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Dr. Yu will be giving a talk about our lab research at the UMKC School of Dentistry, 12-1 PM, Aug 27th, 2025. Rm 217A, SOD Building. He will also give a talk at the UMKC School of Pharmacy on Oct 16th, 2025.

Dana Rademacher successfully defended her dissertation. We are proud of all of her accomplishments!

The Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Lab welcomes Kevin Vo, joining our lab as a PhD student in the Mechanical Engineering PhD program. Kevin received both his M.A.S. and B.S. degrees from Illinois Institute of Technology. Before joining us, Kevin worked as a Research Assistant at the University...

We are happy to share that our most recent work, titled: " The dorsal fan-shaped body is a neurochemically heterogeneous sleep-regulating center in Drosophila," has been published in PLOS Biology. In this paper, we introduce the most dFB-specific, 23E10-based Split-GAL4 line to date, investigate the...

Our first NIH grant has arrived. Dr. Yu was awarded a three-year R15 grant from NIH-NIAMS. We will work with graduate and undergraduate students on this exciting project to develop and evaluate mineralized collagen-based multizonal scaffolds for osteochondral regeneration.

We were delighted to host Dr. Risa Brooks of Marquette University in February 2025 for a guest lecture on issues in civil-military relations as part of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences Bernardin Haskell Lecture Series. Dr. Brooks is a fellow in the Future Security program at New America...

Dr. Sutkin presented at the American College of Surgeons- Quality and Safety Control Conference in San Diego, CA. on July 16-19, 2025.

May Lab members traveled to Montréal, Québec (CA) to attend the 2025 American Society for Virology (ASV) Annual Meeting. Dana Rademacher - Oral Presentation - Plant Viruses I Alyssa Stanfield - Flash Talk / Poster Presentation - Plant Viruses I Jared May - Convener - Plant Viruses II