Sarah Perry (she/her)

Congratulations to Dr. Xianci Zeng, who defended her PhD dissertation on "Bioinspired Strategies for the Encapsulation and Stabilization of Biomacromolecules!" Dr. Zeng is the 10th PhD student to graduate from the Perry Lab! #LlabLlama

Did you like our recent papers on glass transitions in polyelectrolyte complexes? If so, you'll love @IsakoRamirez's new all-encompassing review article "Fundamentals and Design Rules of Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials: A Comprehensive Review"! doi.org/10.1021/acs.ch…

#LlabLlama is excited to be running the @UMassAmherst Dash & Dine 5K benefitting the @AmherstSurvival Center!

Are you interested in glass transitions in polyelectrolyte complexes? Check out these two new papers published in @MacroJrnls_ACS by @IsakoRamirez and our collaborators in @UMassPSE and @BASF! doi.org/10.1021/acs.ma… doi.org/10.1021/acs.ma…

Check out our new paper in @Biomac_ACS on "Tuning Protein Uptake through Charge and Hydrophobicity in Peptide-Based Complex Coacervates." You build up your intuition about a phenomenon. . . and then surprising results happen. 😉doi.org/10.1021/acs.bi…

Happy #InternationalWomensDay2026!

So excited that Sarthak Saha was awarded the 2024 UMass Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Best Dissertation Award for his research on "Advanced Microfluidics Platforms for Protein Crystallization and X-ray Crystallography"!

Check out our exciting new paper in @ACSPublications Macro Letters on “Complex Coacervate Emulsions as a Strategy to Stabilize Enzymes for Catalysis in Organic Solvents!” pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

It was awesome to have AIChE in Boston! Great time to catch up with friends and colleagues and of course #LlabLlama!

Interested in our Graduate Program? Come to one of our virtual information sessions: Monday, Nov. 17 at 12 pm EST, or Friday, December 5 at 10 am EST. Deadline to apply for PhD: December 10, 2025. umass-amherst.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Congratulations to Vaishnavi Mahankal on having won Best Poster, Life Sciences Division at the Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference for her work on "Fixed-Target Microfluidic Device for Anaerobic Crystallography"!!!

UMass Amherst Chemical Engineering @UMassChemEng Join us for one of our virtual information sessions, Oct 17 (10 am EST), Nov 17 (12 pm EST) or Dec 5 (10 am EST). PhD applications are due on December 10, 2025, MS applications on February 15, 2026. umass-amherst.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

We are so excited to have been awarded $2M from the @NSF #DMREF program to develop bio-inspired membranes in collaboration with Jessica Schiffman, Charles Sing, Cecilia Leal, Viviana Monje, and Jeffrey Ethier! umass.edu/news/article/t…

Excited to announce the 2026 FASEB Conference on Phase Transitions in Cellular Signaling & Disease! An exciting speaker lineup and >30% of talks will be chosen from submitted abstracts. tinyurl.com/3erxt4tk 📅 Jan 11–15, 2026; 📍 Melbourne, Florida 🌴

Happy #firstdayofschool! #LlabLlama

Check out the awesome new paper from our group, just published in Biomacromolecules (doi.org/10.1021/acs.bi…)! We looked at sequence effects in peptide complex coacervates. In addition to phase behavior studies, we also identified some really cool rheological phenomena!

Arvind, Júlia, and Jussara all gave fantastic talks on their work involving coacervates at the International Symposium on Polyelectrolytes! #LlabLlama approves!

The 2025 International Symposium on #Polyelectrolytes in @unicamp has been an amazing event so far! Such a great community, wonderful hosts, and awesome science! #LlabLlama

Looking for awesome #SciArt crafts? Check out this pattern for a needlepoint porcine parvovirus. Colors can be used to highlight different regions of a capsid surface. umass.edu/perry/DMREF/Ou… Thanks to @NSF #DMREF for funding our research on stabilizing viruses!

Congratulations to Khiem Le on having defended his MS thesis on the Development of Automated Infrastructure in Microfluidics for Site-Specific Labeling of RNA!