2023

Anand Verma joins the lab as a research specialist!
NEW PAPERS!  Check out Matthew's recent paper on Notch signaling and cell-cell adhesion.
Also check out Matthew and Tania's review on using microphysiological systems to study tissue morphogenesis!
NEW GRANT!  The Kutys Lab is awarded an NIGMS R35 grant to support our investigations into cortical Notch signaling and deeper exploration of the orchestration of tissue morphogenesis by cell-cell interfaces!
Matt, Kyle, and Lakyn present talks at posters at the Cell-Cell Contact and Adhesion Gordon Research Conference in NH!
Kyle Jacobs is awarded a California Tobacco Related Diseases Research Program Predoctoral Fellowship!
Dr. Mageshi Kamaraj joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow!
Matt contributes to a perspective on modeling emergent behaviors in cancer:
Check our recent collaborative work with the Polacheck lab and the Weaver lab:

Matt is selected to join the ReVAMP Leducq Consortia:
https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/revamp/about/kutys-group/index.html​
NEW PREPRINT! Check out our new work uncovering new roles for Notch receptor signaling in epithelial adhesion and morphogenesis!

2022

NEW GRANT!  The Kutys and Ernst Labs are awarded a UCSF Program for Breakthrough in Biomedical Research Award for our collaborative work to engineer human tuberculosis granuloma models.
Lab holiday Korean BBQ celebration!
Congrats to Kyle on his AHA Predoctoral Fellowship!
Check out Lakyn's review on:
Lab goodbye for Matthew with the Barber and Wittmann Labs. Good luck starting at Harvard BBS!
Check our collaborative work with the Jun and Gartner labs on biophysical regulation of Notch activation:
Congratulations to Lakyn and Kyle for passing their Qualifying exams!
Matt delivers seminars at the University of California Irvine and the University of Michigan.
The lab welcomes Diana Cruz (BioE), Ricardo Espinosa Lima (DSCB), and Esther Sim (BioE) for PhD rotations this year!

2021

NEW GRANT!  The Kutys and Goga Labs are awarded a grant from the Atwater Foundation to investigate emergent behaviors driven by breast cancer heterogeneity. 
Congratulations to Tania for passing her Qualifying Exam with flying colors!
Dress Like Matt Day.
Beach day with the Barber, Wittmann and Chang labs!
NEW GRANT! Matt is named a UCSF TB RAMP Scholar and awarded a grant to investigate biomimetic models of tuberculosis granuloma with the Ernst lab.
Lab happy hour!
NEW GRANT! The lab is awarded R21 award from the National Institute on Aging together with the Jun Lab to investigate Notch/APP interplay in cerebral small vessel disease.
NEW PUB! Check out our contributions to a recent Development Cell article investigating mechanics and mechanisms of mesenchymal migration in 3D fibrillar extracellular matrices. 
The lab welcomes 2021 Winter and Spring rotation students Kyle Jacobs (BMS), Haley Smith (DSCB), and Lakyn Mayo (MTSP) !

2020

Socially-distanced lab fun in the park!
Our new manuscript is published at Nature Communications! Check out our new paper dissecting 3D morphogenic behaviors and bidirectional signaling between mammary epithelium and endothelium.
The Kutys Lab inaugural members! The lab welcomes PhD students Tania Singh (BIOE) and Gretchen Ford (BIOE), and research specialist Matthew White!
Lab receives a New Frontier Award from UCSF Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research (PBBR) together with the Jun Lab! This project will pursue mechanisms underlying microvascular dysfunction in age and Alzheimer's Disease-related dementias.
The Kutys Lab opens its doors in February 2020! The lab is located in HSW-618 neighboring the stellar Wittmann and Barber labs!
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The view from HSW bulding @ UCSF Parnassus!