Dec 2017 – Congratulations to Devang Amin, PhD, who successfully defended his PhD thesis. Many congratulations to Devang, and best wishes finishing medical school at Northwestern! We are so proud of you! Photo credit: Reema Amin
Monthly Archive: December 2017
Peyman Delparastan presents the lab’s work at the Materials Science & Engineering Program Review
Fall 2017 – Peyman Delparastan presented a poster featuring our lab’s research at the UC Berkeley Department of Materials Science & Engineering Academic Program Review. Thanks, Peyman, for sharing our work with department leadership and distinguished guests!!
Katerina Malollari wins UC Berkeley Graduate Division Grant!
Nov. 2017 – Congratulations to Katerina Malollari, a mechanical engineering PhD student in our lab. She was awarded a UC Berkeley Graduate Division Block Grant Award. Way to go, Katerina!!
Kyueui Lee publishes study of basil seed-inspired carbon dots! Congrats, Kyueui!
Nov 2017 – Dr. Kyueui Lee, a researcher visiting our lab from KAIST, has published his latest work in Nanoscale. In this study, Kyueui, Caroline Sugnaux (Messersmith lab postdoc), Haeshin Lee (KAIST professor, visiting scholar in our lab, and former PhD student in our lab), and collaborators, explore the mechanisms underlying the formation of ferulic …
Pamela Walsh, a Marie Curie Fellow, publishes diatom biosilica research in Nature Scientific Reports!
Oct 2017 – Pamela Walsh, a former visiting Marie Curie Fellow in our group back in the Northwestern days, has published a collaborative manuscript in Nature Scientific Reports! Her paper, “Exploratory testing of diatom silica to map the role of material attributions on cell fate” can be found here! Congratulations, Pamela!!
Prof. Messersmith gives invited talks at Nano DDS, U of Washington, U of Wisconsin, MRS, and more!
Fall 2017 – Professor Messersmith hits the road, delivering talks about our group’s research. Back in August, he spoke about Jing Cheng’s collaboration with the Heber-Katz Lab (Lankenau Institute For Medical Research) at Nano DDS Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In October and November, he gave invited talks at U of Washington in Seattle and …
Visiting scholar Paula Lopez-Perez publishes in Macromolecules!
Oct. 2017 – Dr. Paula M. Lopez-Perez, a former Marie Curie Fellow in our lab, has published her manuscript, “Self-healing hydrogels formed by complexation between calcium ions and bisphosphonate-functionalized star-shaped polymers” in Macromolecules. Congrats, Paula and co-authors!!!