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James Roberts joins NIST as NSF-NIST Scholar-in-Residence
CIDAR Lab has been awarded an NSF award. James Roberts, a PhD student in the CIDAR Lab at Boston University, has been selected as an NSF-NIST Scholar-in-Residence for their project, Developing a Standardized AI-ready Pipeline for Organizing, Representing, and Training on Massive Datasets of Integrated Genetic Circuits. Through this award, James will spend a full‑time research residency at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he will collaborate wit
CIDAR
Jun 24


Improving engineered biological systems with electronics and microfluidics
Check out the new paper along with website! Paper: https://rdcu.be/etI3p Website: https://www.programmingbiology.org/csbs
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Jul 9, 2025


2025 IEEE CASS Biomedical Circuits and Systems Best Paper Award
A paper from the CIDAR Lab titled "Integrated Real-Time CMOS Luminescence Sensing and Impedance Spectroscopy in Droplet Microfluidics"...
CIDAR
May 22, 2025


Aya Graduates Magna Cum Laude from Boston University
CIDAR Lab congratulates alumna Aya Kassem for graduating Magna Cum Laude from Boston University with a B.S. in Computer Engineering. As...
CIDAR
Jun 20, 2024


Diverse high school students get hands-on, real-world lab experience at BU through STEM Pathways.
This summer research experience is the latest addition to STEM Pathways, an outreach program whose mission is to broaden the pipeline...
CIDAR
Jan 22, 2024


Taking in the Trash.
With food scraps and other organic ingredients, a BU bioreactor project models sustainable manufacturing
CIDAR
Aug 3, 2023


DropMAM makes splash at IGEM 2022
The DropMAM (Droplet Microfluidics Automation Machine) is a novel, modular piece of technology with electronic integration throughout. It...
CIDAR
Feb 24, 2023


Diana Wins Best Student Talk at IWBDA 2022.
Diana presented on "Efficient Droplet Microfluidic Characterization for Design Automation" at the International Workshop on Bio-Design...
CIDAR
Oct 25, 2022


Sam and Doug shared vision for Co-designing Biotech using Synthetic Biology and Automation tools
As biological challenges get more complicated, they presented a case study where synthetic microbial communities and multi-layer...
CIDAR
Sep 5, 2022


David publishes a review article in Lab on a Chip
Working with CIDAR Lab alum Ali Lashkaripour from the Fordyce lab at Stanford University, David co-authored a review paper surveying the...
CIDAR
Aug 17, 2022
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