- 04/17 - Congratulations to Bhargav Guntupalli who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on 04/20.
- 03/17 – Congratulations to Haixiang Yu who has been awarded the prestigious FIU Provost Award for Outstanding Paper or Manuscript (STEM) at FIU’s 2017 Annual Scholarly Forum during Graduate Student Appreciation Week (GSAW).
- 03/17 – Haixiang Yu and Juan Canoura were winners of oral presentation prize at FIU’s 2017 Annual Scholarly Forum during Graduate Student Appreciation Week (GSAW).
- 03/17 – Haixiang Yu gave an oral presentation on “A cooperative-binding split aptamer assay for rapid, specific and ultra-sensitive fluorescence detection of cocaine in saliva” at 2017 Pittcon Meeting.
- 03/17 – Daniel Roncancio gave an oral presentation on “A label-free aptamer-fluorophore assembly for highly sensitive and specific detection of cocaine” at 2017 Pittcon Meeting.
- 02/17 - Congratulations to Haixiang Yu whose paper entitled “A broadly applicable assay for rapidly and accurately quantifying DNA surface coverage on diverse particles” has been published in Bioconjugate Chemistry.
- 12/16 - Congratulations to Pinping Liang whose patent has been published (Patent No. US 20160376631 A1).
- 11/16 - Congratulations to Janak Paudyal who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on 11/09.
- 11/16 - Congratulations to Bhargav Guntupalli whose patent has been published (US 20160329121 A1).
- 09/16 - Congratulations to Haixiang Yu who continuously received NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship in STEM.
- 07/16 - Congratulations to Haixiang Yu whose paper entitled “A cooperative-binding split aptamer assay for rapid, specific and ultra-sensitive fluorescence detection of cocaine in saliva” has been published in Chemical Science.
- 07/16 - Congratulations to Pingping Liang who is being recognized as FIU Worlds Ahead Graduate.
- 07/16 - Congratulations to Bhargav Guntupalli who recently received FIU Dissertation Year Fellowship.
- 06/16 - Congratulations to Pingping Liang who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on 06/29.
- 05/16 - Congratulations to Daniel Roncancio whose patent has been published (US 20160131668).
- 04/16 - Congratulations to Juan Canoura who received FIU McNair Graduate Research Fellowship.
- 03/16 - Daniel and Haixiang were winners of an oral presentation prize at FIU’s 2016 Annual Scholarly Forum during Graduate Student Appreciation Week (GSAW).
- 12/15 - Welcome Brian Ng in joining our lab as a Ph.D. student.
- 12/15 - Bhargav Guntupalli gave an oral presentation on “Ambient filtration method to rapidly prepare highly conductive, paper-based porous gold films” at 2015 MRS Fall Meeting.
- 12/15 - Pingping Liang gave a poster presentation on “A paper-based device for rapid visualization of NADH based on dissolution of gold nanoparticles” at 2015 MRS Fall Meeting.
- 11/15 - Congratulations to Bhargav Guntupalli on publishing a paper entitled “Ambient filtration method to rapidly prepare highly conductive, paper-based porous gold films for electrochemical biosensing” in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.
- 11/15 - Congratulations to Pingping Liang who recently received FIU Dissertation Year Fellowship.
- 10/15 - Haixiang Yu gave a poster presentation on “Amplified colorimetric detection of cocaine in oral fluid based on exonuclease-assisted aptamer strand recycling” at 2015 SOFT Meeting.
- 09/15 - Congratulations to Haixiang Yu who recently received NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship in STEM.
- 06/15 - Congratulations to Pingping Liang on publishing a paper entitled “Paper-based device for rapid visualization of NADH based on dissolution of gold nanoparticles” in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.
- 03/15 - Congratulations to Juan Canoura who received McNair Fellowship for his 2015 summer undergraduate research on developing aptamer-based biosensors for drug screening.
- 12/14 - Xiaowen Xu gave an oral presentation on "Target recycling-based assay for rapid and accurate determination of DNA surface coverage on gold nanoparticles" at 2014 MRS Fall Meeting.
- 12/14 - Daniel Roncancio gave a poster presentation on "Target recycling-based assay for rapid and accurate determination of DNA surface coverage on gold nanoparticles" at 2014 MRS Fall Meeting.
- 12/14 - Haixiang Yu gave a poster presentation on "Amplified single base-pair mismatch detection via the aggregation of exonuclease-sheared gold nanoparticles" at 2014 MRS Fall Meeting.
- 03/14 - Congratulations to Shuo Wu on publishing a paper entitled “Amplified single base-pair mismatch detection via aggregation of exonuclease-sheared gold nanoparticles” in Anal. Chem.
- 10/14 - Congratulations to Daniel Roncancio on publishing a paper entitled “A label-free aptamer-fluorophore assembly for rapid and specific detection of cocaine in biofluids” in Anal. Chem.
- 05/13 - Bhargav Guntupalli gave an oral presentation on his paper-based electrochemical sensor at 2013 Florida Local ACS Meeting.
- 03/13 - Congratulations to Daniel Roncancio who received FIU McNair Graduate Research Fellowship.
- 01/13 - Congratulations to Daniel Roncancio who received McNair Fellowship for his 2013 summer undergraduate research on developing enzyme-based biosensors.
- 01/12 - Congratulations to Hien Nguyen who received McNair Fellowship for her 2012 summer undergraduate research on developing nuclease-based biosensors.