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PI Xiaohu Xia (Chem), “Facile Removal of Surface Ligands from Supported Platinum-Group Metallic Nanocrystals,” American Chemical Society
PI Loredana Valenzano (Chem), “Bringing New Efficiencies in Petroleum Refining Processes: A Quantum Chemical Investigation of Novel Porous Materials and Metal Oxide Surfaces for Olefin and Paraffin Separation,” American Chemical Society
PI Lanrong Bi (Chem/BRC), “Buckyballs-Based Mitochondrial Drug Delivery System for the Prevention and Treatment of Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury,” US Department of Health and Human Services, NIH
PI Marina Tanasova (Chem), “Discovering Probes to Overcome Cancer Resistence to DNA Alkylating Chemotherapy by High Throughput Evaluation of Polymerase Inhibition,” US Department of Health and Human Services, NIH
PI Lanrong Bi (Chem/BRC) and Co-PI Qinghui Chen (KIP/BRC), “Target Mitochondrial Fusion Process: Engineering of a Nanoparticals-Based Mitochondrial Drug Delivery Platform,” US Department of Health and Human Services-NIH
PI Martin Thompson (Chem), “Development of a Biological Platform to Study Histone Modifications,” NSF
PI Lynn Mazzoleni and Co-PI Marina Tanasova (Chem), “Collaborative Research: The Role of Inorganic Salts in Functionalization and Fragmentation of Isoprene Oxidation Product—A Molecular-Level Investigation,” NSF
PI Tarun Dam (Chem), “Role of Glycoconjugate Scaffolds in Lectin Recognition,” NSF
PI Haiying Liu and Co-PI Ashutosh Tiwari (Chem), ” BODIPY-Based Ratiometric Near-Infared Fluorescent Probes for Zinc(II) and Active Oxygen Species,” NSF
Haiying Liu (Chem), “Point-of-Care Rapid Detection by Label Free Cell and Nucleic Acid Assays,” Oakland Univeristy
Lynn Mazzoleni (Chem), “Collaborative Research: Nitrogen Partitioning and Evolution of Particulate Organic Nitrogen in Peat Fire Emissions,” National Science Foundation
Rudy Luck (Chem), “SusChEM: Using Abundant First Row Transition Metals to Accomplish Cross-Coupling for the Synthesis of Specific Drugs,” National Science Foundation
The Biotechnology Research Center has announced its fall 2014 Travel Awards. The award recipients follow:
Post-doctoral Research Scientist Presentation
Sachin Teotia (Bio Sci), Plant and Animal Genome XXIII Conference (poster)
Lijun Zhang (Bio Med), TERMIS–AM 2014 (podium)
Graduate Student Presentations
Suntara Fueangfung (Chem), 248th ACS National Meeting and Exposition (poster)
Maria Gencoglu (ChE), 2014 AIChe Annual Meeting (podium)
Maryam Khaksari (ChE), SciX 2014 (podium)
Hao Meng (Bio Med), BMES 2014 Annual Meeting (poster)
Sandra Owusu (SFRES), IUFRO World Congress (poster)
Durga Pokharel (Chem), 248th ACS National Meeting and Exposition (poster)
Yu Wang (Bio Med), IEEE International Ultrasound Symposium (poster)
Jingtuo Zhang (Chem), 248th ACS National Meeting and Exposition (poster)<
Undergraduate Student Presentation
Mitchell Tahtinen (Bio Med), 2014 BMES Annual Meeting (poster)
Postdoctoral associate Shilei Zhu, graduate student Jingtuo Zhang, postdoctoral associate Jagadeesh Janjanam, graduate student Giri Vegesna, assistant professor Ashutosh Tiwari, professor Haiying Liu (Chem), et al. published a paper titled “Highly Water-Soluble BODIPY-Based Fluorescent Probes for Sensitive Fluorescent Sensing of Zinc (II)” in Journal of Materials Chemistry B. This paper has been named one of the Most Accessed Manuscripts for Journal of Materials Chemistry B for 2013.
Graduate students Giri K. Vegesna, Jianheng Bi, Jingtuo Zhang, postdoctoral associate Jagadeesh Janjanam, undergraduate student Connor Olds, Assistant Professor Ashutosh Tiwari, Professor Haiying Liu (Chem), et al published a paper titled “.pH-Activatable Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probes for Detection of Lysosomal pH Inside Living Cells” in Journal of Materials Chemistry B.
Professor Haiying Liu (Chem), et al. published a paper titled “Interfacial Charge Transfer Events of BODIPY Molecules: Single Molecule Spectroelectrochemistry and Substrate Effects” in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.
Chemistry doctoral student Suntara Fueangfung (advisor: Associate Professor Shiyue Fang) was recognized at the Sigma Xi 2014 International Research Conference earlier this month. Fueangfung’s research poster presentation, “Purification of Synthetic Oligodeoxynucleotides via Catching by Polymerization,” was rated superior in the Chemistry Graduate Division.
The award for superior-rated presentations includes being nominated for membership by the Sigma Xi Board of Directors, payment of the initiation fee and the first year’s dues and a medal. Fueangfung will graduate from Michigan Tech this December.
For more information visit the Sigma Xi website.
Xiaohu Xia, PhD
Xiaohu Xia joins the Department of Chemistry as an assistant professor. He comes to Michigan Tech from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Xia has a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and a bachelor’s in biotechnology from Xiamen University in China.
Xia’s research interests are development of novel nanomaterials with well-controlled shapes and enhanced properties, and biomedical and catalytic applications of advanced nanomaterials. He has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials, and Frontiers of Physics.