Gabriel presents a poster at the WPI Summer Research Showcase

Gabriel’s poster was titled “Time-dependent kinetics of Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm dispersal and adhesion”. Glad to have had you in the lab this summer Gabriel!

Sydney is selected as the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic conference nominee for the Division III Commissioners Association NCAA Woman of the Year Award

The NCAA Woman of the Year Award honors academic achievements, athletics excellence, community service and leadership of NCAA athletes.

Sydney is awarded First Team NCAA Division III Women’s Track & Field/Cross Country Academic All-America Award

Sydney is WPI Athletics Department’s first-ever, four-time, NCAA Division III Women’s Track & Field/Cross Country Academic All-America first team member as announced by College Sports Communicators.

Prof. Stewart is awarded NSF Engineering Research Initiation Grant to Engineer a Biofilm Infection-on-a-chip for elucidating the host-biofilm interface

Lily presents a poster and rapid-fire talk at the 6th annual Stevens Conference on Bacterial-Material Interactions

Lily received an NSF funded student travel award to attend this conference. She was also one of few students selected to give an oral rapid-fire talk in addition to the poster presentation.

Gabriel Bulacan joins the Stewart Lab for the summer as part of REU program

Gabriel Bulacan is part of the Biomedical Engineering REU program with a site at WPI. He is a current BME student at Pennsylvania State University. He will be working to characterize the dispersal kinetics of epidermidis biofilms under physiological shear stress. Welcome Gabriel!

Kim Mori successfully defends M.S. thesis titled “Quantitative Assessments of Staphylococcal Phage and Biofilm Properties for Evaluating Phage as Antibiofilm Therapeutics.” Congratulations, Kim!

Congratulations Kim!

Sydney is awarded 3rd place at the WPI Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE) Finals poster session

Sydney’s poster was titled “Biophysical properties of bacterial cells released from biofilms after anti-biofilm treatments”.

Lily is awarded 1st place at the WPI Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE) Finals poster session

Lily’s poster was titled “Development of a Staphylococcal biofilm infection model for evaluating biofilm formation at the host-pathogen interface”.

Sydney presents a rapid talk at the 94th New England Complex Fluids (NECF) Meeting at University of Rhode Island in South Kingston, RI

Sydney’s presentation was titled “Biophysical properties of cellular clusters released from biofilms after biofilm matrix disruption”.