December 2024: Amir gave an invited presentation titled "Altered Distribution of Vimentin Intermediate Filaments in Glaucomatous Schlemm's Canal Endothelial Cells" at the Trabecular Meshwork Meeting in San Diego.

November2024: Amir gave an invited online talk, "The Central Role of Nuclear Lamins in Cell Mechanics and Mechanotransduction," hosted by the Nuclear Envelope Seminar Series at NIH.

September 2024: Amir gave an invited online talk titled "Integrative Mechanobiology as Future Landscape for Understanding Outflow Tissue Biomechanics," hosted by the Trabecular Meshwork Seminar Series

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May 2024: Amir gave a talk on our work on soft bioelectronic interfaces for creating an organoid-based human neuromuscular system-on-a-chip at the IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems in Kyoto.

April 2024: Amir gave a presentation on our work on electronics-integrated human neuromuscular systems at Professor Takao Someya's group at the University of Tokyo — thank you to Dr. Kento Yamagishi for the kind invitation and to the Someya group for the inspiring conversations!

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March 2024: Our collaborative proposal with the Herberg Group at SUNY Upstate Medical University has been selected for a National Glaucoma Research Award from the BrightFocus Foundation! 

January 2024: Amir gave a presentation at Northeastern’s Biomedical Engineering Society (NU-BMES) to introduce our lab research and potential opportunities to the NU undergraduate BioE community.