Prof. Perry was highlighted for her recent grant from the ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Grant in support of research related to Designing the Liquid-to-Solid Transition in Polyelectrolyte Complexes!
Congratulations to Whitney Blocher and Zoey Meng on having been named to the second cohort of trainees for the new Soft Materials for Life Sciences NSF Research Traineeship Program (NRT)!
Congratulations to Kush Basu and Brandon Johnston on having been awarded Research Assistant Fellowships from the Commonwealth Honors College!
Thanks to Rui Pereira for a great semester! Today, Rui presented on his research this past semester on identifying crystallization conditions to form microcrystals of lysozyme to test out ultra-thin microfluidic platforms for protein crystallography. Rui will graduate next week. We wish you the best!
Thanks to my ENGIN 110 class! It was a great semester!
Prof. Perry presented on the Effect of Charge Patterning and Polymer Architecture on Polypeptide-Based Coacervates at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT.
Welcome to Whitney Blocher and Zoey Meng, the second cohort of doctoral students to join the lab!
Prof. Perry was awarded an ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Grant in support of research related to Designing the Liquid-to-Solid Transition in Polyelectrolyte Complexes!
Prof. Perry was awarded a Teaching Excellence & Faculty Development Flex Grant in support of her new elective class on Microfluidics and Microscale Analysis in Materials and Biology (CHEM-ENG 590E). Check it out this spring, enrollment will be limited!
Prof. Perry will be presenting today on Microfluidic Platforms for Dynamic Protein Crystallography at CHESS (Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source.
Prof. Perry was awarded a TEFD Flex Grant in support of her class on Microfluidics and Microscale Analysis in Materials and Biology (CHEM-ENG 590E).
Today at the Fall Polymer Event Brandon Johnston, Yalin Liu, and Li-Wei Chang presented their research to a diverse crowd from both academia and industry.
Congratulations to Yalin Liu and Li-Wei Chang on having been named as Trainees in the new Soft Materials for Life Sciences NSF Research Traineeship Program (NRT)!
Welcome to Marzbed Margossian, an undergraduate in Chemistry who will be working jointly with the Dubin Lab to characterize the structure and formation of soluble complexes as precursors to complex coacervates.
Prof. Perry, will be presenting on Chirality, Architecture, and Charge Patterning in Ionic Polypeptide Complexes as part of the International Scientific Symposium for Multivalent Interactions in Polyelectrolytes, organized in honor of Prof. Matt Tirrell.
Welcome to Robin Zollner, an undergraduate in Chemical Engineering who will be working jointly with the Emrick Lab to synthesize and characterize polypeptoid-based complex coacervates.
Prof. Perry was highlighted for her contributions to an article in Chemistry World, where she was quoted and reflected on the impact of complex coacervates in everyday life.
Welcome to Adam Murphy, a junior in Chemical Engineering who will be working on the design and fabrication of high-throughput microfluidic platforms for time-resolved crystallography.
Welcome to Rui Pereira, a senior in Chemical Engineering who will be working on materials, fabrication, and engineering challenges related to the development of high-throughput microfluidic platforms for time-resolved crystallography.
Congratulations to Cristina Robalo and Rasmia Shamsi on having been awarded Research Assistant Fellowships and to Robert Wang on receiving an Honors Research Grant in support of his thesis from the Commonwealth Honors College!
Prof. Perry was quoted in a news highlight in Chemistry World, featuring research presented by Qingrong Huang as part of the Special Symposium on Complex Coacervation held at the ACS Meeting in Boston.
Some of Prof. Perry's postdoctoral research, done in collaboration with Prof. Jianjun Cheng's Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was just published in Angewandte Chemie!
"Self-Assembly of α-Helical Polypeptides Driven by Complex Coacervation," D. Priftis, L. Leon, Z. Song, S.L. Perry, K.O. Margossian, A. Tropnikova, J. Cheng, M. Tirrell, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, (2015) 54, 11128-11132. [PDF]
Prof. Perry, Li-Wei Chang, and Yalin Liu, will be presenting on the at the 250th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition on August 17th.
Prof. Perry will be presenting on the Effects of Polymer Architecture and Zwitterionic Moieties on Complex Coacervation at the 2nd International Conference on Bioinspired and Zwitterionic Materials on August 12th.
Prof. Perry was highlighted for her participation in the Third Annual Summer Engineering Institute for High School Students (SENGI). With the help of Chemical Engineering undergrad Eric Rice, she developed a project on microfluidics-based cell sorting.
Congratulations to Prof. Perry on her competition at the ATA World Championships where she brought home the gold in two events, silver in three, and bronze in one!
Prof. Perry and Prof. Charles Sing just published their first joint paper as independent investigators! The paper uses Liquid State Theory to demonstrate the importance of charge connectivity and excluded volume effects on complex coacervation.
"PRISM-Based Theory of Complex Coacervation: Excluded Volume versus Chain Correlation," S.L. Perry, C.E. Sing Macromolecules, 48, 5040-5053 (2015). [PDF]
Our paper demonstrating proof-of-concept time-resolved serial Laue crystallography in a microfluidic chip was just published in a special issue of !
"Towards Time-Resolved Serial Crystallography in a Microfluidic Device," A.S. Pawate, V. Šrajer, J. Schieferstein, S. Guha, R. Henning, I. Kosheleva, M. Schmidt, Z. Ren, P.J.A. Kenis, S.L. Perry, Acta Crystallographica, Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, (2015) 71, 823-830. [PDF]
Prof. Perry and Prof. Dubin received a grant from the National Science Foundation in support of the upcoming symposium on Complex Coacervation at the ACS Boston Meeting!
Congratulations to our first group alumnus, Cameron Johnston, on accepting a position as a Process Engineer at Toray Plastics. We wish you the very best at your new job!
Prof. Perry will be presenting on the Effect of Polymer Architecture and Zwitterionic Moieties on Complex Coacervation at the 2015 ACS Colloid and Surface Symposium on June 15th.
Prof. Perry will be presenting a poster on Time Resolved Serial Protein Crystallography in a Microfluidic Device at the 2015 Gordon Research Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics on June 1st and 2nd.
Congratulations to our collaborator Daniel Seeman from the Dubin Lab on successfully defending his PhD dissertation!
Prof. Perry presented today on Engineering Biomimetic Coacervate Environments for Protein-Based Applications at the 2015 New England Nanotechnology Association (NENA) Meeting.
Congratulations to Cameron Johnston on graduation from the Chemical Engineering Department!
Welcome to Kush Basu, an undergraduate in Chemical Engineering who will be working on the characterization of self assembly in complex coacervate systems.
Cameron Johnston was highlighted on the department website for having being awarded Best Poster at the American Chemical Society Connecticut Valley Section Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Welcome to Drew Knudson, an undergraduate in Chemical Engineering who will be working on Establishing design rules for protein-polypeptide coacervates using supercharged variants of green fluorescent protein (GFP).
Welcome to Patrick Harney, an undergraduate in Chemical Engineering who will be working on using complex coacervation for the stabilization of hemoglobin for use in artificial blood.
Congratulations to Appa Salvi on having been awarded the Benjamin Gilman International Scholarship Award to work and study abroad in China!
Prof. Perry was recognized at the 2015 UMass Honors Dinner for having received the Armstrong Fund for Science Award.
Congratulations to Cameron Johnston on being awarded Best Poster for his work on the "Effect of Polymer Architecture and Zwitterionic Moieties on Complex Coacervation" at the American Chemical Society Connecticut Valley Section Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Cameron Johnston and Cristina Robalo will be presenting their research at the American Chemical Society Connecticut Valley Section Undergraduate Research Symposium
Contratulations to Prof. Perry on being recognized as a strong advocate for diversity amongst the diversity students in the College of Engineering.
Welcome to Appa Salvi, an undergraduate from Hampshire College who will be working to develop microfluidic platforms for the characterization of complex coacervates and protein stability.
Prof. Perry was highlighted by the University of Arizona Admissions as part of their Dream Job campaign!
Welcome to Brandon Johnston, an undergraduate in Chemical Engineering who will be working jointly with the Emrick Lab to characterize and develop complex coacervate-based materials using novel polymer architectures and zwitterionic functionalities.
Welcome to Jon Veléz, an undergraduate in Chemical Engineering who will be working to help characterize polypeptide-based systems of complex coacervates.
Welcome to Ruoting "Robert" Wang, an undergraduate in Chemical Engineering who will be working jointly with the Schiffman Lab to develop methods for electrospinning of polyelectrolyte complexes and complex coacervates.
Prof. Perry has been chosen to receive the Armstrong Fund for Science Award for her project on "Bio-inspired thermostable vaccine formulations!" This is Prof. Perry's first funded research project as an independent faculty member.
Prof. Perry will be presenting on Biomimetic Coacervate Environments for Protein Analysis at the 2015 APS March Meeting.
Congratulations to Prof. Perry for having been chosen to recieve the Residential First-Year Experience (RFYE) Student Choice Award!
Welcome to Colton Kenny, an undergraduate in Chemical Engineering who will be working to help build the lab and develop methods for studying the thermal stabilization of proteins in biomimetic complex coacervates.
Prof. Perry will be presenting on "Biomimetic Coacervate Materials and Beyond" at the Materials Discussion on Thursday, 2/19/2015 in LSL N615.
Some of Prof. Perry's postdoctoral research, done in collaboration with the de Pablo Lab at the University of Chicago, was just published in Soft Matter!
"A Molecular View of the Role of Chirality in Charge-driven Polypeptide Complexation," K.Q. Hoffmann, S.L. Perry, L. Leon, D. Priftis, M. Tirrell, and J.J. de Pablo, Soft Matter, 11, 1525-1538 (2015). [PDF]
Congratulations to Yalin Liu, Li-Wei Chang, and Shuo Sui on passing their qualifying exams!
Prof. Perry's postdoctoral research, was just published in Nature Communications!
"Chirality Selected Phase Behavior in Ionic Polypeptide Complexes," S.L. Perry, L. Leon, K.Q. Hoffmann, M.J. Kade, D. Priftis, K.A. Black, D. Wong, R.A. Klein, C.F. Pierce, K.O. Margossian, J.K. Whitmer, J. Qin, J.J. de Pablo, and M. Tirrell, Nature Communications, 6, 6052 (2015). [PDF]
Congratulations to our collaborator, Prof. Charles Sing at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for being named one of Forbes' 30 under 30!
