GROUP NEWS
2024
January
- New things are on the way!
2023
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January
- Congrats to Taylor on being recognized and awarded with two Department of Chemistry Postdoc Awards for her research accomplishments, service, and leadership!
- Welcome Jose and Ryan to the lab! New and exciting science is on the way.
- Congratulations to Alexis H. on successfully completing your qualifying exam!
October
- Congratulations to Anna who was selected at the recipient of the 2023 Tanya R. Ellison Scholarship!
- Taylor and Anna both presented posters at SERMACS in Durham
September
- Check out our latest work on co-cultures in ACS Measurement Science Au. Congrats to Zack, Abel, Sarina, Z, and Nate!
- Check out this great write-up on Taylor's PhD research on water splitting with silicon nanowire suspension reactors!
April
- Congrats to Anna on receiving a Summer Undergraduate Research Award!
- Congrats to Elizabeth on a successful honors thesis defense! Her thesis was entitled Investigation of how the tumor microenvironment mediates therapeutic resistance in breast cancer with new 3D cell culture methods.
- Check out our newest paper in the Analyst. Congrats to Zack, Tyler, and former lab members Julie and Melanie!
March
- Congrats to Zack for winning the 2023 SLAS Poster Award!
- Congrats to Andre, who was selected to travel to Kenya this summer as part of the JUAMI 2023 Conference on Materials for a Sustainable Future!
February
- We welcome to our newest lab members, first-year graduate students Rayshell and Trevohn! We also said goodbye to Tom, and wish him well on his new adventure at Metalytics!
January
- Welcome to Ian Baker, who joined the laboratory as a research associate!
2022
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- Welcome to Trevohn Robinson and Rayshell Torres-Santana, who are rotating in the lab!
November
- Welcome to our newest lab members, first-year PhD students Sarina Jones and Alexis Zimmer!
October
- Congrats to Zack on receiving the Bjorn Ekwall Memorial Foundation travel award to attend the European Society of Toxicology in vitro!!
- Welcome to Sarah, a new undergraduate researcher in the lab!
September
- Congrats to Zack on receiving the Dobbins Fellowship for research excellence!!
- Welcome to our many new colleagues! Both the cells and surface sub-groups welcome Anna, Diante, Jack, Kabir, and Tom.
July
- Congrats to Andre on passing his orals! Super talk and cool science.
June
- Zack delivered a talk entitled An Automated Microphysiological System for Pharmacokinetic and -Dynamic Studies with Paper-based Cultures at the Microphysiological Systems Summit. He delivered a talk with the same title at the ASCCTox Summer School on Innovative Approaches.
- Zack presented a poster entitled An Automated Microphysiological System for Pharmacokinetic and -Dynamic Studies with Paper-based Cultures at the Microphysiological Systems Summit.
- Tyler presented his work at ASMS in a talk entitled DiffN Selection of Tandem Mass Spectrometry Precursors.
- Welcome Nancy (WinSPIRE high school student research program)! Great to have you here and working on surface chemistry with Taylor.
- Taylor, Andre, and David present our latest work at the CHASE All-hands meeting!
- Welcome Shon (visiting scholar from NCCU Chemistry) and William (UNC SMART program) to the lab!!
April
- The Lab participated in the 2022 FEMMES Day Camp! Thank you Taylor for organizing paper-based microfluidic experiments. (FEMMES = Females Excelling More in Mathematics, Engineering, and Science)
- Congrats to Elizabeth C. for receiving the Freeze Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship!!
March
- Congrats to Zack for receiving the Eastman Fellowship in Analytical Chemistry and Polymer Characterization!!
January
- We are sad to say goodbye to Murphy, but wish him well on his next scientific journey!
2021
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- Congrats to Tyler on a successful 4th year research seminar!
- Congratulations to Lisa Karlsson for receiving the Jason D. Altom Award for Undergraduate Research!! There is a nice write up about the award winners here.
- Tyler presented his work on MALDESI-MS and paper cultures at ASMS.
- We are sad to say goodbye to Qi and Jiyang, but wish them both success on the next leg of their scientific journeys!
October
- Welcome to our newest member and graduate student, David Siegel!
September
- Welcome Dr. Taylor Teitsworth and Murphy Liu to the lab!!
- Check out Tyler's most recent paper in Analytica Chimica Acta!!
August
- Congratulations Dr. Thomas DiProspero on a successful thesis defense!!
- Welcome new members Isabella Brookshire, Karen Chen, and Sontia Gaither! We are looking forward to working with y'all.
May
- Welcome Kevin! Kevin is doing a summer rotation before starting in the Ph.D. program this fall.
- Congratulations to Lisa, who received the David L. Stern Scholar award for excellence in a capstone lab experience.
- Congratulations to Trevor, who will receive the Emmett Gladstone Rand Award at the Department of Chemistry commencement ceremony!!
April
- Congratulations to Trevor, who will receive the Emmett Gladstone Rand Award at the Department of Chemistry commencement ceremony!!
- Congratulations to Lauren on the successful defense of their honors thesis "Measuring Metabolic Competency of HepaRG Cells as a Function of Collagen ECM Stiffness." Lauren will graduate with highest honors!!
- Congratulations to Trevor on the successful defense of their honors thesis "Development of an in vitro Pipeline to Detect and Quantify Herb-Drug Interactions." Trevor will graduate with highest honors!!
March
- Check out this article from NC State about Jiyang's PhD research! (link)
- Our newest work on oxygen-regulated responses to drugs and hepatotoxins is out in Tox. In Vitro. Congrats to Tom and Erin!
- Congratulations to Lauren on being selected as the UNC recipient of the 2021 ACS ANYL Division Undergraduate Award!!
February
- Congratulations to Zack on the successful completion of his orals exam! A job well done!
2020
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- Welcome to our newest members, Dr. Qi Han and Dr. Jiyang Chen!! Qi earned his PhD in Chemistry from Case Western under the guidance of Prof. Daniel Scherson. Jiyang earned his PhD in Textile Engineering from NC State under the guidance of Prof. Martin King.
October
- Welcome to our newest member, Andre Orr! Andre is a first-year graduate student in the analytical division. He will be working on a joint project with the Cahoon Lab.
August
- Congratulations to Tyler on the successful completion of his orals exam! A job well done!
July
- Check out our latest work in ACS Applied Energy Materials, a collaboration with Profs. Jillian Dempsey and Joanna Atkin. Congrats to Catherine!
May
- Check out our latest work in Biomedical Optics Express, a collaboration with Profs. Amy Oldenburg (UNC Physics) and Prof. Haibo Zhou (UNC Biostats). Congrats on this cool paper Julie!
- Happy graduation day to Z, who will be continuing his research adventure at Northwestern in the fall!
March
- Congratulations to Z, who was awarded a fellowship from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program!
January
- Congratulations to Sabrina and Tyler on the successful completion of their second year literature seminars on Non-enzymatic electrochemical sensors for continuous glucose monitoring (Sabrina) and Scanning electrochemical cell microscopy (Tyler).
- Congratulations to Dr. Julie McIntosh on a successful PhD defense!
- Check out our latest collaborative work with the Hummon group at The Ohio State University looking at drug metabolism in 3D paper-based colorectal tumor models in Analytical Chemistry! Congratulations to Julie and Matt B.!
- Check out our new work using mesoscale-fabricated devices to evaluate oxygen gradients in 3D cultures in Analytical Methods! Congrats to Matt B., Will, and Rachael!
2019
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- Two awards!! Congratulations to Sabrina for receiving the Steelman Teaching Award. Congratulations to Z for receiving the David A. Stern Scholar award for performance in an upper-level lab course.
- Welcome to our newest lab members Matt, Peter, and Zack!
August
- Check out our latest work, an invited Feature in Analytical Chemistry! Congratulations to Sabrina and Tyler!
- We were awarded a CCNE pilot grant to work with Profs. Zamboni (Pharmacy) and Earp (Pharmacology) to further our 3D tumor models, and compare their predictability to mouse models.
July
- Congratulations to Dr. Nathan Whitman on a successful PhD defense!
June
- Check out our latest work in Arch. Biochem. Biophys.! Congratulations to Nate, Rachael, and Leo!
- Welcome to incoming graduate student Matthew V. to the lab! Matthew was the recipient of a Matthew Morrison Summer Research Fellowship.
May
- Congratulations to former lab member Andrew Pendergast on being named a Goldwater Scholar!
- Thank you to the Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility for recognizing our work with a 2019 Rising Star Award!!
April
- Congratulations to Melanie on a successful completion of her second year literature seminar on Ultraviolet photodissociation for top-down proteomics!
- Congratulations to Leo on his successful Honors Thesis defense!
- Congratulations to Ramy on his successful Honors Thesis defense!
- Congratulations to Leo on his acceptance to the NIH IRTA program. He will be performing postbac research at NIEHS!
March
- Congratulations to Dr. Catherine McKenas on a successful PhD defense!
- We spent St. Patty's Day in Philly for PittCon! Matt and Nate presented talks. Tom and Z presented posters.
- Julie was selected to participate in the 2019 imPACT internship program, organized by UNC TIBBS. She will have the opportunity to do an internship in drug regulatory affairs this upcoming summer. Congrats Julie!!
February
- Check out our latest work in Appl. Surf. Sci.! Congratulations to Catherine, Julia, and Ben on this latest paper!
January
- Congrats to Rachael for being selected for the Dean's Distinguished Dissertation Award!
2018
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- Congratulations to Dr. Rachael Kenney on a successful PhD defense!
- Congratulations to Maggie Lee on a successful honors thesis defense!
October
- Check out our latest work in Analytical Chemistry! Congratulations to Nate, Z, Tom, and Julie on this latest paper!
September
- Congratulations to Julie, who was awarded the Tony B. Academic Travel Award to attend SLAS 2019 where she will present her research.
- Check out our latest work in J. Phys Chem C! Congratulations to Catherine, Julia, and Ben on this latest paper!
- Welcome new lab members Briana, Nautica, and Pearl!
August
- Congrats to Z on being selected for the NIH Undergraduate Scholarship Program!
May
- Congratulations to our newest graduating seniors: Adam, Ben, and Julia! We will miss each of you, but look forward to hearing about your future life adventures!
- Welcome new members Leo and Ramy! We look forward to working with you over the summer.
April
- Congrats to Julie on her successful fourth-year seminar, entitled: "Investigating the relationship between cellular phenotype and chemoresistance with 3D paper-based cultures".
- Congrats to Erin on receiving a Summer Award for Research Intensive Course from the Office of Undergraduate Research!
- Congratulations to Tom on completing his second year literature seminar on Personal Exposure Monitors for Real-Time Air Pollution Measurement
- Two awards for Rachael!! Congrats for receiving both the Eastman Fellowship in Analytical Chemistry and Polymer Characterization and a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate School!
- Congrats to Z on receiving a William W. and Ida W. Taylor Honors Mentored Research Fellowship from the Office of Undergraduate Research and Honors Carolina!
- Congrats to Andrew P. on getting accepted to the Analytical Chemistry of the Developing World REU program at Notre Dame!
- Matt presented the group's work at Indiana University at Bloomington!
- Congratulations to Julia and Adam on their successful honors thesis defenses!
March
- Matt presented the group's work at the University of Minnesota, Macalester College, the National Toxicology Program, the University of Pittsburgh! Thanks to everyone for the invitation and the opportunity to share our work.
- Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Boyce on his successful dissertation defense!!
March
- The lab takes PittCon by storm! Matt B. and Rachael present talks. Catherine and Julie present posters. Congrats to all!
- Matt presented the group's work at the University of Washington and the University of Michigan! Thanks to everyone for the invitation and the opportunity to share our work.
January
- Matt presented the group's work at Colorado State University and the University of Utah! Thanks to everyone for the invitation and the opportunity to share our work.
- Catherine was selected as one of eight Druscilla French Graduate Fellows in the College of Arts and Sciences. Congrats Catherine!
- Rachael, Matt B., and Nate's paper on mapping pH gradients in our 3D paper cultures is accepted and published in Analytical Chemistry!
- Matt presented the group's work at Colorado State University and the University of Utah! Thanks to everyone for the invitation and the opportunity to share our work.
- Catherine was selected as one of eight Druscilla French Graduate Fellows in the College of Arts and Sciences. Congrats Catherine!
- Rachael, Matt B., and Nate's paper on mapping pH gradients in our 3D paper cultures is accepted and published in Analytical Chemistry!
2017
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- Matt presented the group's work at the University of Illinois and Northeastern University! Thanks to everyone for the invitation and the opportunity to share our work.
- Melanie Sinanian joins the lab. Welcome Melanie!
- Catherine was selected to participate in the Future Faculty Fellows Program, offered by the Center for Faculty Excellence. Congrats Catherine!
November
- Matt delivers the inaugural talk at the STEM Pride of the Triangle Queer Perspective Series!
- Matt received the Bioanalysis Zone New Investigator Award at the European Bioanalytical Federation meeting in Bacelona Spain! Thank you to Bioanalysis Zone and Waters for this honor, and recognition of the lab's work.
- Matt organized the LGBTQ and Allies in the Chemical Sciences symposium as part of the SERMACS Diversity Day!
- Andrew P. and Z presented posters at SERMACS!
- Congrats to Julia for receiving the Jason D. Altom Memorial Award for Undergraduate Research at this year's Jr./Sr. Banquet!
- Congrats to Catherine and Rachael on successful fourth-year seminars! Catherine presented her work on "Evaluating the photo-catalytic properties of chemically modified amorphous carbon electrodes". Rachael presented her work on "Mapping abiotic gradients and tracking cellular invasion in 3D paper-based cultures".
October
- Matt presented the group's work at the University of New Hampshire, Tufts University, and Eli Lilly! Thanks to everyone for the invitation and the opportunity to share our work.
August
- Matt presented the group's work on 3D cell cultures at a symposium entitled Quantifying the Tumor Microenvironment at the ACS National meeting in DC. The symposium featured the work of Shuang (Jake) Yang (FDA), James Rusling (U. Conn), Sean Burrows (Oregon State), and Ashley Ross (U. Cincinnati).
- Congratulations to Catherine, who received an RTNN Student Outreach Award!
July
- Matt B's paper on a 3D colon tumor model, in collaboration with the Hummon lab at Notre Dame, is accepted at the Analyst!
June
- Chad and Matt B.'s protocol on 3D invasion assays is published in Current Protocols in Chemical Biology!
- Rachael, Chad, and Nate's Feature Article is accepted at ChemComm!
May
- Congratulations to both Christian and Ben, our first graduates from the lab! Ben will be attending pharmacy school at UNC in the fall. Christian will be starting graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, in the department of chemistry.
April
- Check out this article about the new MakerSpace @ UNC, featuring Matt B.!
- Congratulations to Catherine, Chad, and Julie for receiving Steelman Teaching Awards!
- Congratulations to Matt B. and Nate on receiving Dissertation Completion Fellowships(!) from the graduate school.
- Congratulations to Julia on being selected to participate in the University of Oregon's REU program. Enjoy the summer in Eugene!
- Congratulations to Z on being awarded a Science and Math Achievement and Resourcefulness Track (SMART) summer research fellowship! Looking forward to having you in the lab this summer.
March
- Congratulations to Chad on passing his second year preliminary oral exam!
- Congrats to Chad on receiving an honorable mention on his NSF GRFP application!
- Matt presented the group's work on 3D cell cultures at the NCSU/UNC Biomedical Engineering Coulter seminar series!
- Matt presented the group's work on modified carbon materials at PittCon in an organized session entitled Modified carbon-based materials for sensors, arrays, and catalysis with Prof. Greg Swain, Prof. Kat Mirica, Dr. Olga Shenderova, Prof. Paula Colavita, Prof. Matthew Linford, Prof. Bob Hamers, and Prof. Joaqun Rodriguez-Lopez!
- Matt presented the group's work on 3D cell cultures at the 5th Annual Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics Symposium at Notre Dame. This symposium focused on molecular diagnostics and cancer.
February
- Matt presented the group's work on 3D cell cultures at the University of California at Riverside at the Department of Chemistry and the Environmental Toxicology program.
- Congratulations to Chad on completing his second year literature seminar on Single-cell western blot assays!
January
- Congratulations to Matt B. for a successful fourth-year research seminar: "Quantifying oxygen in paper-based cell cultures"!
- Congratulations to Nate for a successful fourth-year research seminar: "Cell-free expression of human cytochrome P450 2C8"!
- Matt presented the group's work on 3D cell cultures at the University of Wisconsin at Madison for the Department of Chemistry's analytical seminar series
2016
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The group welcomes Adam, Akshay, Isaiah, and Julia to the lab!
- Matt is awarded the 2016 Lilly Young Investigator Award in Analytical Chemistry. This award is thanks to the hard work and creativity of everyone in the lab!
November
- Ben presents a poster at the State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium at NC Central University!
October
- Welcome to our new graduate student Tom DiProspero!
- Matt B. presents a poster at NCTERMS conference at NCSU!
- Matt presented the group's work at Columbia College Biology and Chemistry seminar series.
- Matt presented the group's work on 3D cell cultures and amorphous carbon surface chemistry at SERMACS, which was held in Columbia, SC.
- Matt presented the group's work on 3D cell cultures at MUACC, which was held at U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
September
- Catherine and Julia's paper is accepted at Langmuir!
- Welcome to our newest member, Zhi-Wei Lin (Z)!
- Rachael presents a poster at the Annual Lineberger Retreat!
- Christian wins best poster at the CMI member retreat. Congratulations!
- The lab becomes a member of the NCSU Comparative Medicine Institute. Christian presents at poster at the CMI member retreat, introducing our research interests to the institute!
August
- Matt presented the group's work at the Roche Molecular Monitoring Symposium at the Roche Buonas site in Switzerland.
July
- Matt presented the group's work at High Point University Department of Chemistry seminar.
June
- Matt attended the Bioanalytical Sensors GRC, and presented a poster on the group's 3D culture efforts.
May
- Congratulations to Rachael on passing her second year preliminary oral exam!
- Congratulations to Christian on receiving the Freeze Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
April
- Congratulations to Catherine on passing her second year preliminary oral exam!
- Andrew's paper is accepted at the Analyst!
- Julie and Nate present their work at the NCBiotech Product Analytics Symposium!
- Nate, Julie, Chad, and Andrew represented the lab in the NC DNA Day 5K race!
- Congratulations to Matt B. on receiving a summer fellowship from Eastman Chemical Company!
March
- Julie presents a poster at the first annual UNC Women in Science Symposium.
- Congratulations to Julie on passing her second year preliminary oral exam!
- Catherine presents her work at the 1st Annual Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network (RTNN) Research Symposium. She was selected to give a talk! Congrats!
- We took PittCon by storm with four talks and four posters! Congrats to all on good presentations.
- Matt B. presented a poster at the NC Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, and Matt gave a keynote talk!
- Our paper with the Whitesides group and Vertex Pharmaceuticals is accepted at Biomaterials!
February
- Congratulations to Catherine, Julie, and Rachael on completing their second year literature seminars on single molecule electronics, near-field scanning optical microscopy, and digital PCR (respectively).
- Matt gave a talk at Davidson College Department of Chemistry seminar series
- Nate, Julie, and Ben's review in Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology is accepted!
January
The group welcomes Adam, Akshay, Isaiah, and Julia to the lab!
2015
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- Catherine presents a poster at the MRS/ASM/AVS joint symposium at NCSU
- Matt B., Rachael, and Andrew's paper is accepted at Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry!
October
- Rachael, Matt, and Andrew's paper is accepted at the Analyst!
- Andrew, Christian, and Matt B.'s paper is accepted at Analytical Chemistry!
- Matt L. and Matt B. present at the NIEHS 3D Printing in Research workshop.
- Matt B.'s 3D printed devices featured by the Research Hub at the Kenan Science Library!
- Mays will be presenting her summer research at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Seattle! Congratulations Mays!
September
- Catherine, Matt B., and Rachael present posters at the Triangle Science Research Competition!
August
- The group welcomes Kevin Su to the lab!
July
- Mays wins best poster(!!) a poster at the MIRT/ Triangle MRSEC Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium.
May
- The group welcomes Chad Lloyd for a summer rotation. Congratulations on being awarded a Matthew Morrison Summer Research Fellowship, Chad!
- The group welcomes Mays Albu-Shamah, an REU student from NC A&T, and Ben Penley, an undergraduate chemistry major at UNC, to the lab.
- Congratulations to Gil on completing his degrees in computer science and economics! Gil will be starting his new job Captech Consulting this summer!!
April
- Congratulations to Nate and Matt B. on passing their second year oral exams!
- Congratulations to Matt B. on completing his literature seminar on "Proteoform Analysis"!
March
- Congratulations to Nate on completing his literature seminar on "Micro-cantilever Arrays"!
February
- Our manuscript on a paper-based invasion assay (with the Whitesides group) is accepted to Biomaterials!
2014
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- Welcome to our new graduate students Rachael Kenney, Julie McIntosh, and Catherine McKenas!
August
- Welcome Gil Cukierman and Christian Lochbaum to the lab!
May
- Xianong was selected to attend the "ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry and Sustainable Energy" in Golden Colorado this summer. Congrats Xiaoning!
April
- The entire group successfully finished the "Rugged Maniac" 5K mud run and obstacle course.
January
- Postdoc Xianoning Zhang joins the lab after completing his PhD at the University of Kentucky!
2013
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- Graduate students Matthew Boyce, Jennifer Middlebrooks, and Nathan Whitman join the lab!
September
- Andrew Truong (lab manager) joins the lab!
July
- Matt presses the "start" button.