Israt Jahan Duti

November: Our work on polymer gels for water purification has been published in Water, titled 'N-Chloramine Functionalized Polymer Gels for Point-of-Use Water Disinfection' 

October : I joined Rosales Research Group as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.

August: I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation.

March: 

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

        • I presented 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', has been published in Journal of the American Chemical Society. 

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

March: 

• • • • • I shared 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 presented a poster on engineering peptide biomaterials using stereochemistry at Peptide Materials Gordon Research Conference in Galveston, Texas. 

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

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

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

        • I gave 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 started 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 'Biomaterials via peptide assembly: Design, characterization, and application in tissue engineering' has been accepted in Acta Biomaterialia.  

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

August 2021: 

• • • • • I gave 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 shared my work on designing hydrogels with peptide stereocomplex at Chemical Engineering Research Symposium (CHEERS) at UVA.

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

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