✨ ATP-Bio Trainee Spotlights ✨

Meet Sam Bullard! Sam is working towards his PhD in Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota 👏

Sam’s research focuses on the design of K-12 curricula that promotes student learning about science and engineering concepts 🤩

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“We anticipate that the robot can be used to carry out microinjection for genome-wide manipulation and cryopreservation at scale in a wide range of organisms.”👏

Check out this study on a microinjection robot: doi.org/10.1093/geneti…

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✨ ATP-Bio Staff Spotlights ✨

Meet Megan Scott! Megan is our Office Support staff & works at the University of Minnesota👏

She maintains The Hub News portion by taking information/articles/shoutouts from our ATP-Bio Communications 🤩

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'The use of this technique for sorting islets can help in characterizing islet biophysical properties by size and selecting suitable islets for improved islet cryopreservation.'

Check out this publication: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

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✨ ATP-Bio Staff Spotlights ✨

Meet Catherine Heremans! Catherine is our Research Program Manager & works at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston) 👏

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✨ ATP-Bio Staff Spotlights ✨

Meet Emily Goff! Emily is the external evaluator for ATP-Bio and focuses on providing timely, actionable data about our programs and initiatives to support continuous improvement and strategic decision-making 👏

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✨ ATP-Bio Staff Spotlights ✨

Meet Guadalupe “Lupe” Ruiz (pictured 3rd from left)! Lupe is our UC Riverside liaison for Engineering Workforce Development & works at the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering 👏

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✨ ATP-Bio Staff Spotlights ✨

Meet Alyssa Burger! Alyssa is our Administrative Director & works at the University of Minnesota 👏

Alyssa serves as the Center's lead on organizational and administrative management for the ERC. 🤩

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“In this work, we propose that use of the pro-survival, anti-apoptotic CEPT cocktail in post-ischemia normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) may improve recovery in rat livers subjected to extended durations of warm ischemia.” 👏

doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.…

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“This study compared the inactivation efficiency of Isochoric freezing (IF) to traditional isobaric freezing against both vegetative cells and spores of B. cereus under various conditions” 🤩

Check out this study: doi.org/10.1016/j.food…

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“We developed a real-time and non-invasive method of assessing organs during perfusion based on mitochondrial function and injury using resonance Raman spectroscopy.” 🤩

Check out this study: nature.com/articles/s4159…

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“In human kidneys, William’s E medium provides a logistically convenient, off-the-shelf alternative to packed RBCs for up to 6h of normothermic machine perfusion.” 🩸

Check out this publication:
doi.org/10.1097/txd.00…

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