The 2023 Karle and URAN | UM symposiums were held in the chemistry building last week. The Karle symposium is a yearly event named for Isabella and Jerome Karle, distinguished graduates of our department, who worked together to advance X-ray crystallography methods. The day-long event is filled with student talks, poster sessions, an industry presentation, and a keynote lecture. This year’s keynote lecturer was Dr. Hannah Shafaat from the University of California, Los Angeles.

The Undergraduate Research and Networking at UMich (URAN | UM, pronounced ‘uranium’) is an annual event dedicated to connecting undergraduate researchers to department alumni and providing a space for scientific presentations of the research they have been conducting.

The Bailey Lab was represented at the Karle symposium by rising second-year, Ayush Chitrakar, who was on the Karle organizing committee and presented a poster titled “Advancement of Microfluidic Droptodes for Multiplexed Electrolyte Sensing”. We were also represented at the URAN | UM poster session by our visiting undergraduate scholar, Lisa Tritz, who presented a poster titled “Optimization of a Droplet Microfluidics Platform for the Detection of Analytes”.

Great work to both!