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).
Isaac won 2nd place for his presentation today on Design Rules and Mechanical Properties of Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials as part of the Area 8A Excellence in Graduate Student Research Symposium at the AIChE Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA!
Sarthak presented his work on Scalable Manufacturing of X-Ray Compatible Microfluidics for High Throughput Structure Determination and Integrated Liquid Handling Strategies at the AIChE Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.
Congratulations to Yaozu Chen, who presented a poster on his research titled Effect of Polymer Chemistry on the Rheological Trends of Polyelectrolyte Complexes at the AIChE Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA and won best poster!
Emily Ng presented a poster on her research titled Molding Microstructures onto Bio-derived Polyelectrolyte Complexes at the AIChE Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.
Ethan Rivers presented a poster on his research titled Designing Peptides for Multiphase Complex Coacervation at the AIChE Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.
Arjun Iyer presented a poster on his research titled Investigating the Role of Net Charge and Charge Patterning in the Encapsulation of Green Fluorescent Protein in Complex Coacervates at the AIChE Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.
Sarthak presented his work at the Meet the Faculty Candidate Poster Session at the AIChE Annual Meeting titled Scalable Manufacturing of X-Ray Compatible Microfluidics for High Throughput Structure Determination and Integrated Liquid Handling Strategies.
Isaac presented his work at the Meet the Faculty Candidate Poster Session at the AIChE Annual Meeting titled Polyelectrolyte Complex: Structure-Property Relationships and Functional Materials.
Prof. Perry and her long-time collaborator Prof. Sing presented on Charge- and Collaboration-Driven Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation at the Lorentz Center Workshop on Breaking Barriers in Polymer Material Design. Doing science with your friends is always amazing!
Prof. Perry presented on Tailored X-ray Compatible Microfluidics at the Challenges in Structural Biology Summit.
Sarthak presented a poster on Low-Cost Continuous Manufacturing of Microfluidic Platforms for Remote Automated Room Temperature X-ray Protein Crystallography at the MicroTAS Conference in Montreal.
Prof. Perry was recognized as the October 2024 Outstanding Referee for Communications Chemistry!
Sarthak will be giving an invited talk on Microfluidic Platforms for Room Temperature and Anaerobic X-Ray Crystallography at the Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference this weekend!
Check out this new paper that uses ITC to analyze complexation of chitosan and hyaluronic acid as a function of pH, chain length, and other parameters!
"Interactions Between Hyaluronic Acid and Chitosan by Isothermal Titration Calorimetry: Effect of Ionic Strength, pH, and Polymer Molecular Weight," F.A. Ogur, S. Mamasoglu, S.L. Perry, F.A. Akin, A.B. Kayitmazer, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, (2024), 128(37), 9022-9035. [PDF]
Congratulations to Sarthak on having been awarded a BioXFEL travel grant, this one supporting his attendence at the µTAS Conference!
Prof. Perry presented on Effect of Sequence in Peptide-based Complex Coacervates at the ACS Fall Meeting in Denver, CO as part of the award symposium recognizing her achievements as one of this year's ACS Macro Letters/Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award winners.
Congratulations to Sarthak on having been awarded a travel grant to attend the Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference!
Elena Kim presented a poster Membrane Integrated Microfluidics Devices as part of the UMass REU poster session.
Prof. Perry and Prof. Charles Sing jointly presented on Structure and Sequence in Charge-Driven Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation as part of the Condensate Colloquium Series.
Congratulations to group alum Mayayi Izzo who just accepted a position as a research technician in the Teplensky Lab at Boston University!
Congratulations to Tim Wheeler who just accepted a position as an Engineer at Ridgeline Energy Analytics Inc.!
Xianci presented her work on Exploring the Effects of Excipients on Complex Coacervation for Biologic Application at the ACS Colloids Meeting.
Check out this UMass News Story on the new grant that Prof. Perry and Prof. Craig Martin received to manufacture RNA with site-specific labeling!
Check out this EurekAlert! news story/a> on the new grant that Prof. Perry and Prof. Craig Martin received to manufacture RNA with site-specific labeling!
Congratulatiosn to Isaac who was invited to participate in the NextProf Nexus 2024 workshop for future faculty!
Xianci presented a poster on Ternary Phase Diagram for Protein Incorporation in Complex Coacervates at the ACS Colloids Meeting.
Prof. Perry presented on LEGO-Inspired X-ray Transparent Microfluidics for High-Throughput Screening of Crystallization Conditions for Protein Crystallography at the ACS Colloids Meeting.
Check out this UMass News Story on Prof. Perry having been awarded the 2024 ACS Macro Letters/Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award.
Check out this UMass Engineering News Story on Prof. Perry having been awarded the 2024 ACS Macro Letters/Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award.
Isaac presented a poster on Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials at the Gordon Research Conference on Bioinspired Materials in Les Diablerets, Switzerland.
Isaac presented a poster on Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials at the Gordon Research Seminar on Bioinspired Materials in Les Diablerets, Switzerland.
Xianci presented her work on Ternary Phase Diagrams for Protein Incorporation in Complex Coacervates at the Spring Polymer Event.
Prof. Perry gave a talk on Designing Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials at the 2024 Tosoh Polymer Conference.
Prof. Perry gave a talk on Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials at the Instituto de Química at the Universidad de São Paolo.
Prof. Perry gave a talk on X-ray Compatible Microfluidics at the new 4th generation Sirius synchrotron at CNPEM!
Prof. Perry gave a talk on Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials at the Instituto de Química at UNICAMP.
This summer Ethan Rivers will be interning at Eastman Chemical Company. Congratulations!
Congratulations to group alumna Rebecca Hershman on having successfully defended her PhD in Chemical Engineering at Tufts University! Rebecca is the 2nd alumni from the lab to earn their PhD! After a well deserved break, she will be starting a position at the Institute for Protein Innovation in Boston.
Congratulations to Arvind for having been honored with the Tillwick Award for the Best G.R.A.S.S. Talk this year!
Congratulations to Prof. Perry for having been awarded the 2024 ACS Macro Letters/Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award! Check out this interview blog post for more information.
Congratulations to Ethan Eroh on having secured an internship at Wyman Gordon this summer to work on metalllurgy!
Congratulations to Isaac and Luke on their article being accepted for publication!
"Decoupling the Effects of Charge Density and Hydrophobicity on the Phase Behavior and Viscoelasticity of Complex Coacervates," I. Ramírez Marrero, L. Boudreau, R. Gutzler, N. Kaiser, B. von Vacano, R. Konradi, S.L. Perry, Macromolecules, (2024), 57(10), 4680-4694. [PDF]
Congratulations to Taras on having been awarded the Uche Anyanwu Memorial Award for Outstanding Research from the Department of Chemistry!
Congratulations to Isaac on having been selected as a finalist for the AIChE Area 8A Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium!
Congratulations to Xianci on having passed her prospectus exam! She is now officially a PhD Candidate!
Check out this UMass Amherst News Story talking about our recent NIH grant to develop microscale platforms for time-resolved crystallography!
Congratulations to Isaac on having been awarded a James Douglas Graduate Fellowship to develop improved mentoring structures for new students!
Congratulations to Rachel Maher, who will be joining the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department at Johns Hopkins this fall as a PhD student!
Congratulations to Prof. Whitney Blocher McTigue, who found out yesterday that her very first grant was funded!
Congratulations to Amy Lim, who will be joining the Chemical Engineering department at Virginia Tech this fall as a PhD student!
Congratulations to Taras Nagornyy, who will be joining the Chemical Engineering department at MIT this fall as a PhD student!
Congratulations to Emily Ng, who will be interning this summer at Cabot Corporation!
Welcome to Mazin Hussein, a sophomore in Chemical Engineering who will be working on droplet microfluidics to study complex coacervate phase behavior.
Isaac presented his work on Sustainable Polymeric Coatings: Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials at the BASF NORA Spring Review Meeting.
Arvind presented his research on Designing Sequence-defined Complex Coacervates for Protein and Virus Encapsulation at the APS March Meeting!
Jussara presented her research on Nano and Micro Domains of Complex Coacervates in Organic Solvents to Encapsulate Enzymes at the APS March Meeting!
Isaac presented his work on Identifying The Glass Transitions and Material Properties of Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials at the APS March Meeting.
Sarthak presented a poster on Microfluidic Platforms for Counter-Diffusive Protein Crystallization and Room Temperature Crystallography at the BioXFEL Meeting.
Baktha presented his very first microfluidics poster on Polymer-Based Microfluidic Chips for Time-Resolved Serial Crystallography at the BioXFEL Meeting.
The session honoring our amazing collaborator Prof. Charles Sing for having been awarded the 2024 John H. Dillon Medal at the APS March Meeting was fantastic!
Prof. Perry gave an invited talk on Designing Peptide-based Complex Coacervates for Protein and Virus Encapsulation as part of the Dillon Medal Symposium at the APS March Meeting.
The session honoring Prof. Zhen-Gang Wang for having been awarded the 2024 Polymer Physics Prize at the APS March Meeting was amazing!
Prof. Perry gave an invited talk on Decoupling the Effects of Charge Density and Hydrophobicity on the Phase Behavior and Viscoelasticity of Complex Coacervates as part of the Polymer Physics Prize Symposium at the APS March Meeting.
Congratulations to group alumnus Pankaj Kumar Pandey, who just accepted an offer for a postdoctoral research position at the University of Naples Federico II!
Congratulations to Arvind, who will be participating in an internship at Nestlé later this year!
Check out this UMass Amherst News Story highlighting the recent three-year, $936,000 NIH R01 grant that we received to deveop next-generation platforms for time-resolved crystallography!
Welcome to Elena Kim, a sophomore in Biomedical Engineering who will be working on microfluidics for mRNA manufacturing.
Congratulations to Habeeba, who will be joining the MS program at KAUST University this fall!
Yaozu has accepted an offer to participate in an internship at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicagoland this summer!
Congratulations to Arvind on being awarded the Eldridge Teaching Assistant Award for Fall 2023!
Congratulations to Júlia on the puplication of her very first first-author paper!
"Assessing the Structure and Equilibrium Conditions of Complex Coacervate Core Micelles by Varying Their Shell Composition and Medium Ionic Strength," J. Bonesso Sabadini, C.L.P. Oliveira, W. Loh, Langmuir, (2024) (in press). [PDF]
Congratulations to Faviola Villariny-Rosado, who just accepted an offer to participate in an internship program at florrent Inc. this spring!
Arvind gave a fabulous G.R.A.S.S. talk today on the Molecular Design of Peptide-based Complex Coacervates!
Happy New Year!!! #LlabLlama
