Congratulations to Savannah Szemethy and Brandon Johnston on having been awarded Research Assistant Fellowships from the Commonwealth Honors College!
Congratulations to Yalin Liu on having passed her prospectus this morning! Yalin is the first graduate student from the Perry lab to do her prospectus. Excellent job!
Prof. Perry and Prof. Schiffman were awarded a UMass Faculty Research grant to support their work on Electrospinning of Complex Coacervates.
Prof. Perry will be giving a talk on Molecular Engineering of Nature-Inspired Materialsat the 69th New England Complex Fluids Meeting at Harvard University. Li-Wei Chang will also give a soundbite on the Effect of Charge Patterning on Polypeptide-Based Coacervates.
Prof. Perry presented on the Effect of Charge Patterning and Polymer Architecture on Polypeptide-Based Coacervates at the AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
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).
Congratulations to Whitney Blocher on having her review paper published!
"Biomimetic Complex Coacervate-Based Materials for Biomedicine," W.C. Blocher, S.L. Perry, WIREs Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology - (in press). [PDF]
Shuo Sui presented a poster on Graphene-Based Microfluidics for Serial Crystallography IALS Grand Opening.
Zoey Meng presented a poster on Electrospinning Polyelectrolyte Complex (PEC) Coacervates into Fiber Mats at the SMLS Retreat.
Whitney Blocher presented a poster on Protein Encapsulation via Coacervation using Oppositely-Charged Polyelectrolytes at the SMLS Retreat.
Li-Wei Chang presented a poster on the Effect of Charge Patterning and Polymer Architecture on Polypeptide-Based Coacervates at the SMLS Retreat.
Yalin Liu presented a poster on Enabling Transitions in Polyelectrolyte Complexes at the SMLS Retreat.
Brandon Johnston presented a poster on The Effect of Polymer Architecture and Zwitterionic Moieties on Complex Coacervation at the SMLS Retreat.
Prof. Perry will be giving the Polymer Science & Engineering Seminar this week on Molecular Engineering of Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials. The event is at 3:35pm in Conte A110/111.
Zoey Meng presented her work today at the Fiber Society Fall Meeting & Technical Conference. Congrats on an excellent presentation!
Prof. Perry will be presenting today on Graphene Microfluidics for X-ray Science at the Five College Biophysics Network Lunch.
Welcome to Savannah Szemethy, a sophomore who will be working on microfluidics for art.
Welcome to Alex Brosseau, a senior who will be working on new strategies to drive protein crystallization.
Welcome to Brenna Walsh, a sophomore who will be working high-throughput methods for the preparation and characterization of complex coacervates.
Congratulations to Whitney Blocher on having been awarded a SMLS NRT Trainee Fellowship!
We have been awarded a joint grant with the Klier lab by the Toxic Use Reduction Institute at UMass-Lowell, working with Camco Corporation, to decrease the methanol content in windshield washer fluid!
Prof. Perry will be presenting today on Nature-Inspired Materials Design at the Harvard Squishy Physics Seminar.
Congratulations to Rasmia Shamsi on having been awarded a Commonwealth Honors College Research Grant to support her Honors Thesis research!
Congratulations to Kush Basu and Brandon Johnston on having been awarded Research Assistant Fellowships from the Commonwealth Honors College again!
Our recent paper on Graphene-Based Microfluidics for Serial Crystallography was featured as a research highlight by the IALS/M2M Center.
Our recent paper on Graphene-Based Microfluidics for Serial Crystallography was featured as a Science Highlight in the 2016 Annual Report for the Advanced Photon Source
Prof. Perry was selected to give a poster presentation on Graphene Microfluidics for Serial Microcrystallography at the 2016 Gordon Research Conference in Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology.
Congratulations to Shuo Sui on being awarded the IUCr Poster Prize at the 2016 International Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules.
Prof. Perry and Shuo Sui will be presenting on the topic of Graphene Microfluidics for Serial Crystallography at the 2016 International Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules.
Congratulations to Prof. Perry on her competition at the ATA World Championships where she brought home the gold in two events and silver in another!
Welcome to Christine Davis, a rising senior who will be working on the development of high-throughput X-ray compatible microfluidics for applications such as protein crystallography.
Our recent paper on Graphene-Based Microfluidics for Serial Crystallography was highlighted in an article by Chemistry World.
Prof. Perry presented on Microfluidic Platforms for Time-Resolved Serial Crystallography at the CHESS-U Workshop on Biomolecules in Motion.
Today Prof. Perry will be presenting talks on Graphene-Based Microfluidics for Serial Crystallography and Molecular Engineering Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials at the 90th Colloid and Surface Science Symposium at Harvard University.
Welcome to Rebecca Hershman, a rising junior who will be working on the characterization and applications of complex coacervate-based materials.
Welcome to Sid Virpura, a rising junior who will be working on self-assembling complex coacervate-based materials.
Welcome to Bryan Chua, a rising sophomore who will be working jointly between the Schiffman Lab and our lab on applications of complex coacervation and polyelectrolyte complex materials.
Prof. Perry presented a seminar in the Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University.
Congratulations to Shuo Sui on having his paper published in a themed issue of Lab on a Chip highlighting Emerging Investigators!
"Graphene-Based Microfluidics for Serial Crystallography," S. Sui, Y. Wang, K.W. Kolewe, V. Srajer, R. Henning, J.D. Schiffman, C. Dimitrakopoulos, S.L. Perry Lab on a Chip, (2016) 16, 3082-3096. [PDF]
Tomorrow, Prof. Perry will be presenting on Molecular Engineering of Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials at the focus workshop on Fundamentals and Emergent Applications of Ionic Soft Matters at the APS-CNM User's Meeting.
Today, Prof. Perry will be presenting on Microfluidic Platforms for Time-resolved Serial Protein Crystallography at the focus workshop on Advances in In Situ and Serial Biological Crystallography at the APS-CNM User's Meeting.
Congratulations to Patrick Harney, Colton Kenny, Drew Knudson, Jon Vélez, and Robert Wang, graduating seniors from the Perry Lab!
Thank you to the first class of CHEM-ENG 590C, and to Shuo Sui for being an amazing TA! It was a great semester and I am thrilled with the successes that you achieved!
Congratulations to this year's graduating seniors! The Perry Lab was well represented in the departmental superlative awards at the Senior Banquet.
Welcome to Tyler Carpenter, a rising junior who is joining our research efforts investigating complex coacervation.
Today, Rasmia Shamsi, Jon Vélez, Colton Kenny, Kush Basu presented their research at the Northeast Regional AIChE Conference.
Today, Brandon Johnston presented his research on the Effects of Polymer Architecture and Zwitterionic Moieties on Complex Coacervation at the Massachusetts Statewide Research Conference.
Today, Kush Basu presented his research on Quantifying Salt Partitioning Duing Complex Coacervation at the Massachusetts Statewide Research Conference.
Congratulations to Patrick Harney on defending his honors thesis research on Coacervate-Based Hemoglobin Stabilization for Artificial Blood Applications at the Massachusetts Statewide Research Conference.
Congratulations to Robert Wang on defending his honors thesis research on the Fabrication and Characterization of PSS/PDADMAC Coacervate Thin Films at the Massachusetts Statewide Research Conference.
Shuo Sui is attending the 2016 Crystallization: focus on micro and nano crystals and high throughput methods workshop at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. On Wednesday, Prof. Perry will be giving a talk on Microfluidics for Serial Crystallography.
Congratulations to Shuo Sui on having received a Young Scientist Award to attend the 2016 International Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules this summer in Prague!
Congratulations to Drew Knudson, who will be starting a Co-Op position as a Research Associate at Genentech after graduation!
This Thursday Brandon Johnston will be presenting his research at an IALS/M2M/Protein Homeostasis poster session as part of the 2016 Nordin Lecture event!
Happy Pi Day! Prof. Perry will be presenting on Understanding and Controlling Transitions in Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials at the APS March Meeting in Baltimore, MD.
Check out Patrick Harney's iCons Research Showcase video on the use of complex coacervates for creating artificial blood.
Congratulations to Rui Pereira on starting his new position as a Process Engineer at Toray Plastics!
Prof. Perry has been selected to join the Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program (CBI).
Prof. Perry will be giving a seminar on Nature-Inspired Materials Design in the UMass Department of Veternary and Animal Sciences on Wednesday, February 24th at 4:00pm in ISB 221.
Prof. Perry, Prof. Gershenson, and Chef Simon were highlighted for their outreach work with the Girl Scouts.
Congratulations to Prof. Juan J. de Pablo and all of the new member of the National Academy of Engineering!
Prof. Perry will be giving a talk on Patterning and Structure in Biomimetic Polypeptide-Based Coacervates and Yalin Liu and Li-Wei Chang will be presenting posters on the Liquid-to-Solid Transitions in Polyelectrolyte Complexes and the Effect of Charge-Patterning on Polypeptide-Based Complex Coacervation at the 2016 Gordon Research Conference on Colloidal, Macromolecular, and Polyelectrolyte Solutions, respectively.
Yalin Liu and Li-Wei Chang will be presenting their research poster on Liquid-to-Solid Transitions in Polyelectrolyte Complexes and the Effect of Charge-Patterning on Polypeptide-Based Complex Coacervation at the 2016 Gordon Research Seminar on Colloidal, Macromolecular, and Polyelectrolyte Solutions.
Prof. Perry will be giving a seminar on Nature-Inspired Materials Design in the UMass Department of Physics on Thursday, January 21st at 11:30am in LGRT 1033.
