chemist, shiba mom, food enthusiast | Asst Prof @LehighChem | previously @MIT @CaltechCCE @UCB_Chemistry | #ochem #biomaterials

Joined February 2019
It's official! 🎉Beyond thrilled & honored to share that our lab has been awarded an @NIH @NIGMS #R35 #ESI #MIRA!! Thankful to all of our incredible lab members, mentors, colleagues, & collaborators! This 5-year grant will support our work on copper enzymology & O2 chemistry!
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Today we celebrated the final faculty meeting under Chair @edguo84, who has led our @CUSEAS dept since 2017 to Top 10🏆status! He was honored with a portrait featuring mascot Lulu and a custom @Columbia captain's chair. Congrats & many thanks from everyone in the dept Prof. Guo!
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Crystal Chu retweeted
Please retweet➡️The Langer/Traverso labs at #MIT are hiring! We're looking for a technical associate to join our team in developing ingestible therapeutic devices. You'll be working with a multidisciplinary team, including @jmigueljd and myself! 🦠💊 careers.peopleclick.com/care…
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If you are at #TERMISAM2023 and you are interested in hematopoietic stem cells, granulopoiesis and antibacterial strategies come see my talk tomorrow 4/13 at 10.30am at the Skin Wound an Inflammation session! #Hematopoieticstemcells #Biomaterials #TERMIS #Inflammation
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Big news! The Moore Lab is moving to @UMDBIOE and seeking postdocs & lab tech to advance our mission of leveraging the immune system for health equity. Apply now at themoorelab.com/people/open-… #research #immunology #healthinequity
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Join us for the @SFBiomaterials Future Faculty Workshop at #SFB2023! Sign up when you register. We've got some great panelist lined up @Geek_a_Chu @Benoit_Lab5 @AnaMaPorras @DrErikaMoore @RC_Cornelison!
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Finally #PhDone!!! What an incredible weekend, surrounded by many close friends, family, and collaborators who really made the end to my PhD @columbia so sweet. Thank you to all that attended & and to the most supportive advisor I could ever ask for throughout this journey.
Huge congratulations to Dr. @naveedtavakol for his successful Ph.D. Defense last Friday!! We are so proud of you ❤️🎉🍾🥂
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Please RT and share with your talented undergrads! Excited to host this webinar with @lehighmse to share advice and our experiences with deciding what research areas to focus on during graduate school. Come say hi and join us @LehighU @lehighengineers! 😎👋
Learn about how you can choose research areas in graduate school for your career goals from @lehighmse faculty & grad students! @LehighU @lehighengineers @LehighResearch Register today!: bit.ly/3XVIBe6
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Are you writing tenure, promotion, or award letters for colleagues in academic science? A group of us, gathered and inspired by @Academics4BSW, have assembled guidelines for writing anti-racist letters. Please read it, use it, and share it: elifesciences.org/articles/7…
Crystal Chu retweeted
Hey #BMES2022! I'll be giving a talk about #hydrogels for gastrointestinal applications. We had a blast figuring out how to do chemistry in the stomach. See 👇 for info - hope to see you there!
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Excited to be joining the University of Waterloo @UWaterloo in January as an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering! The Prince Lab will design functional polymer networks for healthcare and sustainability. I can't wait to get started 🧪🔬⚗️
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Congratulations to my colleague @Gilchrist_Lab, on his election as a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers! It's a great recognition of all his hard work and achievements.
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My lab is featured in this year's Early Career Materials Researcher Issue by MRS Communications! Congrats to Heejung, @cunin_camille, and @SanketSamal7 for getting the first lab's prospective published! tinyurl.com/3rvma37n
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First group picture of the TGF Lab! Off to a good start of the semester with our fab grad students Lisette, Josh and @buka_okpara and undergrad researchers Isabella, Sofia and Owen! @LehighBioE @LehighResearch
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Crystal Chu retweeted
Fantastic @lehighmse @LehighBioE seminar by the amazing @DrErikaMoore! Closing out her visit with all #biomaterials peeps @Geek_a_Chu @pashucklab @TheTGFLab @UFMSE @UFWertheim @LehighU @lehighengineers #squad 🥰☺️🤓😎
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This work stems from efforts of Prof. Bielawski, Prof. Xia @YanXiaLab and Prof. Boydston @aj_boydston in #Grubbs group @CaltechCCE. In collaboration of TLC lab @ETH_Materials, Quan, Julian and I managed to contribute to another piece of Bob’s legacy. Hope he smiles over there.
Scalable and continuous access to pure cyclic polymers enabled by ‘quarantined’ heterogeneous catalysts nature.com/articles/s41557-0…
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Crystal Chu retweeted
Y’all. @DrErikaMoore from @UFMSE is visiting me (ok fine also visiting @lehighmse & @LehighBioE) to share her lab’s exciting work on #biomaterials + #immunoengineering! @lehighengineers @LehighU get ready - all are welcome! 🤩🤩#squad #superstar #GoGators 🐊 #Rosaisexcited 🐕‍🦺
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Thank you @NSF for funding our LEAPS-MPS grant and @UNCG_CASOOR for highlighting our work! We are excited and busy in lab trying to reach our goals! #photocatalysis #STEMresearch #opportunities @uncg_chem @UNCG
Dr. Shabnam Hematian’s new NSF LEAPS grant will catalyze science and student research opportunities using cutting-edge green chemistry! @uncg_chem @UNCGResearch aas.uncg.edu/uncg-chemist-re…
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What a fantastic start to our #TPC2022 conference! Yesterday kicked off discussions from several of the top #polymer experts in our industry. Day one also included the much anticipated poster competition.
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