Israt Jahan Duti

March: 

• • • • • I give a talk on engineering peptide biomaterial with tunable mechanics and lifetime at the Chemical Engineering Research Symposium (CHEERS) 2024 at UVA. 

        • I present a poster on tunable biomaterials using peptide stereochemistry at the annual University of Virginia Engineering Research Symposium (UVERS) 2024. 

August: My first lead-author research paper as a graduate student titled 'Peptide Stereocomplexation Orchestrates Supramolecular Assembly of Hydrogel Biomaterials' is published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (impact factor 15). 

May: I have been elected as the Public relation chair at The Graduate Engineering Student Council (GESC) at the University of Virginia executive committee 2023-2024. 

March: 

• • • • • I share my work on designing biomaterials using at Chemical Engineering Research Symposium (CHEERS) 2023 at UVA and have been awarded the first place in poster session . 

        • I successfully organized the annual University of Virginia Engineering Research Symposium (UVERS) 2023 with participation of 200+ students along with 70 faculties and industry professionals.  Thanks to all the GESC members for their support!

January: I present a poster on engineering peptide biomaterials using stereochemistry at Peptide Materials Gordon Research Conference in Galveston, Texas. 

November: I give a talk on stereochemistry-driven biomaterials at 2022 AIChE Annual Meeting in Phoenix

September: I share my work on new disinfecting materials for water purification at the Pure Madi event!

July: I present my work on stereocomplexed hydrogels on Summer seminar series of Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Virginia

May: I have been elected as the Academic co-chair at The Graduate Engineering Student Council (GESC) at the University of Virginia executive committee 2022-2023. 

April: My PI, Rachel Letteri, receives an NSF CAREER award for the project I am working on developing dynamic hydrogel biomaterials with tunable mechanics using peptide stereochemistry! Read more here.

March: 

• • • • • I present my work on engineering biomaterials using stereochemistry as a finalists at the University of Virginia Engineering Research symposium (UVERS).

        • I give a talk on stereochemistry-driven gelation at Chemical Engineering Research Symposium (CHEERS) at UVA. I also present a poster on developing stereocomplexed biomaterials.  

January:  I start a project with James Smith's lab at UVA and their company, Silivhere Technologies, to develop water purification polymeric tablets. Read more here.

December: Our review article on peptide assembly is accepted in Acta Biomaterialia!  In collaboration with the Lampe Lab, we enjoyed reviewing the design, preparation, characterization, and application of assembling peptides.  

October: I present a poster on tuning biomaterials with peptide stereochemistry at the Fifth Annual Mid-Atlantic Biomanufacturing Symposium in Charlottesville.

August 2021: 

• • • • • I give a talk on peptide stereocomplexes as supramolecular cross-links at the 2021 Fall ACS meeting in Atlanta

        • I passed Ph.D dissertation proposal exam and became Ph.D. candidate! Thanks to all the people of Letteri lab and my committee members. 

March: I share my work on designing hydrogels with peptide stereocomplex at Chemical Engineering Research Symposium (CHEERS) at UVA.

June: I am elected as Outreach chair at the Association of Bangladeshi Students at University of Virginia executive committee 2020-2021.  

February: I start a project with Lampe Biomaterial lab at UVA on stimuli-responsive pentapeptides' stereochemical assembly.