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Jin Montclare

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Protein engineer & NYU Prof, innov. & entrepreneurship guru, STEM & diversity enthusiast, baker, mom of 2 STEMinists. #LeshnerFellow. She/her. Views are my own.

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Today @MontclareLabs Hao-Wei Shih & Muhammad Hidoyatov showed our lab to #highschool students from Colorado State University’s Upward Blund Math Program in the hopes to inspire the next generation in #STEM! They learned about our protein engineering research. #outreach

10.10.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Job well done to @MontclareLabs Temi Majekodunmi & Isabella Huang for presenting their research on engineering names for polymer degradation & synthesis at the BATWorks Climate Innovation Hub: Shaping the Future of the Green Economy! #lablife #phdlife #circularity

26.09.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Welcome Smriti Thosani to @MontclareLabs!, She is pursuing her MS in Biotechnology & Entrepreneurship at @NYUTandon. She has her BS in Biotechnology from HSNC University, Mumbai and a Postgraduate Diploma in Bioinformatics. Look forward to the contributions to the lab! #lablife #gradlife

24.09.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Welcome Dr Kaushik Sunder to @Montclarelabs! He is an Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow @NYU at the Center for Faculty Advancement. He recently completed his global #PhD in MechE @NYUTandon & NYU Abu Dhabi. He will conduct translational research in the lab! #nationalpostdocweek

19.09.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Please join me in welcoming to @MontclareLabs Andrew K. Bai, a junior @nyuchemistry major and an honors student in the College of Arts and Science. Look forward to his research contributions in the lab! #lablife #undergradlife

03.09.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Homemade #DerpyTiger icecream cake from #KPOPDEMONHUNTERS for kid2….Happy Birthday Kiddo!
#choclolatechip #vanilla #oreochrunch

31.08.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Celebrating @montclarelabs Kat Milas’ birthday with cake! May your scientific dreams come true! #labtradition #gradlife #lablife #burthdaycake

25.08.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Job well done to @MontclareLabs Temi Majekodunmi for presenting her research on multivalent assembled protein mimic of Hif1 alpha at the @amerchemsocietymeeting! This is in collaboration with Ramasubbu Sankararamakrishnan at @IITKanpur, Olga Katsara & Bob Schneider at @nyugrossman. #phdlife #acsDC

18.08.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spoke at the @nyuniversity GSTEM 2025 Annual Symposium…wonderful to see room full of the next generation scientist and engineer! Thanks to @nyugstem for the gifts! #k12stem

08.08.2025 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Job well done to @MontclareLabs & @ehenaff Lab #ARISE program #highschoolstudents Mira Mupparapu & Darlene Gunawan for presenting their summer research on decontaminating pyrene from the Gowanus canal using engineered proteins! Thanks to their mentor Hao-Wei Shih! #K12stem #lablife

08.08.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Congratulations to @MontclareLabs Isabella Huang for passing her qualifying exam! She is now officially a #PhD candidate! #phdlife #cheme #milestone #labtradition πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‚

07.08.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today Kid2 passed her karate test and is now a high blue belt! #attagirl #karatekid

01.08.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Job well done to @MontclareLabs Hao-Wei Shih for presenting #biomaterials research to the ARISE high school students from the The Center for K12 STEM Education! And kudos to our high school students Mira Mupparapu & Darlene Gunawan for helping tour our lab to the students!
#lablife

29.07.2025 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Another year together with my better half…and grateful for it..#happyanniversary #28

26.07.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It was wonderful to have Ramasubbu Sankararamakrishnan from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur come visit @Montclarelabs at @NYU present his work! We (Temi Majekodunmi as the lead) been collaborating on research together on developing tools to diagnose and treat hypoxic tumors.

14.07.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Please join me in welcoming #highschool researchers Claire Lee from Governor Livingston High School, Leo Gottesman from Bronx High School of Science, Mira Mupparapu from Stuyvesant High School High School & Darlene Gunawan from Brooklyn Technical High School to @MontclareLabs! #k12stem #lablife

08.07.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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For Independence Day, cheesecake decorated by Kid2…Happy 4th of July everyone! #4thofjuly

04.07.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Modular Platform for Enhanced Drug Delivery to Glioblastoma using Targeted Multidomain Protein Assemblies Protein-based nanocarriers bear highly desirable properties such as biodegradability and ability to facilitate passage through biological barriers such as the blood-brain-barrier. Using modular prote...

Congrats to @nyutandon @MontclareLabs Andrew, Appy, Frances, Lucas, Heather, Naomi & collaborators Orin, James, Neha from @nyugrossman’s Wadghiri Lab & Joshua, Niklas from @nyugrossman’s Placantonakis Lab on protein micelles for treatment of glioblastoma! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

03.07.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Celebrating @montclarelabs Eden Everett’s birthday with cake! May your scientific dreams come true! πŸŽ‰#labtradition #gradlife #lablife

02.07.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This past weekend we had our annual summer party celebrating together with @MontclareLabs, @provizigen & Tu lab at Dim Sum! We also celebrated Dr. Andrew Wang on completing his #PhD journey. Congratulations & we expect you to proudly wear it while you are completing your #MD! #lablife

30.06.2025 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This morning Kid2 passed her belt test and made it to νŒŒλž€μƒ‰ (blue) belt! #attagirl #karatekid

28.06.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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For International Women in Engineering Day, I’d like to thank @MontclareLabs researchers Temi Majekodunmi, Naomi Crook, Isabella Huang, Katarina Milas, Pooja Shah & Eden Everett for pushing the boundaries in protein emgineering! #inwed2025 #phdlife #gradlife #undergradlife #lablife

25.06.2025 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Voted with kiddo by my side and they gave her a sticker too! #votenyc #futurevoter

24.06.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there!

16.06.2025 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Please join me in welcoming Eden Everett to @MontclareLabs! She is currently pursuing her second MS degree in Biotechnology & Entrepreneurship, following a prior MS from St. Xavier’s College, where she developed two novel herbal formulations that inhibit enzyme for diabetes treatment. #gradlife

09.06.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Went with Kid 1 to see @HellsKitchenBdwy & amazed by the cast, crew, sets and design…bravo to Amanda Reid, @JessicaVosk, @KeciaLewis5, @philsgoodmusic & Benjamin Moore! #technicaltheatre #aliciakeys

07.06.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Protein‐Engineered Photoresponsive Conductive Nanofibers Coiled-coil proteins are known as electron carriers and can supramolecularly assemble into fibers. A conductive helical assembled fiber (CHAF) is reported composed of phenylalanines and a leucine-rep...

Congrats to @MontclareLabs Dustin Britton, Hao-Wei Shih Chengliang Liu, Sihan Jia & collabs Min-Woo Kim, Mia Klopfenstein from Stephanie S. Lee’s Lab as well as Suman Maity from Atanu Acharya’s Lab on getting our photoconductive proteins out!
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30.05.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Watched Kid2 & her team show their karate moves at the #LES @theater_for_the_new_city Youth program showcaseβ€¦πŸ‘€#karatekids

24.05.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Made it back to chaperone kid 2’s class trip to @carnegiehall as part of the #linkup: the orchestra rocks program….though I am tired, it was worth it to see the kids play their recorders along with orchestra, sing and just dance along to the music! #parenting

21.05.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Please join me in congratulating @MontclareLabs Pooja Shah for passing her qualifying exam! She is now officially a #PhD candidate! #phdlife #cheme #milestone #labtradition

19.05.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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