Karen had a fantastic time visiting Vanderbilt to give the Physics Colloquium! Many thanks to Shane Huston for the invite and for hosting a great visit!

Kasza Lab Fall 2023!

Karen gave her final fellowship year talk at the Packard Fellows meeting in Colorado Springs! Such an honor to get to tell this amazing group of scientists and engineers about the recent research in our group. We can’t thank the The David & Lucile Packard Foundation enough for their tremendous support!

Karen had a blast at the Soft Condensed Matter Physics GRC on The Soft and Sustainable Building Blocks of Living and Active Systems. A huge thank you to Dan Blair and Daan Frenkel for the invite!

Check our new paper in the inaugural issue of PRX Life on using optogenetics to dissect the roles of actomyosin in tissue fluidity during embryonic development! Read the paper here.

You can read more about this work, including a great interview with Marisol Herrera-Perez, in this article in Physics Magazine.

Karen had so much fun attending and giving a talk at the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) Annual Conference! Guess who is the new chair of the Technical Division on Biological Systems & Materials?

A very big welcome to the newest lab members Mia and Bolu as part of the Columbia Engineering Summer@SEAS program!

Karen had a fantastic time visiting Stanford to give a talk in the Biomechanical Engineering Seminar Series! Many thanks to Sindy Tang and Ovijit Chaudhuri for the invite and for hosting a great visit!

Kasza Lab end of the semester lunch! And biggest congrats to Erika on passing the qualifying exam and to Maya on graduating and receiving the Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Research Award!!!

Karen had a blast visiting Duke and giving a seminar in the Thursday Series! A big thank you to Michel Bagnat for the invite and hosting a fantastic visit!

Sassan and Christian gave talks at APS March Meeting and got to catch up with Marisol!

Andrew presented a poster at the Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago!

Karen had a fantastic time visiting City College to give a seminar at the Levich Institute! A big thank you to Charles Maldarelli and Mark Shattuck for the invite!

Andrew presented a great poster at CellBio2022! So fantastic to be back to in-person meetings!

Karen gave an invited talk at the New England Complex Fluids Workshop - so fun to be back at Harvard! Even got to catch up with Xun and hear about his postdoc research!

Karen had a great time visiting University of Pennsylvania to give a seminar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering! So much fun talking to all the folks working at the interface of engineering, mechanobiology, and soft matter! A big thank you to Haim Bau for the invite and for hosting a great visit!

Karen gave a seminar at the Yale QBio Institute. Had such a good time catching up with old friends and meeting lots of great folks. A big thank you to Alison Sweeney for the invitation and for organizing the visit!

Karen participated in the annual Packard Fellows meeting in Monterey. So much fun to be back in person this year and meet all the new fellows!

A big welcome to Tammy, the newest graduate student in the Kasza Living Materials Lab. We’re so excited to have you join the group!