LAB NEWS
May 2023
Undergraduate researcher Claire Kettula has been awarded the ASPIRE fellowship to support her research in the lab this summer!
April 2023
Callie’s newest paper on sex differences in endothelial cell response to AngII has been published in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. This paper was a collaboration with Dr. Douglas Dluzen, Mikayla Harris, and Dr. Nicole Arnold from Morgan State University!
Callie’s co-first author paper, a collaboration with Dr. Yang Tao’s lab, has been published in ACS Omega and demonstrates the use of hyperspectral imaging for metabolite quantification in cell culture media.
March 2023
Undergraduate Annie Barnes was awarded the NSF-GRFP! Congrats Annie!
Summer 2022 student Tristian Pepper was awarded the NSF-GRFP! Congrats!!
Bilal published a new review paper on Interpreting metabolic complexity via isotope-assisted metabolic flux analysis!
January 2023
Undergraduate Viviana Alpízar was awarded the ASPIRE fellowship to support her research in the lab this semester!
December 2022
Graduate student Bilal Moiz was awarded the AHA Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for his research in the effects of Neimann Pick Disease on the blood-brain barrier!
Lab members Callie, Bilal, Sophie, Vivi, and Andrew published their paper “Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Cells Model Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cell Glucose Metabolism” in Fluids and barriers of the CNS!
November 2022
Post-doc Gurneet Sangha was honored as a Rising Star in Engineering in Health!
Bilal published a review paper, “Isotope-assisted metabolic flux analysis: A powerful technique to gain new insights into the human metabolome in health and disease” in Metabolites!
October 2022
Undergraduate Viviana Alpízar won the Best Poster award at UMD Bioscience Day in the bioengineering category- Congrats Vivi!
Post-doctoral researchers Gurneet and Pattie and undergraduate researchers Viviana, Annie, and Donaysia are presenting at this year’s BMES meeting in San Antonio, TX!
September 2022
Dr. Clyne was awarded an NSF Grant to develop an integrated experimental and computational model of BMEC glucose metabolism and transport
Matthew John, a local high school student, joined the Clyne lab for a year-long research internship
Claire Kettula was awarded an ASPIRE fellowship to support her work in the lab
August 2022
Bilal was awarded the Peter G. Pentchev NPC Research Fellowship to support his research in understanding how Neimann Pick Disease- Type C alters BMEC metabolism
Lauren Smith has joined the lab as a PhD Student- Welcome Lauren!
Callie was awarded the Fischell Fellowship to support her research in sex differences in BMEC metabolism
July 2022
The Clyne lab welcomes new undergraduate researcher Claire Kettula
June 2022
Yusuf won the undergraduate PhD paper competition at this year’s SB3C conference!
Callie won the graduate student PhD paper competition at this year’s SB3C conference!
May 2022
Undergraduate researchers Yusuf and Sophie graduated
February 2022
Bilal passed his proposal exam and is now a PhD Candidate!
Bilal passed his proposal exam and is now a PhD Candidate!
December 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Gurneet Sangha and Dr. Ryan Sapp for winning the AHA Post-doctoral Fellowship! Gurneet will be studying exercise effects on red blood cell extracellular vesicles and endothelial function in laminar flow, and Ryan will be researching sex differences in obesity-induced perivascular adipose tissue dysfunction.
Marzyeh Kheradmand-Hajibashi officially joins the Clyne Lab as a PhD student
November 2021
Callie passed her proposal exam, and is now a PhD Candidate!
The Clyne Lab welcomes new undergraduates Donaysia Torbit and Parker Desalvio
October 2021
The Clyne Lab has 11 students present (virtually and in person) at this year’s BMES Annual Meeting! Congrats to Pattie Mathieu, Callie Weber, Sophia Zic, Yusuf Mastoor, Angela Sun, Anne Barnes, Morgan Pettebone, Viviana Alpizar, Surya Padmanabhan, Anna Kelly, and Mikayla Harris
Sarah Basehore’s paper, Laminar Flow on Endothelial Cells Suppresses eNOS O-GlcNAcylation to Promote eNOS Activity, is published in Circulation Research
Neel Sanghvi starts his rotation in the Vascular Kinetics Lab!
September 2021
REU Student Mikayla Harris presents her research at the National Technical Association conference and wins 1st place in the Undergraduate Biology & Life Science Category. Congrats Mikayla!
August 2021
The lab welcomes Marzyeh Kheradmand-Hajibashi as a graduate rotation student!
Callie co-wins the award for best flash talk at the BIOE department retreat!
Paula and Callie join the UMD BioE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
The Clyne Lab welcomes Nimisha Rangachar, Xavier Garcia, Christian Sun, and Brooke Wunderler to the lab as our new Undergraduate researchers
July 2021
Paula Montero Atienza joins the lab as a new graduate student, welcome Paula!
Clyne Lab undergraduates adopt sea-monkeys!
June 2021
Lab members Jesse, Yusuf, and Pattie publish their paper, “A simple method to align cells on 3D hydrogels using 3D printed molds” in Biomedical Engineering Advances.
Mikayla Harris, an undergraduate at Morgan State University, joins the lab for a Summer REU Program, Welcome!
Anna Kelly, an undergraduate from the University of Pittsburg, joins the lab for a Summer REU Program, Welcome!
Callie presents a poster, “Differential gene expression of male and female HUVEC in response to angiotensin II and cortisol treatment” at SB3C.
Yusuf is awarded an REU to support his research efforts over the summer!
May 2021
Callie is selected as a finalist in the University of Maryland 3-Minute Thesis Competition. Watch the video here!
April 2021
Gurneet’s review paper, “Preclinical techniques to investigate exercise training in vascular pathophysiology” is published in APJ Heart and Circulatory Physiology.
Current lab members Bilal, Andrew, Angela, Surya, and Kaitlyn publish their paper “13C Metabolic Flux Analysis Indicates Endothelial Cells Attenuate Metabolic Perturbations by Modulating TCA Activity” in Metabolites.
Sophie is awarded the ASPIRE fellowship to support her research over the Summer!
March 2021
Ryan defends his dissertation “Sex and Race Based Differences in the Effects of Acute and Chronic Exercise on Vascular Function and Circulating MicroRNA”. Congratulations, Dr. Sapp!!
Callie’s review paper, “Sex differences in the blood-brain barrier and neurodegenerative diseases” is published in APL Bioengineering.
Viviana Alpizar joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher.
February 2021
Dr. Clyne publishes a review article, “Endothelial response to glucose: dysfunction, metabolism, and transport” in Biochemical Society Transactions.
January 2021
Bilal earns a COMBINE fellowship to support his research, Congrats!
November 2020
Swathi’s paper, “Direct Bioprinting of 3D Multicellular Breast Spheroids onto Endothelial Networks” is published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments. Watch the JoVE video here!
October 2020
Annie Barnes joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher!
September 2020
Morgan Pettebone joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher and is awarded the ASPIRE grant through UMD!
Surya Padmanabhan joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher!
August 2020
Jesse Vo successfully defends his masters thesis. Congratulations Jesse!
Dr. Clyne joins the board of the Alliance for Diversity in Science and Engineering
Bilal Moiz is awarded a UMD COMBINE fellowship – congratulations Bilal!
The Vascular Kinetics Laboratory enjoys a socially distanced ice cream and swimming party
July 2020
Dr. Clyne is appointed associate chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the BIOE Department.
Angela Sun’s tutoring program to help kids during the COVID-19 pandemic is featured in UMD news.
June 2020
Dr. Clyne’s book chapter “Vascular Mechanobiology and Metabolism” was accepted for publication in the book “Mechanobiology of diabetes and its complications: from cells to systems”
Dr. Clyne receives a Teaching Innovation grant to implement a virtual Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) in Fall 2020.
Dr. Clyne receives a collaborative seed grant from the Brain Behavior Initiative to study exercise, metabolomics, and the blood brain barrier in Alzheimer’s disease with Dr. Ganesh Sriram and Dr. Carson Smith.
Sam Bohlman presented her research on statins and metabolism at the virtual FASEB conference.
May 2020
Pattie Mathieu is awarded an NIH T32 post-doctoral fellowship. Congratulations Pattie!
April 2020
Callie Weber is awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship – congratulations Callie!
March 2020
Gurneet Sangha joins the Vascular Kinetics Laboratory as a post-doc. Gurneet is also awarded the UMD Presidential Post-doctoral fellowship. Congratulations Gurneet!
The Vascular Kinetics Laboratory hosts an epic coffee hour to welcome the graduate student candidates.
The Vascular Kinetics Laboratory moves online due to COVID-19.
Ryan Sapp starts a collaborative project with the Vascular Kinetics Laboratory.
Sam presents her work, “Fluvastatin Decreases Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase O‐Glcnacylation by Decreasing Glucose Uptake” at Experimental Biology.
February 2020
Pattie Mathieu joins the Vascular Kinetics Laboratory as a post-doc.
Dr. Clyne speaks at the UMD-NCI symposium
January 2020
Callie and Bilal pass their RAE exams – congratulations!
The Vascular Kinetics Laboratory makes sushi!
December 2019
The Vascular Kinetics Laboratory almost wins the BIOE holiday video contest!
Angela Sun joins the Vascular Kinetics Laboratory as an undergraduate researcher.
Yusuf Mastoor joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher.
Sophia Zic joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher.
November 2019
Dr. Clyne speaks at Children’s National Heart Institute
Dr. Clyne presents at the AHA Scientific Sessions in Philadelphia, PA
The Vascular Kinetics Laboratory wishes Prateek well as he moves on to a position in Florida. Good luck Prateek!
October 2019
Dr. Clyne co-chairs the 2019 BMES Annual Fall Meeting in Philadelphia, PA
September 2019
Sam Bohlman presents her research at the 2019 Mid-Atlantic Diabetes and Obesity Research Symposium
Kaitlyn Albus joins the Vascular Kinetics Laboratory as an undergraduate student.
August 2019
Dr. Clyne and her family officially move to Maryland!
Dr. Clyne speaks at the UMD EPIC retreat
Dr. Clyne receives an NSF grant to study traction forces on a fibrous gelatinous material.
Callie Weber joins the Vascular Kinetics Laboratory as a graduate student!
Bilal Moiz joins the Vascular Kinetics Laboratory as a graduate student!
Dr. Clyne speaks in the Bioengineering department at Purdue University.
Swathi Swaminathan’s paper “A 3D in vitro coculture model to quantify breast epithelial cell adhesion to endothelial cells” is accepted for publication in Tissue Engineering C.
Dr. Clyne’s education paper “A course-based undergraduate research experience in biofluid mechanics” is accepted for publication in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering
July 2019
Dr. Clyne speaks at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Samantha Bohlman attends the Vasculata conference.
Dr. Clyne receives an NIH R21 grant to build an artery-on-a-chip!
June 2019
Sarah Basehore defends her PhD thesis at Drexel – congratulations Dr. Basehore!
Jonathan Garcia defends his PhD thesis at Drexel – congratulations Dr. Garcia!
Dr. Clyne serves as program chair for the 2019 SB3C conference in Seven Springs, PA.
Sarah Basehore wins third place in the SB3C student paper competition.
Dr. Clyne receives an NSF grant to study arterial stiffening in spinal cord injury.
May 2019
Dr. Clyne speaks at the Philly Motility Conference.
April 2019
Dr. Clyne speaks at the Fischell BIOE Honor Society Induction
Dr. Clyne speaks at the BIOE-Surgery collaborative symposium
March 2019
Dr. Clyne is induced as a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (picture attached)
Jesse Vo officially joins the Vascular Kinetics Laboratory as our first UMD graduate student.
January 2019
The Vascular Kinetics Laboratory officially opens at the University of Maryland!
Welcome Prateek Benhal and Samantha Bohlman, our first two UMD post-docs.
Welcome Prateek Benhal and Samantha Bohlman, our first two UMD post-docs.
Dr. Clyne speaks at the CMBE conference in San Diego, CA
Welcome Jesse Vo, our first graduate rotation student.
Welcome Sarah Robertson, our second graduate rotation student.