The Myers Lab is excited to congratulate Daniella Fodera on her successful doctoral defense! Daniella’s work focused on the biomechanical characterization of the uterus in pregnancy and gynecologic disease, and establishes fundamental knowledge on the uterus that can be utilized to develop and improve diagnostic and treatment techniques for gynecologic diseases that burden millions of women. Congratulations Dr. Fodera!
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Check out this awesome video made by Columbia Engineering highlighting the work of our incredible Ph.D. student, Serena Russell! Here, she explains her process for mechanically testing mouse tissue to better understand cervical remodeling during pregnancy!
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Last week, Professor Myers presented work on Digital Twins of Pregnancy at Dassault Systemes Virtual Human Twin Experience Symposium in Boston! This event highlighted the work of technical leaders from academia, industry, and government to share their experiences, data and vision toward the creation of virtual twins of the human body. Presentations showcased how virtual twins can break down silos in medicine, alter the cost structure, power generative scientific innovations, and ultimately improve outcomes for all patients.
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Congratulations to our rockstar Ph.D. student, Charlotte Lee, who competed in (and won!) the Iris Fund 5K this past October! Dedicated to ending the heartbreak of prematurity, the Iris fund supports research to understand preterm labor and supports families facing high-risk pregnancies and loss. Learn more about the 5k here! https://runsignup.com/Race/CT/Ridgefield/RidgefieldRoadFest
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We are so grateful to ABC and NBC news for their recent segments highlighting our work! Links to both segments can be seen below!
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Congratulations to three of our amazing undergraduate researchers who presented their posters at the Columbia Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Eden presented her work focused on computationally modeling shear wave elastography. Reema shared her work characterizing the mechanical properties of the cervix, and Daffny shared her project focused on AI based image cropping! Fantastic work, everyone!
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Recently, our digital twin framework was featured on the Columbia Engineering website! Check out the entire article here!
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Congratulations to our SURE student, Devin Bester, who received the award for best presentation at the 2025 SURE Symposium! This summer, Devin had the opportunity worked with Abby to improve our finite element model of the murine reproductive system! Some major improvements that Devin made included implementing new smoothing workflows, adding uterine and cervical canals, and troubleshooting our finite element simulation on FEBio. Congratulations, Devin!!
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This summer, Professor Myers had the opportunity to present our framework for developing digital twins of human pregnancy at the Aspen Ideas conference! The session, titled Building a Digital Doppelgänger, featured leaders in the spaces of engineering, medicine, and data analytics who are leveraging digital twins to advance surgery, predict chemotherapy responses, determine pregnancy outcomes, and help design custom-tailored prosthetics.
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The Myers Lab had great time presenting and attending the annual ASME Summer Biomechanics Conference in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico! Special congratulations to Daniella Fodera, who placed 2nd in the Reproductive Tissue Mechanics session of the PhD Student Paper Competition!
Additionally, Serena, Olivia, and Abby all had the opportunity to give podium presentations and Camilo had the opportunity to present at the future faculty poster session. Serena and Olivia presented in the Reproductive Mechanics session with Serena’s presentation highlighting her work studying the role of Relaxin in cervical remodeling and Olivia’s focused on her computational modeling of uterine mechanics in late pregnancy. Abby presented her work studying the biomechanical benefit of cervical cerclage during the Emerging Topics in Computational Biomechanics session. Camilo’s poster focused on his work developing a computational platform of shear wave elastography for cervical health assessment.
Other highlights of the conference included the Women’s Health and Engineering Panel, the group dinner with Ateshian, Vedula, and Tepole labs, and of course the BedRock concert!
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