Monthly Archive: May 2016

Dr. Diederik Balkenende joins the lab as a new Postdoctoral Fellow – Welcome, Dirk!!

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May 2016 – The lab welcomes new postdoctoral fellow Diederik Balkenende, Ph.D. We’re excited to work with Dirk!

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Rachel Huang wins best poster at the 2016 UC Berkeley Undergraduate Engineering Research Symposium! Congratulations, Rachel!!!

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May 2016 – Undergraduate researcher Zhuojun “Rachel” Huang won best poster at the UC Berkeley Undergraduate Engineering Research Symposium for her poster about her research with boronic acid hydrogels. Congratulations, Rachel!!!!

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Lab News

Upcoming Talks by Group Members

“Novel Materials Inspired by Catecholamine Polymers Found in Nature”, to be presented by Prof. Messersmith at the Gordon Research Conference on Peptide Materials, Galveston, TX, January 2023.

"Injectable Dynamic Covalent Hydrogels of Bioderived Polysaccharides for Thermal Insulation During Cryoablation of Tumors", to be presented by Prof. Messersmith at the American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, March 2023.

“TBD”, to be presented by Prof. Messersmith at the Gordon Research Conference on Biomaterials and Biocompatibility, Holderness School, NH, July 2023.

Recent Talks by Group Members

“Supramolecular Polymers for Drug-Induced Regeneration”, presented by Prof. Messersmith at the Polymers in Medicine and Biology Conference, Napa, CA November 30, 2022.

“Design, Interfacial Mechanics and Applications of Mussel-Inspired Polymers”, presented by Prof. Messersmith at UC-Merced Materials Science and Engineering Department, Nov 7, 2022, Merced, CA.

“Bioinspired Catecholamine Polymers”, presented by Prof. Messersmith at the Gordon Research Conference on Multiscale Mechanochemistry and Mechanobiology, Ventura, CA, August 2022.

“Molecular and Bulk Mechanics of Multifunctional Catecholamine Polymer Coatings”, to be presented by Prof. Messersmith at CIMTEC 2022 - 9th Forum on New Materials, Perugia, Italy, June 25-29, 2022.

"Bioinspired Polymers For Drug-Induced Regeneration", to be presented by Prof. Messersmith at the Nature Inspires Creativity Engineers (NICE) Conference, Nice, France, June 20-23, 2022.

“Design, Interfacial Mechanics and Applications of Mussel-Inspired Polymers”, to be presented by Prof. Messersmith at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, May 9, 2022, Honolulu, HI.

“Mussel-Inspired Polymers: From Molecular Mechanics to Applications”, to be presented by Prof. Messersmith at the Pierce Seminar Series, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, April 6, 2022.

“Biologically Inspired Strategies for Interfacial Control in Polymer Coatings” presented by Prof. Messersmith at the Technical Seminar Program, PPG Aerospace, Burbank, CA, March 17, 2022.

“Stick It: Bio-Inspired Adhesives”, presented by Prof. Messersmith at The Square Root of STEM seminar series, Center for Excellence in Education, March 6, 2022, McLean, VA.

“Supramolecular Polymers for Tissue Regeneration”, presented by Prof. Messersmith at the Terasaki Institute at UCLA, September 29, 2021.

“Molecular mechanics and applications of bioinspired catecholamine materials”, presented by Prof. Messersmith at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, Seattle, WA, April 19-23, 2021.

“Metal-Catechol Interactions in Mussel adhesion and Mussel-Inspired Materials”, presented by Prof. Messersmith at the Department of Energy and the Environment, Japan Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, March 11, 2021.