Michelle was recently in Manchester, on a visit hosted by Brian Derby of the University of Manchester’s School of Materials. The visit round up is posted online on their group’s website: http://brianderby.co.uk/

Undergraduate researcher (and medic-in-training) Wesley Chua has had a journal paper accepted based on a summer research (UROP) project in our group in 2007. (At the time it was still to become a group, Wesley was the first researcher working in the OyenLab since it’s establishment at Cambridge!) Wesley’s review, “Do we know the strength of the chorioamnion? A critical review and analysis” will be published in a special supplement of the European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology in 2009. Wesley can be spotted in the photos here during his second stint as a UROP.

The internet is abuzz with news of the first space-walking stuffed bears; here in the OyenLab we are so pleased to note that group member Dan Strange (back row, second from the right in the group holiday photo) was part of the teddies in space team. More details here and here.

We had our Dec. 2008 holiday party today, and here is the full group photo:

OyenLab PhD student Oliver Hudson was part of a team that recently won a £100 prize from the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs competition. They were required to write 100 words describing an innovative technology and its business potential. The group now has an opportunity to submit up to 1500 words for a prize of £1000. Congratulations to Oliver!

Michelle’s recent article, “Collagen Mechanics: Learning from Nature” can now be found online here. This was published in Cambridge University’s Research Horizons magazine.

We had a great group of summer undergraduate researchers in 2008; here are a few images in the new Cambridge Bioengineering lab, of Kirsty, Tarun and Wesley plus all of us. Thanks for a great summer!

http://oyenlab.org/ now redirects to http://oyenlab.wordpress.com/

Content will continue to be added to these pages in coming days and weeks.

I am transitioning my research website to this address to take advantage of the ease of updating associated with wordpress. This is an effort to keep the site current since it is less burdensome than editing and re-uploading the html directly. Watch this space!