Marelli Lab
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Advanced Biopolymers, Food Security and Food Safety
Cambridge, MA
Joined March 2017
RT @MIT_CEE: Postdoc Meng Li seeks to develop a micro-needle-based technology for efficient underwater fish vaccine delivery with support f….
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Meng Li, a postdoctoral fellow working with Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Benedetto Marelli, has been selected to receive a postdoctoral research fellowship from the...
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Shout out to @benmarelli who was in the panel discussion, and @YueHu0903, @MaximengLi, Max and Zeina who did the interactive demos.
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This past Sunday, we were at the @MITMuseum for Nature Driven Design panel and demos. Big thanks to all the organizers and everyone participated. It was fun and rewarding to showcase our research and we got many good questions and discussions.
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Big news! We are receiving fundings to purchase a new instrument to study assembly process of biopolymers in situ and to design environmentally responsive materials. We are thankful to the sponser ONR for their support! Many thanks to everyone contributed.
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The Department of Defense announced awards totaling $161 million to 281 university researchers under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program.
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RT @MIT: Benedetto Marelli develops silk-based technologies for helping crops grow, preserving perishable foods, and more. “Knowing that th….
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Welcome on board! We are excited to have you here, and support you and be part of what you will achieve!.
First day in the @MarelliLab at @MIT was a treat, complete with river view office - excited to get to work.
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Some of the recent group gatherings to celebrate people’s achievements and welcoming group members. (People seem to really like their food today )
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RT @franmartinm: Great start for the symposium on #Engineering #Food #Materials at #F23MRS meeting in Boston with a mind blowing talk by @b….
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This morning at #F23MRS Dr. Yue Hu @YueHu0903 shared her work and experience of collaborating with researchers from different backgrounds.
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@MaximengLi On Wednesday morning at 10:30 AM at symposium SB01.04, we have back-to-back talks from our SMART program group members Dr. Yangyang Han and Dr. Raju Cheerlavancha to talk about 1) using silk food packaging to extend shelf-life and 2) developing plant nanosensors.
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Tuesday night again, Dr. Meng Li @MaximengLi will present her work on designing silk microneedles with preserved mechanical strength underwater in order to deliver payload to fish in an aquaculture environment.
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At the busy Tuesday night poster session, Dr. Yue Hu @YueHu0903 will present using silk microparticles as emulsifiers to stabilize alkane-in-water Pickering emulsion to deliver plant hormones.
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On Tuesday at Symposium SB01.01 at 8:45 AM, Prof. @benmarelli will give an overview of our work in using silk-based technology to boost food security in Hynes Room 105.
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At the Monday night poster session, Dr. Muchun Liu @MuchunLiu will present her work in developing a biodegradable silk-based microencapsulation technique to sustain the release of soluble and insoluble payloads.
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Dr. Yue Hu @YueHu0903 will kick us off and give a talk on Monday morning at 11:15am in Symposium DS05.01 about our effort in developing a new computational design protocol to discover oligopeptide that self-assemble in nanostructured biomaterials.
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This week at #F23MRS our group members will present various talks and posters, to show how we use biopolymers to secure good supplies, improve food safety, and reduce food waste. #biopolymers #foodsafety
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RT @MIT_CEE: Applications to CEE Graduate Degree programs, including our new Data Science for Engineering Systems MEng close two weeks from….
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RT @natrevbioeng: Silk protein as edible food coating! Read the story of Mori Silk, from lab discovery and first proof of concept to manufa….
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RT @MIT_CEE: We invite applications for a tenure-track faculty position to advance our initiatives in Environmental and Atmospheric Chemist….
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The MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) in Cambridge, MA invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions to begin July 1, 2025, or on a mutually agreed date thereaft...
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RT @MaximengLi: It was a success at the Cambridge Science Festival, showing the public what biomaterials can do to secure food supply, repl….
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