I received my PhD from the polymer science and engineering (PSE) department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in September of 20
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M. Muthukumar ~ $1.4M NIH Grant for DNA and RNA Sequencing Technologies
M. Muthukumar has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health of $1.4 million for four years for a research project entitled, "Computational Design Engine for Accurate and Efficient Sequencing of DNA and RNA"
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E. Bryan Coughlin ~ 2018 ACS Fellow
Prof. Coughlin has been elected a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. He will be recognized for this achievement at the upcoming ACS Meeting in Boston at both the ACS Fellows Award Ceremony on Monday August 20, and again at the...
Persistence of Perfect Packing in Twisted Bundles of Elastic Filaments
A study by Greg Grason and collaborators Andreea Panaitescu and Arshad Kudrolli at Clarke University was featured on the cover of the June 15, 2018 issue of Physical Review Letters. Tomographic experiments probe the evolution...
Di Jia and M. Muthukumar Report Unexpected New Dynamics for Large DNA Molecules in Liquid Suspension
The discovery by Di Jia and M. Muthukumar of a novel topologically frustrated dynamical state of DNA and other charged macromolecules inside a hydrogel is published in Nature Communications, 9, 2248 (2018). The origin of this...
Research Centers
- NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center on Polymers (MRSEC)
- Center for UMass Industry Research on Polymers (CUMIRP)
- NSF Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing (CHM)
- DOE Polymer-Based Materials for Harvesting Solar Energy (PHaSE) Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC)
- Soft Materials for Life Sciences National Research Traineeship (NRT)
Dissertation Defenses
Sep 05, 2018 - 10:00 AM
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Sep 07, 2018 - 10:00 AM
Sep 17, 2018 - 10:00 AM
Oct 22, 2018 - 10:00 AM
Student Profile
I moved around a lot as a kid, but I consider myself to be from Mount Pleasant, SC, outside of Charleston. I received my B.S.
