News & Updates

We enjoyed traveling to Minneapolis to attend the 2026 International Rett Syndrome Foundation Scientific Meeting. Grace delivered a well received flash talk and poster at IRSF! She got great feedback from a number of luminaries in the field!

This was a very fruitful Spring semester for the Bajikar lab! Our trainees have been busy making significant progress and discoveries, while being rewarded for their efforts as well! Congratulations to Denise Pahang for graduating with a Master's of Science in Biomedical Engineering! Her thesis work demonstrates the potential focused ultrasound to enable therapies for Rett syndrome, which she presented at the UVa Brain Institute Symposium. Congratulations to Beh Dahl for pass

Thank you to the International Rett Syndrome Foundation for putting together this article to highlight the work we are doing. We are extremely grateful for the support IRSF provides! https://www.rettsyndrome.org/spotlight-sameer-bajikar/

Congrulations, Ben, for publishing a manuscript in eLife. This manuscript describes how LLMs perform in generating cell signaling networks; this work was done in collaboration with Jeevan Tewari and the Saucerman lab! https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/109709

Our lab won an award for the "Best Narrative" in the Cell Biology Department Pumpkin Contest! Thank you to the Hirschi lab for organizing.

We enjoyed traveling to San Diego to attend this years BMES Annual Meeting. Ben was very busy presenting his work on modeling dosage sensitivity in kinase networks!

We thoroughly enjoyed hosting Dr. Huda Zoghbi for the Fall 2025 Anderson Lecture!

We welcome Grace Hardy to the lab as an incoming Biomedical Engineering graduate student! Grace comes to us from NC State University...

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We welcome Ben Dahl to the lab as an incoming Biomedical Engineering graduate student! Ben comes to us from Purdue University after...