Photos & News
May 15, 2024
LIU CVM faculty at the inaugural class of 2024, commencement. Congratulations to all the new Veterinary Drs.!
April 30, 2024
I had the privilege of being among seven individuals recognized as recipients of the 2024 David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching at Long Island University, Brooklyn.
April 2024
3D view of the rabbit right talus – external morphology and internal trabecular architecture, with trabecular thickness analysis of 2 volumes of interests (VOIs). One proximal, in the lateral aspect of the trochlea, the other distal, in the talus head. Trabeculae are thicker in the head.
January 2024
3D view of the proximal rat tibia up to mid-diaphysis, showing the cortex (including cortical thickness), trabecular bone and epiphysis. (segmentation and video were created using Dragonfly, Comet Technologies Canada Inc.).
February 2024
Hot off the press - new publication
M.M. Barak, J. Schlott, L. Gundersen, G. Diaz, V. Rhee, N. Villoth, A. Ferber, S. Blair. Morphological examination of abdominal vertebral bodies from grass carp using high-resolution micro-CT scans. Journal of Anatomy (2024).
January 2024
Did you ever wonder what a fish vertebra looks like? Grass carp abdominal vertebrae 9, 10, & 11, micro-CT reconstruction (segmentation and video were created using Dragonfly, Comet Technologies Canada Inc.).
January 2024
Congratulations to Christiana Foufas (Wellington C. Mepham High School, NY), who was named a top 300 Scholar (out of more than 2000), in the 83rd Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS), for her project titled: Adapting to Pressure: The Bone Structure-Function Relationship in the Rabbit Talus, which took place during the summer of 2023 at the Bone Biomechanics lab, Long Island University, The College of Veterinary Medicine!
January 2024
3D view of a rabbit popliteal sesamoid bone. (segmentation and video were created using Dragonfly, Comet Technologies Canada Inc.).
November 2023
Hot off the press - new publication
M.M. Barak. The trabecular architecture of the popliteal sesamoid bone (cyamella) from a New Zealand white rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). Journal of Morphology. 285(1): e21660 (2023)
April 2022
A day's work in the Bone Biomechanics lab
Michael Mann, Laura Gundersen, Jeremy Pember, Chance Rother, Tara Lauther
April 2022
Presenting our work on fish vertebrae (collaboration with Dr. Blair from Winthrop University) at the Experimental Biology (EB) conference, Philadelphia PA.
March 2022
Our 3D printers are fired up and ready to go!
First trail run of trabecular bone replicas (25 micrometer resolution).
October 8 2021
Congratulations to all the students of class 2024 that have received the Dean’s list award. Congratulations also to all our founding faculty!
August 5 2021
The Art of Biomineralization, a book celebrating the works of Professor Steve Weiner and Professor Lia Addadi (The Weizmann Institute if Science, Rehovot, Israel) and their current/past students, portrays the work of Dr. Meir Barak on trabecular bone structure/function
July 2 2021
Summer research at the Bone Biomechanics Lab
April 30 2021
Collaborative work on Grass carp vertebral bone structure (Dr. Sal Blair, Winthrop University) is highlighted in a promotional brochure from NYIT visualization Center (https://comapp.nyit.edu/viscenter/), where the bones were scanned.
October 5 2020
A cat’s life is a tale written by its paws
Read Dr. Barak's short article about the true meaning of cat declawing in the October 2020 newsletter of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Long Island University
September 15 2020
Quick doodles by first Year veterinary student at LIU CVM
Anthony Dimascio (class of 2024)
August 21 2020
Congratulations to the inaugural class of 2024, LIU College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM), starting their first semester this Monday, August 24, 2020
April 28 2020
Hero shrews Unique Skeleton
An interesting new paper by Smith and Angielczyk, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, looks at the uniquely modified vertebral column of the hero shrew. Read Dr. Barak’s comments and interpretation in a National Geographic popular news article by natural history writer Jason Bittel.
December 18 2019
College of Veterinary faculty, staff and graduate students celebrating the Holidays
October 30 2019
Dr. Meir Barak took part in the panel discussion at the "Exploring the Tech Workforce STEM Night" at the NY Hall of Science
April 12, 2019
Northeast Regional Vertebrate Evolution Symposium (NERVES) @ NYIT, NY. Giving a talk about 3D printing use in biomedical research
April 04, 2018
March, 2018
Nick Tucker working on his research project (BIOL471) - "The tensile stiffness and strength of trabecular bone structure along it 3 principle orientations: A 3D printed model", Winthrop University
September, 2017
Naima Jackson presenting her research at the SURE poster session, Winthrop University
September 13, 2017
August, 2016
Jack Nguyen presenting his research at the SURE symposium, Columbia SC.
May, 2016
Ben Harrison segmenting his trabecular structure in the lab using Amira(c).
