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rituraman.bsky.social
Eugene Bell Assistant Prof at MIT • tissue engineering the neuromuscular system to restore mobility and power robots • 🇺🇸 via 🇮🇳 🇰🇪 • RamanLab.mit.edu
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Perfect timing - excited to host Prof. Ayelet Lesman for a soft matter seminar at MIT today, and just found out our first paper together was accepted for publication this morning! Coming soon to a journal near you 😊

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Check out our latest paper in Science Advances, in which we built a constriction-based microfluidic device to measure the deformability of oocytes to assess their mechanical properties with minimal impact. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Exciting to see our review on "magnetic actuation for mechano-medicine" featured on the cover of Advanced Intelligent Systems this month! Great collaborative effort with @danielgmadrid11.bsky.social, @simone-schuerle.bsky.social + Andy Tay: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Visionary talk from Cecilia Laschi at the MIT Robotics seminar! Particularly exciting to see a feature of our shared vision for how soft robotics can improve human health, recently featured in Device: www.cell.com/device/fullt...

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What an honor to be included in this lineup! Looking forward to speaking at the International Webinars on Cell and Tissue Engineering this spring. Thanks to João Mano for the invitation!

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Kicked off the morning with an inspiring breakfast with the brilliant high school students at the American Junior Academy of Science annual meeting! We all received a lovely Valentine’s surprise from the MIT Logarhythms 🤍

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Exciting news for CO2 capture: Blue Planet Systems poured the world's first net zero embodied carbon concrete slab using *standard* Portland Cement. Done by incorporating aggregate (limestone) made with CaCO3 from captured CO2. huge step towards Gt/yr capture www.newswire.com/news/carbon-...

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It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

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Beautiful work - and super excited to try this in our lab this very week thanks to Kayvon and team!

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Had a great time presenting at SLAS as an Innovation Award Finalist - got to share our work on leveraging flexures for high-throughput, accurate, and precise measurement of muscle force in vitro. Excited to pursue translational applications of this platform in drug discovery! doi.org/10.1002/aisy...

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So exciting to see our newest paper on muscle-nerve crosstalk featured in this @cellpress.bsky.social Device perspective - thanks to Claudia Loebel and team for highlighting our work! 💪🏽 www.cell.com/device/abstr...

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Deeply honored to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers (PECASE) from the White House - 7 years after becoming a U.S. citizen! Grateful for the family, friends, teachers, mentors, & students who have supported my journey 🙏🏽 www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...

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Thank you to @bmes-cmbe.bsky.social for a Rising Star Award recognizing early work from our lab! Extra happy to celebrate alongside inspiring peers, colleagues, and friends 🙏🏽

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Teamed up with some of my favorite scientists to imagine the future of #biohybrid devices that combine engineered tissues with bioelectronics. TLDR (but please R), the future is bright! Out now in Nature Reviews Bioengineering: rdcu.be/d5z6s @jrivnay.bsky.social @jacobrobinson.bsky.social

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Great flexing of scientific muscles by Rising Star Dr. @rituraman.bsky.social with her talk on motor control leveraging optogentic muscles, making a myokine factory, and controlling motor neurons. #cmbe2025

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Rising Stars 2025! @brianaguado.bsky.social @marianhh.bsky.social @rituraman.bsky.social Drs. Cai, Chen, Yanxiang, Hind, Hong, Hwang, Joshi, Lee, Li, Loebel, Mistriotis, Nakayama, Nia, Raghavan, Wang, Weinstein

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Last lab meeting of the year ⛄️ Grateful for this team and proud of our many exciting milestones in 2024 including 9 publications and preprints… more to come in 2025! 💪🏽🦾 ramanlab.mit.edu/publications/

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Kicking off a brand new collaboration with Pietro Valdastri funded by @ARIA-research.bsky.social with the goal of advancing the dexterity of muscle-powered robots! Super excited to flex some muscle 💪🏽 and build some bots 🤖 with this international team spanning MIT and the University of Leeds!

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Check out the Raman Lab lineup at #F24MRS - looking forward to sharing some of the newest results from our lab! Come say hi 👋🏽 @materials-mrs.bsky.social

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So excited for my visit to Brown this week! Looking forward to connecting with friends old and new ☺️

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It's great to be here and immediately discover the engineered living materials community! There are already two amazing starter packs: @theresearch.bsky.social - go.bsky.app/RinsDZh @marcblanch.bsky.social - go.bsky.app/EKRq4zp #ELM #SynBio #Biomaterials

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The Living Materials & Tissue Engineering community continues to grow on Bluesky. So great to see more colleagues over here AND to met new/rising stars in our community. Lets keep growing & sharing our work. And let me know others to add including self-nominations! go.bsky.app/AeG8FWr

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Grateful to be named an ASME Rising Star in Mechanical Engineering alongside many of my #newPI friends (including Carlos Portela, Grace Gu, and many others I didn’t get pictures with)! Fun to present the first few papers from the lab - more to come in 2025 💪🏽

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