ACS Spring 2025 Meeting
Recently wrapped up an exciting and inspiring week at the ACS Spring 2025 Conference right here in San Diego!
Our lab had a fantastic presence, with postdocs Yuan Li and Kevin Chalek delivering great talks on:
Solid-State NMR of morphologically distinct hydroxyapatite nanoparticles (Yuan)
Spider silk fibers and their structural insights via SSNMR (Kevin)
We also had a strong poster showing from our grad students:
Alexia de Loera, Lado Shapakidze, Davit Alimbarashvili, and John Malki — presenting exciting work on the Bio-Nano Interface and Spider Silk projects.
Special shoutout to undergrads Alexa Aishia Flores and Brianna Duarte, who presented a joint poster on validating AlphaFold-predicted spider silk structures using SSNMR data—a critical step toward bridging computational predictions with experimental structural biology. They’re mentored by Kevin Chalek and did a fantastic job!
Proud of the whole team for representing the lab so well—excellent science, thoughtful discussions, and strong community engagement all around.
