Assistant Professor of Physics Cody Crosby co-authored “Dynamic Regulation of Granular Hydrogels Through Guest-Host Interactions to Spatiotemporally Guide Cellular Migration” in the journal Advanced Science (IF = 14.1), along with several postdoctoral scholars and graduate students in the Burdick Lab at the University of Colorado–Boulder. The manuscript represents work undertaken during his pre-tenure sabbatical and demonstrates that printing granular hydrogels in particulate suspension paths can create a dynamic environment that can regulate cell migration. The work can be found, open access, at this link.

Assistant Professor of Physics Cody Crosby and three of his SURF research students — Sabina Martinez Carreon ’27, Bryan Guzman-Sanchez ’26, and Rishi Rajesh ’27 — attended the 2025 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, held October 8-11 in San Diego. Dr. Crosby moderated two sessions at the international conference, a bioprinting session and a rapid-fire talk session for undergraduates in biomaterials. Sabina presented the group’s poster, titled “Post-Print Reinforcement of GelMA/HAMA Scaffolds via PEGDA Infiltration,” at the main conference and at the separate LatinX in BME Symposium. Both posters were well-attended by other conference-goers and generated some insightful and helpful discussions. Amanda Mejia ’27 and Gabriela Nicole Hislop Gomez ’26 also attended and participated in the conference.

Associate Professor of Computer Science Jacob Schrum recently attended the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference in Málaga, Spain to present his peer-reviewed paper, “A Quality Diversity Approach to Evolving Model Rockets,” co-authored with Assistant Professor of Physics Cody Crosby. The article, freely accessible here from the ACM Digital library, describes the use of AI methods inspired by evolution to create designs for model rockets. An informative video about this joint research is also available here.

Assistant Professor of Physics Cody Crosby first authored “Fabrication of Microgel-Reinforced Hydrogels via Vat Photopolymerization” in the journal ACS Macro Letters with Abhishek Dhand and the Burdick Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder. The manuscript is the culmination of his pre-tenure sabbatical and demonstrates for the first time that micron-sized hydrogels can be incorporated at high densities in complex resin-printed geometries. The work can be found here.

Assistant Professor of Physics Cody Crosby presented his sabbatical research, titled “Digital light processing 3D printing of microgel-reinforced hydrogels,” via a 15-minute platform presentation at the 2025 Society for Biomaterials (SFB) Annual Meeting held in Chicago on April 10. The first-author work is currently under review.