We are celebrating Dr. Connor Amelung's successful defense! Congratulations and we are so very proud. Excited to see all you accomplish in your next role, and we will miss you! 🧪 #scisky #academicsky
Congratulations to Dr. Travis Brady on his fantastic defense!! We are so incredibly proud of him and his accomplishments and can't wait to see what he does next. 🧪🫀🥹
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Our February journal club! 🧪 We discussed human blood vessel organoids ⬇️
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Snow days at Duke! 🧪☃️❄️ #academicsky
Our January Journal Club! We discussed the role of cystine in vascular growth and repair 🧪🫀 #scisky
www.cell.com/cell-metabol...
Mechano-Senenscence
Notch as a mechanosensor for Matrix Stiffness in Endothelial Cell in 3D Col-MA/HA-MA Hydrogel
Light-inducible crosslinking/stiffening
Stiffness-induced SASP in 3D EC distinct from canonical pro-inflamm SASP
@gerechtlab.bsky.social bioRxiv 2025
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As we enter 2026, we are reflecting back on the past year and all we have achieved! It was a year filled with challenges but also immense growth and accomplishment by our trainees. Here's to a productive and fulfilling 2026 🥂🎉🧪 #scisky #academicsky
Huge congratulations to postdoc Yaqing Huang who was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association! She will be studying persistent endothelial cell activation during fibrosis. We are so proud! 🫀🧪 #scisky #academicsky
Happy Holidays from the Gerecht Lab! Wishing everyone a safe and relaxing end of the year #academicsky #scisky 🧪☃️
Congrats to postdoc Jenn for winning 1st place poster in Bladder Physiology at her first CAIRIBU conference! 🧪 #scisky #academicsky
Happy Fall from the Gerecht Lab! 🍁🧪 #academicsky #scisky
Happy Halloween!! The Gerecht Lab’s Louvre Heist Crew stole the show at this years’ BME Department Halloween party 🦺💎
Our very first Gerecht Lab Bakeoff was a huge success!! 🧁Congratulations to winner Makenzie who made delicious rice krispies! We had a fantastic variety of entries with lots of creativity on show. #academicsky
A full house for our October journal club! We discussed an organotypic atlas of human vascular cells 🧪🔬🫀
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Parker Esswein for winning First Place Poster Award at the Bioengineered Tissue Systems & Models Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor! We are so proud 👏🧪 #scisky #academicsky
We are having a great time at the Bioengineered Tissue Systems & Models Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor! PhD candidate Emily Warren presented her work on endothelial cell and pericyte crosstalk. 🧪🔬 #scisky #academicsky
🚨New Gerecht Lab Pub!🚨
Check out our latest work where we demonstrate that direct endothelial cell-pericyte contact in the retina downregulates VEGFR2 in endothelial cells, promoting barrier function 🧪 #angiogenesis #retina #scisky
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Congratulations to our newest PhD Candidate, Marcos Negrete, who passed his prelim last week! He has made some incredible progress in his work on vascularized prostate cancer organoids 🧪🔬 #scisky #academicsky
Our September Journal Club! We discussed small-diameter artery grafts engineered from pluripotent stem cells #scisky #academicsky 🧪🔬🫀 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
We are welcoming two new undergraduate researchers this fall! Welcome to Carmen and Fernando 🧪🎉🔬 We are excited to see what they accomplish! #scisky #academicsky
Our August Journal Club! ☀️ We discussed functional roles for senescent cells across the body #scisky #academicsky 🧪🔬
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Congratulations to our postdoc, Jenn, who received the Duke KURe Fellowship in benign urology! #scisky 🧪🔬🎉 We are very excited to see her new project develop!
Congratulations to our postdoc Yaqing who was selected as a Duke Scholar in Molecular Medicine! This nine month training program will give her hands-on experiences and shadowing in the clinic. We're so excited to hear about what she learns and how she'll apply it to her research! 🎉🧪🔬🫀 #scisky
Additionally, our PhD student Marcos won the Outstanding Mentor Award! We are so proud of him and his dedication to mentorship!
High school student Will spent the summer with us, working with PhD student Marcos to make prostate cancer organoids, through the DukeREP Program! He won 3rd place at the final poster symposium. We are so proud of how much he learned so quickly! 🧪🔬 #scisky #academicsky
We are also so proud of our undergraduate, Dimitrios Owen, who has spent the summer in an REU at Wake Forest, and presented his work there at the NIDDK R25 Symposium! We're excited to have him back in the fall semester & looking forward to hearing about his summer! 🧪🔬 #scisky #academicsky
We have had an incredible time at the Biomechanics in Vascular Biology & Disease GRC! Congrats to PhD candidate Emily Warren and postdoc Jiyeon Song for outstanding poster awards! We are so proud! 🧪🫀🔬 #scisky #academicsky
Our July Journal Club! We discussed the contribution of perivascular cells to mediating mechanical and structural changes in capillaries 🧪🫀 #academicsky #scisky www.science.org/doi/full/10....
We're celebrating our newest PhD Candidate, Katherine Tang, who passed her preliminary exam last week! She has done some fantastic work with engineered arterial grafts to study atherosclerosis! 🧪🫀🔬 #scisky #academicsky
A big congratulations to Parker Esswein, who passed his preliminary exam and became a PhD Candidate in May! He's made incredible progress on engineering the inner blood-retinal barrier and we are so excited for him 🧪🧑🚀 #scisky #academicsky