Congrats to Hannah Musgrove, Amirus (Ovi) Saleheen, and Jon Zatorski on their latest paper, now published in Micromachines as part of the Womens Special Issue! To address the perennial problem of bubbles arising in the tubing of microfluidic cultures and organs-on-chip, they adapted a previously described, passive bubble trap design for fabrication by 3Dprinting or by high-throughput machining. These two fabrication methods enable reproducible, low-cost fabrication at moderate or large throughput, respectively. We share the design files in the linked Dataverse site, so feel free to try them out!
New paper: 3D printed microfluidic inlets
Congratulations to Hannah Musgrove on her second publication, which is part of the Chips & Tips blog associated with Lab on a Chip. She shares her elegant design for a robust, printable microfluidic port in the post, with detailed instructions. If you are or ever will be 3D printing plastic microfluidic chips, you've faced the chip-to-world problem. Hannah's design works well for SLA and DLP printing, including for small microfluidic tubing. This posting went through editorial review and revision, and we are delighted to share it.
Musgrove HB and Pompano RR. “Threadless chip-to-world connections on resin 3D printed microscale devices.” In Chips & Tips (2022), a curated open access blog associated with Lab on a Chip.
Pompano Lab at MicroTAS 2022
The Pompano Lab had a great time at MicroTAS 2022, held in China, October 23-27, 2022. We attended virtually and were very proud of Sophie Cook's midnight oral presentation, and Hannah Musgrove's poster on Monday. Prof. Pompano was the Co-Chair of the Weekend Workshop series, a series of eight tutorial workshops with approximately 24 speakers from around the world. These were a pleasure to see go off smoothly, and the participants learned so much from our experts.
Prof. Pompano speaks at UVA Child's Health Research Center
It was a pleasure to discuss our research with physicians and researchers working on children's health, including pediatric oncology, respiratory diseases including COVID, and others. Looking forward to setting up new collaborations to make a difference for these patients!
Moore Inventor Fellowship
Congratulations to Prof. Pompano and the whole lab on receiving the 2022 Moore Inventor Fellowship! As one of five annual recipients, she was awarded for the development of a microscope to observe the interactions between cells in order to develop pharmaceuticals and therapies to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases. Congratulations!!
http://as.virginia.edu/rebecca-pompano-wins-moore-inventor-fellowship
https://www.nbc29.com/2022/10/04/uva-professor-wins-moore-inventor-fellowship/
https://dailyprogress.com/uva-moore-inventor-fellow/collection_a5644c9e-4653-11ed-8ab2-fb791587bda7.html
Chemistry Alumni Open House events
The Pompano lab was delighted to meet alumni from the Department of Chemistry, ranging from recent grads to folks who graduated 50 years ago. PhD student Sophie Cook presented a poster at the research fair, and Hannah Musgrove ran a booth about the Chemistry Science Communications booth. Later, Sophie led tours of our lab for interested alumni! Thanks all for visiting, and please let us know if you would like more information about our research.
Katerina wins a UVA Cancer Center fellowship!
Katerina Morgaenko, a PhD student in the Biomedical Engineering program, was awarded a 2022 Trainee Fellowship from the UVA Cancer Center. In her proposal, “Ex vivo Model of Lymph Node Metastasis in Breast Cancer,” She'll be making the first-ever model of tumor cell infiltration into the lymph node parenchyma, using lymph node slices. The award will support Katerina's training and research in this area. Big congratulations, Katerina!
Putt-Putt Outing!
Lab members had a wonderful outing last week! We had a good time during a hot summer evening!
Prof. Pompano Chairs the inaugural Immunoengineering GRC
Prof. Pompano was honored to Co-Chair the meeting with co-chair Bali Pulendran and vice chairs Susan N. Thomas and Madhav Dhodapkar. Tochi and Katerina both presented their research in posters. This was great time and opportunity to connect with this growing community!
Congratulations to Nadia Cheng with mentor Jonathan Zatorski and Dorienne Hochard with mentor Parris Anbaei for the nano-STAR Summer Fellowship!
Every year, nanoSTAR invites undergraduate students to apply to spend a summer in their UVA laboratory. They match students to nanoscience projects based on their interests and abilities and students will get hands-on laboratory experience while learning the subject. They will prepare for a culminating oral and poster presentations at the end of the program. We are proud of Nadia and Jon for winning this!
