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December 2020

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  • Indian Institute of Chemical Engineering (IICHE) - CHEMCON- 2020, Kolkata, India : Chief Guest Dr. Georges Belfort to deliver invited talk entitled "Membrane Filtration with liquids: unresolved challenges and an in vitro selection method for structure-by design" at the Valedictory session (December 29 at 16:30 (Indian Standard Time)

  • Chenyu Guan defended his Masters thesis entitled "Protein-coated particle capture within a membrane during filtration: simulations"

  • ICOM 2020, London, UK :  Dr.  Georges Belfort delivers keynote talk entitled "Membrane Filtration with liquids: a global approach with prior success, new developments and unresolved challenges"

  • ICOM 2020, London, UK :  Dr. Mirco Sorci delivers talk "Linking microstructure of membranes and performance"

November 2020

AICHE 2020 virtual talks from the Belfort group:

  • Dr. Georges Belfort: 124d "Membrane filtration with liquids: a global approach with prior successes, new developments and unresolved challenges"

  • Dr. Georges Belfort chaired the SBE's James E. Bailey Award Lecture by Dr. Cato T Laurencin, U Conn

  • Dr. Mirco Sorci : 217d "Membrane selectivity for protein filtration by atomic force microscopy​"

  • Dr. Mirco Sorci" 348d "Linking microstructure of membranes and performance"

  • Chenyu Guan: 379a "How does membrane microstructure affect performance" 

  • Pranav Ramesh: 421e "SET-LRP modification of crosslinked polyimide membranes for organic solvent nanofiltration"

  • Matthew Wong: 627f "Engineering a cell-free system- enzyme fusion for enhanced production (Industry candidate)" 

August 2020

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June 2023

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Graduate student, Pranav Ramesh has defended his PhD thesis titled "Synthesis and Application of brush membranes for organic solvent nanofiltration". 

Dr. Ramesh (left) with Prof. Belfort (right)

May 2023

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Graduate student, Riddhi Banik gave an oral presentation titled "Immobilization of affinity groups on membranes to capture mRNA by design" at the 8th Graduate Student Symposium.

April 2023

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Graduate student, Pranav Ramesh's latest work titled "Highly tunable structure-by-design polymer brush membranes for organic solvent nanofiltration" has been published in Journal of Membrane Science. (https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1gxdF1LgHNjzlr)

March 2023

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2023 RNA Institute Annual Symposium, University at AlbanyProf. Georges Belfort delivered invited talk on "Novel adsorptive membranes for mRNA capture for vaccine manufacture"

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