Assistant Professor of Physics Cody Crosby and two Southwestern undergraduate students attended the Society for Biomaterials (SFB) Biomaterials Day conference at Rice University. Biochemistry major Sabina Martinez Carreon ’27 presented a poster titled “Post-Print Reinforcement of GelMA+HAMA Scaffolds Via PEGDA Infiltration” and applied physics major Amanda Mejia ’26 presented a poster on her King Creativity chocolate printing project. Both posters were well-attended and generated significant interest among conference-goers. Amanda was awarded first prize for her poster!

Assistant Professor of Physics Cody Crosby and three Southwestern undergraduate students attended the Society for Biomaterials (SFB) Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Atlanta, GA. Biochemistry major Rishi Rajesh ’27 presented a poster titled “Post-Print Reinforcement of GelMA+HAMA Scaffolds Via PEGDA Infiltration” and applied physics major Amanda Mejia ’26 presented a poster on her King Creativity chocolate printing project. Both posters were well-attended and generated significant interest among conference-goers.

Assistant Professor of Physics Cody Crosby co-authored an open-access article, titled “Digital light processing 3D printing enables versatile fabrication of human engineered heart tissues,” that was recently published in Cell Biomaterials. Briefly, the authors demonstrated that engineered heart tissue (EHT) molds from inexpensive polymer resins could be deployed to fabricate heart tissue with enhanced cytoskeletal and metabolic maturity. The work can be accessed here.

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.