by caitlin.sadowski@icloud.com | Jul 10, 2025 | Funded Projects
APPLICATION ABSTRACT Monitoring the well-being of mice in research labs is often overlooked, and current methods rely on subjective observations, leading to potential biases and variations between different observers. Recent advancements in machine vision and learning...
by caitlin.sadowski@icloud.com | Jul 10, 2025 | Funded Projects
BACKGROUND High-quality environmental enrichment ameliorates the quality of life of laboratory mice. Commercially validated enrichment should still be evaluated in house. Three environmental enrichments are evaluated though behavioural observation in laboratory mice....
by caitlin.sadowski@icloud.com | Jul 10, 2025 | Funded Projects
BACKGROUND At my home lab, we established several human bladder microtissue models to understand host-uropathogen interactions in patient-like scenarios, to be tested for novel urinary tract infections (UTI) therapeutics. However, they still lack the immune cell...
by caitlin.sadowski@icloud.com | Jul 10, 2025 | Funded Projects
BACKGROUND Our research group aims to implement various biological questions and models in microphysiological systems (MPS). We have established an iPSC-derived blood-brain barrier on a Mimetas chip (Burgio et al., 2023) and an in vitro kidney model on the Vitrofluid...
