News Archive

 

Welcome Sabrina (3/16/09)

Sabrina Leslie is a new postdoc in the lab. Sabrina did her PhD with Dan Stamper-Kurn at Berkeley. Welcome Sabrina!

Speedy Scientists (3/15/09)

We competed in the Ras na hEireann/Chemistry Department St. Patrick's Day race, with 100% of the lab participating! Jen and Adam clocked the fastest female and male times among the chemists. Rock on! Here are some photos and the results. Special thanks to our Cheerleaders.

Faraday Rotation in Magnetic Nanocrystals (3/14/09)

Prashant's paper on Surface Plasmon Resonance Enhanced Magneto-Optics (SuPREMO) came out in NanoLetters. Supremely Cool!

Students present at Biophysical Society Meeting (3/1/09)

Halil, Jen, Alex, and Joel each presented a poster at BPS. You can read about Spectral Shift FRET as a probe of microbial rhodopsins, microbial motion in mucus, an improved ABEL trap for single molecules, or the spectroscopy of squid rhodopsins.

Welcome Joel (2/15/09)

Joel Kralj joins us from the lab of Ken Rothschild at BU. Joel knows all about microbial rhodopsins, and will be teaching these molecules some nifty new tricks.

Redox Cycling paper published (1/22/09)

This was Adam's undergraduate research project. It took a decade to publish, but it was worth the wait! Here it is, published as an article in JACS. Thanks to all the coauthors for making this happen.

Farewell Prashant, welcome Min Ju (11/30/08)

Prashant has left for his Miller Fellowship at Berkeley. He promises to send us a postcard of the sun. Here are photos of some athletic exploits that accompanied his departure. Min Ju Shon is a first-year student in Chemistry, coming from Seoul National University. Welcome Min Ju!

Pet Elephant!

Check out the newest addition to our family: a pet elephant.

Comings and goings

Welcome to postdoc Halil Bayraktar! Halil just finished his PhD in chemistry at UMass Amherst and will be working on trapping bacteriorhodopsins. Also welcome to undergrads Malcolm Campbell and Arhana Chattopadhyay. Malcolm is building a "biotic camera" (stay tuned to find out what that means), and Arhana is working on using live yeast as a chromatographic separation medium. Orpha Rivera is departing to grad school to study graphic design. Bon Voyage Orpha!

Lab outing (5/18/08)

We took a hike up Mount Monadnock. And then we got some real exercise.

Hardware trap paper published (5/2/08)

Adam's paper with W. E. on an ABEL trap that performs feedback photon-by-photon using hardware tracking was published in Optics Express.

First trapping (4/30/08)

Alex got the ABEL trap working and trapped our first beads. Hooray!

Nan starts rotation (2/4/08)

Nan Yang studied physics at University of Toronto and has a background in optics. Welcome Nan!

Students take the plunge (2/4/08)

Alex and Yiqiao officially joined the lab. Hooray!

Katie is promoted! (2/4/08)

Katie will be working with the Liu Group from now on. Good luck Katie, and thanks!

Labwarming party (1/14/08)

Thanks to the contractors and building staff for making us such beautiful labs! Check out the labs (and the party) here.

Sijia finishes rotation (1/14/08)

Thanks to Sijia for his hard work during the rotation, and for all his help opening Thorlabs packages :)

New photo album up (12/18/07)

A new Picasa album shows some snapshots of good times in the lab.

Welcome undergrads! (12/10/07)

Lin Cong, a physics Junior, and David Gootenberg, a freshman, have started hanging out with us in the lab. Welcome Lin and David!

Prashant Jain joins as first postdoc (11/16/07)

Prashant is finishing his PhD with Mostafa El-Sayed at Georgia Tech. He will start in mid-February. Welcome Prashant!

Rotating rotation students (11/14/07)

Thanks to Stephen for all of his hard work during the rotation, and best of luck in the Park Group. Welcome to Sijia Lu! It's great to have you around.

Patent

A patent for putting nanoparticles on scanning probe tips finally issued. This patent was filed in 2002 based on work done in 2000 at the IBM Watson Research Center, with Chuck Black, Chris Murray, and Bob Sandstrom. Hooray!

 

Group Open House (10/15/07)

We had our Group Open House. Thanks to all who came and helped relieve us of excess beer. There were demos of Brownie-in-Motion, and the future of fashion.

Cleanroom training (10/10/07)

We all got trained in the McKay cleanrooms. The students looked good in their bunnysuits.

Katie O'Brien joins as new Admin. Asst. (9/24/07)

Katie comes to us from a background in publishing and will be taking over from Cheryl Ryder. Thanks to Cheryl for all her hard work and patience in the startup phase, and welcome Katie!

New rotation student (9/24/07)

Jennifer Hou from the physics dept. signed on for a rotation. Welcome Jennifer!

New rotation student (9/14/07)

Yiqiao Tang, a G1 in physics, started his rotation. Welcome Yiqiao!

Group size triples (9/6/07)

In what is likely a unique occurrence, the group size tripled in a single day: Alex and Stephen started their rotations.

Systems Biology PhD program (8/20/07)

We're now part of the Systems Biology Phd Program at Harvard Med School. We like systems, and we like biology--so it's a winning combination!

Technology Review TR35 (8/15/07)

Adam was awarded a TR35 prize by MIT's Technology Review Magazine for young innovators under the age of 35.

Dreyfus award (8/6/07)

Adam received the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Award for New Faculty. This award will support research into the local and nonlinear mechanical properties of DNA.

First equipment arrives (8/1/07)

We got two 4' x 8' x 1' Newport optical tables, an Olympus IX-71 microscope, and, of course, the most essential piece of lab equipment ever created.