[April 2017] – PhD student Peyman Delparastan and postdoctoral fellow Brylee Tiu presented a poster titled “Biological/Bioinspired Materials and Biointerfaces” at the California Research Alliance by BASF’s Third Anniversary symposium. The CARA is a West Coast research alliance supporting the biosciences and new material development. Thanks to BASF for supporting CARA and our work, and …
[April 2017] – Sally Winkler won a travel award from the UCSF Science Policy Group to travel to Washington, DC, to advocate for science with students and post-docs from UCSF. In addition to attending the March for Science in DC, the group met with policymakers the following week to advocate for the importance of government …
Messersmith lab students and post-docs presented our work about bioinspired surface coatings at the California Academy of Sciences NightLife event. At this event, we talked with museum-goers about the wine-, tea-, and chocolate- inspired coatings developed in our lab, and how they can be used to form biologically active surfaces on a variety of different …