Kimia Mirlohi has won the 2027 WCC/Pfizer Emergent Leader Award!
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Kimia Mirlohi's work with our LSU collaborators on polypeptide and polypeptoid complexation with nucleic acids has been published in Biomolecules!
Dr. Blocher McTigue gave a seminar on her group's work at the City College of New York. The presentation highlighted research by Kimia Mirlohi, Chaeyoung Lim, and Ana Becker, detailing the lab's three main branches.
Kimia Mirlohi and Kavya Famolari's work on poly(L-lysine) and nucleic acid complexation as a function of polymer length has been published in ACS Omega!
Prof. Blocher McTigue presented work surrounding the phase transitions of carboxymethyl cellulose polyelectrolyte complexes at the 2026 APS March Meeting titled "Enzymatic Degradation of Precipitates and the Processing of Coacervate Droplets of Cellulose-Derived Materials to Study Phase Transitions." This talk highlighted recently published reseach from Chaeyoung Lim and ongoing work from Ana Becker.
Dr. Blocher McTigue gave a seminar on her group's work at Johns Hopkins University. The presentation highlighted research by Kimia Mirlohi, Chaeyoung Lim, and Ana Becker, detailing the lab's three main branches.
Chaeyoung Lim's work on the enzymatic degradation of complexes between carboxymethyl cellulose and poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) has been published in Biomacromolecules!
Alli Courtenay and Matt Mastowski's work on solution blow spinning has been published in the Journal of Polymer Physics!