Winnie successfully defended her thesis today! Winnie is assisting the lab complete a few projects during the fall and will start a new job in January. The entire Bailey lab wishes her the best in all her future endeavors!
2nd Annual Bailey Lab Canoe Trip
The Bailey Lab ventured over to Kickapoo State Recreation Area to canoe down the Kickapoo river. Ryan, as usual, led the group in his bright yellow kayak. The weather provided a bit of excitement with the threat of thunderstorms, but for the second year in a row, everyone made it back. We all look forward to next year's trip down the river!
Alex Presents at DTRA Conference
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency hosted the 2015 Chemical and Biological Defense Science and Technology Conference in St. Louis, MO. Alex presented collaborative work with Paul Braun's group in Materials Science and Engineering, investigating active surface transport and detection of chemical warfare agents.
Congrats to Dr. Jess Banks on her final defense!
Jess successfully defended her thesis today! Her thesis is titled: Biomolecularly and Mechanically Instructive Materials for Guiding Cell-Substrate Interactions. Jess is headed off to Boston this summer to apply her skills pharmaceutical industry. The entire Bailey lab wishes her the best in all her future endeavors!
Congrats to Dr. Rory Alsop on her final defense!
Aurora (Rory) Alsop has successfully defended her these entitled: The Heterogeneous Biochemical Modification of Porous Collagen Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Applications. We wish her the best of luck as she heads to Seattle this summer!
Pittcon 2015
French Quarter, New Orleans, Wikimedia
Congratulations to Prof. Bailey for receiving the Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award at the 2015 Pittcon Conference & Expo. He and the rest of the lab had a productive trip down to New Orleans. In recognition of the award, conference staff interviewed Prof. Bailey for Pittcon Today, a daily publication recognizing important events throughout the conference. Here is a link to the interview. Prof. Bailey let's us know what he was like as a kid, what he likes to do in his spare time, and the next scientific breakthrough he'd like to see.
We also found out what he would have done if he had not become a professor:
I think I’d want to be a gardener or an organic vegetable farmer. I like to spend time outside… and I find it’s very therapeutic to work with my hands in the soil, and then reap the rewards! I have a little backyard garden for my family.
A few pictures from the trip:
1st Bailey Lab Canoe Trip
No one drowned in the 1st (annual!) Bailey Lab Canoe Trip!
Biomaterials Publications
Congratulations to Rory and Jess on their recent publications!