COMPUTATIONAL ACTIVE MATTER MECHANICS @SDSU
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Also known as the Katira Research Group

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We strive to understand the self-replicating, self-adapting biological  world using principles of classical and statistical mechanics. To learn more, click below . . .  
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12/2017 Zibah successfully defends her thesis: "The Role of Mechanical Variance and Spatial Clustering on the Likelihood of Tumor Incidence and Growth"

​11/2017 Undergraduate student Savannah ver Teer joins the lab!

10/2017 Dr. Katira gives an oral presentation at the BMES annual meeting held in Phoenix, Arizona


10/2017 Dr. Katira receives a three year grant from the Army Research Office Division of Mathematical Sciences 
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​5/2017 Ben successfully defends his thesis:

5/2/2017 Carly successfully defends her thesis: "The Role of Myosin Head State and Binding Site Availability in Calcium-Dependent Regulation of a Muscle Mimetic System" 


3/4/2017 Kasia wins first place in the Women in Engineering Research Excellence Award category for her poster presentation on "Cell mechanics: how mechanical properties affect malignant transformation and homeostatic pressure in cells"

3/3/2017 SDSU Student Research Symposium- Kasia, Bri and Zibah presented posters on their research and Ben delivered a presentation

12/2016 Jeffrey successfully defends his thesis: "
Polymer Layer Structure and Protein Rearrangements Impact: Protein Adsorption on Polymer Coated Surfaces"

10/2016 Ben presents a poster on his research at the BMES Annual Meeting held in Minneapolis

9/2016 Graduate student Tyler Collins joins the lab!

7/2016 The lab adds a new graduate student- Jeremiah Kanagaraj

06/06/2016 Website Launched!!! Houston, We are online.

01/2015 The lab gets its first undergraduate students - Brianna Manns and Peter Dahl

10/2015 Parag gets the GREW Fellowship from the SDSU Research Foundation

10/2015 Parag gets funding from the University Grants Program for developing Cell Migration Models to predict long term cell migration behavior in 3D environments

09/2015 The lab gets its first graduate students - Benjamin Yeoman, Carly Farris and Jeffrey Canlobo

08/21/2015 Dr. Parag Katira Joins SDSU BioEngineering/Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant professor 
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