New members
A Warm Welcome to Our New Lab Members! 🎉🧪
We’re so excited to welcome Minji Choi and Ayda Pourmostafa, our two new postdoctoral researchers, and Varun Shah, our newest PhD student, to the Abacı Lab!
We’re thrilled to have you all on board and can’t wait to do some exciting science together!
Publication
New Publication Alert!
Our lab’s latest research has been published in Lab on a Chip:
Alberto Pappalardo, Deniz Ornek, Laura Cerda Garriga, Charlotte Yi-Len Lee, Kristin Myers, and H. Erbil Abaci*
“A mechano-mimetic 3D skin model of fibrosis”
Lab on a Chip (2026), DOI: 10.1039/D5LC00560D
In this work, we present a 3D engineered skin platform that reproduces key mechanical features of fibrosis, enabling controlled study of stromal remodeling and disease progression.
Congratulations to the team!
Conference
Alberto and Laura presented at TERMIS 2025
Big shout-out to Laura and Alberto, who took Abacı Lab science on the road to TERMIS 2025!
Alberto presented “A mechano mimetic 3D skin model of fibrosis.”
Laura shared her work “PSC-derived organoid-sourced skin cells enable functional 3D skin modelling of recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.”
We are proud of both of you for representing the lab, bringing great science, great energy, and great conversations to the meeting! 💙🧫🧪
Conference
Deniz presented at CSHL conference in 2025
Big congratulations to Deniz, who presented her poster “Mechanomimetic Skin-on-a-Chip with Continuous Geometry Models Fibrosis” at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting in 2025!
We are thrilled to see her out there sharing the lab’s science and representing us so well!✨⭐️🧫🧪