Research in the Perry laboratory utilizes self-assembly, molecular design, and microfluidic technologies to generate biomimetic microenvironments to study and enable the implementation of biomolecules to address real-world challenges. Individually, microfluidics represents an enabling technology for high throughput analyses such as the time-resolved structural analysis of enzyme dynamics or the continuous manufacture of RNA. At the same time, control over molecular interactions in self-assembling polyelectrolyte systems can be used to examine the interplay between biomolecules and the environment. Together, these capabilities can be coupled to generate artificial organelles for use in applications ranging from biochemistry to bioenergetics, biocatalysis, and biomedicine. Furthermore, this work has tremendous pedagogical potential to inspire students to work at the intersection of chemistry, biology, and engineering.
Prof. Perry will be giving a seminar on Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Colorado School of Mines.
Best wishes to Dr. Isaac Ramírez Marrero as he ends his time with us in the Perry lab and starts his new journey as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working with Prof. Antonia Statt and Prof. Simon Rogers!
Check out this video put together by the NextFlex Women in STEM Education program!
Congratulations to Dr. Sarthak Saha and Yaozu Chen on the publication of their new paper!
"Scalable Fabrication of Array-Type Fixed-Target Device for Automated Room Temperature X-ray Protein Crystallography," S. Saha, Y. Chen, S. Russi, D. Marchany-Rivera, A.E. Cohen, S.L. Perry, Scientific Reports, (2025), 15, 334. [PDF]
Best wishes to Dr. Sarthak Saha as he ends his time here in the Perry lab and starts his new journey as a postdoctoral researcher the lab of Dr. Avanish Mishra at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital!
Congratulations to Dr. Pankaj Pandey, Arvind Sathyavageeswaran, and Nick Holmlund on the publication of their new paper!
"Polyelectrolyte-Carbon Dot Complex Coacervation," P.K. Pandey, A. Sathyavageeswaran, N. Holmlund, S.L. Perry, ACS Macro Letters, (2025), 14(1), 43-50. [PDF]
Congratulations to Dr. Isaac Ramírez Marrero for successfully defending his PhD dissertation on Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials: Design Rules and Applications!!! Dr. Ramírez Marrero is the eighth PhD student to graduate from the Perry lab!
Welcome to Vaishnavi Mahankal, a first year PhD student who will be us joining to work on microfluidics for time-resolved crystallography!
Welcome to Jina Lee, a junior in Engineering Sciences at Smith College who will be joining us in the lab over winter break!
Congratulations to Prof. Whitney Blocher McTigue, who was awarded the Lehigh Early Career Teaching Award for her outstanding impact and dedication to student success!
Check out this UMass Engineering News Story about Yaozu Chen's award for best poster at the 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting!
Best wishes to Dr. Sonu Kizhakkepura as he ends his time at UMass and moves on to a bright future!
Congratulations to Dr. Sonu Kizhakkepura on winning 1st Place in the poster competition at the 12th International mRNA Health Conference!
Congratulations to Diwakaran Rathinam Palaniswamy on winning 1st Place in the poster competition at the 12th International mRNA Health Conference!
Baktha gave both a talk and a poster on Polymer-based Microfluidic Chips for Time-resolved Serial Crystallography at the 18th International Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules (ICCBM).
Prof. Perry presented a keynote lecture on Microfluidics for Structural Biology at the 18th International Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules (ICCBM).
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