February 11, 2024
The Engel lab welcomes Orya Steinberg, our new administrative assistant! She will help us navigate the Technion bureaucracy and allow our lab to sail calmly forward.
September 25, 2023
Huge thanks to the 2023 Michigan-Israel Partnership Grant Program for awarding us our third grant. We can’t wait to collaborate with the Vander Roest Cardiac Mechanobiology Lab and the UM Cryo-EM core facility on “Ultrastructural analysis of gene edited human induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes to understand mechanisms of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy”.
September 18, 2023
Leeya delivered an invited talk at the European Research Society (eMRS) Fall Meeting titled, “Micropatterning human induced pluripotent stem cell cardiomyocytes for cryo-electron tomography studies”. It was fantastic to hang out with the mechanobiology crew that was there and to see beautiful Warsaw, Poland.
September 10-12, 2023
The lab participated in the wonderful Advances in 3D Bioprinting conference, organized by Prof. Shulamit Levenberg and Dr. Dina Safina from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering. We heard many fascinating talks about cutting edge developments in 3D bioprinting, and our Shani presented a poster about her PhD research!
July 24, 2023
Today we received big news. We were awarded two major grants from the Israel Science Foundation (personal and equipment) to elucidate the cytoskeletal architecture of endothelial cell-cell junctions as a function of extracellular matrix mechanics! We are officially in business (and so relieved!)…
May 31, 2023
Leeya gave a talk at the 66th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication (EIPBN) in San Francisco, CA. She also had the honor of serving as a panelist on the Women in Nanofabrication (WIN) Early Career Panel Discussion at the annual WIN luncheon.
May 23, 2023
Leeya was honored to present her thoughts and experiences “Micropatterning cells for cryo-FIB and cryo-ET” at the Chan Zuckerberg Imaging Institute Workshop on Frontiers for CryoET: Hardware Developments in Redwood City, CA. She enjoyed three days of inspiring talks and conversation about cryo-ET! You can find recordings of the talks here.
April 19, 2023
Leeya gave a talk titled “Microsystems for Studying Mechanobiology” to potential undergrads at the Technion Open Day. Hoping that together with our co-presenter, Prof. Omri Ram, we convinced the audience that the field of mechanical engineering encompasses a wide range of interesting topics! Come one, come all.
Mar 29, 2023
Leeya had a fabulous day at Ben-Gurion University meeting the local cryo-EM crew and catching up with friends from her graduate school days at Tel Aviv University. She delivered the departmental seminar at the Department of Biology titled, “Micropatterning for Cryo-electron Tomography Studies of Cells”, and is looking forward to her next train ride down south to work with Dr. Ran Zalk at the Electron Microscopy Unit of IKI.
Mar 13, 2023
The Engel lab welcomes Anan-Benan Musa! Anan holds a B.Sc. from the faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at the Technion, and he will work on developing a microfluidic system that enables high throughput single-cell analysis of neuronal cells in collaboration with Dr. Maya Maor-Nof (joining the Faculty of Biology in 2023).
Mar 1, 2023
The Engel lab welcomes Dr. Noa Ben-Asher as our new lab manager! With her experience managing a biological lab, Noa is the perfect candidate for setting up the lab and making sure everything runs smoothly while taking part in research in the lab.
Jan 6, 2023
Leeya had the honor of giving the first talk of the year at the monthly Women in Nanofabrication (WIN) EIPBN meeting titled, “There is no single track to the tenure track: my experience from PhD and Postdoc to Assistant Prof.”.
Dec 4, 2022
Leeya was selected as a Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Faculty Fellow! This is a huge honor and will contribute toward funding our research. Check out the inspiring life of the foundation’s founders here.
Oct 1, 2022
Leeya’s first official day as a Technion faculty member! This year we will focus on writing grants, renovating the lab, and getting our research program up and running at the Technion.
Sept 22, 2022
Leeya gave a talk at MNE-es 2022 in Leuven, Belgium and attended a dinner meeting with her fellow Micro and Nano Engineering editors. First conference attended since moving to the Technion!