Postdoc in the CReaTE Group @Tim_WoodfieldNZ @OtagoChCh | PhD @AnsethGroup | Former @NIH F31 Fellow

Joined March 2020
Shaping intestinal organoids: Engineering crypt curvature to guide stem cell niches dlvr.it/TKZWhb
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In this @CellBiomat study, Dr. F. Max Yavitt (@LabMaxYav), along with the @AnsethGroup and colleagues, used a photodegradable hydrogel platform to define photosoftened regions that directed the formation of intestinal crypts. #organoids 📍 bit.ly/423bl8S
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‼️New preprint ‼️using fast relaxing and synthetic boronate ester based hydrogels to robustly differentiate intestinal organoids in the absence of supplemental laminin @AnsethGroup @bruceekirk @drblatch @LabMaxYav @lj_macd @KaustavBera11 @BioFrontiers 🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Please stop by @BurdickLab Poster 088 today at #wbc2024 to see some cool, unpublished work relating to our granular composites! We make them bend now!
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Attention @ASBTE1 members! Please come along to our AGM tmr if you’re at @2024Wbc
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Witnessed @AnsethGroup alum, friend and amazing scientist @LabMaxYav on both sides of the stage @2024Wbc! Max co-chaired the Hydrogel 2 session and also gave a talk on some of the interesting ongoing work in his postdoc lab @Tim_WoodfieldNZ
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COMPASS@COMPASS_RG4 Feb 2024
Last week marked a momentous occasion as @PedroLavrador1 earned Summa Cum Laude honors for the outstanding defense of his doctoral thesis! 👏👏 All the @COMPASS_RG members wish Pedro the best of luck in all his future endeavors! 🍀
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Abstract submissions have been extended!!! You nave have until 20th Oct to get your abstracts in for one of our regional showcases. Details and submission here 👇 asbte.org/2023-asbte-regiona…
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.@LabMaxYav and I showed that localized increases in tension visualized with FlipperTR mirror patterns of membrane depolarization (which template YAP expression/symmetry breaking) in photopatterned intestinal organoids! 😎🤓 science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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.@LabMaxYav’s second article of 2023 is out in @SciRobotics — a fantastic collaboration with Ning Wang, involving one of our photodegradable hydrogel chemistries. Congratulations to Max and all involved!
A new microrobotic probe can track changing mechanical properties inside tumor spheroids, zebrafish embryos, and mouse embryos. @UofIllinois @AnsethGroup @CUBoulder Read more: scim.ag/1iH
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🎉 Congratulations @LabMaxYav, @bruceekirk, @drblatch and collaborators for our latest in @ScienceAdvances! Max + coauthors used a photoadaptable hydrogel to manipulate intestinal organoid shape —> altered membrane properties and templated differentiation. science.org/doi/full/10.1126…
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New Review online now CellStemCell: Programming hydrogels to probe spatiotemporal cell biology zpr.io/EEnTD2rpNTNR
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Session 1 starts in 30 mins! Join in to hear about some cool research using dynamic biomaterials for tissue engineering! @LabMaxYav @LauraAlderfer @RowanUniversity @BostonU_BME @sktheodossiou @sararudolph9 columbiauniversity.zoom.us/w…
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🎉 Congratulations to graduate students Benjamin Carberry and @LabMaxYav for their new publication in Biofabrication on using elastomeric thioester molds to pattern soft substrates for advanced cell culture + organoid models. Read more at the journal site: doi.org/10.1088/1758-5090/ac…
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Session 1 starts with talks on "Responsive Biomaterials" feat. Kiet Tran from @RowanRCE, TianBai Wang from @BU_Tweets @AlbroLab, @LabMaxYav from @AnsethGroup, & @LauraAlderfer from @DHPGroup @NDBioeng, & moderated by @sktheodossiou & @sararudolph9 from @TuftsEngineer!!
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. @STEMCELLTech's #StemCellfie contest is back! Submit your #cellfie before May 1st: bit.ly/3rsWhfi Check out some of the beautiful #intestinal cell images that were submitted last year! #SciArt 🔬🎨
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🎉CONGRATS🎉 to Cierra Walker et al (@ClaudiaCrocini @AnoukKillaars, @JoeCGrim, @BrianAguado, @rddowell, Leinwand lab) on our new @natBME paper! We show nuclear mechanosensing drives epigenetic remodeling in myofibroblasts! @BioFrontiers @CUEngineering nature.com/articles/s41551-0…
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Our fantastic collaborator Prof Seth Donahue @UMassBME has an opening for a postdoc to develop innovative hydrogels for stem cell/gene therapy delivery to regenerate calvarial bone defects. Apply below! ⬇️ Job posting: careers.ors.org/jobs/1432333… Lab site: blogs.umass.edu/swdonahue/
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Very excited to share that my first 1st author manuscript is published! Here we show how an enzyme made of DNA can selectively, specifically, & rapidly recognize the bacteria L. pneumphila (causes Legionnaires' disease - a severe form of pneumonia) & discuss the potential (1/4)
Selection and Characterization of an RNA-Cleaving DNAzyme Activated by Legionella pneumophila (Li) @labmegatron @bluebird__47 @Yingfu8888 @McMasterU @MacHealthSci onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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