Headlines

• Congratulations to Danielle Duggins for receiving the prize for Best Poster at the 16th International Symposium on Biomineralization
• Congratulations to Maya Kompella for the Fletcher Award for Best Project of the Year for her undergraduate work on vacuum blotting sea urchin spicules
• Best wishes to Bisma Ajaz, who is moving on to Solid Biosciences after completing her Master's thesis
• Best wishes to Samiha Syed and Dylan McAfee who concluded an exciting summer REU
• Congratulations to Dr. Keith Alvares for his NSF-award as principal investigator

• Mike's work on ACBC has been published in CG&D!
• Linus's work on chiton teeth has been published by PNAS
• Victoria's presented on CNNs at SPIE
• Karen's paper has been published in Nature!

Nucleation pathways

Mike's paper on crystallization of calcium and barium carbonates has been published in Crystal Growth & Design.

Chiton teeth

Linus's work on amorphous iron phosphate in chiton teeth has been published in PNAS, and the story was also picked up by the NYT.

Machine learning in micro-CT

Victoria gave a talk at SPIE on her work with convolutional neural networks for segmenting micro-CT data of rodent jaws

Gradients in human tooth enamel

Karen's atom-probe tomography study of human enamel has been published in Nature.