The 2022 ANACHEM Symposium was held by the Association of Analytical Chemists on Thursday, November 10th. The day-long symposium was filled with graduate research presentations, instrument workshops, a vendor fair, a poster session, and a plenary lecture by UM professor, and recipient of the 2021 ANACHEM award, Mark Meyerhoff.

Ryan gave a talk in the award session in honor of Professor Meyerhoff, where he discussed the microring resonator sensing platform and the work we are doing to improve LTBI diagnostics. Krista, a 4th year graduate student, presented her work on Ebola virus diagnostics using the mircorings in the morning academic research session. She was recognized as the top presentation in her session! Marina, a 5th year graduate student, presented her work on nanodisc characterization in one of the afternoon research sessions.

Krista and Marina, along with undergraduate researcher Sam, had a great time hearing about local analytical chemistry research, collecting pens and other goodies at the vendor fair, and getting to connect with other graduate students!