News

8/16/2024. Congratulations, Rafee and Sakib for receiving Graduate School's dissertation fellowships.

05/03/2024. Congratulations, Dr. Arpan Roy for passing your dissertation defense.

05/02/2024. It was an absolute pleasure to deliver a keynote address at the 2024 IGB Fellows Symposium. It brought back so many good memories, met old friends, and made new ones!

10/26/2023. FC received ABET PEV badge.

4/13/2023. Rafee, congrats on your poster being selected as one of the Top 8 at the student RESEARCH & CREATIVE ACTIVITIES FORUM  at SIU.

1/12/2023. Congratulations, Amar! Your EpiSC work is accepted in Cells.

1/10/2023. We installed the THUNDER imager in the lab. Thank you, NIGMS for funding.

4/27/2022.  FC received "Dean Juh Wah Chen Outstanding Faculty Award" from the College of Engineering, Computing, Technology, and Mathematics.

1/14/2022.  FC  joined the Editorial Board of PLOS ONE.

10/08/2021. Arpan's first BMES annual meeting attendance. He took off his mask for the photoshoot, but he was holding his breath!

6/25/2021. We are excited to report that we received an AREA (R15) grant from NIH.

6/22/2021. Congratulations, Fardeen for successfully defending your thesis.

4/6/2021. Congratulations Dr. Amar for successfully defending your dissertation! Wish you all the best in your next chapter of your life as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

09/16/2020. Congratulations Bhavana and Amar, your manuscript is accepted!

02/14/20. Our new tool- MFP-3D AFM from Asylum Research is now installed in the lab. Let's do some poking!

01/25/20. Congratualtions, Amar, your manuscript is accepted!

06/23/19. Our campus received Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant from the NSF for                                   acquisition of an Atomic Force Microscopy. 

4/15/19.  WSIL TV news coverage: http://www.wsiltv.com/story/40310995/siu-professor-receives-grant-to-destroy-cancer-stem-cells   

3/27/19.   FC received SIU Early Career Faculty Excellence Award.

3/26/19.    Congratulations, Bhavana for passing your thesis defense!

3/19/19.    Congratulations, Tiffany for passing your thesis defense!

3/14/19.    FC is featured in the SIU news blog. Here is the link.

1/14/19.    We received SIU System Collaborative grant.

12/07/18.   We received an external grant from the Elsa U. Pardee Foundation.

12/04/18.   Congratulations, Amar for winning the first prize in MTC poster competition.

05/02/18.    We received Energy Boost Seed grant for FY 2019.

04/14/18.   FC received departmental Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award.

04/11/18.    Our single-molecule study involving TRCs got accepted for publication in Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.

04/09/18.   Congratulations, Tiffany! She won the 2nd position in the research forum poster      competition organized by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, SIUC.

04/09/18.   Amar, Bhavana, and Andres presented at the research forum poster session organized by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, SIUC. Very proud of you all.

11/15/17.   We now have Bio-Rad qPCR system installed in the lab.

11/06/17.    Congratulations Zach for passing your thesis defense!

07/05/17.   Congratulations Tasnim and Amar for passing your thesis defense!

04/08/17.   FC received departmental Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award.

04/03/17.   Congratulations Tiffany for being the first runner-up in the 2017 CURCA  Undergraduate Research Symposium. 

03/28/17.   Congratulations Kyle for your job in St. Judes Children's Hospital. Keep in touch.

12/01/16.   Two of our recent papers were among the top 20 articles (#1, #18) within our scientific domain as reported by BioMedLib.

10/20/16.   Congratulations Kyle for passing your Thesis defense!

08/31/2016.   Our fully automated Leica Dmi8 microscope is installed. Few more modules are on  the way!

05/19/2016.   We received two seed grants.

05/11/2016.   Our manuscript on force requirement in Notch signaling just got accepted in Nano  Letters.

08/16/2015.   The journey begins: We are now setting up a lab ready to handle outstanding questions in stem cells and cancer.