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Tirrell Group

Sarah Perry, Ph.D.

  • Postdoctoral Fellow (Alumni 2014)
    Current: Faculty member, UMass

Sarah L. Perry received bachelor's degrees in chemical engineering and chemistry from the University of Arizona, as well as a master's in chemical engineering, working on gas phase methods for chemically passivating silicon surfaces for semiconductor manufacturing. She received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working on microfluidic platforms for the crystallization and study of membrane protein crystallization with Professor Paul J. A. Kenis. She began working as a postdoc for Professor Matthew Tirrell in the Bioengineering Department at the University of California at Berkeley and moved with the lab to the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. Her initial research in the Tirrell Group focused on the use of self-assembling DNA-lipid films for use in transfection. Currently, she is working to develop design rules to understand the structure and self-assembly of biomimetic complex coacervate systems for use as artificial organelles or nanoreactors. She is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.