CBE Research Day

CBE Research Day

https://r.bai.group/umass-cbe-research-day UMass Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Research Day (Draft)Time & date: 8:45 – 18:30 ET, March 13th, 2026Location: Amherst Room (10th Floor of the Campus Center), 1 Campus Center Way, Amherst, MA 01002RSVP: https://r.bai.group/umass-cbe-research-day-rsvpFriday, March 13th, 20268:45 am – Breakfast will be set out9-10:20 – Four talks10:20-10:30 – Coffee break10:30-11:50 – Four talks11:40 am – Lunch will be set out11:50-1 pm – Lunch1-2:20 – Four talks2:20-2:30 – Coffee break2:30-3:30 – Three talks3:30-4:30 – Poster session4pm – Dessert will be set out4:30-5 – Brief award announcement5-6/6:30 – ReceptionList of talks:Materials1. John Arigbede – James Walsh Group - Studying Mn₇C₃ Under Extreme Pressure via Neutron Diffraction and First-Principles Modeling2. Siqi Chen – Zhou Lin Group - Learning Molecular Structure and Conformation Jointly from Infrared and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra3. Agyemang, Anthony Nana Prempeh – Maria Santore Group – The Interactions and Organization of Solid Domains within 2D Curved Membranes4. Diwakaran Rathinam Palaniswamy – Sarah Perry & Craig Martin Group - Microfluidic Platform for On-Demand Synthesis of Ultrapure RNA with Site-Specific ModificationsBioengineering1. Aniruddha Dhondiram Pinjari – Ashish Kulkarni Group - Engineering mRNA cancer vaccines to enhance immune stimulation without suppressing mRNA translation2. John Bauer – Lauren Andrews Group - Development of Interspecies Genetic Circuits in Bacterial Consortia for Bioremediation of Heavy Metals3. Hannah Hargrove – X. Frank Zhang Group – In silico Generation and Screening of Novel Peptide Drug Candidates4. Daniel Cai – Chao Zhao Group - Nerve Blocking Agent with Reduced Systemic ToxicityMaterials / Catalysis5. Pulkit Jain – Clark Chen Group – Real-time monitoring of local pH at the catalyst–ionomer interface using in situ surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy6. Seungbo Hong – Scott Auerbach Group - Unraveling the Blind Spots of Zeolite Formation: from Sol-Gel Properties to Crystalline Frameworks via Data Science and Density Functional Theory7. Success Eghosa Aiwekhoe – Wei Fan Group – Tuning Framework Al Distribution in MFI and *BEA Zeolites via Fluoride-mediated Synthesis8. Javed Khan – Peng Bai Group - Structure–reactivity relationships in zeolite-catalyzed carbonylation reactionsMaterials discovery9. Ping Yang – Peng Bai Group - Machine learning of shape selective separation of longchain hydrocarbon isomers in zeolites10.Majid Lasisi Balogun – Wei Fan Group – Machine Learning Assisted Direct Synthesis of Porous Materials with Controllable Compositions11. Nhan Huu Huy Tran – Clark Chen Group – High-throughput Discovery of Spinel Oxide for Seawater Electrolysis

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