Two students win AiChE poster awards

Bioengineering PhD students Augusto Tentori and Yuchen Pan took home outstanding poster awards at the Fall 2013 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting, a part of the American Electrophoresis Society (AES) Symposium. Both are members of Berkeley bioengineering professor Amy Herr’s lab.

Augusto Tentori and poster

Tentori was awarded 1st place for his poster, “Microchannel Isoelectric Focusing (IEF): Elucidating the Separation Performance Impacts of Chemical Mobilization” (Augusto M. Tentori & Amy E. Herr), and Pan received 2nd place for “Riboswitch screening enabled by microfluidic electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSAs)” (Yuchen Pan, Todd A. Duncombe, Colleen Kellenberger, Ming Chen Hammond & Amy E. Herr).

Yuchen Pan and poster

Congratulations Augusto and Yuchen!