Sebastián L. Vega

UG @cmu_bme | PhD @BMERutgers | Postdoc @pennbioeng | Currently Assoc Prof @RowanBME & in Ortho @coopermedschool

[Sebastián L. Vega @TheVegaLab]

New paper alert in @ACSSynBio! Here, we designed receptors that sense peptides in 3D gels and showed that cellular activation only occurs in peptide-patterned (red) regions, as seen by their glow from the fusion of two GFP halves. https://t.co/zUzEBQSVbl @RowanUniversity

[Sebastián L. Vega @TheVegaLab]

Happy Halloween 🎃 from our @RowanUniversity Chemical Foundations class!

[Sebastián L. Vega @TheVegaLab]

Vega Lab in full force #BMES2024!

[Sebastián L. Vega @TheVegaLab]

@BurdickLab @BrianAguado @BioFrontiers @CUEngineering @pennbioeng Congratulations, Jason! You’re an incredible mentor and this recognition is well deserved!

[Sebastián L. Vega @TheVegaLab]

Excited to attend & connect with everyone at the @BMESociety #BMES2024 conference in Baltimore, MD this week!

Come check out talks from Vega Lab grad students and posters from our undergraduate & high school summer researchers! @RowanUniversity @coopermedschool

[Sebastián L. Vega @TheVegaLab]

@BellasFATLab @NSF @ISS_CASIS Congratulations!!

[Sebastián L. Vega @TheVegaLab]

Congrats to our 21 high school RISER Scholars on superb presentations summarizing their summer research projects! As RISER Director, I'm proud to see this program's growth, and am super excited that our lab’s 3 Scholars plan to attend the @BMES HS Poster Expo in Baltimore!

[Sebastián L. Vega @TheVegaLab]

Our 2024 RISER Program is in full swing! At our Meet & Greet we welcomed 22 high school students that will spend the next 5 weeks in @RowanUniversity BME @ Biomed. Sci. labs - looking forward to seeing what they accomplish this summer! @RowanBME @coopermedschool @RowanVirtuaSOM

[Sebastián L. Vega @TheVegaLab]

First of many studies with @jaymilanpatel on learning more on how cells sense & respond to heterogeneous mechanics within 3D materials - great work @AdiPucha6!

[Jay Patel @jaymilanpatel]

Congrats to undergraduate student Adi Pucha, for his recent manuscript in @TissueEngin, in collaboration with @TheVegaLab @Prof_JRobinson! Link below👇

[Sebastián L. Vega @TheVegaLab]

Today 3 lab members earned their @RowanCSM degrees! Tulika & Mackenzie (B.S. in Biol. Sci.) will take a gap year to gain clinical experience for med school & Aryanna (B.S. in Trans. Biomed. Sci.) will join @templemedschool as an incoming Ph.D. student! @RowanUniversity #proudPI

[Sebastián L. Vega @TheVegaLab]

Congratulations to all @RowanBME graduates & special cheers to BME graduates from our lab! Daniel Ball (M.S. in BME) is wrapping up a 1st-author paper on his thesis work, and James, Arielle & Abbey (B.S. in BME) will be starting Ph.D. programs this Fall! @RowanUniversity #proudPI

[Sebastián L. Vega @TheVegaLab]

Today, my Biological Transport students presented on how they used biotransport to develop theoretical products, including injectable gels for treating lower back pain (NuWave) and living vascular grafts to replace diseased blood vessels (HeartMate)! @RowanUniversity @RowanBME

[Sebastián L. Vega @TheVegaLab]

Group photo during our end-of-semester lab meeting! We ate delicious pizza, watched our graduating students (6 undergrads, 1 Masters) present on their exciting research & welcomed Sarah & Shishir to the lab! #proudPI @RowanUniversity @RowanBME

[Sebastián L. Vega @TheVegaLab]

Congrats to Danny on a successful Masters defense! His research focused on developing injectable radiation dosimeter hydrogels that have the potential of being administered non-invasively to measure dose in real-time during radiation therapy. @RowanUniversity @coopermedschool

[Sebastián L. Vega @TheVegaLab]

Super grateful for this @CMU_ChemE Alumn article! Here I talk about our @NSF funded work on developing materials that preserve the identity of stem cells outside of the body, and our programs that inspire high school students to pursue careers in STEM. @cmu_bme @RowanUniversity

[Carnegie Mellon Chemical Engineering @CMU_ChemE]

ChemE and @cmu_bme alum Sebastián Vega (@TheVegaLab ) started two programs to introduce high school students to engineering and research. Read more about how his own research was inspired by a class with Bob Tilton: https://t.co/NsRovMfVKz

[Sebastián L. Vega @TheVegaLab]

Check out our latest publication! Here we blend PCL with PEG-Nor to create stiff PCL-Nor films & nanofibers amenable to thiol-peptide (e.g., thiol-RGD) tethering with spatial and temporal control. @RowanUniversity @RowanBME
https://t.co/H47HSNty2J

[Sebastián L. Vega @TheVegaLab]

If you're at #NEBEC2024 come check out Arielle's poster this afternoon summarizing our findings published in @Gels_MDPI! @RowanUniversity @RowanBME @FollowStevens
https://t.co/GYvLVf1tkj

[Sebastián L. Vega @TheVegaLab]

If you can't make it in person, here is the Zoom link!
https://t.co/Eo2at70JpJ

[Temple Bioengineering @templebioe]

Don’t miss this @templebioe talk today by Dr. Sebastian Vega @TheVegaLab !! 👇👇

[Sebastián L. Vega @TheVegaLab]

Thanks for sharing our paper @HannahZlotnick!

[Hannah Zlotnick @HannahZlotnick]

Osteoporosis is the most common chronic metabolic bone disease.

@TheVegaLab recently developed BMP-2 peptide-functionalized hydrogels carrying MSCs to induce targeted bone formation, reducing the risk of osteoporotic fracture.

#ORSSMC @JOrthopRes Link: https://t.co/tgMelZpC6s

[Temple Bioengineering @templebioe]

Join us this Friday, March 15th, at 12noon EST in ENGR 126 for this week's @templebioe seminar. We are excited to hear Dr. Sebastian Vega @TheVegaLab from @RowanBME talk about "Design of Extracellular Peptide-Ligand Dimerization Actuator Receptors for Programming Cell Behavior."