Devleena Samanta
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Last Seen Profiles
As an undergrad looking for research opportunities, I was told by several faculty that I simply did not know enough to contribute to research meaningfully.
Today, ~1.5 years into my independent faculty position, I'm excited to welcome the 10th and 11th undergrads to my group!
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First paper from The Samanta Lab is now out in
@angew_chem
! We hope our Minireview can be a practical guide for researchers working on developing DNA-based nanostructures as biosensors.
@SeungheonLee_
@Shivudu_G1
@ShadlerNguyen
@jasmineklu
@sasha__nano
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First research paper led by our group is out in
@angew_chem
!
Introducing new tools for
#SARSCoV2
&
#colorectalcancer
protease sensing. Thanks,
@AmericanCancer
for funding, Anna Capasso for patient samples, &
@Imsubratapandit
for a heroic effort.
Read more:
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Incredibly excited to announce that I will be joining
@UTChemistry
this fall as an Assistant Professor! Can’t imagine being here without the continued support of my mentors (
@CHADNANO
,
@RichardZare
, Puru Jena), teachers, colleagues, friends, and family.
We are excited to announce that Dr. Devleena Samanta will be joining our department in Fall 2021!
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🎓 Prospective Grad Students: Join us for a virtual info session on our amazing
#PhD
program
@UTChemistry
! Check out the flyer for sign-up details.
🌍 International students, this one's especially useful for you!
Please RT! Let's spread the word!
#GradSchoolInfoSession
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The Samanta Lab
@UTChemistry
is hiring! We will combine synthesis (DNA/protein materials), chemical analysis, and single-cell methods to address biological challenges. Multiple postdoc positions available. See for details.
Please help spread the word!
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First student from our lab passes his PhD candidacy exam!
What an incredibly exciting moment for
@SeungheonLee_
and a significant milestone for the lab!
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Today in
@J_A_C_S
, we report a new method to detect clinically relevant biomolecules using
#CRISPR
-Cas systems.
This platform allows
#SARSCoV2
RNA markers to be seen by the naked eye at room temperature without PCR.
@sasha__nano
@NamrataRamani
@CHADNANO
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And just like that, first year as a professor is complete!
It's been an incredible journey so far with fantastic students and great colleagues.
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First photos of The Samanta Group! Hook 'Em!
@sh_hr
,
@ShadlerNguyen
, Jasmine, Pramati, Steven, Will, Mackenzie,
@Imsubratapandit
,
@Shivudu_G1
, and Dylan
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Dylan Snider becomes the second student from the group to pass his PhD candidacy exam!
I can now say that our students have a 100% success rate of passing candidacy exams. 🙂
@UTChemistry
#newPI
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So incredibly proud of my undergraduate student
@ShadlerNguyen
who has accepted an offer from
@StanfordUChem
for pursuing her Ph.D.! Extra special considering I started my Ph.D. in the same department 10 years ago.
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Check out our work on nanopore-based nanoparticle characterization, which is finally out in Small!
Incredible collaboration with the groups of
@MEdwardsLab
,
@pstrobbia
, Christoph Walti, and
@paoloactis
!
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Excited to share our work published in
@NatureProtocols
today, describing dense DNA-functionalization as a strategy to transform cell-impermeable proteins into intracellular agents for diagnostic/therapeutic applications.
@sasha__nano
, C.Kusmierz,
@CHADNANO
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Thank you to
@TexasScience
for the recognition and to my awesome colleagues at
@UTChemistry
for their support!
Especially exciting as I consider teaching and mentorship to be one of the most fun and important aspects of what I get to do everyday!
Congratulations to Devleena Samanta and Pedro Metola on receiving
@TexasScience
Teaching Excellence Awards!
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We're hiring!
We're hiring! The Department of Chemistry at
@UTAustin
invites applications for tenure-track positions at the Assistant Professor level in all areas of chemistry, subject to available funding.
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First experiment in The Samanta Laboratory! If you squint, you can possibly see the data on the computer screen. Will Hurley,
@m_coffin17
, Dylan Snider, Subrata Pandit,
@Shivudu_G1
@ShadlerNguyen
, Steven Lu
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We are so excited for and proud of Mackenzie Coffin (
@m_coffin17
) for being awarded the Norman Hackerman Prize for Undergraduate Research in Chemistry!
#WomenInSTEM
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6 months as an independent PI
@UTChemistry
!
@SeungheonLee_
@Imsubratapandit
Steven Lu
@Shivudu_G1
, Pramati Madugula,
@m_coffin17
,
@ShadlerNguyen
, Dylan Snider, Rupali, Chowdhry,
@jasmineklu
, and Will Hurley.
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Protein-based drugs - projected to be half of the top 10 selling drugs in 2023 - are transforming healthcare.
Learn how chemical design strategies have made this possible in our latest paper in
@NatureComms
, co-authored with
@sasha_ebrahimi
at
@GSKUS
.
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Excited to see our paper designated as a Hot Paper in
@angew_chem
! Grateful to all
@MirkinGroupNU
and
@AFResearchLab
collaborators who made this work possible. Special shout out to
@sasha__nano
for engineering an incredibly elegant and creative solution to a challenging problem.
Programming Fluorogenic
#DNAProbes
for Rapid Detection of Steroids (Mirkin)
@MirkinGroupNU
@AFResearchLab
@CHADNANO
@sasha__nano
@DevleenaSamanta
@ItsBenPartridge
@edmundhfc
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I did not get a chance to attend my graduation and, therefore, never got to wear my regalia.
Wore it for the first time last weekend for my students' graduation.
@m_coffin17
, Ryan, and Pramati accomplished great things
@UTAustin
and are off to change the world!
#UTGrad23
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Very excited to share our latest paper featured in the ChemBioTalents 2022 collection in
@ChemBioChem
! We review the various ways DNA can be used as a switch to control protein function.
@DM_Snider
@Imsubratapandit
@m_coffin17
@sasha__nano
@UTChemistry
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A little late post, but we are excited about our new paper featured in the Advanced Materials Hall of Fame.
@sasha__nano
@WenjieZhou11
Sarah Hurst Petrosko
@CHADNANO
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Had a fantastic time at
#ACSChicago
#ACSFall2022
!
It was great to speak at "A Diverse Path to Success in Analytical Chemistry" symposium. Thank you
@GarciaLabMS
for the invitation.
Equally enjoyable to meet other
@MirkinGroupNU
members and alums!
#proudchemist
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DNA-based structures have revolutionized live-cell analysis. Now, in
@J_A_C_S
, we introduce a highly tailorable next-gen platform that allows live-cell analysis using both DNA and proteins!
@sasha__nano
carolinekusmierz
@edmundhfc
@CHADNANO
@MirkinGroupNU
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Had a fantastic time at the
@GordonConf
on
#bioanalytical
#sensors
last week! Thank you
@Masson_chem
and
@SD_BAengineer
for the invitation to speak. Learned so much new science and met so many awesome scientists!
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Want to learn how we can make materials with DNA?
Check out my interview with
@chem_talk
which is now available as a podcast on Spotify:
It's also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and other listening platforms!
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First talk as an Assistant Professor outside
@UTChemistry
at
@BCCancerCenter
and
@asrc_gc
! Thank you Prof. Gibney and Prof. Ulijn for the invite!
Friday 10/8
@BCCancerCenter
in collaboration with
@asrc_gc
is proud to offer a symposium on Nanoscience Approaches to Cancer. A fantastic group of speakers will discuss their latest advances in cancer immunotherapy, drug design, theranostics & applied research using nanotech.
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Our latest work in
@NanoLetters
, led by
@CHADNANO
&
@Espinosa_HDE
, addresses the challenge of intracellular protein delivery.
We show localized electroporation delivers large (>500kDa) functional
#proteins
, protein SNAs, &
#CRISPRCas
enzymes into cells.
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Final reminder! We are hosting a virtual information session for students interested in pursuing a PhD in Chemistry at
@UTAustin
!
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We are excited to welcome four new graduate students to our group! Atri Bhattacharya, Sara Nixon,
@ImonPhukan
, and Gabriel Pohlman.
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Great to be back in Chicago for
#ACSChicago
#ACSFall2022
! Excited to meet new old friends and make new ones...and more importantly, to learn about some cool science.
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🎉 The end of this semester brings fantastic news! Our team has won multiple awards and honors:
Rupali: best poster at Stanford Research Conf.
Mackenzie and Pramati: graduating with distinction
Sarah: summer research fellowship
Gabriel: Henze Teaching Award! 🏆
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Excited to have the first research paper led by our group covered by press releases from
@angew_chem
and
@TexasScience
!
Great collaboration with Prof. Anna Capasso at
@DellMedSchool
!
A team led by
@DevleenaSamanta
developed a new kind of sensor that can be used to find unique fingerprints of cancers, infections and neurodegenerative diseases.
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Incredibly excited for
@SailorNguyen
, star undergraduate researcher in my lab, who has been awarded an undergraduate research fellowship by
@OUR_UTAustin
! Proud to be a part of an institution that's truly committed to the research training of young scientists.
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Excited to share the press release from
@NorthwesternEng
covering our latest work on protein delivery into cells using localized electroporation!
Nibir Pathak, Cesar Patino,
@NamrataRamani
, Prithvijit Mukherjee,
@sasha__nano
,
@CHADNANO
,
@Espinosa_HDE
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Rupali Chowdhry has been awarded an Outstanding Research Communicator Award at the 2023 Capital of Texas Undergraduate Research Conference!!!
Rupali is supported by a fellowship from
@OUR_UTAustin
and is working on developing protein-based therapeutics.
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#CRISPRCas
systems have transformed biology, yet hurdles persist. In our
@TrendsinBiotech
review, discover how
#nanotech
tackles pressing issues such as cell entry and stability, dramatically improving genome editing and disease diagnostics.
Read more:
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Thrilled for
@sasha_ebrahimi
, chosen as one of
@ChEnected
's
#35under35
trailblazing chemical engineers at just 28! Sasha's unbreakable spirit, unwavering dedication, and penchant for innovating simple solutions to complex problems makes him a role model for future scientists.
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We are super excited for
@m_coffin17
for being awarded an Undergraduate Research Fellowship from
@OUR_UTAustin
!!! Mackenzie, we are very proud of you!
This is particularly exciting considering it's
#WomensHistoryMonth
#WomenInSTEM
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We're hiring! Come be my colleague in our awesome department.
We invite applications for one tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in all areas of chemistry, subject to available funding. Exceptionally qualified senior applicants will also be considered for Associate/Full Professor positions.
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We are very proud of Rupali Chowdhry and Pramati Madugula who are supported by Undergraduate Research Fellowships from
@OUR_UTAustin
this academic year!
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Excited to have Rupali Chowdhry and Wilson Chao join the lab as undergraduate researchers!
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They are finally here! Two books by two advisors! Proud to be a Mirkinator and a ZareLabber!
@CHADNANO
@RichardZare
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Applications close in 2 days! If you would like to start your faculty career in a fantastic environment, now's your chance to apply.
We invite applications for one tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in all areas of chemistry, subject to available funding. Exceptionally qualified senior applicants will also be considered for Associate/Full Professor positions.
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What an incredible experience speaking at the ACS Student Chapter
@UTAustin
! Always exciting to speak to young scientists!
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We at
@UTChemistry
are hosting a virtual info session about our Chemistry PhD program. Open to both domestic and international students!!!
Please RT.
Interested in the
@utaustin
Department of Chemistry Ph.D Program? RSVP for a virtual info session:
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We are excited to have
@armijob1010
join us this summer as an
@NSF
REU student from
@SouthwesternU
!
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Proximity-based readouts, such as FRET, are ubiquitous in biochemical sensing. In our Perspective article in ECS Sensors Plus, learn about the pros and cons of proximity-driven DNA nanosensors.
Sara Nixon,
@ImonPhukan
,
@armijob1010
,
@sasha_ebrahimi
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Excited for the Teplensky lab!
Very excited to share I will start my independent career as an Asst Prof at
@BostonU_BME
this fall! A tremendous debt of gratitude to my amazing mentors, friends, and family for their support (
@CHADNANO
@DavidFairen
@WebberLab
and many others!) I can't wait to get started!!🥳👩🔬🧪
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We are excited for our undergraduate students, Steven Lu and Pramati Madugula, both of whom have won Second Year Excellence Awards from the College of Natural Sciences at
@UTAustin
!
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Detection, Diagnostics, Theranostics. We cover it all! Check out our latest
@J_A_C_S
Perspective on the evolution of DNA-based probes from linear to nanostructures and how that has opened new frontiers in live-cell analysis, impacting both fundamental biology and medicine.
The
@MirkinGroupNU
offers a fresh perspective on “DNA-Based Nanostructures for Live-Cell Analysis”. This paper is out in
@J_A_C_S
now – don’t miss it!
@sasha__nano
@DevleenaSamanta
@CHADNANO
@IINanoNU
@NUChemistry
@NorthwesternEng
@ResearchNU
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Congratulations to
@rupali_chowdhry
for winning Best Presenter at the 2023 Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Rupali has been supported by an Undergraduate Research Fellowship from
@OUR_UTAustin
and is a phenomenal young scientist!
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So excited to share our collaborative work with
@AFResearchLab
on the use of DNA to rapidly detect steroids in clinical samples! Just published in
@angew_chem
. Fortunate to be part of an incredible team of authors!
#FluorescenceFriday
comes early.
#aptamers
#DNA
Collaborative work between
@MirkinGroupNU
and
@AFResearchLab
has come to fruition - take a look!
@angew_chem
@CHADNANO
@sasha__nano
@DevleenaSamanta
@ItsBenPartridge
@CarolineKusmie2
@edmundhfc
@ResearchNU
@NUChemistry
@NorthwesternEng
@IINanoNU
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Check out this incredibly creative 1 min video made by the students in my CH 455 Analytical Chemistry class at
@UTChemistry
:
Created by:
@Jeezus_Balderas
, Keren Ceballos, Madi Kahanek, Nancy Luong, and Han Nhat Tran.
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Had a fantastic time talking about my work in
@MirkinGroupNU
at the department seminar at the School of Pharmacy,
@Hujimed
. What a great audience! Thank you
@KatyMargulis
for the opportunity and the invite!
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Congratulations to our very own graduate students
@atri_1998
and
@SeungheonLee_
for winning the 2023 Faraday Teaching Awards!
Proud to have such talented students in my group!
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What an incredible achievement for Cindy and Sasha!
Congrats to Cindy Zheng from the
@GCSchatz
Group and
@sasha__nano
from
@MirkinGroupNU
, who will receive 2021 Student Awards from the International Precious Metals Institute.
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Congratulations to Wenjie Zhou, star student in the
@MirkinGroupNU
, for his first author paper in PNAS on precisely controlling nanoparticle anchoring on surfaces. Excited to be a part of a fantastic team of authors including
@nanophotonics
and
@CHADNANO
!
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And the Texas tour begins with
@JLsessler
's "cheeseburger"!
So pleased to host our newest UT Austin Chemistry faculty member, Devleena Samanta, along with her husband, Kinjal Basu,
@dyslma
and Dan Sessler, MD, at the “cheeseburger” on Devleena and Kinjal’s first night in Austin. The beginning of great things!
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We are very excited to share our work in collaboration with the groups of
@MEdwardsLab
,
@pstrobbia
, Christoph Walti, and
@paoloactis
!
We show that nanopore sensors can be used as next-generation tools for characterizing individual nanoparticles in high throughput.
Hear hear about our cool new work lead by the talented
@SConfederat
on the next generation nanopore sensors for nanoparticle detection
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Watch
@sasha__nano
, graduate student extraordinaire, present his work with
@CHADNANO
on how to engineer DNA-based probes for analyzing live single cells!
@IINanoNU
@MirkinGroupNU
@ChEnected
#AIChE2020
#FluorescenceFriday
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At
#ACSFall2020
, learn how nanotechnology enables DNA- and protein-based live-cell chemical analysis! Find my talk, describing my latest work with
@CHADNANO
, in the ANYL Nanotechnology, Single Molecule & Single Cell Imaging in Biology and Medicine session.
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Mirkinites taking over academia!
So excited to share that I’m joining
@ASUEngineering
as an Assistant Professor this fall! Can't wait to become a part of the incredible team
@ASUBiodesign
. Many thanks to everyone that got me here, especially
@CHADNANO
,
@monicagroup
, and
@HawkerNation
for their mentorship.
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A fun one to write with
@sasha__nano
and
@CHADNANO
!
Thank you
@J_A_C_S
for the "Spotlight" feature on our Perspective which highlights groundbreaking research of many groups working in live-cell analysis:
@MirkinGroupNU
@KrishnanYamuna
@JaffreyLab
@NatalieArtzi
, Weihong Tan, Oliver Seitz, Yi Lu, and more!
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Check out our latest work on developing a new method to reversibly expand and contract colloidal superlattices!
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So excited to join a department and institution that not only houses many giants in the field but also cares deeply about outreach and undergraduate research!
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Come to my talk today and learn how we can use supramolecular structures of DNA and proteins to look at molecules in live cells. Talk starts at 1:40 pm PT/3:40 CT
#ACSSpring2021
@IINanoNU
@CHADNANO
@NUChemistry
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Excited to see our work in print! We have engineered a new class of aptamer-based probes that allows target detection in biologically relevant complex media.
FIT-Aptamers shed new light on analytes in complex media.
@sasha__nano
@DevleenaSamanta
@edmundhfc
@MirkinGroupNU
@Chadnano
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Thank you
@aichewic
and
@ChEnected
for the WIC Travel Award to help me attend
#AIChE2019
! Very grateful.
#AIChEAnnual
Also, wonderful talk by
@shellypeyton
!
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I feel especially humbled to be in a position where I can shape the minds of the next generation of students and scientists and create opportunities for those from underprivileged backgrounds.
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Quite a spectacular young scientist and person! Only thing is he likes Shawn Mendes and Chobani yogurt a little too much.
Meet Sasha Ebrahimi (
@sasha__nano
), a PhD candidate in Chemical & Biological Engineering at
@NorthwesternEng
. His research focuses on developing nucleic acid-based probes for detecting analytes in living cells.
Learn more in our Spotlight Series:
#MeetTGS
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Very excited that our work made it to the cover of JACS. This work would not have been possible without the heroic simulation efforts of Aysenur Iscen, help from Christine Laramy,
@sasha__nano
, and Katherine Bujold, and mentorship of
@GCSchatz
and
@CHADNANO
.
The January 15, 2020 issue of JACS is now online
On the cover: Collaborative work from Schatz, Mirkin, and co-workers demonstrate that multivalent cations can be utilized to actuate DNA-mediate colloidal superlattices.
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Very excited to be presenting at the National ChemE Seminar Series! Thank you
@rsegalman
,
@CRinaldi_UF
,
@PTHTwty
, and Jeffrey Reimer for organizing!
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Finally, this year has been particularly difficult because of the pandemic. Thank you
@Chemjobber
for making the process easier!
#WomenInSTEM
#AcademicTwitter
#AcademicChatter
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What a fantastic paper!
Thrilled to share our work out in
#PNAS
on
#HIV
#epitope
mapping. An efficient methodology to identify binding sites ('
#epitopes
') of neutralizing
#antibodies
on HIV-1. Directly extendable to emerging
#viruses
like
#SARSCoV2
@PNASNews
@iiscbangalore
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@jd1278
I was fortunate to be in his lab for a short period of time in 2014. So sorry to hear this.
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Congratulations,
@CassiCallmann
!!!
A new immunotherapy developed by IIN researchers dramatically extends the survival time of mice with triple negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat forms of breast cancer.
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Late stage graduate students, don't miss out on this exciting opportunity!
I'm looking for a postdoc in synthetic organic electrochemistry or transition metal catalysis to join the Malapit Lab at Northwestern
@NUChemistry
in Spring 2022!
Check out our NEW website for details:
I'd appreciate your retweets
#chempostdoc
@Chemjobber
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Our paper on the formation of gold nanostructures in aqueous microdroplets due to unusual and spontaneous redox chemistry is one of the most read articles in
@NatureComms
in 2018.
#NCOMTop50
@RichardZare
@StanfordUChem
@IBS_media
@DGIST_KOREA
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Excellent work by rising stars
@yuanwei_li
, Haixin Lin, and
@WenjieZhou11
on controlling nanoparticle shapes!!!
How can we make a library of nanoparticles with exotic shapes by design? Just published in
@ScienceAdvances
, we introduce a universal strategy to overgrow selected target regions of nanocrystal seeds.
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Congratulations to
@KatyMargulis
for this very well-deserved research support! If you are interested in a postdoctoral position in mass spec imaging and want to work with a rising superstar, here's your chance!
Our newly established lab is grateful for the generous support of our research by the Israel Science Foundation and by the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation. Looking for a brilliant postdoc with a strong proven track record in mass spectrometry imaging.
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What a pleasure to meet
@NatalieArtzi
!
Great dinner conversation with
@NatalieArtzi
and some of the other postdocs from
@MirkinGroupNU
. We’re working hard,
@CHADNANO
!
#womeninSTEM
#girlpower
#realtimechem
#gocats
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This is such incredible news! So excited!
I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining Northwestern University
@NorthwesternU
as an Assistant Professor
@NUChemistry
in January 2022!
Many thanks to my mentors, colleagues, families, and friends for the constant support.
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