As we step into the first day of 2026, I’ve been reflecting on 2025 — and our MicroTeLab retreat at Prison Island feels like the perfect snapshot of the year just gone. Teamwork, problem-solving, a bit of chaos, and plenty of laughs.

Beyond the grants and papers, 2025 was really about people and growth. We celebrated some huge milestones:
🎓 Laura & Lucy completing their PhDs
🎓 Jess finishing her Masters
🎓 Jordyn graduating with First Class Honours

These achievements are a reminder that behind every success is persistence, resilience, and an incredible team. As the lab navigates a period of change, I’m excited about what 2026 will bring.
Here’s to another year of learning, growth, and doing great science together.

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Amazing presentations from Lucy Young, Nanthini Jayabalan, Jessica Marsh and Yi-Chin Toh at MicroTAS 2025!

The quality of your work truly shone through. It was wonderful to see that you had so much engagement from professors and students, and colleagues who came up to me and say how much they liked your work.

See related LinkedIn posts here and Lucy’s success winning Best Oral Presentation here.

It was a privilege to take part in the Bellbery Breakfast Workshop and Panel Discussion on New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) for First-in-Human Clinical Trials, held last Friday at AusBiotech 2025.

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The LM-Well is an open microfluidic well-insert device capable of generating multiple microenvironmental niches within a single well of a 24-well plate. We demonstrate that the LM-Well can be utilized to pattern oxygen-scavenging capsules to modulate tumor growth and zonation of hepatic activities in a single platform, and can incorporate microarchitectural supports to optimally support mechanically-sensitive muscle cells.

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This paper marks the culmination of years of work combining the power of 3D printing with vascular biology to explore how flow influences cell behavior in anatomically realistic models. Couldn’t have done it without my amazing team Jorge Amaya Catano and Zhiyong Li!

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