Author: lhesse

I have learned quite a bit throughout this fellowship, and perhaps the most important thing is to set reasonable expectations and deadlines. We’ve done so many amazing experiments and we’ve gotten some amazing data, and this is due to careful planning and consideration of the time/effort/manpower required for every individual experiment. I have been incredibly…

My research experience has been fulfilling and rewarding in terms of it being an intellectual challenge. I work essentially a full 40 hours every week, and it seems there is always something to prepare for, an experiment to set up/run, papers to read, meetings to be had, and of course, mice needing quite of bit…

My research focuses on developing tissue engineering scaffolds as non-invasive tools to surveil and modulate the immune system in pregnancy in an attempt to prevent pregnancy complications. Women with pregnancy complications are 2x more likely to have childbirth complications, which can be dangerous to mother and baby, so our work aims to shed light on…

Brief introduction about me to anyone reading this: I’m a rising senior in biomedical engineering here at U-M, and I work in Lonnie Shea’s lab (with postdoc Russell Urie) using polycaprolactone (PCL) scaffolds to monitor phenotypic changes in immune cell populations throughout the different gestational phases in pregnancy. I’m also working on developing a library…