This page celebrates the achievements and activities of the Armstrong Group. For publications please see here.
December 2025 – Celebrating Sammy Shorthouse passing his PhD viva with his thesis “Morphometric Analysis and Prediction of 3D Cell Models”.
October 2025 – Leaving dinner to celebrate Farnaz Ghorbani’s time in the group.
October 2025 – James visited Limerick and Galway for invited talks hosted by Dr Eoghan Cunnane and Dr Andrew Daly.
September 2025 – Celebrating Patrick Buchanan and Mia Massaad completing their MRes projects on 3D printing for cardiovascular grafts and bone tissue engineering, respectively.
August 2025 – Jie Huang and Amanda Gong complete their STEM projects in the group on acoustic cell patterning.
July 2025 – James attended GRC Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering in Barcelona
July 2025 – Hosting Dr Andrew Daly (Galway) for a talk on “Bioprinting Human Heart Models: From Stem Cells to Functional Tissues“
June 2025 – Chairing the Tissue & Cell Engineering Society (TCES) Annual Conference 2025 in Bristol
April 2025 – Ice cream social!
February 2025 – Lunar New Year!
January 2025 – Hosting Prof Mikhail Shapiro (Caltech) for a talk on “Talking to Cells: Biomolecular Ultrasound for Non-Invasive Imaging and Control of Cellular Function“
December 2024 – Christmas party!
August 2024 – Crazy golf leaving do for Elliot Johnson-Hall, Kaoutar Amery, and Samia Essaboui, who all worked on new collagen-based biomaterials for printing and tissue regeneration.
May 2024 – Olivia takes part in a short research visit to the labs of Dr Camila Tovani (former postdoc fellow in the Armstrong Group) at Sorbonne University, Paris.
May 2024 – Norah presented a poster at the EMBL Building Networks 2024: Engineering in Vascular Biology conference in Barcelona.
April 2024 – Camila Tovani gives invited talk at the British Society for Matrix Biology, with Olivia Johnson-Hall and Olivia Camilleri also presenting a poster
March 2024 – James visited Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and gave an invited talk at the 6th International Conference on Additive Manufacturing and Biomanufacturing.
March 2024 – Zhipeng undertook a three-week placement at Tsinghua University (China) working in the laboratory of Dr Liliang Ouyang, funded by an EPSRC Overseas Travel Grant.
January 2024 – Zhipeng takes part in a three-week research visit to the labs of Prof Dave Adams and Dr Emily Draper at the University of Glasgow, funded by a TCES Adam Curtis Collaboration Award.
February 2024 – Hosting Prof. Liliang Ouyang (Tsinghua University) for a talk on “Enabling Bioinks and Bioprinting for 3D Cell Culture and Tissue Engineering“
January 2024 – Camila Tovani leaves the Armstrong Group to take up a permanent academic position at Sorbonne University. Congratulations Camila!!
December 2023 – Christmas party!
November 2023 – Impulsonics is launched at Future Space Bristol
www.impulsonics.com
November 2023 – James and Norah-Jane Prendergast co-host the GW4 Innovations in Brain Tissue Engineering conference at the University of Bristol. Congratulations to Norah-Jane for winning the poster prize!
November 2023 – Welcoming new group members with pizza and drinks at the Robin Hood
September 2023 – Hosting the TCESNet Summer School: Patterning Cells with Sound, in which nine researchers from around Europe visited to learn about acoustic cell patterning.
August 2023 – Farnaz and Norah Jane undertook a three-week placement in Tsinghua University (China) working in the laboratory of Dr Liliang Ouyang!
June 2023 – Zhipeng reached the finals of the University of Bristol Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition with her presentation “Injectable Gels: Healing Broken Bones from the Inside Out” – well done Zhipeng!
June 2023 – Celebrating Camila Tovani securing a permanent academic position at Sorbonne University!
December 2022 – Christmas party!
January 2023 – Lunar New Year!
May 2022 – Martha Lavelle undertook a short research placement at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology learning about cerebral organoid culture in the group of Dr Madeline Lancaster.
March 2022 – James received his President’s Award and Medal for Excellence in Education at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for his exemplary pastoral care of PhD students.
November 2021 – James began his UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, setting up his research group at the Department of Translational Health Sciences at the University of Bristol!