Postdoc Joe Bennett Accepts Pre-Professorate Fellowship at UMBC
Congratulations to Dr. Joe Bennett (Mason group), who accepted a position as a Research Assistant Professor in the Natural Sciences Pre-Professorate Fellowship Program at UMBC.
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Rebecca Klaper featured in UWM Research News
CSN Professor Rebecca Klaper and was featured in a February 25 article on the UWMResearch website, by Adam Hinterthuer, called “Tiny changes, big impact.” Congratulations, Rebecca!
CSN Publication: Quantitative mapping of oxidative stress response to lithium cobalt oxide nanoparticles in single cells using multiplexed in situ gene expression analysis
Yi Cui’s manuscript, entitled “Quantitative mapping of oxidative stress response to lithium cobalt oxide nanoparticles in single cells using multiplexed in situ gene expression analysis,” has been accepted by Nano Letters. Read the online publication here. Yi Cui, Eric S. Melby, Arielle C. Mensch, Elizabeth D. Laudadio, Mimi N. Hung, Alice Dohnalkova, Dehong Hu, Robert J. Hamers and Galya Orr, Nano Letters, 2019, Accepted.
Grad Student Natalie Hudson-Smith Wins Thesis Research Travel Grant
CSN graduate student Natalie Hudson-Smith has won one a 2019 Thesis Research Travel Grant from the University of Minnesota.This grant will help support Natalie’s stay in Valencia, Spain to do CSN-related protein corona studies central to Associate Director Christy Haynes’ sabbatical research. ¡Felicitaciones!
CSN Publication: Solution NMR analysis of ligand environment in quaternary ammonium-terminated self-assembled monolayers on gold nanoparticles: The effect of surface curvature and ligand structure
Meng Wu’s manuscript, entitled “Solution NMR Analysis of Ligand Environment in Quaternary Ammonium-Terminated Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold Nanoparticles: The Effect of Surface Curvature and Ligand Structure,” has been accepted by the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Read the online publication here. Meng Wu, Ariane M. Vartanian, Gene Chong, Arun Kumar Pandiakumar, Robert J. Hamers, Rigoberto Hernandez and Catherine J. Murphy, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019, Accepted.
Cathy Murphy & Ariane Vartanian Interviewed in ACS Axial
CSN faculty member Cathy Murphy and Murphy group alumna Ariane Vartanian were recently interviewed by the American Chemical Society in honor of the United Nation’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science! You can read the interview here.
Cathy Murphy Wins Remsen Award
CSN faculty member Cathy Murphy has been announced as the recipient of the 2019 Remsen Award, which is granted by the American Chemical Society Maryland Section. Dr. Murphy will present the Remsen Lecture on May 30 at the 47th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Congratulations, Cathy!
CSN Publication: Curvature-driven adsorption of cationic nanoparticles to phase boundaries in multicomponent lipid bilayers
The CSN manuscript entitled “Curvature-driven adsorption of cationic nanoparticles to phase boundaries in multicomponent lipid bilayers,” has been published in Nanoscale. Read the online publication here. Jonathan Sheavly, Joel A. Pedersen and Reid C. Van Lehn, Nanoscale, 2019, 11 (6), 2767-2778.
CSN Publication: β-Cyclodextrin Polymers on Microcrystalline Cellulose as a Granular Media for Organic Micropollutant Removal from Water
The manuscript entitled “β-Cyclodextrin Polymers on Microcrystalline Cellulose as a Granular Media for Organic Micropollutant Removal from Water,” has been accepted by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. This publication is the result of a collaboration between the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology and the Center for Sustainable Polymers. Read the online publication here. Diego M. Alzate-Sánchez, Yuhan Ling, Chenjun Li, Benjamin P. Frank, Reiner Bleher, D. Howard Fairbrother, Damian E. Helbling and William R. Dichtel, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2019, Accepted.
Graduate Student Sunipa Pramanik Defends Thesis
CSN graduate student Sunipa Pramanik (Haynes group) recently defended her thesis, entitled “Interactions of Semiconductor Nanoparticles with Environmentally Relevant Bacteria Model.” Congratulations, Dr. Pramanik! Sunipa Pramanik (left) defends her doctoral thesis