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News


October 2025: Dr. Fang's and Dr. Zhou's paper, "Hypochlorous Acid-Gated Hydrolysis of a Phosphinate Ester Dye in Living Cells", is published in JACS. Congrats!

August 2025: Reilly O'Brien is awarded the Ingrassia Grant through the Echols Scholars Program. Congrats!

June 2025: Julia McAfee wins first place for Best Graduate Student Poster Award at the Virginia Drug Discovery conference. Congratulations!

May 2025: Ben Faulkner publishes a review article in ChemBioChem on methods for controlling the activity of small GTPases. Congrats!

April 2025: Julia McAfee receives the Hecht Fellowship. Congrats!

April 2025: A paper by Frederik Brøndsted, Julia McAfee, et al. on acoustic loudness factor (ALF) is published in Nature Communications.

April 2025: Megan Garris wins the Newly Arrived Service Award, and Miranda Wood wins the Lifetime Service Award from the Chemistry Department. Congratulations!

March 2025: Miranda Wood receives a 2025 COVES Policy Fellowship. Way to go Miranda!

February 2025: Julia McAfee wins the ACS Women Chemists Committee Travel Award sponsored by Eli Lilly & Company to travel to the ACS Spring 2025 Meeting & Expo in San Diego. Congratulations!

February 2025: Megan Garris and Jerimiah Moore advance to PhD candidacy. Congrats!

January 2025: Julia McAfee receives a GSAS research grant. Congratulations!

November 2024: Abby Bowe, Alikhan Nurkhaidarov, and Rachel Weatherford join our group as graduate students, and Madeline Loht joins as an undergrad. Welcome!

September 2024: Hunter Blosser, George Danes, Emily Hocutt, and Reilly O'Brien join our group as undergraduates. Welcome!

July 2024: Megan Garris receives the first Fellowship for Graduate Student Collaborative Drug Discovery Projects. Congratulations!

April 2024: Frederik Brøndsted and Yuchen He successfully complete their PhD defenses. Congratulations!

March 2024: Miranda Wood earns the 2024 TA Award. Congrats!

February 2024: Finn Davis, Ben Faulkner, and Julia McAfee advance to PhD candidacy. Congrats!

December 2023: Jerimiah Moore joins our group as a Bridge Fellow. Welcome!

November 2023: Megan Garris joins our group as a PhD student. Welcome!

October 2023: Frederik Brøndsted’s collaborative work with Steve Grant, "Single Atom Stabilization of Phosphinate Ester-Containing Rhodamines Yields Cell Permeable Probes for Turn-On Photoacoustic Imaging", has been published in Chemistry - A European Journal. Congratulations!

October 2023: Veronica Hubbs joins our group as a MS student. Welcome!

October 2023: Yuchen He earns second place in the Chemistry Department Retreat oral presentation competition for his talk on split GTPases. Congratulations!

September 2023: The Stains Lab receives an NIH Maximizing Investigator's Research Award (MIRA) to fund all NIGMS-related work in the lab.

June 2023: Frederik Brøndsted’s poster was selected for a poster slam talk at the FASEB Optical Probes Conference. Nice job!

May 2023: Ruwen Yin's collaborative work with the Ambati lab, "Kamuvudine-9 Protects Retinal Structure and Function in a Novel Model of Experimental Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment", has been published in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. Congratulations!

April 2023: Ruwen Yin successfully defends his PhD thesis. Congratulations!

April 2023: Harry Shield receives the Leake Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship, congratulations!

March 2023: Frederik Brøndsted receives a Jefferson Scholar Dissertation Year Fellowship from the Jefferson Scholars Foundation. Congratulations!

February 2023: Miranda Wood advances to Ph.D. candidacy! Congratulations!

December 2022: Benjamin Faulkner, Julia Laura McAfee, Finn William Davis, and Meaghan Roberti joined our group as graduate students. Welcome!

September 2022: Camille Owen, Harry Shield, and Joshua Sykes joined our group as undergraduates. Welcome!

October 2022:  Yuan Fang's collaborative work with Xinqi Zhou from Miller's Lab: "A long-wavelength xanthene dye for photoacoustic imaging." has been published in Chem. Commun. Congratulations!

October 2022:  David DiMeglio's paper "Experimentally Calibrated Computational Prediction Enables Accurate Fine-Tuning of Near-Infrared Rhodamines for Multiplexing." has been published in Chemistry-A European Journal. Congratulations!

September 2022: Dana Bassford joined our group as an MS student. Welcome!

April 2022: David DiMeglio has been selected as the ACS Outstanding Student in the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations!

April 2022: Haoyu “Hazel” Sun received a 2022 COVES Policy Fellowship. Way to go Hazel!

March 2022: Haoyu Sun received a Travel Award from the ACS Division of Biological Chemistry. Congratulations!

December 2021: Frederik Brønsted's highlight of the development of ketone rhodamines by Ivanic and Schnermann et al. has been published in Photochemistry and Photobiology.

October 2021: Mehrdad Shadmehr is heading off to a position at Thermo Fisher. Best wishes on the next step of your career, we will miss you!

October 2021: Mehrdad Shadmehr’s collaborative work with the Gelfand lab has been published in PNAS. Congratulations!

September 2021: Ben June, Hailey Joyce, Wesley Whitehurst joined our group as undergraduates. Welcome!

September 2021: First-year graduate student Miranda Wood has joined the group. Welcome!

December 2020: First year graduate student Thi Ngo has joined the group. Welcome!

August 2020: Garrett R. Casey's paper "A Fluorescent Probe for Monitoring PTP-PEST Enzymatic Activity" has been published in Analyst. Congratulations!

July 2020: Garrett R. Casey and Xinqi Zhou's collaborative paper "An Evolutionary Strategy for Identification of Higher Order, Green Fluorescent Host‐Guest Pairs Compatible with Living Systems." has been published in Chemistry-A European Journal. Congratulations!

June 2020: Travis J. Nelson's paper "A Luminescence-Based System for Identification of Genetically Encodable Inhibitors of Protein Aggregation." has been published in ACS Omega. Congratulations!

February 2021: David DiMeglio is awarded a Harrison Undergraduate Research Award. Congratulations!

April 2020: Ruwen Yin and Yuan Fang’s collaborative chapter “Synthesis and application of a ratiometric probe for hydrogen peroxide” has been published in Methods in Enzymology. Congratulations!

April 2020: Travis J. Nelson and Tiffany Truong’s collaborative paper “A luminescence-based assay for monitoring changes in alpha-synuclein aggregation in living cells” has been published in RSC Advances. Congratulations!

April 2020: Congratulations to Lauren Lesiak who will graduate with Highest Distinction from UNL this May!

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