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February 2024

Aasim & James received honorable mention at the 2024 Graduate Student Poster Competition in the Mechanical Engineering Department!

February 2024

Our collaborative work with UT Pharmacy is now published in Pharmaceutical Research. We use electron density mapping to show RNA distribution in LNPs! Read it here.

January 2024

Our collaborative work with a team from UT ChE and MD Anderson is now published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congrats Mohammed and Aasim! Read it here.

December 2023

Lab Holiday party!

November 2023

Congratulations Ogo for winning 3rd place in the Graduate Rapid Fire Presentations Competition at the annual SWE conference! 

September 2023

Congrats to Aasim for passing his qualifying exams and becoming a BME PhD Candidate!!

August 2023

The Marras Research Group would like to welcome our new PhD students, Ogo and Meysam!

August 2023

Alex gave a keynote lecture at the 11th Annual Texas Soft Matter meeting at the University of Houston.

July 2023

Congratulations to Morgan for winning 1st place in the REU poster competition!

July 2023

Aasim travels to UC Santa Barbara for the BioPacific Summer School.

July 2023

Some of Alex's postdoc work appears in Macromolecules - pdf

June 2023

The team took a trip out to Topgolf and enjoyed the warm weather!

June 2023

We are excited to have added a new member to our team, Morgan Nix! She is an REU student with us for the summer from LeTourneau University!

May 2023

We explored the Austin Greek Festival this weekend! Great food and Greek dancing!

April 2023

Our lab ventured out (a couple of feet) to an on-campus Spurs vs Trailblazers game at the Moody Center! 

March 2023

Alex gave a seminar for the Biomedical Engineering Department at UT Austin.

February 2023

The Marras Research Group goes to Argonne National Lab where we had a successful trip working at the beamline. 

February 2023

Alex gave a seminar for the Biophysics Group at UT Austin.

February 2023

Alex opened the New Faculty Lightning Talk series at UT Austin hosted at the Texas Innovation Center.

January 2023

The Marras Research Group welcomes our third graduate student, Aasim Hussain as a PhD student within the lab. 

2022

Sep 2022 - Alex's review titled "Hierarchical Assembly of DNA Origami Nanostructures" is published in MRS Communications as part of the Early Career Materials Researcher special issue. See it here!

Sep 2022 - Alex gave a seminar for the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics at UT Austin

Aug 2022 - The Marras Research Group begins at University of Texas at Austin. Go Longhorns! 🤘 We welcome James Houston and Christian Keys as Master's students within the lab. You will find them both scouring the grounds of the 7th floor ETC.