2023 Summer Nanoseminar Schedule

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The VINSE summer nanoseminar series provides an opportunity for graduate students or post-docs to share their current research with the larger VINSE community to foster discussion and collaboration.  Each seminar will consist of 2 talks of 15-20 minutes each with 10-15 minutes of questions.  The goal of these talks is to discuss and challenge the work being presented in order to promote a healthy debate. Seminars will be held in 134 Featheringill Hall from 12:00-1:00

The 2023 Summer Nanoseminar Committee is:
– Andrey Shults, Chemistry, Macdonald Group
– Zane Parkerson, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Jennings Group

June 2, 2023
Cal Craven – McCabe Group
“Evaluating Atomical Level Interfacial Structures of Multifunctional Energy Minimizing Surfaces Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations”

Alexander Sorets – Lippmann Group
“Next-generation lipid-siRNA conjugate enhances transport and gene silencing in the mouse CNS”

June 9, 2023
Hayden Pagendarm – Wilson Group
“Engineering endosomolytic nanocarriers of diverse morphologies using confined impingement jet mixing”
Ikjun Hong – Ndukaife Group
“Particle Trapping, Transportation, and Manipulation with Non-Radiating Source Assistance”

June 16, 2023
Lucas Wilkins – Strauss Group
“Friction Stir Welding of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastics
Dr. De-Liang Bao – Pantelides Group
“Probing vibrations atom-by-atom in nanostructures by microscopy and theory”

June 23, 2023
Ryan Kowalski – Caldwell Group
“Infrared Nanospectroscopy of Low-Dimensional Materials”
Emily Fabiano – Reinhart-King Group
“Vinculin regulates confined migration and metabolic phenotype of breast cancer cells”

June 30, 2023
Lexie Koziel – Macdonald Group
“Removing the Blackbox from Copper Selenide Synthesis”
Laurel Bellochio – Rosenthal Group
“Investigating the Role of Membrane Microenvironment Components in Serotonin Transporter Behavior”

July 7, 2023
Matt Galazzo – Cliffel Group
“CO2 Reduction with Photosystem I”
Shannon Martello – Rafat Group
“Development of a microfluidic model of the mammary gland vasculature to study tumor and immune cell recruitment in breast cancer”

July 14, 2023
Yueming Yan – Haglund Group
“The effect of the plasmon-plasmon coupling on the harmonic generation from Au and CuS nanoparticle films”
Dr. Jason Zhang – King Group
“Neutralization of the new coronavirus by extracting their spikes using engineered liposomes”

July 21, 2023
Dr. Pavan Chaturvedi – Kidambi Group
“Ion transport through CVD grown 2D materials”
Brock Fletcher – Duvall Group
“Engineering Cas9 protein and guide RNA enables systemic carrier-free gene editing in mouse model of muscular dystrophy”

July 28, 2023
Elena Kovalik – Valentine Group
“Low Power Electrochemical Modulation of Silicon-based Metasurfaces”
Dmitry Koktysh & Benjamin Schmidt – VINSE
“VINSE New and Updated Capabilities”