Professor of Bioengineering at UCSD. Researching how cells move and metastasize in cancer and bloodstream infections.
San Diego, CA
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📢Paper alert: Matrix degradation enhances stress relaxation, regulating cell adhesion and spreading | PNAS. Often our studies focus on how the mechanics of the environment impact cell behavior...but it's a two-way street...cells can also effect changes on their environment.
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Thank you @UCSD for building awareness and facilitating conversations about how federal funding fuels discoveries that cure diseases and solves global challenges. Check out the video about how federal grants work and what’s at risk if they’re cut!
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Please Support Strong FY25 Funding for Biomedical Research by March 14.@senalexpadilla
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We are very lucky to work with such an amazing interdisciplinary team at UCSD, including superstar @ThibaultAlle, to advance our discovery from the bench towards the beside!
I am delighted to see that our collaborative project led by @FraleyLab was selected by UCSD AIM to further advance the development of our small molecules series targeting stem cells in pancreatic & triple negative breast cancer. today.ucsd.edu/story/2025-ai…
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We’re looking for three new members of the SIG council, nominate someone or apply yourself here:
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This was a super fun collaboration between my lab @ucsdbe in @UCSDJacobs and Wouter-Jan Rappel's lab @UCSDPhysics in @UCSDPhySci. Incredible experimental and computational work by Sural Ranamukhaarachchi, Alyssa Walker, Marco Tang, Will Leineweber @wdleineweber, and Sophia Lam!
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Paper alert! Ever wondered how the collective migration behaviors that form ducts and acini, the two major structural subunits of epithelial tissues, are regulated? Our findings may surprise you...
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I just have to say that the cover photo of Dr. Shi @StimulatedRaman breaking new ground in metabolic imaging is fabulous!
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This year’s CMBE meeting is going to be off the charts amazing, come join us in Carlsbad, CA! Submit your abstract now!
It's time to submit your abstracts for CMBE 2025!
We invite CMBE-SIG members and experts from various disciplines to submit an abstract to present research in Carlsbad, CA, from January 3-6, 2025.
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#CMBE
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📣Calling all junior PIs: Share your amazing work with us, we want to celebrate you!
The “Rising Star” award has been given to a select group of exceptional junior principal investigators each year. Learn more about eligibility, application requirements, and scoring criteria to start preparing your application today!
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Welcome, Kolade! Excited to have you join us!
Warmest welcome to Professor Kolade Adebowale!! 🤩 Super happy to have you join our department, we can’t wait to see what you and your lab will accomplish! Full steam ahead! #NewPI 🧬 @KoladeAdebowal1 @UCSDJacobs
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Congratulations to Duke BME! Sharon @GerechtLab is amazing!
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So proud of @rowell_maya!
BIG NEWS! @rowell_maya, our 2022 GEMINI Diversity Fellowship Awardee and Ph.D. student in the @FraleyLab has received the ASPIRE Grant from Susan G. Komen®. Congratulations Maya!
Read more: shorturl.at/qjPDm
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Congratulations to @rowell_maya for being awarded a Komen ASPIRE fellowship! 👏 This will support her research to understand the drivers of collective breast cancer migration and metastasis. businesswire.com/news/home/2…
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Thank you @prebysfound for investing in bold ideas and courageous women in science! I am honored to be among this inspiring first cohort of awardees.
Congrats to @UCSanDiego bioengineering faculty @FraleyLab and @Daniela_ValdezJ, who were named Prebys Research Heroes by @prebysfound! Along with @UCSDMedSchool's Marygorret Obonyo, they each received $500K to support their health care & medical research: today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san-…
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What an excellent leadership choice @CornellBME, congratulations @fischbcl17 !
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Paper alert! #digitalHRM + #machinelearning for #bacteremia diagnosis: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ioJa…
-7 hours to ~3 days faster than clinical diagnosis
-100% match with culture
-88% match with clinician-adjudicated culture results
-100% species ID
@ucsdbe @radychildrens @meliolabs
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