The Hamachi Group celebrated our recent publication on COF-300 colloid synthesis by going to McConnell’s Ice Cream. What a delicious treat! We are proud of the 7 undergraduate and 2 masters student coauthors who contributed to the research paper.

We are proud of our senior Materials Engineering undergraduate student Jachin Clarke for presenting his Senior Project at the 2023 Tech Conference hosted by the Materials Engineering Department. Congratulations on completing this major milestone to finish off your undergraduate degree.

Congratulations to 4+1 MS student Isabel Gamez for winning the 2023 Outstanding Research Award in Polymers and Coatings. We are very proud of you!

We had a great time at the 2023 Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Picnic!

Undergraduate students Sachi Ottoes (Chemistry), Alexis Mojica (Chemistry), Dean Kim (Biochemistry) and Kyla Carlson (Materials Engineering) presented posters at the Cal Poly’s College of Science and Mathematics (COSAM) research symposium. Thank you to Bill and Linda Frost and Sarepta Therapeutics for generously funding the 2023 COSAM Research Symposium!

Isabel Gamez (4+1 Materials Engineering/PCS MS student) presented about her research on incorporating dynamic covalent bonds in polyester wood coatings at the 2023 May LASCT meeting. Thank you to the Los Angeles Society for Coatings Technology (LASCT) for hosting a successful event.

In preparation for summer research, the group welcomes new students to the lab: Hayden Ankrum (Biochemistry ’25), Jeffrey Johnson (Biochemistry ’26), Olive Rosplock (Biochemistry ’26), Estela Osorio-Garcia (Biochemistry + Polymers and Coatings Science ’25), Zoe Jackson Delos Angeles (Materials Engineering ’25), Kyle Wang (Materials Engineering ’24), Nathan Wong (Materials Engineering ’24), and Brian Tinkle. We are excited to welcome you all to the team!

We had a blast at the Cal Poly ACS Club’s Bowling with Professors event at Mustang Lanes, our on-campus bowling alley. Thank you to the ACS Club members who organized this event!

On January 13th, Dr. Hamachi presented about the group’s work on Kombucha Leather at the 35th CSU Biotechnology Symposium in Santa Clara, CA as one of the invited Faculty Short Talks. Thank you to CSUPERB for our New Investigator Grant funding and to the conference organizers for the invitation!

The Hamachi group welcomes one new research students for Winter quarter research! Welcome to Eric Casey (Materials Engineering). We are excited to have you join the team!

Congratulations to Manuel Huizar-Herrera for winning the CRGI Al Mordy Memorial Scholarship, to Dean Kim for winning the Brooke P. Mead and Rita P. Sayre Scholarship, and to Isabel Gamez for winning the Bill Moore Fellowship. We are very proud of your accomplishments!

The Hamachi group welcomes 5 new research students for Fall quarter research! Welcome to Manuel Huizar (Chemistry), Hannah Negri (Chemistry), Jachin Clarke (4+1 Materials Engineering BS & Polymers and Coatings Science MS), Isabel Gamez (4+1 Materials Engineering BS & Polymers and Coatings Science MS), and Chanh Lam (Mechanical Engineering). We are excited to have you join the team!

Congratulations to 4+1 (Materials Engineering BS + Polymers and Coatings MS) student Alison Chew for winning the 2022 LASCT Scholarship. Thank you to the Los Angeles Society for Coatings Technology for supporting Cal Poly students in their educations.

Congratulations to rising sophomore Alexis Mojica for winning the 2022 Elmer Carvey Scholarship from the Southern California Chapter of AVS (SCCAVS). A big thank you to the SCCAVS for supporting Cal Poly undergraduate students in their studies!

In recognition of everyone’s hard work this summer and contributions to the research group, we celebrated the end of summer research this year by going to Korean BBQ and more boba! What a tasty treat!

We had a blast attending Alex Oanta’s talk at Cal Poly on water purification with Covalent Organic Frameworks and what graduate school is like. Alex is a graduate student in the Dichtel Research Group at Northwestern University. Here is a picture of several Cal Poly students (including some students from the Hamachi group) with Alex at “Boba with the Speaker.”

We are proud of our summer researchers Kyla, Alyssa, Dean, Alexis, and Brandon for presenting three posters and two talks at the 2022 Frost Summer Research Symposium.

Thank you to the FROST fund and the CSU Program for Education & Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB) for supporting our summer research students.

This year’s summer undergraduate researchers are excited to learn some chemistry and materials engineering: Kyla Carlson (Materials Engineering), Alyssa Chew (Biochemistry), Brandon Ngo (Chemistry & Biological Sciences), Dean Kim (Biochemistry), and Alexis Mojica (Chemistry).

Thank you to the FROST fund and the CSU Program for Education & Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB) for supporting our summer research students.

Congratulations to 4+1 PCS MS student Kyle Hoff, who is the recipient of the Powder Coatings Institute/Sun Polymers Scholarship. Thank you to the Powder Coatings Institute for their generous support of Cal Poly students.

We are excited to announce the group has received an ACS PRF Undergraduate New Investigator Grant to fund our research. This will help provide new opportunities for Cal Poly undergraduate students to participate in research! A big thank you to the ACS PRF!

The Hamachi Group welcomes five new student researchers for Spring 2022: Kyla Carlson (MATE ’25), Rebecca Winger (MATE ’24), Julie Hostetter (PCS MS ’23), Alexis Mojica (CHEM ’25), and Nathalie Silva (MATE ’23). Welcome and can’t wait to have you join the team!

We are so proud of our senior Materials Engineering undergraduate students for presenting about their Senior Projects at the 2022 Tech Conference hosted by the Materials Engineering Department. Congratulations on completing this major milestone to finish off your undergraduate degrees.

Congratulations to senior undergraduate student André Lagron for winning the Outstanding Graduate in Chemistry Award at the Cal Poly College of Science and Mathematics’ College Awards Ceremony. We are so proud of André’s accomplishments and contributions to our research group!

We had a great time at the 2022 Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Picnic. Thanks to André and Sachi for helping prepare liquid nitrogen ice cream for everyone!

Undergraduate students Alyssa Chew (Biochemistry) and Alison Chew (Materials Engineering/PCS MS) presented posters, and Donna Tran (Biochemistry) gave a research talk at the Cal Poly’s College of Science and Mathematics (COSAM) research symposium. Thank you to Bill and Linda Frost for generously funding the 2022 COSAM Research Symposium!

Addison Wolfson (4+1 Materials Engineering/PCS MS student) presented about his research on isocyanurate polymer synthesis at the 2022 May LASCT meeting. Thank you to the Los Angeles Society for Coatings Technology (LASCT) for hosting a successful event.

Cal Poly’s chemistry fraternity, Alpha Chi Sigma (AXE) hosted their annual Pie-A-Professor fundraiser. André won the raffle to pie Dr. Hamachi, and she got to “revenge pie” André back! Congratulations to AXE on hosting a successful fundraiser!

Congratulations to Alison Chew (4+1 Materials Engineering/PCS MS student) for winning the Outstanding Woman in Engineering award representing Materials Engineering at the Society of Women Engineers (SWE)’s 2022 Evening with Industry event. Alison, we are so proud of you for being such a great role model for women engineers!

Group members attended the Cal Poly Pilipino Cultural Exchange’s Pilipino Cultural Night (PCN) to see senior lab member Daisy Kamp perform a traditional cultural dance called Tinikling.

The Hamachi Group volunteered to lead a “Chemistry un-Magic Show” at Cal Poly’s 2022 Open House for newly admitted students and their families. Magicians never tell their secrets, but as scientists we do! Welcome to the newest Mustangs and we hope this may have sparked your interest in chemistry!

The Hamachi Group goes to the Spring 2022 American Chemical Society Meeting in San Diego, CA. Undergraduate students Dean Kim and Donna Tran presented posters, and André Lagron gave a talk on their research. Here are a few photos of us enjoying the conference:

We had a great time bowling at the Cal Poly ACS (American Chemical Society) Club’s “Bowling with Professors” event. Thank you to the Cal Poly ACS Club and senior André Lagron for organizing a fun social event.

Congratulations to Alison Chew for winning a Graduate Conference Award from Cal Poly to attend the Spring American Chemical Society Meeting in San Diego. Thank you to Cal Poly for your support of student researchers!

The Hamachi group welcomes new student researchers Alyssa Chew (Biochemistry) and Addison Wolfson (PCS MS) to the team. We can’t wait to do science with you this quarter!

Congratulations to PCS MS students Amanda Tsai and Kyle Hoff for winning the Alfred Apfel and Robert Minuccianni Scholarship from the Golden Gate Society for Coatings Technology (GGSCT). Thank you GGSCT for your support!

Senior chemistry major André Lagron gave an invited student talk and poster on their work titled “Recycling Isocyanurates via Dynamic Covalent Bonding.” Senior materials engineering major Alison Chew presented a poster on “Particle Size Control of Colloidally Synthesized COF-300 Pigments.” Congratulations to Alison for winning first place in the student poster competition! Thank you to WCS for the opportunity to present this work and to the William and Linda Frost Fund and the Golden Gate Society for Coatings Technology for helping fund this summer research!

Congratulations to masters student Amanda Tsai for winning the Dave Kittredge Scholarship from the Los Angeles Society for Coatings and Technology (LASCT). Thank you LASCT for your generosity.

The Hamachi Group welcomes 4th year Materials Engineering undergraduate student Hannah Martin and Polymers and Coatings Science (4+1) masters student, Kyle Hoff (Materials Engineering with a minor in Entrepreneurship), who are joining the Hamachi Group for fall quarter research. We are excited to have you both join the team.

In recognition of everyone’s hard work this summer and contributions to the research group, we celebrated the end of summer research this year with a Taco Tuesday and ice cream! What a tasty treat!

Welcome to three new undergraduate students joining the Hamachi Group for summer research: Alison Chew (Materials Engineering), Brandon Ngo (Chemistry & Biological Sciences), and Ethan Nogle (Chemistry). We are excited to have you join the team.

Thank you to the FROST fund, the CSU Program for Education & Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB), and the Golden Gate Society for Coatings Technology (GGSCT) for supporting our summer research students.

Congratulations to Brendan Posson for successfully defending his Masters Thesis in the Polymers and Coatings Science MS program. Brendan will be starting a position at Carlisle Construction Materials as an R&D Thermoplastics Chemist! Best of luck in your new position.

The Hamachi group has been awarded a CSUPERB Seed Grant for the project “Mechanical Properties of Bacterial Cellulose/SiO2 Composites.” Thank you to CSUPERB for funding summer undergraduate researchers at Cal Poly and helping us launch this exciting project!

Welcome to three new undergraduate students joining the Hamachi Group for spring quarter research: Donna Tran (Biochemistry), Daisy Kamp (Materials Engineering), and Sachi Ottoes (Chemistry). We are excited to have you join the team.

Congratulations to masters student Brendan Posson for winning the Bill Moore Fellowship . We are very proud of Brendan and his accomplishments!

Welcome to undergraduate student Dean Kim, joining the Hamachi Group in winter quarter 2021.

Congratulations to masters student Brendan Posson for winning the Dave Kittredge Scholarship from the Los Angeles Society for Coatings and Technology (LASCT). Thank you LASCT for your generosity.

Congratulations to masters student Kathryn Lee for being awarded a Graduate Assistant position for the 2020-2021 academic year. Thank you Cal Poly for your support of student research.

The Hamachi Group welcomes its inaugural class of research students for the fall quarter: André Lagron (chemistry), Kathryn Lee (polymers and coatings science), Brendan Posson (polymers and coatings science), and Amanda Tsai (materials engineering).

Dr. Leslie Hamachi accepts a tenure track assistant professor position at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in the Chemistry and Biochemistry department, starting in September 2020. California here we come!