I got selected to give a talk as a part of the Distinguished Young Scholars Seminar (DYSS 2024) series at UW Chemical Engineering! Very excited to travel to Seattle for the first time, and meet with some wonderful students and faculty. Here is the speaker lineup: depts.washington.edu/dyss/2024.html

I think I finally understand the hype of living near water

As I begin this new chapter of my life at USF, I'd like to close out my previous with a big thank you to @Gassensmith lab for being such an integral part of my foundation as a (hopefully) future scientist! Special thank you's to my amazing mentors Sneha Kumari, PhD and Thomas Howlett! ❤️

And..another one! Very pleased to have received the JVN Merit Scholarship for the third time :)

TODAY! Sneha Kumari (Sneha Kumari, PhD), Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern (& Mirkin Group), will be sharing a talk titled: "Using ZIF-8 to Protect Biomaterials and Develop Patient-Friendly Modalities of Vaccine Delivery." PAA A114 11:00a.m. -12:00p.m. tinyurl.com/Kumari082024

I had the honor of spending the last two days at Merck in Rahway with the 2024 Underrepresented Chemists of Color winner cohort, as well as the wonderful people who work there. I learnt a lot while having so much fun! I am very grateful to have met these incredible folks.

For National Postdoc Appreciation Week, I will be accepting cash gifts through Zelle and Venmo

Finally submitted my last first-author paper from my PhD :')

When I moved to Evanston, I expected I would have to go into Chicago every time I wanted good food. But Evanston has surprisingly been delivering banger after banger!

Happy Diwali to everyone, especially to the transplants who can't be home with their families today!

Excited to share my first author paper is out today in Advanced Healthcare Materials! Special shoutout to Sneha Kumari, PhD and Ryanne Ehrman for helping me with the 3+ years of work that went into this and @Gassensmith for pushing me through it! doi.org/10.1002/adhm.2…

Chicago Restaurant Week ✅ I love this city so much

Wonderful talk by Mike Mitchell on modified LNPs at the International Institute for Nanotechnology today!

It pains me to know that Prof. Ray Baughman has passed away. He once bought me a drink at a department dinner and called me a "young superstar". I will remember his enormous contribution to science and his words to me, and channel his energy to expand the field of nanotechnology.

Excellent talk by Jihye Park earlier this afternoon, it was a full house!

Started this year's birding season with a Spring Migration birdwalk at Northwestern! We also met a rehabber, who showed us some birds she rescued that morning. (The brown bags hold the rescued birds, they're all alive and moving around in the bags)

Cancer. Diagnostics. Programmable materials. One Northwestern breakthrough is shaping it all. #SNAs power cancer drugs and diagnostics at over half the world’s top hospitals—and launched structural #nanomedicine. 🧪💜 #NUChemImpact 🔗 bit.ly/Mirkin-Impact