PAST NEWS
Nov 2023
Three new papers were published in Protein Science and Pharmaceutical Research and Cancers and Proteases. Congrats to Arman, Hannaneh, Sachin, and Kyle!
Sep 2023
Engineering Assistant Professor Maryam Sarmazdeh gets NIH grant to purchase BLI Octet R8
Nandini Naidu received an NIH MARC fellowship.
May 2023
Dr. Sarmazdeh gave two invited talks at PEGS (The Essential Protein Engineering and Cell Therapy Summit) in Emerging Indications for Therapeutic Antibodies and Difficult-to-Express Proteins Tracks.
April 2023
Dr. Sarmazdeh gave an invited seminar talk at Louisiana State University- Department of Chemical Engineering.
March 2023
Dr. Sarmazdeh gave a presentation and chaired a session at the ASBMB conference in Seattle, WA.
Feb 2023
Jan 2023
Dr. Sarmazdeh presented in ICBE 2023, and PEPTALK San Diego.
Dr. Sarmazdeh serves as the Chair of Women in Chemical Engineering at AIChE.
The Sarmazdeh Lab was selected as one of the six top labs at UNR campus for Safety and Biosafety!
Nov 2022
A talk at AIChE was presented by Dr. Sarmazdeh.
Sep 2022
The Sarmazdeh Lab has been awarded a 2-year NIH-NICHD R21 Award with collaborators from the college of medicine.
July 2022
Dr. Sarmazdeh presented at the Protein Society meeting in San Francisco.
AJ Bolt defended his Master's thesis.
June 2022
The Sarmazdeh Lab participated in Engineering Camp for K-12.
May 2022
The Sarmazdeh Lab has been awarded a 2-year NIH Award from the National Institute of Aging.
March 2022
Dr. Sarmazdeh served on the Diversity and Inclusion (DI&B) Panel at ACS-BIOT, San Diego, CA.
Sarmazdeh Lab had two presentations at ACS-BIOT-San Diego.
Jan 2022
William Michener was awarded the NURA Award.
Nov 2021
Sarmazdeh group had two presentations at AIChE 2021 at Boston!
Graduate students from the lab presented at the Graduate Symposium. Congrats to Bella for winning 3rd place!
Aug 2021
We had two presentations at ACS-BIOT 2021, held virtually this fall.
Mari Toumaian presented a poster in the NURA poster presentation at UNR.
May 2021
Imam Sanousi got admitted to the University of Southern California- Medical School. Good luck on the next steps of your career Imam!
April 2021
Dr. Sarmazdeh gave an invited talk at the Biomedical Engineering Department- University of California Santa Cruz.
March 2021
Dr. Sarmazdeh gave a presentation at the Festival of Biologics.
Feb 2021
Dr. Sarmazdeh gave an invited talk at the Chemical Engineering Department at the Oklahoma State University.
Dr. Sarmazdeh gave an invited presentation at Cal State San Marco- Biochemistry Department.
Jan 2021
Dr. Sarmazdeh received INBRE Service Award.
Dec 2020
Mari won the NURA award. Amelia and Catherine joined our lab as part of PREP undergraduate research program.
Nov 2020
Sarmazdeh group was at the AIChE meeting (this year virtual).
Dr. Sarmazdeh gave an invited talk at the Cellular Molecular Pharmacology Physiology seminar.
Imam Sanousi got the best "Lightning Talk" award at the undergraduate research competition (this year held virtually).
Aug 2020
The lab moved to the new William Pennington Engineering Building (WNPEB). Check us on the move here!
June 2020
Dr. Sarmazdeh was selected as a project leader for an NIH-NIGMS-COBRE Integrative Neuroscience.
Imam Sanousi won the UROP award. Congrats Imam!
May 2020
The lab was awarded with mICRO R&I SEED GRANT.
March 2020
Dr. Sarmazdeh gave an invited talk at the Integrative Neuroscience seminar series.
Jan 2020
Dr. Sarmazdeh received the early-career faculty travel award from ASBMB.
Dec 2019
Dr. Sarmazdeh was selected as an early-career reviewer for Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC).
Nov 2019
Dr. Sarmazdeh gave a flash talk on protein engineering for solving recent health and energy issues at Meet Future Collaborators: Lightning Talks at the Knowledge Center.
Oct 2019
Dr. Sarmazdeh gave an invited talk at the Biochemistry Seminar Series at UNR on combining directed evolution and rational protein design to develop novel protein-based therapeutics.