Dr. Peyton Shieh After taking California's weather to transition from Saudi's heat, she decided to return to MIT and brave New England's winters in pursuit of a PhD focusing on polymer chemistry and organic materials. See Announcement Here. If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website. This short review provides an excellent introduction to how topology dictates the properties of polymeric materials, and highlights recent developments in the area of using chemistry to characterize and control polymer network topology. 15 February 2021: We welcome new first year graduate students Alayna Johnson and Aiden Wang to the group! 3 October 2016: Former group member Dr. Mao Chen begins his new position as Assistant Professor at Fudan University. The aim of the project was to understand the transduction of ligand binding energy into allosteric signal transmission in proteins. 4 December 2019: Our collaborative work with Prof. Jeff Grossman and Prof. Yang Shao-Horn using molecular dynamics simulations to understand how structural modifications to PEO impact lithium transport in concentrated polymer electrolytes published online in Chemistry of Materials! Thanks Dr. Darryl Boyd (@DrBoyd_Chemist) for the great #JGSS talk about environmentally friendly polymer science outreach!!! 25 August 2020: Thanks to Professor Davita Watkins for being our first JGSS speaker and for presenting her exciting work on dendron-polymer hybrids for drug delivery! Congrat's Michelle! NIH Postdoctoral Fellow 11 December 2018: Matt's paper on "ROMP-out" highlighted on the cover of the latest issue of Macromolecules. He has continued to pursue this passion through several award winning regional contests in 2017 and 2018 and his further independent study. 13 November 2014: The group welcomes four new PhD students: Yuwei Gu, Gihan Hewage, Yivan Jiang, and Hung Nguyen! Congrats Gavin! Click on the image below to view the paper. Congrats to Matt, Yivan, and the rest of the group for this great work! See Kristi's excellent paper here: link. She stayed a stone’s throw from home to attend UT Austin and received her B.S. Her major subjects in MBA(Finance) were Business,Accounting, HRM, Marketing Management from University of Education. Needless to say, it was a full house, and I was never bored. Click on the image below to read the paper. 26 March 2018: Collaborative paper with the Shao-Horn group (MIT Mechanical Engineering) and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) on the design of modular salts for battery applications published online in Energy and Environmental Science. As the name suggests, Polymer Day is a day where we celebrate all things polymer-related at MIT and in the greater region. Congrats Frank! Once a visiting undergraduate student, now a PhD student. Thanks to Julia for making this event a great success! Extreme-Values Statistics and Dynamics of Water at Protein Interfaces. In this work, we show that Janus bottlebrush polymers with very short sidechains can self-assemble to form classical block copolymer morphologies with very small (sub-10 nm) domain sizes. Graduate Student We welcome first year MIT graduate students Melissa Donaldson and Alan Burts! We are thrilled to have her here for the summer! Congrats! 26 March 2018: Nolan's paper describing a new class of main-chain-zwitterionic supramolecular polymers, called poly(azolium amidinate)s or "PAzAms," published online in Macromolecules. Graduate Student 8 September 2011: Classes begin! Click on the image or links below to see the paper, read the MIT News highlight, and watch our video on loops in polymer networks! Hadiqa Zafar is lid van Facebook. Visiting Student Listen to Hadiqa Zafar | SoundCloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create.. 4 Followers. of Biology) on using RNAi signatures to investigate the mechanism of action of 3-drug conjugated BASP nanoparticles built from platinum crosslinkers published online in JACS. 6 January 2014: The group welcomes visiting student Johanna Ertl! 5 September 2018: Bo's paper on the role of selective anion binding in controlling litihium ion conductivity and transference number highlighted as a supplementary cover in JACS. Check out the story HERE (thanks to Ariana Remmel for writing this nice article). A great time was had by all. Congrats Yuwei! 15 November 2013: The group welcomes new graduate student Deborah Ehrlich. For his doctorate he synthesized a multitude of luminescent coordination complexes, in addition to moonlighting on research projects with a diving company and a local brewery. 18 December 2017: The group welcomes new visiting student Shuto Mochizuki and visiting professor Prof. Masahiro Fujita. 23 March 2018: Dr. Peyton Shieh is awarded an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship! 1 May 2020: Julia defends her thesis and is now officially Dr. Zhao! The famous TFSI anion is frequently used in batteries thanks to its excellent stability, but it cannot be easily chemically modified to alter its properties such as solubility and size. This work comprises a wonderful collaboration with the Willard, Van Voorhis, and Craig (Duke) groups and is supported by the NSF Center for the Chemistry of Molecularly Optimized Networks (MONET). Welcome Matt! Hadiqa spent her early years in Oakland, California, but moved to Austin, Texas as soon as she could. After coming to UT, I've learned an unbelievable amount academically and socially, and I am blessed to be able to call this campus home. Alayna is continuing to pursue her research interests of polymer and materials chemistry in the Johnson Group. Click on the image below to read the paper, and check out the accompanying MIT News story HERE. 5:53. You are welcome here! She obtained a B.S. 3 June 2013: Alex's JACS paper receives media attention: 30 May 2013: Carbene surfaces featured as the MIT homepage spotlight! Congrats to the whole team, especially Mingjun and Shuting, for this great effort! Some of my favorite hobbies are traveling, running, hiking, and painting. Dr. Gavin Kiel 17 July 2018: Bo's paper on using anion recognition to control the conductivity of lithium in solution is published in JACS. Visiting PhD student Martin Lahn Henriksen joins from Aarhus University in Denmark. 17 March 2015: Mao's paper on improving photo-controlled radical polymerization from trithiocarbonates using continuous flow techniques appears online in Chemical Communications Congrats Mao! Prior to starting graduate school, he worked in Yi Liu's group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Molecular Foundry on dynamic covalent chemistry approaches to interlocked cage compounds. 5 October 2015: New post-doc Matt Golder joins the group! 1 July 2016: Former group member Dr. Jonathan C. Barnes begins his new position as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis. 6 February 2017: Collaborative paper with the Balazs group on photoregeneration of severed gels published online in Soft Matter. I worked in Prof. Huaping Xuâs lab using radical polymerization to synthesize selenium-containing polymers as an undergraduate. Hadiqa has 3 jobs listed on their profile. View Hadiqa Zafar’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. In addition, it allows us to easily incorporate multiple functionalities onto the same macromonomer, which is a gamechanger for our projects on drug delivery and imaging with bottlebrush and brush-arm star polymers. Click on the image below to read more about the award. At MIT, he will work jointly with the Shao-Horn group on the discovery of new electrolyte materials using high-throughput methods. Click on the image below to read the paper. Graduate Student My name is Hadiqa, and I'm a third year studying Chemistry at the best university in the world. Congrats Jessica! 4 May 2021: Michael receives a PMSE Best Poster Award for his presentation entitled "Highly Ordered Ion Conducting Polymer Electrolytes for Decoupled Ion Transport" at the Spring 2021 Virtual ACS Meeting! Wencong Wang Misrock Postdoctoral Fellow I was born in China and received my BS in Chemical Biology from Tsinghua University in Beijing. Click on the image below for details. 9 November 2012: Counting loops by "S/L Method" paper appears in PNAS (click on the image below to access the paper). In this paper, Yoshiki demonstrates the synthesis of brush-arm star polymers with arms of varied composition through the convergent cross-linking of independently synthesized living bottlebrush polymers. After graduating, he went to Harvard as a research fellow under Prof Brian Liau, working on a PROTAC targeted at nuclear lamins. 9 August 2019: Mingjun, Wenxu, and Bo's collaborative work with the Shao-Horn group appears online in Chemistry of Materials. 3 February 2020: We welcome new postdoc Dr. Sipei Li! I think some of my most defining personality traits originate from the curiosity that was fueled from that independence. 19 June 2020: Dr. Gavin Kiel is awarded a Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Chemical Sciences. Sci. 21 November 2019: The Johnson group is thrilled to welcome 8 new PhD students! Graduate Student The Johnson group firmly believes that diversity is a source of scientific creativity and innovation. DuPont, 2014 8 March 2021: On this International Women's Day we thank the Johnson Group Women for their many outstanding contributions to our group, the MIT Chemistry Department, and the world in general. 1 July 2016: Former group member Dr. Mingjiang Zhong begins his new position as Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Yale University. Congrats Jonathan! 1 December 2015: Ken and Mingjiang's paper on counting primary loops in tetrafunctional and mixed-junction networks prepared using click chemistry appears online in Macromolecules! 22 April 2020: Collaborative paper with the Grossman and Shao-Horn groups on using machine learning and molecular dynamics to guide the design of polymer electrolytes published online in Chemistry of Materials. I received my BS in Chemistry from Brown University, where I worked with Professor Eunsuk Kim, synthesizing biomimetic metal complexes for oxygen atom transfer chemistry, such as COÂ2 reduction. Click on the image below to read the paper. Thieme Chemistry Journal Award for New Faculty Click on the image below to view the open access paper, and read the MIT News story here. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. Valerie Lensch Click on the image below to read the paper. I was born and raised in Minnesota and received my bachelorâs degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota â Twin Cities. 13 February 2020: The annual Johnson Group Ski Trip to Killington, VT happened from Feb 11â13. Megan then traveled east across the nation to the âother sunshine stateâ for graduate school at University of Florida. Research stints at IBM Research with Dr. Jeannette GarcÃa and at the Leibniz Institut für Festkörper und Werkstoffforschung Dresden with Dr. Daria Mikhailova lead him to the field of battery chemistry and its intersection with polymeric materials. Congrats Michelle! 13 January 2016: IEG+ paper highlighted in Synfacts! Congrats Alan and Alex! At the age of 18, he traveled to Beijing and spent four years there in Peking (also known as Beijing) University to obtain his bachelor's degree in materials chemistry. 1 June 2018: Junpeng Wang will start his independent career as an Assistant Professor at the University of Akron in the Department of Polymer Science in January 2019. Thanks to Brad and Rui for the great work! I hail from Round Rock, Texas, but I spent my childhood in the beautiful Bay Area in Oakland, California. 7 February 2018: Matt and Yivan's paper on the role of stereochemistry in the self-assembly of unimolecular block copolymers is highlighted as a supplementary cover in JACS. 14 September 2015: IEG+ paper highlighted by Chemistry World! 23 August 2018: Shuting's perspective article on an exciting development in lithium-oxygen battery chemistry from Nazar and coworkers published online in Science. Ehrlich!! 29 August 2014: Alex is recognized with a prestigious American Chemical Society Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowship. However, a few key events have made it so. 30 September 2013: Alan and Yan's paper that describes the "Brush-first and Click Method" for photo-triggered drug delivery appears online as part of a special issue of Photochemistry and Photobiology dedicated to the memory of Prof. Nick Turro. Pop singer-turned-actor Ali Zafar is eagerly waiting for the release of the music album of his next movie-‘London Paris New York’. 15 December 2018: Welcome to our four new graduate students Allie Sourakov, David Lundberg, Keith Husted, and Michael Stolberg! In 2008 my parents, siblings and I drove halfway across the country to move to Round Rock (RR donuts, anyone? Congrats Ken and Mingjiang! The hospitals where he lived were not equipped to treat his diagnosis, and his family had to move to Boston. Sloan Research Fellowship The use of protonation to switch nonaromatic expanded porphyrins to their corresponding anti-aromatic forms has not been widely explored. He then focused his efforts on the logical next step: a PhD in chemistry. Congrats Sachin! My brother and I were given a lot of autonomy to explore to our heart's content, and we loved going around the streets and parks in our neighborhood, making up scenarios and creating our own worlds to spend time in. In August 2019 Chris joined the Johnson group, where he will switch his chemistry knowledge to polymeric materials. Hadiqa Kiani With Her Son And Ali Zafar image of Arts & Entertainment photos collection at Hamariweb.com. 1 September 2020: We welcome new postdoc Dr. Bin Liu! 1111 W 24th St., Suite 200 Only show available items. #Pakistan's #best drama #Classics #FawadKhan #SanamSaeed #HumTV #dramas #AliZafar #HadiqaKiani #ost #bestost #mashup Please Subscribe for more classics Required Cookies & Technologies. Special offers. 26 June 2017: Nate Oldenhuis receives an NIH F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship. 5 December 2016: Yufeng's paper on Star PolyMOCs published online in Angewandte Chemie. Bin was born and grew up in Hunan Province, China. 21 December 2020: Two more pieces of great news! 4 January 2021: Welcome 2021! I am excited to continue my studies of polymer chemistry and extend my work to principles underlying control of network topology in the Johnson group at MIT. Congrats Alexandra! 21 August 2017: Yoshiki's paper on mikto-brush-arm star polymers ("MBASPs") is published online in ACS Macro Letters. 21 March 2019: Former graduate student Alex Zhukhovitskiy is featured in the ACS Polymer Division (POLY) Member Spotlight. A lot of very hard work went into this fantastic paper. 11 July 2011: The Johnson Group begins! First, Dr. Samantha Kristufek has been awarded an Infinite Expansion Award from the MIT School of Science for her outstanding contributions to our research and our group and departmental climate as a whole. in Chemistry. When not in lab, Abe enjoys running, cooking, and eating spicy food. This manuscript has been a dream for many years and it's exciting to see it come to fruition! Chemistry Department 2020 Mentorship Spotlight Award, Kavanaugh Translational Innovation Fellowship, Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Chemical Sciences, 2020 Vera List Prize for Writing on the Visual Arts, IUPAC-SOLVAY Internatioal Award for Young Chemists, Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL), International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists Finalist, ACS Polymer Division (POLY) Member Spotlight. In this paper, Matt and Yivan prepared a series of stereoisomeric block copolymers using our IEG strategy. 4 March 2015: NHC cycloelimination paper selected for the cover of Chem. The group's 4th PhD!!! Congrats Ken! Congrats to Hung and thanks to all of our collaborators for this great work! 1 July 2016: Alex's paper on inserting persistent carbenes into Si-H bonds in molecules, nanoparticles, and planar surfaces appears online in JACS. Here, we show that free-base pyriamethyrin and dipyriamethyrin display nonaromatic character, as inferred from NMR spectroscopic analyses, their optical properties, and th IUPAC-SOLVAY International Award for Young Chemists, "Universal Cyclic Topology in Polymer Networks", "Three People to Watch in Kendall Square in 2016. Click here or on the image below to visit the MONET website. 27 June 2019: The Jonhson group mints 4 new PhDs! Member, Koch Institute at MIT Hadiqa Zafar's 13 research works with 47 citations and 812 reads, including: Synthesis of α,α´-linked penta- and septaheterocycles by tandem Suzuki coupling He also spent a summer in Dr. Marcus Weckâs laboratory at New York University, where he studied the fundamentals of morphology control of multicompartment micelles synthesized using ROMP. 8 March 2021: Congrats to Sachin for being awarded a Slavin Family Foundation Fellowship! I want to ride for my aunt who battled breast cancer, and for the people affected by cancer in her life. 10 April 2014: Yan and Jenny's work on the synthesis of multi-drug-loaded nanoparticles for ratiometric triplex combination cancer therapy appears in JACS. 19 March 2021: Our paper on the development of BET inhibitor bottlebrush polymer prodrugs that display improved safety and efficacy in mouse models of triple-negative breast cancer appears online in JACS. Hadiqa spent her early years in Oakland, California, but moved to Austin, Texas as soon as she could. LetÃcia grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I value them incredibly; they've made me who I am today. Thanks to Anna and her group for the great collaboration! Congrats! Dynamic and Energetic Signatures of Adenine Tracts in a rA-dT RNA-DNA Hybrid and in Homologous RNA-DNA, RNA-RNA, and DNA-DNA Double Helices. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, 2016-2017 School of Science Prize in Undergraduate Teaching, MPSM: Chemistry Department Site and How to Declare, Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry. Looking forward to working with you Abe, Hadiqa, Khrystofor, Landon, Leticia, Valerie, Yasmeen, and Zehao! Verified account Protected Tweets @; Suggested users View all of Hadiqa Zafar's Presentations. 10 May 2017: Congrats to Dr. Ken Kawamoto for successfully defending his thesis! Please feel free to contact us with questions: Texas 4000 for Cancer 19 August 2015: Flow-IEG paper highlighted by C&EN@ACS Boston 2015 and C&E News, Science and Technology, News of the Week! Graduate Student Columbia University Department of Chemistry, 2006 At Berkeley I majored in physics and minored in chemistry. Department of Chemistry Congrats to Hung and thanks to our collaborators from the Rajca, Jasanoff, Ghobrial, and Ghoroghchian groups! 13 May 2013: Alex's "addressable carbenes for gold surfaces" JACS paper appears online. 10 July 2018: Welcome back visiting undergraduate student Leticia Costa who joins us again this summer! Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry. Outside of lab, I like travelling, taking photos, and fixing all kinds of stuff. Read about Aaja Sajna - feat. 8 May 2012: Johnson group journal blog launched. 2005-2007 Background: With AI, a pitmaster can establish a system that lessens the arduousness of barbecuing. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. 13 January 2017: Mao and Yuwei's paper on Living Additive Manufacturing via Photo-Redox Catalyzed Growth (PRCG) of polymer networks published online in ACS Central Science. Abe grew up in Northampton, Massachusetts with his twin brother Jonah, before escaping the Northeast to attend the University of Chicago and become a "molecular engineer." 10 October 2016: Congratulations to Dr. Jenny Liu, the group's second PhD!!! My name is Hadiqa, and I'm a third year studying Chemistry at the best university in the world. Specific Heat of Pyrex Glass from 25° to 175° C.1. 23 January 2018: Matt and Yivan's paper on the role of stereochemistry in the self-assembly of unimolecular block copolymers appears online in JACS. Hadiqa Zafar 5 November 2018: Former visting student Dr. Manuel Hartweg re-joins the group as a postdoc. Undergraduate research with Karen L. Wooley. Thank you Johnson Group Women for your amazing contributions to science and for making the Johnson group a wonderful place to be! Back to tab navigation. 9 April 2015: Ken's paper on combining tetrazine-metal coordination and Diels-Alder reactions for the synthesis of functional supramolecular gels appears online in ACS Macro Letters! Landon Kilgallon Assistant Professor, 23 March 2018: It was great to hang out with friends and family at the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans! Note that while our article was in press, Professor Kristi Anseth's group published a related paper on tetrazine-norbornene hydrogels for 3D cell culture. Yasmeen was born and raised in Saudi Arabia, and moved to the United States to pursue her undergraduate studies. 8 November 2017: The group welcomes new UROP Alexandra Sourakov! Congrats to Jonathan and the whole BASP team! Michelle demonstrates that these block copolymers can bind to zinc ions and yield easily processable and highly stable crystalline polyMOFs embedded within amorphous polymer networks. Click on the image below to read the paper. Congrats to Peyton and Bin for these very prestigious honors! 19 April 2017: Ken Kawamoto presented his research on branched-bottlebrush polymer assembly in the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium at the ACS National Meeting in San Francisco. She is expert in Finance. Find and share Hadiqa Kiani With Her Son And Ali Zafar all latest pictures with your Friends and Family. Firmenich Career Development Associate Professor (w/o Tenure). 19 February 2020: We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Jessica Lamb has accepted a junior faculty position in the Department of Chemistry at Univeristy of Minnesota! Specific Heat of Pyrex Glass from 25° to 175° C.1. Slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. 9 March 2020: The Johnson Group and Window Therapeutics LLC awarded an Assay Cascade Award from the Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL)! 15 October 2013: The group welcomes new post-doc Dr. Mingjiang Zhong. 14 February 2014: The group welcomes new post-doctoral scholar Dr. Jonathan Barnes! 12 July 2017: Hung's paper on BASP-ORCAs, the first metal-free paramagentic agents with sufficient stability and relaxivity for MRI imaging in vivo up to 20 h following injection, is published in ACS Central Science. 0. in Chemistry from UC Berkeley, where she conducted research in Prof. Omar Yaghi's Lab working on post-synthetic modifications of Covalent Organic Frameworks. Click on the image below to read the paper. 4 April 2019: Gaby and Hung's paper on ROMP of polyoxazoline macromonomers published online in ACS Macro Letters. Cassidy was my best friend through some of my most defining phases of life, and I could talk to her about anything because we were always on the same wavelength. Thank you to the MEP-1 organizers and, in particular, Prof. Jiandong Ding. 10 June 2014: The lab receives NIH support for the development of organic radical MRI contrast agents.
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