Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 VINSE NanoDay! Poster Competition! The 24th annual Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Forum Welcomed over 250 registered participants, representing 24 departments at Vanderbilt and partner institutions and 14 of industry collaborators. A total of 66 posters were presented, highlighting the wide range of research at VINSE, including contributions from five high school students from John Overton High School and Hillsboro High School. The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) co-sponsored the poster session at NanoDay! Thank you to Michael Hurst for attending NanoDay! and assisting with the award presentation. This year, along with cash prizes, NanoDay poster session winners will be awarded a membership to the Royal Society of Chemistry. Each winner will receive an invitation to submit a paper to one of RSC’s esteemed journals that includes Nanoscale, Lab on a Chip, and Energy & Environmental Science.
The poster award winners are:
1st Place
Shannon Martello, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Rafat group): “Neutrophil-Vasculature Interactions Promote Pro-Recurrent Niche Formation Post-Radiotherapy”
2nd Place
Harrison Walker, Interdisciplinary Materials Science (Pantelides group): “Polar-Topology-Mediated Phonons in Ferroelectric Superlattices”
Megan Keech, Biomedical Engineering (Duvall group): “Therapeutic siRNA conjugates for osteoarthritis”
3rd Place
Daniel Woods, Biomedical Engineering (Gonzales group): “Fabrication of flexible, transparent electrodes for acute recordings in non-human primates”
Hayden Pagendarm, Biomedical Engineering (Wilson group): “Albumin-binding nanobody-antigen fusions enhance antigen presentation and improve vaccine responses through pharmacokinetic modulation”
Lillie Cate Allen, Hillsboro High School (Kidambi group): “Optimizing the Porosity of Different PVDF Castings”
Fan Favorite
Patricia Poley, Biomedical Engineering (Duvall group): “Sustained Release of siRNA from Antioxidant Polymer Microparticles for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis”
INTERDISCIPLINARY MATERIALS SCIENCE 10-WEEK ROTATION POSTER WINNERS:
1st Place
Emanuela Riglioni, Interdisciplinary Materials Science (Ebrish group): “Optimization of etch, release, and transfer of GaN HEMTs devices”
2nd Place
Thiago Arnaud, Interdisciplinary Materials Science (Caldwell group): “Controlling polariton dispersion in anisotropic media through isotopic enrichment”