaborative work led by the Konstantopoulos Lab at Johns Hopkins University, now published in Nature, showing that elevated viscosity counterintuitively increases cell motility and imprints mechanical memory in tumor cells enabling them to disseminate more efficiently in vivo. Find the publication here. Gallery Credit: Dr. Selma A. Serra
Graduate student Farnaz Hemmati wins 3rd place in the 2022 Graduate Engineering Research Showcase
We are delighted to announce that Farnaz Hemmati, a graduate student at the Mistriotis Lab, received the 3rd place award in the 2022 Graduate Engineering Research Showcase. The overall event was centered on a poster presentation for graduate students from all engineering departments to present their research. The research presentation was three hours long followed by an awards banquet. Congratulations Farnaz! 🎉 Gallery
The Mistriotis lab is excited to attend the BMES 2022 Conference in San Antonio, Texas! On October 13th, our graduate student Farnaz Hemmati presented her exciting work and gave an oral presentation with the title: ‘P53 activity governs cell life and death in confinement’. Congratulations Farnaz!🎉 Gallery
This Breast Cancer Awareness Month we would like to express our immense gratitude to Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama’s support to Mistriotis Lab which will allow us to better understand how breast cancer cells invade other organs for the development of new therapeutic strategies.
Dr. Mistriotis named Ginn Faculty Achievement Fellow
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Mistriotis has been awarded the Ginn Faculty Achievement Fellowship. The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering recognized Dr. Mistriotis for his outstanding and ongoing contributions to the college. Tweet
Graduate student Ayuba Akinpelu on the GINNing Podcast!
On the latest episode of the award-winning GINNing Podcast, Ayuba Akinpelu, Ph.D. student in the Mistriotis Lab discussed his research on cancer cell microenvironments. Find the recording here! Tweet
Mistriotis Lab in the Auburn University News!
If you want to learn about our recently received National Institutes of Health Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) check out this article: https://eng.auburn.edu/news/2022/08/mistriotis-nih-mira Tweet
Mistriotis Lab receives National Institute of Health (NIH) NIGMS MIRA grant!
We are thrilled to announce that the Mistriotis Lab has received the National Institutes of Health Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). Congrats to all members of the Mistriotis Lab whose hard work made this achievement possible! 🎉 Tweet
Farshad Amiri ranks 1st in the Auburn Research Symposium 2022
We are delighted to announce that Farshad Amiri, Ph.D. candidate at Mistriotis Lab, ranked first for his oral presentation in the Auburn Research Symposium 2022 at Auburn University. Congrats Farshad! 🎉 Tweet
Mistriotis lab receives Career Development Award from the American Heart Association
We are excited to announce that our lab has been awarded a Career Development Award from the American Heart Association. The grant is entitled “The contributions of cytokinesis proteins to smooth muscle cell function in health and disease” and will support us until 03/31/2025. Find more information about the American Heart Association here.
2021
Mistriotis lab receives BCRFA research grant
The Mistriotis lab is very excited to receive funding from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama (BCRFA). Our lab will integrate bioengineering tools, genome-wide genetic screens and in vivo models to discover new determinants of triple negative breast cancer cell invasion. Find more information about BCRFA here. Tweet
The Mistriotis lab is excited to attend the BMES 2021 Conference in-person! On October 7th, graduate student Farnaz Hemmati gave an oral presentation on her work on cell entrapment in confined microenvironments with the title: ‘A novel microfluidic device for investigating the long-term effects of confinement on cell phenotype and function’. Congratulations Farnaz! Tweet Gallery
