Cole DeForest

Congrats, @nrichbourg.bsky.social ! Looking forward to watching your lab grow at FASU-FSU!

Fantastic! This is such great news. Congrats on the new position, @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social !

Four UW undergraduates named 2025 Goldwater Scholars Four University of Washington students have been named Goldwater Scholars by the Goldwater Foundation, advancing the University’s tradition of undergraduate academic excellence and...

For the 2nd year in a row, one of our lab members has been selected for the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. Huge congrats to Shivani Kottantharayil for her 2025 selection (and to Annabella Li for receiving the award last year)!

UW press release is here: www.washington.edu/uaa/2025/04/...

Rapid and Inexpensive Image‐Guided Grayscale Biomaterial Customization via LCD Printing Grayscale control over local biomaterial biochemistry and mechanics can be rapidly achieved across large constructs using an inexpensive (~$300) and commercially available liquid crystal display (LCD....

In our latest manuscript, we demonstrate that grayscale control over local #biomaterial biochemistry and mechanics can be rapidly achieved across large constructs using an inexpensive (~$300) and commercially available LCD-based printer.

Find it published in JBMR-A! doi.org/10.1002/jbm....

Happy Holidays from the DeForest Lab!

What fun to celebrate the group’s 2024 achievements, especially in the baking sector. Our annual dessert bake-off competition was a tasty success!

The Anseth lab continues to pioneer many of the best and most versatile photoresponsive biomaterials known to our community. Congrats to @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social and Ella Hushka for summarizing the group's last 15 years of exciting efforts in their new paper!

Fun story from @matthewfainor.bsky.social on how next-gen recombinant proteins are being expressed in fruit flies, and what implications that could have for our lab-grown hydrogel biomaterials!

Professors often tell graduate students that “Your PhD is a #marathon, not a sprint”.

Having now run the 2024 Seattle Marathon (many years after finishing a PhD), I now actually feel qualified to make such a statement.

@uwmedicine.bsky.social

Would love to be included here! Thanks for organizing!

HUB

Introducing the Humanity Unlocking Biomaterials (HUB) national coordinating center. Opportunity to become involved with an incredible community, $100k research grants, core resources, and much more. Come join us! See more at our new website, here: www.humanityunlockingbiomaterials.org

Thank you, on all accounts!

Spatiotemporal functional assembly of split protein pairs through a light-activated SpyLigation - Nature Chemistry Techniques to specifically modulate protein activity are needed to interrogate spatial effects in cellular processes. A genetically encoded method for site-specific protein–protein conjugation based o...

It’d be great to be added here! Light-activated SpyLigation (LASL) is a recent optogenetic tool from our team: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Great idea! We work in this space!

Great idea! Thanks for helping coordinate this transition!

Great idea! Glad to see the biomaterials community starting to come together here on Bluesky.