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, while 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.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Voke on having received honorable mention on her NSF Graduate Research Fellowship application!
Congratulations to Elizabeth Voke on having been named a UMass Amherst Rising Researcher!
Next fall, Greg Donovan will be joining the PhD program in Chemical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder!
Next fall, Elizabeth Voke will be joining the PhD program in Bioengineering at the University of California Berkeley!
Congratulations to Dr. Whitney Blocher McTigue on successfully defending her PhD dissertation on Encapsulation and Stabilization of Biomolecules! Dr. Blocher McTigue is the fourth PhD student to graduate from the Perry Lab!
Best wishes to Dr. Li-Wei Chang as he moves on to his new position as a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Prof. Daeyeon Lee at the University of Pennsylvania.
Congratulations to Dr. Shuo Sui on successfully defending his PhD dissertation on Microfluidic Platforms for Advanced Crystallography! Dr. Sui is the third PhD student to graduate from the Perry Lab!
Prof. Perry is one of five engineering faculty members to have been awarded an NSF CAREER Award!!!
Welcome to Xianci Zeng, who has joined our group as a new PhD student to study sequence effects in complex coacervation with a goal of encapsulating and stabilizing biologic materials!
Prof. Caryn Heldt and I just heard that our joint R21 NIH grant on Dense Phase Polyelectrolytes to Thermally Stabilize Viral Vaccines was funded!
Check out the fantastic new review by Prof. Perry and Prof. Charles Sing wrote on the science of complex coacervation!
"Recent Progress in the Science of Complex Coacervation," C.E. Sing, S.L. Perry,Soft Matter, (2020), 16, 2885-2914. [PDF]
Check out the new review by Prof. Perry and Prof. Julian McClements wrote on the encapsulation and delivery of bioactive proteins and peptides!
"Recent Advances in Encapsulation, Protection, and Oral Delivery of Bioactive Proteins and Peptides using Colloidal Systems," S.L. Perry, D.J. McClements, Molecules, (2020), 25(5), 1161. [PDF]
Congratulations to Dr. Yalin Liu on successfully defending her PhD dissertation on Designing Material Properties in Polyelectrolyte Complexes! Dr. Liu is the second PhD student to graduate from the Perry Lab!
Congratulations to Dr. Li-Wei Chang on successfully defending his PhD dissertation on Sequence Control in Complex Coacervates! Dr. Chang is the first PhD student to graduate from the Perry Lab!
Prof. Perry just found out that her NSF CAREER Award on Nature-Inspired Strategies for Protein Stabilization was funded!
Best wishes to Dr. Vanda Liadinskaia as she transitions to a new position at the University of Twente! We will all miss you!
Check out the new viewpoint article that Prof. Perry wrote with our collaborator Prof. Charles Sing on the future of sequence controlled polymers!
"100th Anniversary of Macromolecular Science Viewpoint: Opportunities in the Physics of Sequence-Defined Polymers," S.L. Perry, C.E. Sing, ACS Macro Letters, (2020), 9, 216-225. [PDF]
Sarthak Saha gave an excellent talk and poster at the BioXFEL Conference on the topic of X-ray Compatible Microfluidics for Advanced Protein Crystallography!
Congratulations to Zoey Meng on her contributions to a newly published collaborative paper with the Thayumanavan lab!
"Programmable Chemical Switch based on Triggerable Michael Acceptors," J. Zhuang, B. Zhao, X. Meng, J.D. Schiffman, S.L. Perry, R. Vachet, S. Thayumanavan, Chemical Science, (2020), 11, 2103-2111.[PDF]
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