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March 2025 Our collaborative review paper, titled “Interfacing with the
Brain: How Nanotechnology Can Contribute,” is published in ACS
Nano. Congrats, all! |
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March 2025 Our invited perspective paper, titled “Microfluidic tools to
model, monitor, and modulate the gut–brain axis,” is published
in Biomicrofluidics. Congrats, all! |
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February 2025 Raphaella Banholzer receives a Richard and Joy Dorf
Engineering Fellowship Award from the College of Engineering. Congrats,
Raphaella! |
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December 2024 Raphaella Banholzer joins the group as a graduate student
researcher. She is a PhD student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering
Graduate Program. She earned her BA degrees in Physics and Philosophy in UC
Santa Barbara. She will be engineering a closed-loop electro-fermentation
platform. Welcome, Raphaella! |
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November 2024 Our paper, titled “Primary cortical cell tri-culture to study
effects of amyloid-β on microglia function and neuroinflammatory response,” is
published
in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. Congrats, all! |
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October 2024 Our group receives a UC Davis – University of Sydney pilot
grant, titled “Engineering novel device coatings for next-generation sensors
for human health, water quality, and food safety,” in collaboration with
Prof. Anna Waterhouse (University of Sydney). |
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September 2024 Professor Şeker is a principal investigator on an USDA
grant, titled "Closed-Loop Electrofermentation
For Improved Fermented Fruits And Vegetables,” led
by Prof. Maria Marco. |
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August 2024 Allison Pickle passes her PhD qualifying examination in
Biomedical Engineering. Congrats, Allison! |
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June 2024 Hyehyun Kim receives
a poster award at the Alzheimer’s Disease Researchers’ Symposium, for her
poster titled “Primary cortical cell tri-culture to study the effect of
amyloid-beta on microglia function.” Congrats! |
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June 2024 Logan Echeveria successfully completed his MS in Electrical
and Computer Engineering. Congrats! |
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April 2024 Our paper, titled “The Influence of the Mechanical Compliance of
a Substrate on the Morphology of Nanoporous Gold Thin Films,” is
published in
Nanomaterials. Congrats, all! |
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April 2024 Allison Pickle is recognized for her contributions to
engineering education at the ASEE
PSW annual conference. Congrats, Allison! |
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March 2024 Professor Şeker has received the UC Davis – Academic
Senate Distinguished Graduate and Professional Teaching Award. |
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March 2024 Kavya Somayajula successfully
completed her MS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Congrats! |
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March 2024 Sangwoo Kim
joins the group as a graduate student researcher. He is a PhD student in the
Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group. He earned his BS degree in Molecular
Biology at Jeonbuk National University and MS degree in Chemical and
Biological Engineering at Korea University. He will be developing neural
tissue chips. Welcome, Sangwoo! |
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February 2024 Our paper, titled “Microfluidic compartmentalization of rat
vagal afferent neurons to model gut-brain axis,” is published
in Bioelectronic Medicine. Congrats, all! |
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December 2023 Greg Girardi successfully completed his PhD in Biomedical
Engineering. Congrats, Greg! |
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October 2023 Professor Şeker is awarded a Next Level
Research Award seed funding from the College of Engineering for
developing microphysiological models of the microbiota-gut-brain-axis. |
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September 2023 Allison Pickle joins the group as a graduate student
researcher. She is a PhD student in the Biomedical Engineering Graduate
Group. She earned her BS degree in Bioengineering at University of
California, Riverside. She will be developing neural tissue chips. Welcome,
Allison! |
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September 2023 Arushi Patel (Biomedical Engineering) and Nidhi Vadulas (Electrical & Computer Engineering) join the
group as undergraduate student researchers. Welcome, Arushi and Nidhi! |
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September 2023 Alex Gardner, Darius Rudominer,
and Jianyu Ming all successfully completed their MS in Electrical
Engineering. Congrats! |
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July 2023 Professor Şeker is appointed as the Chair of the new Designated
Emphasis in Neuroengineering. |
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June 2023 Hyehyun Kim
receives Summer Graduate Student Researcher Award. Congrats, Hyehyun! |
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June 2023 Professor Şeker receives an Excellence
in Teaching Award from the College of Engineering! |
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May 2023 Our paper, titled “Cultured Vagal Afferent Neurons as Sensors for
Intestinal Effector Molecules,” is published in Biosensors.
Congrats, all! |
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May 2023 The Designated
Emphasis in Neuroengineering, spearheaded by Professor Şeker, is approved
and is expected to serve as formal mechanism for PhD students to pursue a
specialization in this field. |
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April 2023 Professor Şeker is a co-principal investigator on a NIH R01 award,
titled "Bottom-up, high-throughput prototyping of extracellular vesicle
mimetics using cell-free synthetic biology” led by Dr. Cheemeng Tan, Dr.
Randy Carney, and Dr. Aijun Wang. |
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April 2023 Professor Şeker is awarded a EHSC
Pilot Award for developing a cortical tri-culture platform for
environmental neurotoxin screening. |
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March 2023 Our paper, titled “Electrophysiological Activity of Primary
Cortical Neuron-Glia Mixed Cultures,” is published in Cells.
Congrats, all! |
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December 2022 Our paper, titled “Experiential Learning in a Biomedical Device
Engineering Course: Proposal Development and Raw Research Data-Based
Assignments,” is published
in the special issue on experiential learning in Biomedical Engineering
Education. Congrats, all! |
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December 2022 Noah Goshi successfully completed his PhD in Biomedical
Engineering. Congrats, Noah! |
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September 2022 Sadi Md. Shahriar passes his PhD qualifying examination in
Materials Science and Engineering. Congrats, Sadi! |
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September 2022 Our paper, titled “Influence of Microchannel Geometry on Device Performance
and Electrophysiological Recording Fidelity During Long-Term Studies of
Connected Neural Populations,” is published
in Lab on a Chip. Congrats, all! |
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August 2022 Our paper, titled “Primary Cortical Cell Tri-Culture-Based
Screening of Neuroinflammatory Response in Toll-like Receptor Activation,” is
published in
Biomedicines. Congrats to Noah and Hyehyun! |
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July 2022 Professor Şeker is a principal investigator on a NSF
Research Training award,
titled "NeuralStorm: Taking Neuroengineering
by Storm.” |
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July 2022 Professor Şeker is awarded CITRIS Seed Funding towards the
development of a microfluidic laboratory course in collaboration with Dr.
Veronica Morales and Dr. Professor Jasquelin Peña
from UC Davis. |
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July 2022 Prof. Erkin Şeker is promoted to a professor. Many thanks to
students, postdocs, colleagues, family, and friends for all the support along
the way! |
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May 2022 Dr. Jovana Veselinovic receives the College of Engineering’s
2022 Zuhair
A. Munir Best Doctoral Dissertation Award. Congrats, Jovana! |
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May 2022 Ernest Wang (Biomedical Engineering – UC
LEADS) and Jiadiao (David) Zhou (Chemical
Engineering, graduating student) join the group as undergraduate student
researchers. Welcome, Ernest and Davis! |
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April 2022 Kavya Somayajula joins the group
as a graduate student researcher. He is a MS student in the Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering Graduate Program. She will be studying influence of
mechanical stresses on pore morphology evolution in nanoporous gold thin
films. Welcome, Kayva! |
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April 2022 Darius Rudominer joins the group as
a graduate student researcher. He is a MS student in the Electrical and
Computer Engineering Graduate Program. He will be developing video games for
microfabrication process education. Welcome, Darius! |
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March 2022 Professor Erkin Şeker is elected as a new Co-Director for Center for Neuroengineering and
Medicine, joining professors Karen Moxon and Carolynn Patten on the
leadership team! |
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March 2022 Alex Gardner joins the group as a graduate student
researcher. He is a MS student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering
Graduate Program. He will be developing electrical impedance-based tools for
monitoring epithelial barrier function. Welcome, Alex! |
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December 2021 A patent, titled "Integrated
electrochemical detection and purification of nucleic acid biomarkers RNA-based,
amplification-free, organism identification using nano-enabled electronic
detection," has been issued by the United States. This is an enabling
technology for identifying nucleic acids in complex biological samples.
Congrats! |
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June 2021 Barath Palanisamy receives an Honorable Mention for Chancellor’s
Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, a Hanson Family Undergraduate
Research Publication Award, and a Department
Citation in Biomedical Engineering
Award. Congrats, Barath! |
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June 2021 Sachit Nagella receives the Department
Citation in Chemical Engineering Award and a Hanson Family Undergraduate
Research Publication Award. Congrats, Sachit! |
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April 2021 Our group receives an Alzheimer’s-focused administrative
supplement award,
titled "Interplay of Neuroinflammation and Tau Transport in a
Microfluidic Primary Neural Cell Tri-Culture Model," funded by National
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
and National Institute on Aging (NIA)
in collaboration with the Lein Lab. |
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February 2021 Our paper, titled “Chemically-Gated and Sustained Molecular
Transport through Nanoporous Gold Thin Films in Biofouling Conditions,” is
published in
Nanomaterials and featured as Editor’s Choice. Congrats to Barath and Noah! |
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January 2021 Sadi Md Shahriar receives a 3-year Dean’s Distinguished Graduate
Fellowship from the College of Engineering. Congrats, Sadi! |
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September 2020 Greg Girardi passes his PhD qualifying examination in
Biomedical Engineering. Congrats, Greg! |
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August 2020 Jovana Veselinovic successfully completed her PhD in
Chemical Engineering. Congrats, Jovana! |
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July 2020 Our group receives a National Institutes of Health R03 award,
titled "Neuronal Contribution to the Propagation of Inflammation in the
Central Nervous System," funded by National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and in collaboration with the Lein
Lab. |
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July 2020 Our paper, titled “Interplay of Effective Surface Area, Mass Transport,
and Electrochemical Features in Nanoporous Nucleic Acid Sensors,” is
published
in Analytical Chemistry. Congrats to Jovana, Suzan, and Sachit! |
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June 2020 Barath Palanisamy receives a Provost's Undergraduate Fellowship.
Congrats, Barath! |
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June 2020 Hyehyun Kim
joins the group as a graduate student researcher. She is a PhD student in the
Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group. She earned her BS degree in Chemical
and Biological Engineering at University of Colorado, Boulder. She will be
developing neural tissue chips. Welcome, Hyehyun! |
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June 2020 Swathi Sundar successfully completed her MS in Electrical
Engineering. Congrats, Swathi! |
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May 2020 A collaborative paper with the Lein Lab, titled "A primary neural cell
culture model to study neuron, astrocyte, and microglia interactions in
neuroinflammation," is published
in the Journal of Neuroinflammation. Congrats to all! |
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May 2020 Our group receives a National Science Foundation award,
titled “Experimental and Computational Study of Pore Morphology Evolution
Mechanisms in Nanoporous Metal Thin Films Under Thermal/Electrical/Mechanical
Stress Fields”, in collaboration with the Mason Lab. |
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April 2020 Professor Şeker has received the UC Davis – Graduate
Studies Distinguished Graduate and Postdoctoral Mentorship Award. |
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April 2020 Our group receives a National Institutes of Health R21 award,
titled "A Microfabricated Model of Enteric Epithelium-Neuron Interaction
for Studying the Influence of Bacterial Metabolites," funded by National
Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and in collaboration with the Marco Lab and the Raybould Lab. |
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April 2020 Barath Palanisamy receives an ASUCD Merit Fellowship.
Congrats, Barath! |
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August 2019 Our paper, titled “Anomalous trends in nucleic acid-based
electrochemical biosensors with nanoporous gold electrodes,” is
published
in Analytical Chemistry. Congrats to Jovana and Suzan! |
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August 2019 Prof. Erkin Şeker joins the Editorial Committee of Annual Review
in Biomedical Engineering. |
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July 2019 Professor Şeker becomes the Graduate Program Chair for Electrical and Computer
Engineering Graduate Group. |
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June 2019 Madison Crain successfully completed her MS in Electrical
Engineering. Congrats and best of luck, Madison! |
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June 2019 Jovana Veselinovic receives Summer Graduate Student
Researcher Award. Congrats, Jovana! |
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May 2019 A collaborative paper with the Hihath
Lab (Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at UC Davis), titled
"Two-tiered
electrical detection, purification, and identification of nucleic acids in
complex media," is published
in Electrochimica Acta. Congrats to all! |
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April 2019 Suzan Almashtoub receives the
second place in Best Poster Award at the Annual Industrial Affiliates Meeting
of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Davis.
Congrats, Suzan! |
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January 2019 Our group receives a UC
Davis Microbiome Special Research Program pilot grant, titled “A
Microfabricated Model of Enteric Epithelium-Neuron Interaction for
Identification of Effector Compounds in the Gut Microbiota,” in collaboration
with the Marco Lab and the Raybould Lab. |
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January 2019 Pallavi Daggumati is one of the
two recipients of the 2017 Anil Jain Memorial
Prize in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Program for her
PhD dissertation work. Congrats, Pallavi! |
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January 2019 Jovana Veselinovic receives the Best Oral Presentation Award
at the Northern California Biomaterials Day at University of California,
Davis. Congrats, Jovana! |
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December 2018 Our paper, titled “An electrically-controlled programmable
microfluidic concentration waveform generator,” is published
in Journal of Biological Engineering. Congrats to Josh and colleagues! |
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December 2018 Zidong Li successfully
completed his PhD in Biomedical Engineering. Congrats and best of luck, Dr.
Li! |
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November 2018 Greg Girardi joins the group as a graduate student
researcher. He is a PhD student in the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group.
He earned his BS degree in Bioengineering at University of California -
Merced. He will be developing tissue chips. Welcome, Greg! |
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October 2018 Noah Goshi is awarded a Biotechnology Program Fellowship
from the Designated Emphasis in
Biotechnology Program (DEB) at UC Davis. Congrats, Noah! |
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September 2018 Madison Crain joins the group as a graduate student
researcher. She is an Integrated Degree Program student (BS + MS) in the
Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Program. She will be developing
educational simulator for microfabrication processes. Welcome, Madison! |
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September 2018 Rasta Moeinzadeh joins the group
as a graduate student researcher. She is a MS student in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering. She earned her BS degree in Computer
Hardware Engineering from the Amirkabir University
of Technology in Iran. She will be developing multiplexed electrochemical
sensors. Welcome, Rasta! |
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August 2018 Our group receives a UC
Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center Biomedical Technology Program pilot
grant, titled “Biosensors for Circulating Nucleic Acid Cancer Biomarkers,” in
collaboration with the Hihath Lab. |
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August 2018 Alex Hampe successfully completed his MS in Biomedical
Engineering and ventures onto his new position at PowerSchool LLC. Congrats
and best of luck, Alex! |
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June 2018 Our paper, titled “A Microfluidic Platform to Study Astrocyte
Adhesion on Nanoporous Gold Thin Films,” is published in Nanomaterials.
Congrats to Alex! |
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June 2018 Zidong Li receives
the 2018 Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group (BMEGG) Outstanding
Graduate Student Award. Congrats, Zidong! |
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June 2018 Noah Goshi passes his PhD qualifying examination in
Biomedical Engineering. Congrats, Noah! |
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May 2018 Our paper, titled “Voltage-Gated Closed-Loop Control of
Small-Molecule Release from Alumina-Coated Nanoporous Gold Thin Film
Electrodes,” is published
in Advanced Functional Materials. Congrats to Zidong! |
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May 2018 Our paper, titled “Electrically-Guided DNA Immobilization and
Multiplexed DNA Detection with Nanoporous Gold Electrodes,” is
published in
Nanomaterials. Congrats to Jovana, Zidong, and
Pallavi! |
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May 2018 Zidong Li
receives the Best
Oral Presentation Award at the UC Davis 7th Annual Biomedical
Engineering Graduate Group Research Day. Congrats, Zidong! |
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April 2018 Our group receives a National Institutes of Health award,
titled "Next Generation Neural Interfaces Based on Axonal Confinement in
Micro-Channel Electrode Arrays," funded by NIBIB
Trailblazer Award mechanism and in collaboration with the Lein Lab. |
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March 2018 Barath Palanisamy (Biomedical Engineering) and Suzan Almashtoub (Chemical Engineering) join the group as undergraduate
student researchers. Welcome, Barath and Suzan! |
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March 2018 Prof. Erkin Şeker is elevated to Senior Member grade at
IEEE. |
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January 2018 Our invited review paper in collaborations with Profs. Keith
Stine (University of Missouri-St. Louis) and Wei-Chuan Shih (University of
Houston), titled “Nanoporous metals by alloy corrosion: Bioanalytical and
biomedical applications,” is published
in special issue of Dealloyed Nanoporous Materials
with Interface-Controlled Behavior in MRS Bulletin. Congrats to all! |
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January 2018 A collaborative paper with the Hasselt University in Belgium
and the Department of Chemical Engineering in at UC Davis, titled "Engineering the
interface between lipid membranes and nanoporous gold: A study by quartz
crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring,"
is published
in Biointerphases. Congrats to all! |
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December 2017 Zidong Li
is selected to participate in the UC Davis Leaders for the
Future and the NIH-funded FUTURE programs, which
provide enriched training on career opportunities within and beyond academia.
Congrats, Zidong! |
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October 2017 A patent, titled "RNA-based,
amplification-free, organism identification using nano-enabled electronic
detection," has been issued by the United States. This is an enabling
technology for detection and identification of nucleic acid-based biomarkers.
Congrats! |
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August 2017 Our paper, titled “Configurable microfluidic platform for
investigating therapeutic delivery from biomedical device coatings,” is
published
in Lab on a Chip. Congrats to Zidong! |
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August 2017 Our invited review paper, titled “Multifunctional neural
interfaces for closed-loop control of neural activity,” is published
in special issue of Advanced Functional Materials Solutions to Engineering
the Neural Interface in Advanced Functional Materials. Congrats to all! |
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August 2017 Jovana Veselinovic passes her PhD qualifying examination in
Chemical Engineering. Congrats, Jovana! |
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July 2017 Prof. Erkin Şeker receives tenure and is promoted to an
associate professor. Many thanks to students, postdocs, colleagues, family,
and friends for all the support along the way! |
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June 2017 Dr. Chris Chapman receives the 2017 Biomedical Engineering
Graduate Group (BMEGG) Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Congrats, Chris! |
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June 2017 Jovana Veselinovic and Zidong Li receive
Summer Graduate Student Researcher Awards. Congrats to both! |
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May 2017 Dr. Pallavi Daggumati receives the
Honorable Mention as a part of the 2017 Zuhair
A. Munir Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation with her thesis titled,
“Nanoporous Gold Biosensors for Electrochemical Detection of Nucleic Acids”.
Congrats, Pallavi! |
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April 2017 Chris Chapman successfully completed his PhD in Biomedical
Engineering. Congrats and best of luck, Dr. Chapman! |
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April 2017 Our paper, titled "Nanoporous gold-based electrode morphology libraries
for investigating structure-property relationships in nucleic acid-based
electrochemical biosensors," is featured as Front Cover the journal ACS
Applied Materials & Interfaces. |
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March 2017 A collaborative paper with the Department of Molecular
Biosciences at UC Davis and Department of Electrical Engineering at UC Santa
Cruz, titled "Nanostructure
introduces artifacts in quantitative immunofluorescence by influencing
fluorophore intensity," is published in
Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing). Congrats to all! |
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March 2017 Swathi Sundar joins the group as a graduate student
researcher. She is a MS student in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering. She earned both her BS degree in Electrical Engineering and ME
degree in Medical Electronics at Anna University, Chennai in India. She will
be developing techniques for in situ monitoring of drug delivery. Welcome,
Swathi! |
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January 2017 Our group’s paper, titled "Nanoporous gold-based
electrode morphology libraries for investigating structure-property
relationships in nucleic acid-based electrochemical biosensors,"
is published
online in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congrats to Zimple! |
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January 2017 Our paper, titled "Nanoporous gold biointerfaces: modifying
nanostructure to control neural cell coverage and enhance
electrophysiological recording performance," is featured as Inside
Front Cover of the journal Advanced Functional Materials. |
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December 2016 A collaborative paper with the Department of Molecular
Biosciences, titled "Nanoporous gold biointerfaces: modifying nanostructure to
control neural cell coverage and enhance electrophysiological recording
performance," is published
in Advanced Functional Materials. Congrats to Chris and the collaborators! |
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November 2016 Tatiana Dorofeeva successfully completed her PhD in
Electrical Engineering. Congrats, Tatiana! |
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October 2016 Our group’s paper, titled "In situ electrical
modulation and monitoring of nanoporous gold morphology," is published online
in Nanoscale. Congrats to Tatiana! |
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October 2016 Özge Polat successfully completed her PhD in Chemical
Engineering. Congrats, Özge! |
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September 2016 Noah Goshi joins the group as a graduate student researcher.
He is a PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He earned
his BS degree in Bioengineering at University of California - San Diego and
MS degree in Bioengineering at San Diego State University. He will be
developing multifunctional neural interfaces. Welcome, Noah! |
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August 2016 Our group’s paper, titled "Effect of
surface-molecule interactions on molecular loading capacity of nanoporous
gold thin films," is published
online in Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Congrats to Özge! |
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July 2016 Professor Şeker has been selected as a 2016
Young Innovator of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (Biomedical
Engineering Society). |
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July 2016 Chris Chapman is awarded a Swiss Government Excellence
Scholarship and National Science Foundation GROW Award for a year-long
research position at ETH Zurich. Congrats, Chris! |
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June 2016 Zidong Li
passes his PhD qualifying examination in Biomedical Engineering. Congrats, Zidong! |
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June 2016 Josh Garrison successfully completed his MS in Electrical
Engineering and ventured onto his new position at Micron. Congrats and best
of luck, Josh! |
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June 2016 A collaborative paper with the Department of Food Science,
titled "Sequence-specific
electrical purification of nucleic acids with nanoporous gold electrodes,"
is published
in Journal of American Chemical Society. Congrats to Pallavi and the
collaborators! |
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June 2016 A collaborative paper with the Department of Molecular
Biosciences, titled "Mechanisms of reduced astrocyte surface coverage in cortical
neuron-glia co-cultures on nanoporous gold surfaces,"
is published
in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. Congrats to Chris and the
collaborators! |
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May 2016 Pallavi Daggumati successfully
completed her PhD in Electrical Engineering and ventured onto her new
position at Illumina. Congrats and best of luck, Dr. Daggumati! |
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May 2016 Jovana Veselinovic passes her preliminary exam in Chemical
Engineering. Congrats, Jovana! |
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March 2016 A collaborative paper with Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, titled "Utilizing dynamic laser speckle to probe nanoscale
morphology evolution in nanoporous gold thin films," is published
in Optics Express. Congrats to Chris and the collaborators! |
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February 2016 Our paper, titled "Electrochemically-triggered pore expansion in
nanoporous gold thin films," is featured as Front Cover in Journal of
Physical Chemistry C. |
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January 2016 Alex Hampe joins the group as a graduate student researcher.
He is a MS student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He earned his
BS degree in Chemical Engineering at Florida State University. He will be
studying influence of substrate topography on cell adhesion. Welcome, Alex! |
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January 2016 Our group’s paper titled "Electrochemically-triggered
pore expansion in nanoporous gold thin films" is published
online in Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Congrats to all! |
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December 2015 Our paper titled "Engineering on-chip nanoporous gold
material libraries via precision photothermal treatment" is featured as Front
Cover in Nanoscale. |
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December 2015 A collaborative paper with Northeastern University and
Massachusetts General Hospital, titled "Development of a microsphere-based
system to facilitate real-time insulin monitoring," is published
in Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. Congrats to all! |
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December 2015 Pallavi Daggumati is awarded a
Dissertation Quarter Fellowship from the Electrical & Computer
Engineering Graduate Program. Congrats, Pallavi! |
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November 2015 Jovana Veselinovic joins the group as a graduate student
researcher. She is a PhD student in the Department of Chemical Engineering.
She earned her BS degree in Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. She will be developing multifunctional sensors for
miniaturized bioanalytical platforms. Welcome, Jovana! |
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November 2015 Our paper titled "Halide-Gated Molecular Release from
Nanoporous Gold Thin Films" is featured as Front Cover in Journal of Physical
Chemistry C. |
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September 2015 A collaborative paper with Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, titled "Engineering on-chip nanoporous gold material
libraries via precision photothermal treatment," is published
in Nanoscale. Congrats to Chris and the collaborators! |
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September 2015 Our group’s paper, titled "Halide-gated molecular
release from nanoporous gold thin films," is published
online in Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Congrats to Özge! |
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August 2015 Our paper, titled "Effect of nanoporous gold thin film
morphology on electrochemical DNA sensing," is featured as Front Cover in the journal Analytical
Chemistry. Thanks to Tatiana Dorofeeva, Ekin Seker, and Erkin Seker for the
beautiful graphic! |
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August 2015 Our group’s paper, titled "Biofouling-resilient
nanoporous gold electrodes for DNA sensing," is published
online in Analytical Chemistry. Congrats to all! |
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August 2015 A collaborative paper with UC Irvine, titled "Substrate
topography guides pore morphology evolution in nanoporous gold thin
films," is published
in Scripta Materialia. Congrats to all! |
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July 2015 Professor Șeker has been selected
to participate in the University
of California - Team Science Retreat. In a small group setting, he will
join researchers across the ten campuses of the University of California
system and discuss elements of team science dynamics and leadership, research
design, and proposal writing in the context of collaborative science. |
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July 2015 A patent, titled "Nanoporous
metal multiple electrode array and method of making same," has been
issued by the United States. This is an enabling technology for engineering
multifunctional neural electrodes. Congrats! |
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June 2015 Zidong Li
joins the group as a graduate student researcher. He is a PhD student in the
Department of Biomedical Engineering. He earned his BS degree in Thermal
Engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University in China
and MS degree in Mechanical Engineering at University of Michigan - Dearborn.
He will be developing miniaturized closed-loop drug delivery platforms.
Welcome, Zidong! |
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June 2015 Joshua Garrison joins the group as a graduate student
researcher. He is an Integrated Degree Program student (BS + MS) in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He will be developing
microfluidic waveform generators. Welcome, Josh! |
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June 2015 Pallavi Daggumati is awarded an
Electrical & Computer Engineering Program Excellence in Research Award.
Congrats, Pallavi! |
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June 2015 Professor Șeker joins Biophysics
Graduate Program at UC Davis. |
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May 2015 Chris Chapman receives both the Best Oral Presentation and
People’s Choice awards at the UC Davis 4th annual Biomedical
Engineering Graduate Group Research Day. Congrats, Chris! |
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May 2015 Our group receives a National Science Foundation award,
titled "Effects of Nanostructure on the Performance of Nucleic
Acid-Based Electrochemical Biosensors," funded by Nano-Biosensing
Program. |
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May 2015 A collaborative paper with IBM Almaden Research Center and
Departments of Food Science and Plant Pathology (UC Davis), titled
"Immobilization-mediated reduction in melting temperatures of DNA-DNA
and DNA-RNA hybrids: Immobilized DNA probe hybridization studied by
SPR," is published
in Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. Congrats
to all! |
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April 2015 Our group’s paper, titled "Effect of nanoporous gold
thin film morphology on electrochemical DNA sensing," is published online in
Analytical Chemistry. Congrats to Pallavi and Zimple! |
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April 2015 Our paper, titled "Nanoporous gold as a neural interface
coating: effects of topography, surface chemistry, and feature size," is
featured as Front Cover in
the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Thanks to Ryan Chen
(LLNL) for the beautiful graphic! |
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March 2015 Chris Chapman has been selected to attend the 65th
Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany – a prestigious award
sponsored by the National Science Foundation. He will join ~50 other graduate
students selected from the US universities to have informal meetings with
Nobel Laureates in chemistry, physics, and physiology/medicine. Congrats,
Chris! |
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February 2015 A collaborative paper with Department of Molecular
Biosciences (UC Davis) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, titled
"Nanoporous gold as a neural interface coating: effects of topography,
surface chemistry, and feature size," is published in
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congrats to Chris and the
collaborators! |
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February 2015 Dr. Juan Manuel Artés Vivancos is awarded a Marie Curie
Individual European Grant, titled "Quantum coherence in photosynthesis:
towards single-molecule light-conversion devices". Congrats, JuanMa! |
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January 2015 Professor Şeker has been selected to receive a National
Science Foundation CAREER Award,
titled "Multifunctional Nanostructured Electrodes for Closed-Loop
Control of Neural Activity," co-funded by Biomedical Engineering and
Metals & Metallic Nanostructures Programs. |
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January 2015 Our group’s paper, titled "Electrically-tunable pore
morphology in nanoporous gold thin films," is published online in
Nano Research. Congrats to Tatiana! |
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January 2015 Tatiana Dorofeeva passes her PhD qualifying examination in
Electrical and Computer Engineering. Congrats, Tatiana! |
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December 2014 A collaborative paper, titled "Resolving cancer–stroma
interfacial signalling and interventions with
micropatterned tumour–stromal assays," is published
in Nature Communications. |
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November 2014 Dr. Zimple Matharu joins the group
as a postdoctoral researcher. She received her PhD focusing on biosensors
from University of Delhi and the National Physical Laboratory, India. Her BS
and MS degrees are in Physics from University of Lucknow, India. She will be
developing material screening platforms to study nanostructure-property
relationships in electrochemical sensors. Welcome, Zimple! |
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September 2014 Chris Chapman passes his PhD qualifying examination in
Biomedical Engineering. Congrats, Chris! |
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August 2014 Professor Şeker has been selected to participate in the National
Academy of Engineering’s 6th annual Frontiers
of Engineering Education Symposium. He will join some of the nation’s
most engaged and innovative engineering educators in order
to discuss and collaborate on novel approaches to promote effective,
substantive, and inspirational engineering education. |
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June 2014 Özge Kurtuluş receives a Summer Graduate Student Researcher
Award. Congrats, Özge! |
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June 2014 Tatiana Dorofeeva is awarded an Electrical & Computer
Engineering Graduate Program Fellowship. Congrats, Tatiana! |
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May 2014 My recent commentary, titled "A long academic
journey," based on an interview with Prof.
Banu Onaral is published in Science
Translational Medicine. |
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April 2014 Our group’s paper, titled "Molecular Release from
Patterned Nanoporous Gold Thin Films," is accepted to and published online
in Nanoscale. Congrats to Özge and Pallavi! |
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April 2014 Chris Chapman is awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from
the National Science Foundation.
Congrats, Chris! |
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December 2013 A collaborative paper with UC Davis - Center for Biophotonics,
titled "Fabrication and characterization of flexible and tunable
plasmonic nanostructures," is published
in Scientific Reports by Nature Publishing. |
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November 2013 Dr. Ling Wang joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher.
He received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Universitat
Politècnica, Spain. His BS degree is in Life Sciences
from University of Science and Technology of China, China. He will be
developing miniaturized platforms to construct neuronal circuits for
biosensor applications. Welcome, Ling! |
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July 2013 Our group’s first paper, titled "Microfabrication of
nanoporous gold patterns for cell-material interaction studies," is
published online
in the Journal of Visual Experiments. Congrats to all! |
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July 2013 Tatiana Dorofeeva joins the group as a graduate student
researcher. She is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering. She earned her BS and MS degrees in Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and at the University
of Virginia respectively. She will be developing electrical sensor platforms
for cell imaging. Welcome, Tatiana! |
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June 2013 Chris Chapman is awarded a Biotechnology Program Fellowship
from the Designated Emphasis in
Biotechnology Program (DEB) at UC Davis. Congrats, Chris! |
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March 2013 Pallavi Daggumati passes her PhD
qualifying examination in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Congrats,
Pallavi! |
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March 2013 Özge Kurtuluş passes her PhD qualifying examination in
Chemical Engineering. Congrats, Özge! |
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March 2013 Professor Şeker becomes an Associate Scientific Advisor for Science Translational Medicine. |
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March 2013 Damla Dimlioğlu passes her
preliminary exam in Electrical Engineering. Congrats, Damla! |
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March 2013 A postdoctoral position is available immediately for
research on nanotechnology and neuroengineering. Details can be found here. |
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March 2013 Our book chapter, titled "Microfluidics: On-Chip
Platforms as In Vitro Disease Models," is published
in Microfluidic Technologies for Human Health by World Scientific Publishing
Company. |
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February 2013 Dr. Juan Manuel Artés Vivancos joins the group as a
postdoctoral researcher and will be co-advised by Professor Josh Hihath. He received his PhD in Biotechnology and MS
degrees in Biotechnology and Experimental Chemistry from University of
Barcelona, Spain. His BS degrees are in Biotechnology and Biochemistry from
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. He will be developing nucleic
acid-based sensors for real time monitoring of biomarkers. Welcome, JuanMa! |
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January 2013 Professor Şeker joins Chemical Engineering and Materials
Science Graduate Program at UC Davis. |
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October 2012 Özge Kurtuluş wins a departmental poster award for her work
illustrating nanoporous gold as a biomedical device coating. The event
attendees included the Board of Visitors and several biotech companies.
Congrats, Özge! |
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September 2012 Damla Dimlioğlu joins the group as
a graduate student researcher. She is a PhD student in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering. She earned her BS degree in Electrical
and Electronics Engineering at Middle East Technical University in Turkey.
She will be developing cell-based electrophysiological sensor platforms.
Welcome, Damla! |
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August 2012 Professor Şeker is awarded a UC Lab Fees Grant in
collaboration with Dr. Monika Biener at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory. This three-year award will focus on the development of
miniaturized cell-based sensors that utilize nanostructured electrode-neuron
combinations for the detection and identification of neurotoxins. |
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August 2012 Pallavi Daggumati joins the group
as a graduate student researcher. She is a PhD student in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering. She earned her BS degree in Information
and Communication Technology at DA-IICT in India and MS degree in Electrical
Engineering at Duke University. She will be studying
nanostructure-biomolecule interactions for the enhancement of biosensor
performance. Welcome, Pallavi! |
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August 2012 Chris Chapman is awarded a Graduate Assistance Areas of National
Need (GAANN) Fellowship from the US Department of Education. Congrats, Chris! |
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July 2012 Professor Şeker is a part of an interdisciplinary team that
is awarded a Research
Investments in the Sciences and Engineering (RISE) grant. This three-year
award will focus on the development of biosensors for the detection and
identification of human and plant pathogens. |
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July 2012 Chris Chapman joins the group as a graduate student
researcher. He is a PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
He earned his BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
at North Carolina State University. He will be working on high-throughput
biosensor screening platforms. Welcome, Chris! |
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June 2012 Professor Şeker is awarded a UC Davis Academic Senate Grant.
This one-year seed grant will facilitate the electrochemical testing of
nanostructured sensors. |
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June 2012 John Flynn and Ramya Raman join the group as summer student
researchers. They will be working on various projects related to
material-tissue interactions and learning valuable lab techniques. |
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May 2012 Özge Kurtuluş passes her preliminary exam in Chemical
Engineering. Congrats, Özge! |
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April 2012 Our paper, titled "Ex vivo gene delivery to
hepatocytes: techniques, challenges, and underlying mechanisms," is
published online
in the journal Annals of Biomedical Engineering. |
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April 2012 Professor Şeker gives an invited talk, titled
"Nanotechnology & Neuroengineering," at Harvard Medical School,
Boston, MA. |
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March 2012 Our paper, titled "Microfabrication-compatible
nanoporous gold foams as biomaterials for drug delivery," is featured as
Front
Cover in the journal Advanced Healthcare Materials. |
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December 2011 Our paper, titled "Solving Medical Problems with
BioMEMS," is published
in the magazine IEEE Pulse. |
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November 2011 Professor Şeker joins the Designated Emphasis in Biotechnology
Program at UC Davis. |
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November 2011 Our paper, titled "Platinum nanoparticle-facilitated
reflective surfaces for non-contact temperature control in microfluidic
devices for PCR amplification," is published
in the journal Lab on a Chip. |
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November 2011 Professor Şeker joins Mechanical and Aeronautical
Engineering Graduate Program at UC Davis. |
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October 2011 Professor Şeker joins Graduate Group in Biomedical
Engineering at UC Davis. |
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October 2011 Özge Kurtuluş joins the group as a graduate student
researcher and will be co-advised by Professor Atul Parikh. She is a PhD
student in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. She
earned her BS in Chemistry at Middle East Technical University in Turkey. She
will be working on stimuli-responsive drug delivery platforms. Welcome, Özge! |
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September 2011 Professor Şeker joins the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at UC Davis. |
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