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Duraj Lab at Virginia Tech
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Members of the SMART Living Materials Lab, two PhD students, Nicolas Burns, Harrison Priode, one undergrad, Braden Ross, and a high school student, Athithi Prakash, presented our latest advances in Engineered Living Materials at the 2025 MRS Fall Meeting!
December 2, 2025
Prof. Duraj co-organized 4-day Symposium SB03: Materials-Driven Strategies in Living Matter Engineering during 2025 MRS Meeting & Exhibit! We featured 46 speakers ( 21 Invited Speakers) showcasing breakthroughs in engineered living materials, biohybrid systems, bioelectronics, therapeutic and fungal living materials, and sustainable biomaterials!
December 1, 2025
Prof. Duraj presented her lab’s work on “Expanding the Landscape of Autogenic Engineered Living Materials” during Engineered Living Materials Workshop, hosted by the Synthetic Biology Institute at Rice University!
October 22, 2025
Prof. Duraj presented lab's work at Johns Hopkins Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Seminar Series!
September 22, 2025
Busy summer, big progress, and lots of laughs!
August 1, 2025
Prof. Duraj has been named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors!
June 25, 2025
Jacob Liu, Saher Siddique, and Priya Solanki were awarded the Undergraduate Biotechnology Research Fellowship to conduct research in our lab during the summer!
June 16, 2025
Graduation ceremony of Dr. Hoda Hammad. She started her postdoc at at Washington University in St. Louis in the lab of Eva-Maria Strauch!
May 14, 2025
Prof. Duraj delivered Keynote Speech during 1st National Biophysics Meeting in Lerma, Mexico!
May 7, 2025
Prof. Duraj received a Virginia Tech Recognition Award—congrats!
April 28, 2025
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