News & Events

Troy passed his preliminary exams officially becoming a PhD candidate in the mechanical engineering program!  Congrats Troy!

Tessa passed their preliminary exams officially becoming a PhD candidate in the biomedical engineering program!  Congrats Tessa!

Mohammad Mousazadehkasin joins us as a postdoc from the University of New Hampshire bringing polymer cryopreservation expertise to the Hubel lab!  Welcome Mohammad!

Kyle successfully defended his honors thesis "Exploring the Role of Amino Acids in NADES-based Cryoprotectants"!  Good work Kyle!

The Hubel lab got a fancy automated cell counter - the Countess FL 3!  This enables top notch counts and high quality control for fluorescent cell counts post-thaw!  😎

Maddy Wagner successfully defended her honors thesis "Characterizing Membrane Partitioning and Heterogeneity of DMSO Using Low-Temperature Raman Spectroscopy"!  Awesome work Maddy!

Akshat passed his mechanical engineering qualification exams crossing a big hurdle in the PhD program, congrats Akshat!

Allison and two alumni, Katie Pollock and Chia-Hsing Pi, will be speakers at the 2022 Allogeneic Cell Therapies Summit in Boston!  Check out Track 4 here

The Hubel lab now has another Planar Kryo 560 controlled rate freezer expanding our preservation research capabilities!  Thank you Scientific Resources Southwest for managing delivery!

Allison's paper on long‑term storage of gametes and gonadal tissues at room temperatures has been published in the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics!

Rui's paper on developmental stage specific cryopreservation challenges of sensory neurons has been published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, congrats Rui!

We welcome Akshat Mallya and Nikhil Bhardwaj to our group!  Akshat is a PhD student in mechanical engineering and Nikhil is a Masters student in biomedical engineering

Allison is the president-elect of the Society for Cryobiology!  

From the executive director Nicole Evans:  "Allison will become the first female President of the Society for Cryobiology which is notable and to be celebrated. I have no doubt she will serve as an inspiration to many young women cryobiologists to put themselves forward for leadership positions within the Society in years to come."

Congrats Allison!

Rui Li successfully defended her thesis "Mechanistic Investigation of Cell Cryopreservation Aided by Raman Spectroscopy: Challenges and Solutions for hiPSC Technologies", congrats *Doctor* Li!

Maddy Wagner and Kyle Knofczynski have returned from their summer internships to continue their honors thesis work, good luck Maddy and Kyle!

Allison was named a CryoFellow of the Society for Cryobiology and will receive the Basil Luyet Medal at the next CRYO meeting. Congratulations, Allison!

Kyle is off to a summer research position at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, congrats!

Grace is joining us as an REU student this summer through ATP-Bio, welcome Grace!

Colin successfully defended his masters thesis on the cryopreservation of Jurkat and regulatory T-cells, congratulations Colin!

Our shiny new cryogenic freezer has arrived from MVE expanding our biological material storage as we expand our research!