In The Media

Hot off the Presses!

5/3/22 The New York Times publishes an article about our Matter paper with the Waite group in Santa Barbara.

3/1/21 NASA Tech Brief publishes a story about our Chem paper on making polyethylene adhesive

Older News

8/25/17 Postdoctoral fellow Dirk Balkenende presented his work developing new tissue adhesive materials for fetal membrane sealing at the American Chemical Society meeting in Washington, DC. His presentation drew international media attention and was featured in several media outlets including American Chemical Society, Food & Wine, MedGadget, FierceBiotech, Engineering360, Cosmos, and MindFood. Spanish language coverage from Infoslaus. French language coverage from Le Figaro.

9/1/16 Bioinspired medical adhesives featured in ABC7 San Francisco story.

8/31/16 Dr. Messersmith quoted in NPR’s All Tech Considered story on biodegradable battery research in the Bettinger lab at Carnegie Mellon.

7/22/16 Bioinspired medical adhesives featured in CBS San Francisco story.

7/19/16 Medical news website Stat publishes story on fetal membrane adhesive research.

6/30/16 Messersmith Lab research featured in Chemistry World article about adhesives for fetal surgery and other ultrawet applications!

6/30/16 Fetal surgery adhesives research and new R01 grant featured in UC Berkeley News article – includes a video of our mussels!

6/8/15 Science Translational Medicine paper with Heber-Katz Lab, “Drug induced regeneration in adult mice” featured in C&E News story.

6/8/15 Science Translational Medicine paper with Heber-Katz Lab featured in BioWorld story.

6/3/15 Science Translational Medicine paper with Heber-Katz Lab featured in Science Daily story.

6/3/15 Science Translational Medicine paper with Heber-Katz Lab featured in Medical Express story.

3/26/15 Messersmith group mussel inspired coatings featured in Nature focus story on biomimetic materials.

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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.