Excited to be part of this year's society for biomaterials meeting #SFB2025. Check out the Segura lab talks that will be going on this week! Hope to connect with many of you at SFB.

Excited to host you Omid!

Chilkoti Receives 2025 Technology Innovation and Development Award | Duke Pratt School of Engineering Ashutosh Chilkoti was recognized by the Society for Biomaterials for his pioneering work in protein-resistant polymer coatings and protein biomaterials

Congratulations Tosh! Looking forward to celebrating at SFB!
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Some holiday joy in lab! Meet Glaciela.

We find that heterogenous MAPgels support vasculogenesis! Here we only studied binary mixtures. Imagine what higher order mixtures can do!

Congratulations Alex on a job well done.

To engineer ways to have nascent vessels transverse HMPs rather than wrap around them Alex turned to heterogenous MAP gels composed of different ratios of HMPs that have different biochemical composition.

An early feature of vasculogenesis is vacuole formation. Here we show that #MAPgel can support vacuole formation but only in MAPgel composed of #HMP that have 3D pore sizes of <20pL. But, after 24-hours the next stages of vasculogenesis do not continue and the cell instead spread along the HMP.

Engineering the Microstructure and Spatial Bioactivity of MAP Scaffolds Instructs Vasculogenesis In Vitro and Modifies Vessel Formation In Vivo Both the microstructure and the spatial presentation of bioactive cues are tunable properties in microporous annealed particle (MAP) scaffolds responsible for guiding cell responses. When optimized, ...

New publication ⚠️This study was led by the✨Dr. Alexa Anderson✨, who graduated with her PhD back in 2023. Here she investigated the process of vasculogenesis (not sprouting angiogenesis) in #MAPgel. She did a very comprehensive an amazing job! 🧵
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This was such a #proudPI moment! It is truly an honor to be part of @juhisamal.bsky.social 's mentoring team. It's the best to see great people become great PIs. It's not enough to be a great scientist.

Research of Segura Lab | Duke University The research of Segura Lab used one of our most promising materials is a granular hydrogel called Microporous Annealed Particles (MAP).

and our current projects at seguralab.duke.edu/what/researc...

Who is Segura Lab of Duke University | Duke University Segura Lab is science meets style. Hover over each image to peak into the lives of the incredible individuals who propel this lab.

You can learn more about the amazing researchers in my lab at seguralab.duke.edu/who/

Noah Campbell | Duke University - Segura Lab

Noah is thrilled to find a home in the Segura lab, where he looks forward to merging his two previous interests – brain characterization & cell based therapeutics – by utilizing customized MAP hydrogels in stroke recovery. You can learn more about Noah at:
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Meet Noah Campbell our first year student. Took us a while but we now have his 📷. Noah graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in May of 2024 with a B.S. in Neuroscience and a minor in Chemistry & Biochemistry.

Based on my two posts (I know you all probably already know this), GIFs do not work in bsky but videos do! This is again NPCs growing in an RGD/IKVAV modified #MAPgel! Amazing work by former graduate student Katrina Wilson! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

was just messing around trying to understand posts in bsky. Do GIFs not work?

NPC growing in #MAPgels! RGD and IKVAV modified scaffolds lead to spreading a neuronal lineage differentiation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Measuring 3D Pores for Better Wound Healing | Duke Pratt School of Engineering By studying the empty spaces between particles rather than the particles themselves, researchers can better understand structural stability

Check out our latest research on #MAPgels #granularmatter and their characterization to enable better wound healing. In this video, Lindsay explains her research. pratt.duke.edu/news/void-sp...

Lab Murder Mystery night! We had fun figuring out who was the culprit! Thanks to @jessicacanning.bsky.social for organizing and being our gamemaster and everyone in the lab for playing your part so well! Lots of fun!

Visited the amazing Mechanical Engineering department at MIT yesterday and had a blast. Great meetings with faculty and postdocs. Special thanks to 🌟Ritu and Carlos 🌟for their amazing hospitality including a visit to the exclusive The Quin for dinner. 💕

Thank you Michaela! So nice to be highlighted! The Duke BME community is indeed stellar ⭐

Science Diversity Leadership Award

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative invites applications for a five-year funding grant (2025–2030) that supports excellent biomedical researchers with a record of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in their scientific field 🧪

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HUB

Introducing the Humanity Unlocking Biomaterials (HUB) national coordinating center. Opportunity to become involved with an incredible community, $100k research grants, core resources, and much more. Come join us! See more at our new website, here: www.humanityunlockingbiomaterials.org

Duke University - Segura Lab We at Duke University engineer therapeutic materials to promote wound healing and tissue regeneration (think Wolverine without the blades).

We have a new banner! Check out seguralab.duke.edu! We are trying to figure out if we can have a rotating banner that looks ok. It is a shame to not bring back some old favorites!

MAP Scaffolds | Duke University - Segura Lab MAP stands for Microporous Annealed Particles, and it’s a biomaterial we invented with special properties that make it stand out in a class of its own.

You can find this and all other manuscripts in the special issue in our MAP timeline (which we try hard to keep updated) seguralab.duke.edu/what/highlig... All articles in this issue have a midnight blue background😀

From Soft Microgel Assemblies to Advanced Healthcare Materials Click on the article title to read more.

I am so behind on posts and really wanted to finish positing about the special issue I edited for Advanced Healthcare Materials. I got through half the papers in X... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... I do not think I will finish that project, too much work, but will start with new papers 😆.