TUBERS 2019The Oudin lab hosted the 2019 TUBERS class of local high schoolers spending 6 weeks in the BME department at Tufts. We taught them about cancer biology, how to do cell culture, adhesion assays and immunostaining. We also discussed how engineering is helping to improve our current diagnostic strategies.
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Cambridge science festival 2019The Oudin Lab participated in the Cambridge Science Festival this weekend! With other members of the BME department from the Black and Kaplan labs, we developed an activity for kids to build organs out of different materials, including cells, silk scaffolds and extracellular matrix! It was a busy day with lots of visitors!
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AAUW MinneapolisMadeleine was in Minneapolis giving a talk at the local AAUW chapter, where her Aunt Julie is a member. The AAUW is a political organization with the goal of advancing equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research. It was so great to have her family present to hear her talk about her research and have such an engaged crowd of women, many of which were cancer patients themselves.
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Cambridge Science festival 2017The Koch Institute featured a mini-golf course this year for the Cambridge Science Festival with the goal of putt-ing cancer in its place. The course featured 9 holes on various aspects of KI research including two on metastasis. The one on the left featured local invasion through the extracellular matrix to the blood vessel (by the Hynes lab) and the one on the right represented dissemination throughout the vasculature and eventual colonization of secondary organs. We had a great time!
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GIRL SCOUT STEM CONFERENCEJaime Cheah, Becca Silberman and Madeleine organized workshops for middle and high school Girl Scouts of Massachusetts to teach them about cancer research. In particular we focused on what cancer is, what it looks like and how we work on trying to treat it. This was particularly special day for Madeleine, who was Girl Scout for over 10 years!
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