Apr 2024:
- Youngchan and Peng raced in the 10K of the 41th Skunk Cabbage Classic 10K & HM!
- We welcome Dr. Shasha Guo joining us as a new postdoc. Shasha did her PhD in Materials Science & Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
January 2024:
- Rocky’s collaborative paper with the Mavrikakis group of UW Madison appears in ACS Cent. Sci.: “Molecular-scale insights into cooperativity switching of xTAB adsorption on gold nanoparticles.”
November 2023:
- Congratulations to Rocky on the acceptance of his co-1st authored paper in collaboration with Dr. Xu of the Mavrikakis group at University of Wisconsin at Madison by ACS Cent. Sci. on “Molecular-scale insights into cooperativity switching of xTAB adsorption on gold nanoparticles.”
- C&EN highlights our work on single polymer sequencing: “Tracking polymerization with laser focus.”
- Highlights of our single polymer sequencing work in other languages (Chinese): here, and here.
- Nature highlights our work on single polymer sequencing: “Flashy molecules decode a polymer’s lengthening chain.”
- Read Xianwen’s Behind-the-Paper blog “Navigating the challenge: crafting data analysis pipelines for polymer imaging breakthroughs” at Springer Nature, Chemistry Community.
- See Xiangcheng’s Behind-the-Paper blog “Single-molecule fluorescence imaging and sequencing of single synthetic polymers” at Springer Nature, Chemistry Community.
- Cornell Chronicle features our work on single polymer sequencing: “Cornell chemists image basic blocks of synthetic polymers.”
- Rocky, Xiangcheng, and Xianwen’s paper on “optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers” appears on Nature Chem.
October 2023:
- DOE Office of Science publishes a highlight on Bing and Xianwen’s work published in Nature Chem: “Imaging shows how inorganic-microbe hybrids use light to turn carbon dioxide into bioplastic.”
- We welcome two first-year graduate students, Ziying Chen and Angel Chen (not related), joining the group! Ziying did her undergrad at UCSB. Angel did hers at Penn State Univ.
September 2023:
- The group concludes the summer with a hiking together at Tremen State Park, ending at Purity Ice Cream.
August 2023:
- Wenyao’s paper, in collaboration with Christine, appeared online on Scientific Reports.
- Congratulations to Wenyao on the acceptance by Scientific Reports of the paper “Mechanical stimuli activate gene expression via a cell envelope stress sensing pathway” Christine and she collaborated on and co-1st-authored!
- Congratulations to Ningmu Zou, a former PhD student in the group, on accepting an Associate Professor position at Nanjing University, China. He also won a Distinguished Overseas Young Talent grant.
- We welcome Prof. Je Hyun Bae and her students Jinju Kim and Hyunju Yang from Chungnam National University, Korea, visiting our lab.
- Congratulations to Youngchan for winning a Best Poster Award at GRC Chemical Imaging!
July 2023:
- C&EN highlights Bing and Xianwen’s work: “Imaging platform illuminates biohybrids.”
- Nature Chemistry Research Briefing summarizes the background, significance, and impact of Bing and Xianwen’s work: “A multimodal imaging approach for interrogating energy-conversion pathways in biohybrids.”
- Cornell Chronicle features Bing and Xianwen’s work: “Imaging shows how solar-powered microbes turn CO2 into bioplastic.”
- Bing and Xianwen’s paper on “Single-cell multimodal imaging uncovers energy conversion pathways in biohybrids” appears online in Nature Chemistry! A publicly accessible version is here.
- The group welcomes Dr. Ja-Jung Koo as a new postdoc. Ja-Jung did his PhD in chemistry at Seoul National University.
June 2023:
- The group bid farewell to Bing, who concludes a successful postdoc career to become an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong.
- Congratulations to Rocky, Xiangcheng, and Xianwen! Their co-1st authored paper on optical sequencing of single polymers is accepted in principle by Nature Chemistry!
- We welcome Tochi Ezidiegwu joining us for summer undergraduate research, as part of the CHAMPS summer research program.
- We welcome Hazuki Takahashi joining us for summer undergraduate research as part of Cornell’s NEXUS scholar program.