Karen gave a virtual talk in the Department of Biological Sciences Spring Seminar Series at Columbia University. A very big thank you to Iva Greenwald for hosting the visit!

A huge congratulations to Christian on being awarded an NIH F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award, which will fund his research on understanding and controlling the mechanical forces that drive tissue morphogenesis!

Karen gave a virtual seminar at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Syracuse University. A big thank you to Victor Duenas for the invitation! As always, I had such a great time “visiting” Syracuse!

Karen co-chaired the “Techniques and Technology” session with Stephanie Mohr, Justin Bosch, and Pavel Tomancak at the Genetics Society of America Annual Drosophila Research Conference. What a great set of talks!

Marisol gave a talk on using optogenetics to study tissue fluidity in a fantastic session on “Regulatory and mechanical processes driving morphogenesis and pattern formation” at the Genetics Society of America Annual Drosophila Research Conference (Dros2021)

Karen gave a talk in the VGZT: Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks online seminar series. A big thank you to Margot Williams, Miguel Concha, Jesse Veenvliet, and Ramkumar Sambasivan for the invitation and for organizing such a fantastic virtual seminar series!

A big welcome to Sassan, the newest postdoc in the Kasza Living Materials Lab. So excited to have you in the group!

A big congratulations to Xun and Christian! Their poster won the Most Informative Poster Award in the IMECE 2020 NSF Poster Competition.

Karen gave a virtual talk in the conference “From Molecules to Organs:
The Mechanobiology of Morphogenesis” at the Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore in a really fantastic session on Tissue Shaping!

Karen gave a talk in the Cell Migration Seminar Series. A big thank you to Jennifer Mitchel, Adam Shellard, and Becky Jones for the invitation and for organizing such an amazing virtual seminar series!

More info here: https://www.cellmigrationseminars.com/.

If you missed the seminar, you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r27Yo4vhmK0

Karen gave a zoom seminar at the Department of Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto. A big thank you to Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez for the invitation! Had such a great time “visiting” Toronto, seeing old friends and meeting so many fantastic scientists!

Congrats to high school students Abdhel, Alex, and Sham on excellent research contributions to the group this summer and great final presentations, all as part of the Columbia E.N.G. Program. Thank you to Columbia Engineering Outreach for organizing the program!

Congrats to undergrad and masters students Annie Lin, Cole Allan, Andrea Quinones, Kennedi Wade, Hugo Favila, and Estevan Mesa on outstanding research contributions in their summer projects. Great presentations today in group meeting!

Congrats to Xun on winning a 1st place in ASME-Bioengineering Division PhD Student Paper Competition at the SB3C Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference!

Kasza Lab Summer 2020! Welcome to all the new members of the group!

Check our new paper in PNAS on tissue flows in developing embryos! This was a really great collaboration with Lisa Manning’s group at Syracuse University. Read the paper here! And read more here!

Congratulations to Kaitlyn and Alejo on being honored with Mechanical Engineering Excellence in Undergraduate Research Awards! And another big congrats to Alejo on being honored with the William A. Hadley Award in Mechanical Engineering!

Karen gave a talk as part of the BioMed Club Seminar Series at Baruch College. Had a really great time visiting the faculty and students in the Department of Natural Sciences. A big thank you to Krista Dobi for the invitation!

 Christian hosted high school students from ELLIS Prep for an Inside Engineering lab tour. It was great showing the students around the lab and telling them about our research!