Tim Vu is awarded a STAR (Student Travel Achievement Recognition) by the Society of Biomaterials
Tim Vu’s talk “Using vesicle lipid domains to enhance liposomal TRAIL” was nominated as an outstanding contribution to the Society for Biomaterials’ 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting. The Special Interest Group Chairs of the Society awarded Tim with a STAR (Student Travel Achievement Recognition). Tim’s talk was highlighted in a special STAR Award Session during the […]
Our PhD candidate Justin was awarded the Ryan Graduate Fellowship!
Justin Peruzzi, a 4th year Chemical and Biological Engineering student in the Kamat Lab was named as a 2020 Ryan Fellow. The fellowships support graduate students who explore fundamental nanoscale science and advance this knowledge into practical applications of benefit to society. Congratulations, Justin!! Check out the press release here More information about the […]
A belated welcome and congrats to new Kamat Lab undergrads who recently all received prestigious summer fellowships
The Kamat Lab welcomes a new group of terrific undergraduate students, who started in the Winter of 2019. Kenneth Wang (a freshman Neuroscience major), Nora Chambers (a freshman BME major) and Summer Duffy (a sophomore BME major) have been hard at work for the past two quarters. Kenneth, Nora, and Summer all received prestigious undergraduate […]
The Kamat Lab heads to the 2019 Biophysical Society Meeting!
Kamat Lab members, Miranda, Maggie, Justin, and Claire headed to Baltimore this week to attend the 2019 Annual Biophysical Society Meeting. Miranda gave a platform presentation and Maggie, Justin, and Claire presented posters on their recent work.
Maggie’s paper investigating the origins of multicellularity is out!
Maggie’s paper from her time in the Herron group is out in Scientific Reports. The study looked at the origins of multicellularity and found that the transition to multicellularity can happen in response to an ecologically relevant selective pressure, including predation. Neat work- check it out here!
The lab heads to the 4th Build-a-Cell workshop
Kamat Lab members, Miranda, Maggie, and Justin, headed out west to JCVI to attend the fourth @buildacell workshop!
The Kamat Lab heads to BMES
Maggie’s talk on our membrane tension and surface area sensors is Thursday, 4:45 pm in A313 Claire’s poster on controlling membrane channel incorporation into vesicles is in the undergraduate poster session on Saturday, P-SAT-522 Neha co-chairs Nanotechnologies for Nucleic Acid Detection and Exosome Analysis Northwestern University hosts a reception on Thursday, 8-10 pm, in the Chestnut […]
Tim joins the lab!
Timothy Vu has joined the Kamat Lab as a first year graduate student in Biomedical Engineering. He received a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from UC Irvine, an MS in Bioengineering from Rice University, and then worked as research specialist at the University of Chicago in the Kossiakoff Lab. Welcome. Tim!
Claire wins 2nd place at the NU Undergraduate Research Expo!
Congrats to Kamat Lab undergrad, Claire Hilburger who won 2nd place in the Natural Sciences and Engineering Division of the morning poster session at the Undergraduate Research Expo. Her poster on ‘Hybrid Membrane Interactions with Fatty Acids’ highlighted her recent exciting work on externally controlling the composition of carrier membranes. Great job!
Justin joins the lab!
Justin Peruzzi has joined the Kamat Lab as a first year graduate student in Chemical and Biological Engineering. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia, where he worked in Professor Roseanne Ford’s lab.
