Very excited to share that I will be joining
@RiceUniversity
as an assistant professor in
@RiceNeuro
and
@RiceMSNE
, starting July 2024 ! My lab will focus on building Cellular and Tissue Bioelectronic Interfaces, and designing/processing materials to further human health.
@RiceNeuro
is thrilled to welcome Christina Tringides (
@cm_tringides
) to the NEI! Christina will join us in 2024 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Material Science and Nanoengineering and will be a core faculty member of the Rice Neuroengineering Initiative.! 🎉
[please share/retweet!] Very happy to announce that I will be starting at
@RiceEngineering
as a
@CPRITTexas
scholar ! I will be hiring 2-3 PhD students, so please encourage your talented undergraduates interested in materials, biotechnology, and cancer neuroscience to apply!
I had never worked with cells before graduate school (
@AEloseguiArtola
can confirm..), so I am very excited to share our most recent work on developing porous conductive hydrogel scaffolds to support the growth of neural progenitor cells for >12 weeks!
It was snowing/raining yesterday in Zürich, and today is basically (mild) summer in Houston- but getting excited to move into this building !!
@RiceNeuro
As of May 4th, I am Dr Tringides ! So grateful to all the colleagues, mentors and committee members
@ellentroche
, friends, and family who joined in person/virtually, and for all their support over the years 🧠 !
@hseas
@mit_hst
Honored and excited to be featured as the cover !!! In case you missed our work about viscoelastic devices for viscoelastic tissues, check it out for more beautiful images and to see why
#mechanicsmatters
!
In our September issue, read about health risk assessment of nanopesticides, voltage control of ferrimagnetic order, graphene for color protection in artwork, a three qubit state in silicon, and much more.
Was great to give a talk at
#EBSA2023
this morning (love seeing this neuron on a big screen!), and hear/contribute to how microfluidics and devices can be used in biophysics
Congrats to Christina Tringides, assistant professor of materials science and nanoengineering and a CPRIT Scholar, for being named to the 2024 MIT Technology Review’s “35 under 35” list!
The only thing more exciting than hosting a TIB talk is hosting your incredible friend for a TIB talk
@MCapogrosso
This Thursday, March 24th, at 12 pm EST, learn about spinal neurotechnologies for recovery after paralysis--cannot be missed, sign up now !!!
Had a fantastic time at the Cambridge Bioelectronics Symposium! Thanks
@GeorgeMalliaras
and
@biochemist_hero
for organizing such a fabulous event with lots of exciting bioelectronics research !!
Wuu first lab visitor ! Thanks for the shared excitement and for another reason to visit NYC
@naveedtavakol
and anyone interested in materials x neuroengineering, please email me !
🚨 Faculty position alert! 🚨
@Rice_BIOE
is now accepting applications for a tenure-track faculty position:
Please direct questions to me or search co-chair
@veiseho
Join a collegial faculty located in the biggest medical center in the world!
Ever wanted a quick, scalable way to pattern your favorite photo-crosslinkable hydrogel ? (bonus if a conductive formulation) The 'Cyprus paper 🇨🇾❤️' (unofficial title) is now online:
I'm giving a talk tomorrow at
#MRSFall2022
at 4:30 pm (SB12.10.10); come hear how conductive scaffolds can be tuned to support the differentiation of neural progenitor cells !
Delayed thank you to
@SAM_at_ETH
for the invitation to give the Materials Colloquium at ETH, and to everyone who joined !! Special thanks to
@AptaWineClub
for the photo 😊
Recently published in Macro-Molecular Bioscience from
@cm_tringides
and Dave Mooney, "Conductive Hydrogel Scaffolds for the 3D Localization and Orientation of Fibroblasts."
We would love for you to read our work and share with us your feedback on our new class of surface arrays, which match tissue viscoelasticity because mechanics matter!
Had the best time visiting
@LOE_at_LiU
and seeing the amazing work being done in
@ePlants_at_LiU
🌺🌱 and of course, the highlight was having plenty of time with the best host, mentor, and friend
@EleniStavrin
❤️🇨🇾
@cm_tringides
gave a fantastic seminar
@LOE_at_LiU
@ePlants_at_LiU
! 🧠 Thank you Christina for visiting us and for sharing your inspiring research on tissue like materials for improved neural interface!🤩
The $75,000 winner for the Health & Life Sciences Track is Limax Biosciences from
@hseas
! The venture treats internal and external injuries with a stretchable adhesive hydrogel.
#HarvardPIC2022
Brain-computer interfaces offer hope for restoring function in patients w/ neurological problems, but electrodes are stiff, while the brain is soft & squishy. A new hydrogel electrode created in the
#MooneyLab
by
@cm_tringides
at the Wyss could solve that.
Finally sharing the best news! I am ECSTATIC to announce that, after wandering through a few cities, countries, and continents, I have found a home for the de Lázaro Lab! And (bonus points) it’s in a city that I absolutely love! 🗽(1/n)
A bit late to the party but so happy to report that team
#christene
is now composed of two doctors! Congratulations
@cm_tringides
mou, it's been a pleasure to see all what you have achieved! 💜🎓
This Thursday, one of my favorite neural engineers, the super talented
@ElviraPirondini
is talking to us about 'Neural mechanisms underlying post-stroke motor recovery'-it cannot be missed!! Register now at the link
Symposium SB04-Conducting and Functional Hydrogels—From Materials to Devices has an exciting line-up from today to Thursday. Talks in Hynes, Level 1, Room 103 and posters Mon and Tues.
#F23MRS
@jluoled
@_annamariapappa
@cm_tringides
Another week, another great
#TIB
. This Thursday (April 28th 12 pm EST) we are very excited to host Dr
@xiechong
who is pushing limits of intracortical neural electrodes at
@RiceUniversity
! Register now at to hear about this amazing work!
Super excited for this week's TIB talk, with Professor Rylie Green and her insights on improving neural interfaces! Important note: we will begin at 10 AM EST- see you on December 2nd!
Excited to host our last
#TIB
speaker this spring, the amazing Dr
@leal_prof
! Register now @ to hear about her amazing work on 'lipid structural transformations to control transport and packing of biomolecules in cells' on May 19th at 12 pm EST !
❇️Discover fundamentals of the biotic/abiotic interface and cell-material interface engineering at the Bioelectroncs Interfaces: Materials, Devices and Applications
#CyBioEl24
@nanoGe_Conf
📍Limassol, Cyprus
🗓️22-25 October 2024
➡️Submit an oral abstract:
It was great to reunite with so many great colleagues and friends and to make new connections. We even had the chance for a
#MooneyLab
family pic including from his 1st PhD students to one of the most recent ones! Thanks
@cm_tringides
for making this happen!
Looking for advances in
#Bioelectronic
systems? The symposium in Biolectronics at
#MATSUS23
aims to promote an overview on bioelectronic systems for therapeutic and diagnostics.
📆16th-20th October 2023
📍Torremolinos, Spain
👉Submit your oral abstract:
If you're at
#MRSFall2022
this week, make sure to vote for Science as Art (and check out entry
#34
..!!) To see how biomaterials mimic the ocean floor 🪸🐠🦪
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Hua Wang, who has earned $946,000 in funding as part of the American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award.
Wang's team is innovating in the medical space by developing mRNA-based cancer vaccines for treating solid tumors.
Wow wow wow, beautiful work led by a talented scientist and engineer! Huge congratulations
@Bori_Seo
so proud of you and everything you've accomplished !!!!!!😍😍🥂🥂
🚨Hiring alert! 🚨
New industry grant = we are now on the lookout for a postdoc to join our group at
@EPFL_en
!
Please see the hiring ad below for more information.
RTs would be appreciated!
@ALCHEMY_EPFL
@EPFLEngineering
With Dr. Mooney, recipient of the 2024 Pierre Galletti Award- the highest honor bestowed by
@aimbe
. Inspiring talk peppered with humor, highlighting the importance of team-based science, recognizing the hard work of his mentees over the years. A true leader in the field .🙏🏽
Extremely excited for this week's
#TopicsBioEng
where Prof
@GeorgeMalliaras
at
@Cambridge_Uni
will share some of his amazing achievements in "Technology for Bioelectronic Medicine". Join us Thursday 10/28 @ 12 PM EST- it's not too late to register
@hseas
Kicking off this Fall's
#TopicsBioEng
seminar with Prof. Polina Anikeeva from
@MIT
presenting next Thursday, 9/15 @ noon in person! Her talk is entitled "Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Tools for Modulation of Neurophysiology" - held at
@hseas
SEC LL2.229! See you there!
A heads up that if you registered for
#TopicsBioEng
last semester you are not automatically registered for this one! Please check out the terrific line-up visiting
@hseas
(virtually) this fall and re-register here: All welcome no matter where you are!
Had a great time visiting and giving an invited talk at the
@IPFDD
in Dresden ! Excited for more discussions and future collaborations with this fantastic institute 🎉
Together with my good friend
@EleniStavrin
, and
@nanoGe_Conf
, we are delighted to announce the
#CyBioel
, that will take place in Cyprus, 22-25th Oct 2024. We hope that you can join us in the beautiful island of Cyprus for an exciting week of science!
The Wyss'
@JollyPawan
is speaking tomorrow (11/9) at
#SiM21
at 11AM EST on "Antifouling Coating Enables Highly Multiplexed Electrochemical Detection."
@cm_tringides
will speak 11/10 at 11AM EST on "Viscoelastic surface electrode arrays to interface with viscoelastic tissues."
Tho not my usual neuronal cultures, the fibroblasts were so responsive to their mechanical environment and very effectively followed their cues.
#Biomaterials
for
#woundhealing
is a growing area (with stars like
@G_Theocharidis
⭐) !
when you go to get your COVID-booster and the pharmacist says "no one has reported negative symptoms!" and you respond with "but is your sample size statistically significant?" 🙈
#nonewfriends
And of course, family/friends outside the lab for all their encouragement.
I'll be hiring at all levels, so please encourage potential PhD students and postdocs to apply/reach out to me (and masters students are always welcome !!)