December 2024 – Christmas party!
October 2024 – New papers published by Charles de Kergariou on 3D printing collapse tests (Biomedical Materials) and Martha Lavelle on the status of biofabrication in the UK and Ireland (Biodesign & Manufacturing).
October 2024 – Patrick Buchanan and Mia Massaad start MRes projects in the Armstrong Group!
August 2024 – New paper published by Jiongyi Yan on hydrogel-based artificial synapses for sustainable neuromorphic electronics (Advanced Materials).
August 2024 – Elliot finishes his MRes to start his PhD in Oxford, while Kaoutar and Samia return to France at the end of their placement. A crazy-golf leaving do!
May 2024 – New papers published by Charles De Kergariou on flax fiber reinforced inks (Soft Matter) and Mario Ortega Sandoval with Martha Lavelle on ultrasonic tweezing of particles and cell aggregates (Applied Physics Letters).
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.
May 2024 – Kaoutar Amery and Samia Essabaoui start a four-month visiting placement in the Armstrong Group.
April 2024 – Olivia and Elliot presented a joint poster at the British Society for Matrix Biology meeting in Bristol. Camila (former postdoc fellow in the Armstrong Group) also gave an invited talk.
April 2024 – Dr Mina Aleemardani joined the Armstrong Group as a postdoctoral research associate!
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.
February 2024 – Dr Sri Sundararajan joined the Armstrong Group as a PhD student!
February 2024 – New protocol paper published by Amy Harris on the decellularization of right ventricular outflow tracts (STAR Protocols)
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.
January 2024 – Dr Camila Tovani leaves the Armstrong Group to take up a permanent academic position at Sorbonne University. Congratulations Camila!!
January 2024 – Jingwen Zhu joined the Armstrong Group as a PhD student!
January 2024 – Heidi Snethen joined the Armstrong Group as a specialist technician!
November 2023 – Impulsonics is launched at Future Space Bristol – www.impulsonics.com
November 2023 – James and Norah-Jane co-host the GW4 Innovations in Brain Tissue Engineering conference at the University of Bristol (with Dr Yasir Syed, Dr Nazia Mehrban, Tianqi Wang & Matthew Little). Congratulations to Norah-Jane for winning the poster prize!
September 2023 – The Armstrong Group hosted the TCESNet Summer School: Patterning Cells with Sound, in which nine researchers from around Europe visited to learn about acoustic cell patterning:
September 2023 – Yi Huang joined the Armstrong Group as a Ph.D. student!
August 2023 – New paper “Microfibrous Scaffolds Guide Stem Cell Lumenogenesis and Brain Organoid Engineering” with Prof. Molly Stevens and Prof. Juergen Knoblich published in Advanced Materials (link).
August 2023 – Farnaz and Norah Jane undertook a three-week placement in Tsinghua University (China) working in the laboratory of Dr Liliang Ouyang!
July 2023 – Dr Farnaz Ghorbani joined the Armstrong Group as a postdoctoral research associate!
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!
May 2023 – James and Norah Jane were awarded GW4 funding to develop a “Brain Tissue Engineering Community” together with Dr Nazia Mehrban, Dr Yasir Syed, Tianqi Wang, and Matthew Little.
March 2023 – James and Ximena attended and presented at TERMIS Manchester!
February 2023 – Dr Aya Elghajiji undertook a short research placement at KU Leuven (funded by the Royal Society) learning about synthetic biomaterials for organoid culture in the group of Dr Adrian Ranga.
February 2023 – Dr Camila Tovani joined the Armstrong Group on a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship!
December 2022/January 2023 – Armstrong Group socials for Christmas party and Lunar New Year!
November 2022 – Alex Doulah and Vasavi Tadikamalla joined the Armstrong Group as MRes students!
October 2022 – Norah-Jane Prendergast, Zhipeng Deng, and Oliver Milner joined the Armstrong Group as Ph.D. students!
June 2022 – Sammy Shorthouse joined the Armstrong Group as a Ph.D. student!
June 2022 – Dr Aya Elghajiji joined the Armstrong Group as a postdoctoral research associate!
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 – Camila Tovani secured a highly competitive Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship and will be joining the Armstrong Group in 2023 to develop regenerative therapies for non-union bone fracture repair. Congratulations Camila – we look forward to working with you!
March 2022 – Martha Lavelle joined the Armstrong Group as a Ph.D. student!
March 2022 – Dr James Armstrong received his President’s Award and Medal for Excellence in Education: Outstanding Assistant Supervisor at the Royal Albert Hall, London. He was nominated for this award in 2019 by PhD students at Imperial College London (Dr Chunching Li, Dr Valeria Nele, Dr Camille Marijon, Dr Marco Sorbona, Dr Hakon Hogset, Kaja Ritzau Reid, Renee Tonkin, Katya Pchelintseva) with the prize citation noting his record of exemplary pastoral care.
January 2022 – “Advances in the Fabrication of Biomaterials for Gradient Tissue Engineering,” a review that was co-authored with Dr Chunching Li, Dr Liliang Ouyang, and Prof. Molly Stevens was featured in the Best of 2021 special collection by Trends in Biotechnology.
November 2021 – Dr James Armstrong began his UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, setting up his research group at the Department of Translational Health Sciences at the University of Bristol!
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