Group News

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2024. 5. Dr. Jiaxin Feng has been selected to receive the 2024 Cancer Therapeutics Training Program (CTTP) funded fellowship award. Congratulations Dr. Feng!


2024. 5. Madison Edwards has been selected to attend the 2024 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in Germany, scheduled for June 30 to July 5. Congratulations, Madison, on receiving this prestigious honor! Enjoy your second trip to Europe this year!   


2024. 5. Congratulations to Chia-Lung (Michael) Tsai for winning the 2nd Place Poster Presentation at the Biological and Chemical Sciences Symposium!


2024. 5. Madison Edwards was selected to give an oral presentation titled "Interfacial Electromigration for Analysis of Biofluid Lipids in Small Volumes" at the 2024 Lipidomics Gordon Research Seminar in Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Via Giovanni Pascoli Lucca (Barga), Lucca, Italy!


2024. 5. Congratulations to Dr. Yan on receiving the 2024 SynthX Texas Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award! 


2024. 4. Congratulations to Joohan Kim who has been selected to receive an undergraduate award from the Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University!


2024. 3. Congratulations to Annesha Sengupta on being selected as a winner of the 2023 Elsevier IJMS Best Student Paper Award! 


2024. 3. Congratulations to Dr. Xin Yan on being selected as a 2023 ACS Measurement Science Au Rising Star.


2024. 3. Congratulations to Madison Edwards who earned selection as 2024 participants in the CAS Future Leaders Program, an elite scientific leadership immersion opportunity provided through the American Chemical Society (ACS). 


2024. 3. Congratulations to Dr. Xin Yan who has been recognized as a 2024 Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.


2024. 3.  Tingyuan (Tiya) Yang passed her dissertation defense. Congratulations, Dr. Yang! 


2024. 2. Congratulations to Dr. Xin Yan who earned the Arthur F. Findeis Award for Achievements by a Young Analytical Scientist! 


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2023  Congratulations to Madison Edwards on receiving the Graduate Recruitment, Enhancement, and Travel (GREAT) supplemental funding 


2023  Congratulations to Dr. Xin Yan on receiving the Association of Former Students (AFS) College-Level Distinguished Teaching Award 


2023   Dr. Disni Gunasekera joined our team as a postdoctoral fellow! Welcome! 


2023.7  Jiaxin and Alex presented the posters on quantitative MS imaging and native MS at the Advancing Mass Spectrometry Conference at UT Austin 


2023  Congratulations to Dr. Jiaxin Feng on being selected for the Cancer Therapeutics Training Program 


2023. 6.  At the 71st ASMS conference in Houston: Shuli, Dallas, Madison, and Luan gave oral presentations on the topics of lipid mass tags, LESA droplet reaction, theta capillary microreactor and V-EASI-MS; Jiaxin gave a lightning talk on her quantitative MS imaging; Tiya, Xi, Alex, Erin, Hongyuan, Venus, Huiying and Annesha gave poster presentations and enjoyed the discussion with peers. 


2023  Congratulations to Dr. Xin Yan on receiving the IUPAC Emerging Innovator Award in Analytical Chemistry 


2023  Congratulations to Dallas Freitas on being selected to participate in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Emerging Scholars Program 


2023    Congratulations to Erin Hirtzel on receiving the DoD STEM Scholarship (SMART) 


2023  Congratulations to Dr. Jiaxin Feng on receiving the Arts & Sciences Postdoc Travel Award 


2023    Congratulations to Dr. Xin Yan on being selected as ASCEND Research Leadership Fellow


2023    Congratulations to Tingyuan (Tiya) Yang on receiving the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Graduate Student Travel Award! 


2023    Congratulations to Tingyuan (Tiya) Yang on receiving the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention 


2023    Congratulations to Tingyuan (Tiya) Yang on receiving the ACS Graduate Student Travel Award!


2023 March Congratulations to Dr. Shuli Tang. Fantastic work and thesis defense!


2023    Congratulations to Dr. Xin Yan on receiving the Okeanos-CAPA Young Investigator Award at the Chemistry & Biology Interface 



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Nov 2022  Congratulations to Madison on receiving the Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Award for Mentoring!

 

Oct 2022    First-year graduate students Annesha, Venus, Hongyuan, and Huiying joined our group! Welcome!

 

Oct 2022  Congratulations to Erin on winning the best poster award at the Scott Metal Symposium!

 

Oct 2022   We had a fun chemistry open house showing kids to make nanofibers by electrospinning!

 

Sept 2022   Congratulations to Madison on receiving the KHP Activity and Demonstration Development Grant!

 

Sept 2022   Aidan Slagter joined the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Aidan!

 

Aug 2022     Madison was elected Vice President and Dallas was elected International Liaison at GSAC. 

 

Aug 2022      Tiya and Erin were selected to serve on the chemistry safety committees. 

 

July 2022    Congratulations to Madison and Xi on receiving the departmental travel awards!   

 

Jun 2022      At the 70th ASMS conference in Minneapolis: Dr. Yan gave the presentation on accelerated microdroplet reactions in the section honoring R. Graham Cooks; Madison gave a talk on her exciting theta tip interfacial microreactor; Shuli, Tiya, Dallas, Xi, and Alex gave poster presentations and gained insight from the discussion with peers. Erin enjoyed her first ASMS meeting so much:) 

 

Jun 2022      Nicholas White from Southeastern Oklahoma State University joined our group as an REU student. Welcome, Nick!

 

May 2022      Congratulations to Shuli on receiving the Dow Symposium Poster award and Dow Chemical Graduate Scholar award!

 

May 2022      Congratulations to Madison on receiving the First Year Chemistry Program Teaching Award! 

 

Apr 2022      Congratulations to Dallas and Tiya on receiving the OGAPS travel awards!

 

Apr 2022      Congratulations to Madison on receiving the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP) award! 

 

Mar 2022      Dr. Jiaxin Feng joined our group as a postdoctoral fellow! Welcome, Dr. Feng!

 

Feb 2022      Dr. Ashok Polu joined our group as a postdoctoral fellow! Welcome, Dr. Polu!

 

Jan 2022      Luchen Wuyang, Joohan Kim, John A. Bellinger, Armani Bedoy joined the group as undergraduate researchers, welcome Luchen, Joohan, John, and Armani!

 

Jan 2022      Congratulations to Shuli on receiving the Martin Donald Corera Travel Award for Spring 2022!

 

Jan 2022      Dr. Yan received the NSF CAREER Award! Congratulations! The group appreciates the support for our students and postdocs to work on our exciting project!

 

Jan 2022      Our REU student Bianca Aridjis-Olivos will present her research on mass spectrometry imaging at the Spring 2022 ACS Conference.

 

Jan 2022      Shuli was selected to present her lipid electrochemical analysis work in the Sci-Mix Session at ACS Spring, 2022.

 

Jan 2022      Our paper "Picomole-Scale Transition Metal Electrocatalysis Screening Platform for Discovery of Mild C–C Coupling and C–H Arylation through in Situ Anodically Generated Cationic Pd" was published online in J. Am. Chem. Soc.  https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c11179 Congratulations to Dr. Heyong Cheng, Tingyuan Yang, Madison Edwards, and Shuli Tang!

 

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Dec 2021      Yan group received ACS Petroleum Research Fund! Congratulations!

 

Nov 2021      Graduate student Erin Hirtzel joins our group, welcome Erin!

 

Nov 2021      Shuli gives an oral presentation and Tingyuan presents a poster at the ASMS annual conference.

 

Nov 2021      Madison is invited to give an oral presentation at ACS SWRM; Dallas and Xi present posters at ACS SWRM.

 

Oct 2021      Congratulations to Shuli on winning the Martin Donald Corera Travel Award!

 

Sept 2021      Dr. Yan received a Maximizing Investigators Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators (R35) from NIH! Congratulations! The group appreciates the support for our students and postdocs to work on the exciting project!

 

Sept 2021      Our REU student Bianca Aridjis-Olivos is selected for Purdue University’s Graduate Diversity Visitation Program

 

Aug 2021      Dallas's Climate and Diversity Grant Mechanism Proposal was funded! Congratulations to Dallas!

 

Aug 9-13, 2021      Tingyuan is selected for a lightning talk at the 1st CASMS virtual conference. Dallas, Tingyuan, Shuli, and Xi present the posters at the 1st CASMS virtual conference. Madison and Dallas volunteer for the conference.

 

July 2021      Congratulations to Shuli on winning the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study HEEP Graduate Fellowship!

 

Jul 2021      Congratulations to Shuli on receiving the ASMS travel award!

 

Jul 2021      Our REU student Bianca Aridjis-Olivos is selected to film in the Labors of Lab episode! She discusses spending her summer gaining hands-on research experience in our lab.

 

May 2021      REU student Bianca Aridjis-Olivos who is a senior biochemistry/Spanish double-major from the University of Dallas joins our group. Welcome, Bianca!

 

May 2021      Our paper “Emerging microdroplet chemistry for synthesis and analysis” was accepted by Int. J. Mass Spectrom. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijms.2021.116639.       

                                                                                        

May 2021      Congratulations to Shuli on receiving the Innovation [X] Fellowship! 

 

May 2021      Congratulations to Shuli and Xi on receiving the Innovation [X] travel awards!           

 

Apr 2021      Congratulations to Dr. Yan on receiving the ASMS research award!    

 

Apr 2021      Our lipid project is funded by the Robert A. Welch Foundation! The group appreciates the support of our exciting research!

                                                                                                 

Mar 2021      Our paper “Recent Advances of In‐Source Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry.” was accepted by ChemPlusChem. Congratulations to Dallas, Xi, Heyong, Austin, and Blake!

 

Mar 2021      Our paper “Accelerated Five-Component Spiro-Pyrrolidine Construction at The Air-Liquid Interface” was accepted by Chem. Commun. Congratulations to Dacheng!

 

Jan 2021      Undergraduate research student Elizabeth Weisner joins the group. Welcome, Elizabeth!

 

 

 

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Nov 2020      Congratulations to Shuli on winning the ASMS Fall Workshop Attendance Stipend!

 

Nov 2020      Our paper “Incorporating Electro-Epoxidation into Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry for Simultaneous Analysis of Negatively and Positively Charged Unsaturated Glycerophospholipids.” was accepted by J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. (DOI: 10.1021/jasms.0c00356) Congratulations to Shuli, Licheng, and Heyong!

 

Oct 2020      Shuli presents a poster at the mass spectrometry symposium Ions@Work

 

Oct 2020      Graduate students Madison Edwards, Syuan-Ting Guo (Alex), and Leslie Chen join the group. Welcome, Madison, Alex, and Leslie!

 

Aug 2020      We moved to the new labs!

 

Jul 2020      Our paper “Accelerating Electrochemical Reactions in a Voltage-Controlled Interfacial Microreactor.” Was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202007736. Congratulations to Heyong, Shuli, and Tiya!

 

Jun 2020      Shuli presents a poster at the 68th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Applied Topics.

 

May 2020      Licheng Fan defends his Master's thesis. Great job!

 

Mar 2020      Our project on mass spectrometry imaging is funded by the Innovation X program! We are excited to begin the project! 

 

Feb 2020      Shuli presents a poster at the Data Blitz Symposium.

 

 

 

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Dec 2019      Our T3 (Texas A&M Triads for Transformation program) seed funding proposal on mass spectrometry imaging with Prof. Chun-Hung Liu and Prof. Adjei, Isaac Morris is funded!  

 

Oct 2019      Our paper “On‐Demand Electrochemical Epoxidation in Nano‐Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry to Locate Carbon‐Carbon Double Bonds.” was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201911070)! Congratulations to Shuli Tang and Heyong Cheng!

 

Oct 2019      Graduate students Dallas Freitas, Tingyuan (Tiya) Yang, and Xi Chen join the group. Welcome, Dallas, Tiya, and Xi!

 

Sept 2019      Congratulations to Shuli Tang on being selected to give an oral presentation at A. I. Scott Medal for Excellence in Biological Chemistry Symposium.

 

Sept 2019      Congratulations to Dacheng Kuai, Shuli Tang, and Licheng Fan on winning the KHP Activity and Demonstration Development Grant!

 

Aug 2019      Undergraduate research student Blake Fallon joins the group. Welcome, Blake!

 

Jun 2019      Our project “Brain, Heart and Systemic Epigenetic and Metabolic Profile in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder” with Prof. Jiang Chang and Dr. Chieh Victoria Chen is funded by the Clinical Science & Translational Research (CST*R)!

 

May 2019      Our project “A Novel Platform to Identify Potent HDAC Inhibitors for Cancer Therapy” with Prof. Carol Fierke is funded by the College of Science FY19 Strategic Transformative Research Program!

 

May 17, 2019      Shuli Tang presents a poster at the 1st Aggieland RNA Research Symposium.

 

Mar 2019      Dr. Heyong Cheng joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome, Heyong!

 

Mar 24, 2019      Shuli presents a poster at the 1st Texas Chemical Biology Conference.

 

Jan 2019      Undergraduate research student Blair Fose joins the group. Welcome, Blair!

 

 

 

 

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Oct 2018      Graduate students Shuli Tang, Dacheng Kuai, and Licheng Kuai join the group. Welcome, Shuli, Dacheng, and Licheng!

 

Aug 2018      Undergraduate research student Austin Davis joins the group. Welcome, Austin!

 

Aug 2018      The Yan lab opens at Texas A&M University

      

 

 

 

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