Keep up with the Bhamla Lab

Paulami Sarkar is our newest PhD student!

Congrats to Thu, Ivy, Jasmine, Daeun, and Michelle for PURAs! Yay, research funding!

Congratulations for your Biophysical Society travel award and see you in Philly!

The lab went to Desta to celebrate Dr. Bhamla’s Science Communication award. Catch us all trying something new.

Nisha Kukreja, faculty support coordinator, won the CoE Staff Culture Advisory Council’s Culture Champion Award for ChBE at CoE Staff Engagement Day. Culture Champions inspire others to promote a culture of inclusivity and acceptance.

Check out this Q&A with Saad Bhamla and NIH for an insight into what worm blobs and insect pee have to do with human health. Read more.

Saad Bhamla was selected as a winner of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications, given by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in partnership with Schmidt Futures. Read more.

Udita published a paper in Cellulose on the effect of fines percentage on ultrasonic dewatering
of cellulose nanofibrils. Read the paper here

This comic is now available in Arabic!

Saad was featured on Soft Matter Emerging Investigator for the recent Soft Matter publication on worm blobs as entangled living polymers.

Prathyusha, Harry, and Ishant co-authored a review paper in Soft Matter highlighting worm blobs as a model system to study active entangled  polymers, and inspire design of filamentous robots. Read the paper here