12/2025: Dr. Bac T. Le, a virology expert, joins us as a research specialist. Dr. Le will facilitate the lab setup for cell culture and develop protein expression with deuterium labeling. This capability will nicely complement our neutron scattering experiments at the GANS neutron reflectometer.
9/2025: Jessica Ruffing, an undergraduate student from Mizzou's Biomedical Engineering honors program, will join us as a student research assistant. Jessica will not only help establish our new lab at MURR but will also continue our collaboration with Dr. Cui's research group at Dalton. Additionally, she will receive training in cell handling from their team.
9/2025: We got the lab space for our research group at MURR.
5/2025: Veronica Ivanovskaya, an undergraduate student from Johns Hopkins University's Materials Science, joins us under the 1st Nuclear Career Academy summer internship at MURR. She will primarily conduct cell cultures and scratch assay experiments at the Dalton CardioVascular Research Center, perform dynamic light scattering at the Bond Life Center, and conduct small-angle X-ray scattering experiments at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Exciting!
5/2025: Dr. Phan gave a presentation titled "Engineered Biomembrane-Based Extracellular Scaffolds for Tissue Repairs" at Dalton's CardioVascular Research Center. The presentation provided an overview of his biomedical research program, focusing on tissue reconstruction, and highlighted the importance of neutron scattering in bridging the gap between two seemingly separate worlds: nanoscopic characterization and clinical applications.