A special “Thought Leaders” symposium took place from 10:30-12:30 on April 13 at the Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting in Atlanta. Organized by Professor Messersmith, the session featured two lab alumni, Profs. Haeshin Lee (KAIST) and Bruce Lee (Michigan Tech), as well as Prof. Chris Bettinger (Carnegie Mellon). The lecturers described their latest research on …
Monthly Archive: March 2018
Katerina Malollari earns Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award – Congratulations, Katerina!!
Spring 2018 – PhD student Katerina Malollari was named an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, an award given to only 9% of Grad Student Instructors on campus! A huge congratulations to Katerina for this accomplishment! The Messersmith Lab is honored to have such an awesome teacher in the group. Congrats, Katerina!!
Postdoc Brylee Tiu publishes papers from his PhD research
Brylee Tiu has published these recent papers from his PhD research at Case Western Reserve University: 1. “Slow-release Formulation of Cowpea Mosaic Virus for in situ Vaccine Delivery to Treat Ovarian Cancer” A.E. Czapar*, B.D.B. Tiu*, F.A. Veliz, J.K. Pokorski, N.F. Steinmetz, Advanced Science, 2018, 1700991. *both authors contributed equally. 2. “Photon Management Through Virus-programmed Supramolecular Arrays” F.A. Veliz, Y. Ma, …
Farid’s latest paper is out in Chemistry of Materials! Congrats, Farid!
Feb 2018 – Congratulations to visiting student Farid Behboodi-Sadabad and his co-authors from the Levkin group! Their paper “Bio-Inspired Strategy for Controlled Polymerization and Photopatterning of Plant Polyphenols” was just published in Chemistry of Materials. Check it out here – https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b04914
Review paper “Polydopamine Surface Chemistry: A Decade of Discovery” is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
A review paper entitled Polydopamine Surface Chemistry: A Decade of Discovery written by Professors Messersmith and Lee has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces as a part of a Forum marking the 10th anniversary of polydopamine research.