BioE Master’s student Ishan Ahuja successfully defends thesis
Congrats to Ishan on the great defense of his thesis “Transcriptomic-guided optimization of serum-free media for bovine cell proliferation”!
Congrats to Ishan on the great defense of his thesis “Transcriptomic-guided optimization of serum-free media for bovine cell proliferation”!
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
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”
The Kaplan Lab recently celebrated the holiday season at the Night Shift Brewery!
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 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
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
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
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!
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 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—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
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
Andrew is a 5th year PhD student whose cell ag art was recently featured in Trends in Cell Biology. Go Andrew!
Michael Saad—a 4th year PhD student in the Kaplan Lab—was recently highlighted for his work in assembling the Green Team at SciTech, made up of… Read More »The Green Team makes strides at SciTech
The Tufts University for Cellular Agriculture (TUCCA) consortium was recently formed to advance the field of cellular agriculture, with David’s lab the central hub at… Read More »David is director of newly-formed TUCCA consortium
Natalie Rubio and Sophie Letcher—a former graduate student and 2nd year graduate student in the Kaplan Lab respectively—have been working on “Deep Space Entomoculture”, which… Read More »Insect cells show promise for space applications
Vincent Fitzpatrick—a post-doctoral researcher in the Kaplan Lab—created a new class in the Biomedical Engineering department when he realized the lack of courses available for… Read More »3D Printing the Human Body