August 2025
Alex was named a Walker Scholar by the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering! Congratulations to all lab members who have contributed to this achievement!
August 2025
Alex co-organized a 3-day symposium at the national ACS meeting titled "Nanoscale tools to understand the physical biology of the cell"
May 2025
Dianna and Brandon join us through the CREATE and MRSEC REU programs for the summer! Dianna is a student at Austin Community College and Brandon is a student at Texas State University. Welcome!
April 2025
Successful trip to FNANO 2025!
April 2025
Emily received Honorable Mention for the NSF GRFP! Way to go!
March 2025
Congratulations to Amrita on the Undergraduate Research Fellowship!!
November 2024
Alex was awarded an Outstanding Teaching Award by the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
November 2024
Congratulations to Nour on winning the Undergraduate Research Fellowship! A well deserved honor.
October 2024
We won 3rd place (and the Piston Cup) in the department Halloween costume contest!
August 2024
News of our recent NIH R35 award was featured through the ME department and the Texas Materials Institute
June 2024
We welcome Taru Mishra and Olivia Galaviz as summer researchers!
May 2024
Congratulations to Christian for finishing his Master's degree! Cheers to another semester in the books.
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.
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.