News – The Kaplan Lab @ Tufts University

Healey-Driscoll Administration Awards More Than $2.1 Million to Cellular Agriculture Innovation Center at Tufts University

October 22, 2024November 13, 2024
Awards

https://masstech.org/news/healey-driscoll-administration-awards-more-21-million-cellular-agriculture-innovation-center Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture is awarded $2,136,711 by the Healey-Driscoll administration and Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech) to establish the Foodtech Engineering for… Read More »Healey-Driscoll Administration Awards More Than $2.1 Million to Cellular Agriculture Innovation Center at Tufts University

BME Masters Student Emily Day showcases a remarkable thesis defense!

August 2, 2024August 2, 2024
Events, Thesis Defense

Congrats to Emily on the captivating defense of her thesis “Silk-Magnesium Composite Based Orthopedic Wire for Toe Fusion Surgery: Balancing Biodegradability and Preserving Native Toe… Read More »BME Masters Student Emily Day showcases a remarkable thesis defense!

BME Master Student Max Levene plants the seeds of success with thesis defense

July 9, 2024August 2, 2024
Events, Thesis Defense

Congrats to Max on the insightful defense of his thesis “Plant Callus Derived Scaffold for Cultured Meat Applications”

BME Masters Student Luke Isayiw delivers a stellar thesis defense

June 26, 2024August 2, 2024
Events, Thesis Defense

Congrats to Luke on the fantastic defense of his thesis “Film Seeding for Bovine Myoblast Cell Optimization by Characterizing Growth”

BioE Master’s student Ishan Ahuja successfully defends thesis

May 1, 2024May 1, 2024
Events, Thesis Defense

Congrats to Ishan on the great defense of his thesis “Transcriptomic-guided optimization of serum-free media for bovine cell proliferation”!

Three Kaplan Lab undergrads present their Spring 2024 research

April 30, 2024April 30, 2024
Events

Sophomore engineering students from Roxbury Community College (RCC), Jack Limage (left photo) and Ania Jeleniewska (middle photo), presented at the RCC Internship Showcase today to culminate… Read More »Three Kaplan Lab undergrads present their Spring 2024 research

BME Masters student, Lauren Cartwright, gives an udderly fantastic defense!

April 24, 2024May 21, 2024
Events, Thesis Defense

Big congrats to Lauren for successfully defending her masters thesis entitled, “Investigation of in vitro milk production using mammary epithelial cell culture.” Her thesis work… Read More »BME Masters student, Lauren Cartwright, gives an udderly fantastic defense!

Cyrus Karimy successfully defends his Masters thesis “Serum-Reduced Culture of Tuna Cells”

April 17, 2024April 27, 2024
Events, Thesis Defense

Congrats to Cyrus!!

David highlighted in Vox’s “The Future Perfect 50”

March 13, 2024April 7, 2024
Awards, External Media

David was recently featured as one of Vox’s “The Future Perfect 50” for his groundbreaking work in the field of cellular agriculture! Read Kenny Torrella’s… Read More »David highlighted in Vox’s “The Future Perfect 50”

Happy holidays from the Kaplan Lab!

December 20, 2023April 7, 2024
Lab News

The Kaplan Lab recently celebrated the holiday season at the Night Shift Brewery!

David named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

December 12, 2023April 7, 2024
Awards, External Media

David was recently awarded this distinction by the NAI, the highest professional title awarded to inventors. Congrats David! Read more here: https://now.tufts.edu/2023/12/12/david-kaplan-named-fellow-national-academy-inventors

Tender x TUCCA

December 11, 2023April 7, 2024
Awards, External Media

Tender Food—a local company working to make delicious, nutritious, and affordable alternative meats—was recently awarded the highly competitive Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II… Read More »Tender x TUCCA

Tufts establishes world’s first minor in cellular agriculture

November 20, 2023April 7, 2024
External Media

Olivia Calkins and Adham Ali—both members of the Kaplan Lab since their sophomore year, and co-founders of the Tufts Alt Protein Project—are two of the… Read More »Tufts establishes world’s first minor in cellular agriculture

InSciDE Conference Presentation: American Association of Extracellular Vesicles 2023

October 28, 2023April 24, 2024
Conferences, Events

Members of the lab including Peter Hsi and Vishal Tandon presented at the American Association of Extracellular Vesicles (AAEV) conference (Boston, MA) in 2023! Their… Read More »InSciDE Conference Presentation: American Association of Extracellular Vesicles 2023

Welcome, 2023 PhD cohort!

October 7, 2023April 7, 2024
Lab News, New Members

10 new PhD students recently joined the Kaplan Lab—we’re so happy to have you on the team! Welcome to: Alexis Walker, Tom Ryder, Stephen Schwartz,… Read More »Welcome, 2023 PhD cohort!

InSciDE Conference Presentation: Advances in 3D Bioprinting and Cerebral Vascular Conferences 2023

September 11, 2023April 24, 2024
Conferences, Events

Members of the lab including Liam Power, Philip Houtz, Ying Chen, and Michael Whalen presented at both the Advances in 3D Bioprinting Conference (Haifa, Israel)… Read More »InSciDE Conference Presentation: Advances in 3D Bioprinting and Cerebral Vascular Conferences 2023

TUCCA students visit Better Meat Company in San Francisco

September 7, 2023April 7, 2024
Lab News

TUCCA graduate students and David recently visited the west coast to visit a number of Bay Area companies working on bringing cultivated meat and other… Read More »TUCCA students visit Better Meat Company in San Francisco

Kirsten Trinidad highlighted in Tufts Now

May 26, 2023April 7, 2024
External Media

Kirsten—a 3rd year PhD student in the Kaplan Lab focusing on cellular agriculture—was recently featured for her excellence both in the lab and as a… Read More »Kirsten Trinidad highlighted in Tufts Now

InSciDE Conference Presentation: TERMIS Americas 2023

April 13, 2023April 24, 2024
Conferences, Events

Members of the lab including Marly Coe, Sydni Rosenfeld, Volha Liaudanskaya, Liam Power, Philip Houtz, Ying Chen, and Michael Whalen presented at the TERMIS Americas… Read More »InSciDE Conference Presentation: TERMIS Americas 2023

Trends in Cell Biology showcases Andrew Stout’s art and publication

February 1, 2023April 7, 2024
External Media

Andrew is a 5th year PhD student whose cell ag art was recently featured in Trends in Cell Biology. Go Andrew!