Oct 2024: Our team members Qizen, Kandarp, Shiv, Jiahui, Azamat, Beth, Dinesh, and Avijit showcased their research at the AIChE 2024 Annual Meeting in San Diego. Great job sharing your insights and representing our group on an international platform! Special congratulations to Shiv for earning the distinguished AIChE CoMSEF Graduate Student Award 2024 for his exemplary research contributions in computational molecular science and engineering 🎉.
Oct 2024: Congratulations to Shiv and Azamat on passing their PhD preliminary exams! Well done on reaching this important milestone! 🎉👏
Sep 2024: Congratulations to Regan for winning the Dr. James and Cathy Holste Graduate Fellowship and to Jiahui for winning the Paul & Ellen Deisler Endowed Fellowship, both departmental awards offered by the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University for 2024-2025!
May 2024: Picture from our group's recent get-together.
April 2024: Shuo-Lin and Busra have successfully passed their Preliminary Exam! Congratulations to both of them! 👏👏
April 2024: Jeetain delivered a talk on April 30, 2024, as part of the Condensate Colloquium Series, a biweekly virtual series focusing on phase transitions and bio-condensates.
March 2024: Congratulations to Jiahui and Kandarp for passing their Preliminary Exam! Well done to both of them!
Feb 2024: Members of our group showcased their research at the Biophysical Society conference held in Philadelphia from February 10th to 14th, 2024.
Feb 2024: Welcome, Dr. Avijeet Kulshrestha, our newest postdoctoral researcher, to the group! Glad to have you on board, Avijeet!
Jan 2024: Congratulations to Ashish, Regan, and Keerthi for successfully passing the PhD qualifier! Additionally, a special congratulations to Ashish for receiving the Qualifying Exam Excellence Award!
Nov 2023: Photo from our group's year-end celebration. Wishing everyone Happy Holidays!
Oct 2023: Welcome, Ashish, Regan, and Keerthi, our newest additions to the group as PhD students!
Aug 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Utkarsh on his appointment as an assistant professor at the University of Wyoming! 🎉
July 2023: Congratulations to Azamat for receiving the Dr. Nazmul Karim Endowed Chemical Engineering Fellowship (2023-2024) offered by the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University!
June 2023: Picture capturing the final days of Utkarsh's tenure with the group during our lunch get-together.
May 2023: Dr. Abhinaw Kumar, a new postdoc, joins the group. Welcome Abhinaw!!
Mar 2023: Jeetain is invited to present group's research on protein condensates in DiscoverBMB (annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) in Seattle, Washington and in the ACS spring meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Feb 2023: Azamat, Shiv, Kandarp, Priyesh, Tien, Utkarsh, Beata, and Dinesh presented the diverse research projects undertaken in our group in the Biophysical Society (BPS) conference in San Diego, CA.
Feb 2023: Jeetain presented group's research in the 'Liquid, soft, alive: identifying the biological questions in the physics of cells' workshop that took place in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Feb 2023: Jeetain gave an invited research talk titled 'Molecular organization in biology: What can computer simulations teach us?' in the Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.
Feb 2023: Jeetain gave an invited research talk in the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.
Jan 2023: Jeetain attended the 'Designing soft matter in and out of equilibrium' workshop in Leiden, Netherlands and gave an invited talk on programming the assembly of multiflavored DNA-functionalized nanoparticles.
Dec 2022: Pictures from our group's end of year celebration. Happy Holidays!!
Sep 2022: Jeetain presented a lecture and a practical workshop on how to model protein phase separation in the 'Algorithms in Structural Bioinformatics school on Intrinsic Disorder in Proteins' in Corsica, France.
Sep 2022: Jeetain gave an invited research talk in the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
Sep 2022: 2/2 - Roshan M. Regy successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Roshan!! A few pictures from the post-defense celebration.
Sep 2022: 1/2 - Nina Jovic successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Nina!! A few pictures from the post-defense celebration.
Sep 2022: Dr. Gregory Dignon (group alumnus) starts as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University, NJ. Congratulations, Prof. Dignon!!
Sep 2022: Azamat, Nina, and Tien's work on predicting the helical propensities of intrinsically disordered proteins using a newly developed coarse-grained model now appears in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (JCIM). Congratulations All!!
Aug 2022: Dr. Beata Szała-Mendyk, a new postdoc, joins the group. Welcome Beata!!
Jul 2022: Runfang's work on compositional order and self-assembly pathways in binary colloidal mixtures is now published in JACS Au. Congratulations Runfang!! This work was done in collaboration with Prof. Ali Mesbah's group at University of California, Berkeley, CA.
Jul 2022: Qizan, Jiahui, and Beth attended the ACS colloid and surface science symposium in Golden, CO.
Jul 2022: A perspective article on multidomain protein phase separation written by the postdocs (Priyesh, Utkarsh, Dinesh, and Tien) and Ph.D. student (Azamat) now appears in Biochemistry. Congratulations All!!
Feb 2022: Azamat, Shiv, Tien, and Dinesh presented their research at the Biophysical Society (BPS) conference in San Francisco, CA.
Jan 2022: Kandarp and Jiahui successfully passed their Ph.D. qualifying examination. They both also won the qualifying examination excellence award for demonstrating a strong grasp of ChemE fundamentals and excellent analytical skills. Congratulations, Kandarp and Jiahui!!
Jan 2022: A cross-team collaborative work (Texas A&M University, University of Texas at Austin, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Brown University, and LUT University) looking at kinetic trapping in condensates formed by fused in sarcoma (FUS) protein is now published in Advanced Science. Roshan from the group contributed to this work. Congratulations Roshan!!
Nov 2021: Runfang Mao successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Runfang!!
Aug 2021: Our group has moved to Texas A&M to continue doing cool science.
