News and events
May 2024
Alex was recognized for his achievement in biology honors and presented his Honors Thesis at his Departmental Symposium!
Andi was accepted into the Engineering Leadership Certification Program.
feb 2024
The entire lab attended ORS Annual Meeting in Long Beach California! Highlights included Sam and Andi’s Poster and Melia’s Podium talk! Sam and Macy also walked away from some fabulous prizes for participating in the industry
Jan 2024
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Macy Mora-Antoinette passed her thesis defense last week!
Nov 2023
Our lab was featured in the Cornell Chronicle! Check out “Lewis Lab investigates intriguing role of osteocytes in bone health“
Oct 2023
Congratulations to Macy Mora-Antionette on her BioRxiv pre-print Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors on Osteocytes Impact Bone Mechanoadaptation in a Sexually Dimorphic Manner !!
AUG 2023
Congratulations to Melia Matthews for her publication in Bone on Intravital Imaging in Osteocytes using C-dots! We are so proud
JULY 2023
Melia Matthews Passed her A-Exam!!
Congratulations to Samantha Bratcher and Melia Matthews for both being awarded the Alice L. Jee Young Invest Award for 50th International Musculoskeletal Biology Workshop! Way to go
JUNE 2023
Samantha Bratcher Passed her A-EXAM!!!
Congratulations to Andi Garcia-Ortiz for receiving a fellowship as part of the HSS-Cornell Biomechanics program through the Center for Advanced Materials and Engineering in Orthopedics (CAMEO)!
MAY 2023
Andi Garcia-Ortiz is off to Immersion in NYC! Follow her journey here
APRIL 2023
Congrats to undergraduate Mariam Obaji on her presentation at the CURBx 11th Semi-annual Research Conference on nerves in bone!
Congratulations to Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. candidate Macy Castaneda on her induction into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society! Great job on her presentation at the induction ceremony at the 19th Annual Yale Bouchet Conference on Diversity and Graduate Education
NSF GRFP 2023 Cornell BME Winners!
Congrats to our Andi Garcia-Ortiz
March 2023
We so proud and excited for Andi Garcia-Ortiz on being awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! This will provide her with three years of graduate funding. Congratulations Andi!
February 2023
Congratulations to Melia on her preprint publication entitled “Intravital imaging of osteocyte αvβ3 integrin dynamics with locally injectable fluorescent nanoparticles”
We are so proud of Melia Matthews for her presentation at the 2023 ORS Conference in Dallas, Texas entitled "Intravital Imaging of Osteocytes AvB3 Integrin Dynamics with Locally Injectable Fluorescent Nanoparticles"
August 2022
We are excited to have a new member join our group! Welcome Andi Garcia-Ortiz (PhD student)
November 2022
Congratulations to Andi for her recognition as a Dean’s Scholar! Read more here
MAY 2022
Congratulations to Prof Lewis for his musculoskeletal workshop for the !Orthopaedic Research Society
Congratulations to Prof Lewis for his podcast on the Academic Minute!
Congratulations to Emily McGrath for graduating with her Bachelors in Nutrition and will be attending University of California, Berkeley in the Fall 2022 as a PhD student!
We are excited to have TWO new members join our group. Welcome to the Lewis Lab!
Melia Matthews (PhD student)
Karly Hooper (Lab Manager)
April 2022
Congratulations to Samantha Bratcher on her NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention!
FEBRUARY 2022
Congratulations to Macy Castaneda on her podium talk at the Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting 2022 as well as her selection for the 2022 Kappa Delta/AAOS Travel Award!
October 2021
Congratulations to Macy Castaneda on her Young Investigator Award at the 10th Annual Musculoskeletal Repair and Regeneration Symposium!
August 2021
BME Immersion Symposium 2021!
Check out Samantha Bratcher presenting the work she performed during her clinical immersion this summer in NYC
Congratulations to our visiting student Adeaze Radway on her research presentation for the MARC program!
BMES Symposium 2021!
Macy Castaneda presenting her poster on fluorescence microscopy in bone
June 2021
Congratulations to Macy Castaneda for winning the Mong Fellowship and for our new collaboration with the Schaffer-Nishimura lab!
Samantha Bratcher is off to Immersion in NYC! Follow her journey here
Our recent paper titled "Estrogen depletion on In vivo osteocyte calcium signaling responses to mechanical loading" was published in Bone
May 2021
Congratulations to Chirac Ndetan graduating with MEng in Biomedical Engineering!
Congratulations to Yanda Cheng for graduating with MEng in Biomedical Engineering!
january 2021
Congratulations to Samantha for being elected Treasurer in BMES! Read about them here
September 2020
Congratulations to Macy Castaneda on her presentation at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Virtual Conference!
August 2020
We are excited to have THREE new graduate students join our group. Welcome to the Lewis Lab!
Samantha Bratcher (PhD student)
Chirac Ndetan (MEng student)
Yanda Cheng (MEng student)
July 2020
Congratulations to Macy Castaneda for winning a Ford Fellowship! Press release
Meet Macy and read about her Student Spotlight
Our recent paper titled “The mTORC2 Component Rictor Is Required for Load-Induced Bone Formation in Late-Stage Skeletal Cells” was published in JBMR Plus
June 2020
Karl Lewis joins the BME faculty! Check out his story on the Cornell Daily Sun “Bringing Mechanical Engineering to Biology” and the BME Faculty Spotlight