A couple of days late, but congratulations to Dr. Dhanush Amarasekara for successfully defending his dissertation entitled "Engineering Functionalized Nanomaterials for Targeting and Ablating Biofilms."

@AJamesMcCarthy @nmr900

First TROSY on the 800 MHz was a little ambitious: Protonated 15N ApoA1. But this isn't bad for a rotation student's first prep! Nice job, Choy and Gabriel! #NMR @chem_msstate

I generate RSS searches using NCBI, and then I monitor abstracts/titles using Feedly. youtu.be/BQ3NaCjLfOQ?si=U0b4…

I couldn't make it to BPS this year, but I still got some cool Brukern swag. Thanks to Justin Lovett from the Johnson lab!

To follow up, Radha performed hydrogen-exchange #NMR and methylation mass spec. In a recent article in Langmuir, she identified potential binding regions in a small protein. There are implications for #nanoparticle coronas, #biofilms, and #microplastics. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…

New research on protein interactions with polystyrene surfaces! In a new article in Small, Radha used a series of protein stability and binding affinity measurements to develop a structural hypothesis for polystyrene binding: "Adsorbotopes" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Watch out, bacteria, and move over, nanorods! Dan's recent manuscript shows that elastin-like polypeptide (ELP) functionalized gold nanospheres are inherently tunable, low-fouling, and have photothermal conversion efficiencies that rival nanorods. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…

@bruker 800 MHz NMR delivery today! The instrument is (in pieces) in the building! Special thanks to Dr. David Wallace for helping us out with his forklift! #NMRChat @msu_bagley_dean @MSUArtsSciences

Newly-minted Dr. Radha Somarathne was recently featured as one of MSU's "Graduate Student Ambassadors" at this week's Annual Research Celebration. Check out her video! @chem_msstate @MSUArtsSciences youtube.com/watch?v=oPi2GERx…