Odde Lab News

he PhD candidate reflects on the highlights of her student experience and shares what she finds exciting about her glioblastoma research.

The honor recognizes Dave's distinguished contributions to and leadership in the field of medical and biological engineering in an international level.

Mahya, Brian, and Dave wrote a review on multi-scale modeling of microtubule dynamics for Current Opinion in Cell Biology. Great work, everybody!

Becky's paper on A Brownian dynamics tumor progression simulator with application to glioblastoma is now in press at Convergent Science Physical Oncology! Towards a goal of patient-specific brain tumor simulations, the Brownian dynamics (BD) simulator can predict tumor progression as a function of cell proliferation and migration rate.

Dave, Louis, and Ghaidan traveled to Philadelphia for the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, which was held in the Convention Center on December 2-6. 

Former Master of Science student Horacio Estabridis published his paper on Cell migration in 1D and 2D nanofiber microenvironments in Annals of Biomedical Engineering in December! In collaboration with Amrinder Nain (Virginia Tech, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering) he investigated glioma cell migration behaviors on polystyrene fiber networks and showed that our cell migration simulator can predict those behaviors. Great job, Horacio!

Dave was recognized as a Fellow for his contributions to the understanding of the self assembly and force generation of microtubules, F-actin, and associate proteins. Election as a Fellow is bestowed upon American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) members by their peers.

A research study led by Professor David Odde gives new insight into how cancer cells move based on their ability to sense their environment. The discovery could have a major impact on therapies to prevent the spread of cancer.

We welcome the lab's newest PhD student, Sarah Anderson, who comes to us from Harvey Mudd College by way of the Biomedical Engineering PhD program. 

Ghaidan is the 2017 recipient of the Masonic Cancer Center Brain Tumor Program Travel Award, and Louis received a travel award from the Council of Graduate Students (COGS).