The following research will be presented during the 2025 US HUPO (US Human Proteome Organization) Conference, held February 22nd - 26th in Philadelphia, PA:
“Measuring Methyltransferase Activity using Cell-Deliverable Affinity-Based Peptide Probes (cAfBPs)” will be presented by Loran Gliford on Tuesday, February 25th, 4:30-6:00 PM.
Congratulations to Colin Skeen for his recent paper submission! His work presents a standardized pre-PCR enrichment method to improve mutation profiling of circulating cell-free DNA. The manuscript is currently available as a preprint on bioRxiv.
Congratulations to Sanaya Tonsekar and Terry Chen on receiving funding for Spring semester from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program! At the conclusion of the semester, both will present their research at the BU Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Congratulations to Colin Skeen and Maren Eltze on their successful completion of the BME Department’s Prospectus Defense! The topics discussed in their seminars have been presented at:
C Skeen, P Sitaram, J Sexton, S Tsai, ED Pratt, “Optimization and Expansion of Digital PCR Multiplexing for Rare Mutation Detection,” in Proceedings of the Biomedical Engineering Society Fall Meeting (BMES), Seattle, WA, 2023.
Congratulations to Hanhminh Nguyen on completing her BS in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. She will begin a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at BU this fall. Well done!
The following projects will be presented during the 2023 BMES Annual Meeting, held October 11th - 14th in Seattle, WA:
“Optimization and Expansion of Digital PCR Multiplexing for Rare Mutation Detection” presented by Colin Skeen in the Imaging Strategies in Cancer Detection, Diagnosis, and Prognosis session on October 13th from 8:30-8:45 AM.
Congratulations to Loran Gliford on being selected to be a trainee in the NIH T32 Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology (SB2) Training Program at BU! The training fellowship provides funding for the next two years.