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”.

Lily and Dr. Stewart’s review article: “Vasculature-on-a-chip technologies as platforms for advanced studies of bacterial infections” was accepted for publication in a special collection of articles in Biomicrofluidics

Check out the article here: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/bmf/article-abstract/18/2/021503/3278932/Vasculature-on-a-chip-technologies-as-platforms?redirectedFrom=fulltext  

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”.

Lily successfully passes her dissertation proposal! Congrats, Lily!

Patryck successfully passes his dissertation proposal! Congrats, Patryck!

Sydney, Lily, and Patryck present posters at WPI’s Graduate Research Innovation Exchange

All Stewart Lab PhD students presented posters at WPI 2023 Graduate Research Innovation Exchange. Sydney’s poster was titled “Biophysical properties of bacterial cells released from biofilms after anti-biofilm treatments”. Lily’s poster was titled “Development of a Staphylococcal biofilm infection model for evaluating biofilm formation at the host-pathogen interface”. Patryck’s poster was titled “Staphylococcus epidermidis Biofilm […]

Sydney is awarded as a semi-finalist for the DoD Science, Mathematics, and Research Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service

Sydney and Patryck attend and present posters at the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) Conference on Biofilms in Charlotte, NC

Sydney and Patryck both receive WPI graduate student travel awards to attend this conference. Patryck’s poster was titled “Correlations Between Self-Produced Microscale pH Gradients and Mechanics in Staphylococcus epidermidis Biofilms” and Sydney’s poster was titled “Biophysical properties of Staphylococcus epidermidis cells dispersed during matrix targeted biofilm disruption”.