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Happy Thanksgiving!! While your food is cooking today, learn about the Maillard reaction responsible for golden brown deliciousness. Remember to avoid excess pyrolysis for optimal caramelization!

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Wishing a Happy Birthday to CBE PhD candidate, Jacob Kronenberg! 🥳 Celebrations made complete with α-helical candles!🕯️

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STEM Research can be quite challenging & even draining at times. nyutandon MS candidate Halle Gibson shares her tips for how she maintains a healthy work life balance: http://montclare.poly.edu/?p=4181

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Can't get enough of Fabulous Fibers from National Chemistry Week? Our new research paper was just accepted in RoySocChem Molecular Systems Design & Engineering! Come read how we revamped our fabulous protein fibers to form extended crosslinked hydrogels! https://doi.org/10.1039/D2ME00153E

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Celebrated annually on October 23 from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m., Mole Day commemorates Avogadro's Number (6.02 x 10²³), the basic unit of measurement in chemistry!

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Wishing our post-doc Nada a 🍓Berry 🍓 Happy Birthday with a @montclarelab #labtradition!

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Thank you James Perez for always supporting the research team with your enthusiasm, encouragement, and efforts. @MontclareLabs will dearly miss you and wish you all the best on your next adventure!

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NYU tandon #undergrad Isha Krishna shares a vulnerable moment encountered during her early days of working at the @montclarelab. Read her story of grit and resolve here: http://montclare.poly.edu/?p=4181

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Our new paper combining experimental & computational approaches to investigate the design of coiled-coil protein materials is now out in ACS Biomacromolecules! Come learn how we are developing exciting fibrous protein materials for drug delivery.

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Help us in welcoming Nada as a new addition to our lab!

Nada's background is in Biomedical Engineering, having received her B.S. from Case Western Reserve University, M.S. from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. from the City College of New York. Her areas of expertise involve biomaterial development of naturally-derived and synthetic polymeric scaffolds for a variety of tissue engineering applications. Prior to graduate study, she held research positions in industry R&D and clinical trials of investigational biomedical devices. She will be conducting research developing protein-based biomaterial scaffolds for tissue engineering and drug delivery with an emphasis on orthopedic tissue repair under the Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowship program.

Postdoc #Meetascientist #AAAS #Lablife #365today

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Another publication under our belts: "Engineered protein–iron oxide hybrid biomaterial for MRI-traceable drug encapsulation"

#meetascientist #AAAS #Lablife #365today #project365 #phd #Academia #Chemistry #bioengineering #STEM #womeninscience #womeninstem

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My Steps Toward Science, Biomaterials, and the Lab

By: Jessica Wong

When I was young, I would come home after school and spend hours in my living room, captivated by the guppies in my fish tank. My mother and I had bought three red-yellow hybrid males and two silver females. Within a few months, there were around a hundred guppies with many colors and black-patterned tails, none of which looked the same. I didn’t have the terminology or conceptual knowledge to understand what was going on at the time, but one day I would learn in science class that genetic mutations occurred with each generation.

In high school, my biology teacher had terrariums with frogs, a leopard gecko, and a betta fish. It easily became my favorite classroom and my favorite class. We learned about the Krebs cycle, the chi-square test, and levels of biological organization. In one of our experiments, we used micropipettes to observe antibiotic resistance in E. coli, and I loved seeing the tangible results and confirmation of my hypotheses. The kinesthetic and visual factors of science experiments always stuck with me, and I applied what I had learned to my daily observations and current events on the news. 

I spent a summer in the Dominican Republic teaching English, and we lived across a hospital. There was one day when the hospital’s parking lot was crowded with motorcycles, and my friend explained that the clinics were offering free walk-in services for those who could not afford to regularly seek medical attention. I devoted my senior year to researching the lack of access to affordable healthcare and realized that I wanted to personally contribute to engineering a solution, specifically in personalized medicine. 

Knowing that science, particularly biomaterials, was a consistent and growing interest of mine, I took a step toward the fields of biomolecular science and biomedical engineering at NYU. Since then, I have gained experience in lab techniques in advanced molecular biology and organic chemistry labs. I’m currently studying abroad at NYU Abu Dhabi and conducting research in the Laboratory for Immuno Bioengineering Research and Application, running T-cell exhaustion tests on polyacrylamide hydrogels and studying interactions between macrophages, fibroblasts, and myofibroblasts on collagen hydrogels. My time in the lab involves fabricating hydrogels, refreshing cell cultures, and fluorescence-activated single cell sorting with the cytometer. In addition, the support that I have received from my labmates and the support that I extend to new researchers spurs a driven, inquisitive, and friendly research environment. 

Science has always involved finding the answer to an observation or question I have. It has encouraged me to ask questions and be realistic in accounting for my mistakes. The collaborative factor in learning about other lab mates’ research and passions is another motivation and environment that I enjoy engaging in. This summer, I’m excited to learn more about experimental design, apply the protein purification and expression lab techniques I have learned, and collaborate with fellow researchers as I join the effort of developing biomaterials in the Montclare lab. 

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In honor of #womenengineeringday . 

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We’ve been a little busy over here ….. 

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A little late, but Happy birthday Julia !! 

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Yesterday we were able to celebrate our RA Appys’s birthday. #happybirthday !!

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