2018

October 2018: Nano-symposium SCiX in Atlanta.

-Mei gave an invited talk to a nano-symposium titled “Light and Electrochemistry in Nanostructures”, organized by Gangli Wang of Georgia State University and Wei Zhao of University of Arkansas. Thank you Gangli and Wei for the kind invitation. Looking forward to the meeting!

Sept 2018: AiMES conference in Cancun.

-Mei just came back from giving a talk at Americas International Meeting on Electrochemistry and Solid State Science (AiMES) in Cancun.

Aug 19-23 2018: ACS Symposium in Boston. 

-Mei gave an invited talk at an ACS symposium titled “Nanoelectroanalytical Chemistry for Biological and Material Sciences”, organized by Shigeru Amemiya of University of Pittsburgh at the 256th ACS National Meeting & Exposition. Thank you Dr. Amemiya for the invitation to speak and a great symposium!

Aug 20 2018: National ACS meeting at Boston. 

-Thank you Marinda for the kind invitation! It was great to meet and hangout with everyone!

-Thank you Norm for the nice photoshoot!

July 2018: Our work on the development of A Nanometer Sized Analytical Platform for Delivering Nanoliter Volumes of Acetylcholine gets published!

-Congratulations to our undergraduate students, Andrew, Cristina, Josh, and our postdoctoral scholar, Ran!     This is our 4th paper in 2018! Thank you all Shen group members for your hardworking!

June 2018: Our work on Synaptic Studying Cholinergic Neurotransmission on Living Neurons: Concentration and Dynamics gets published in JACs! 

-We unveiled for the first time the diverse dynamics of chemical transmission via single synaptic measurements, composed of Singlets, Doublets, and Multiplets. Based on our findings, we proposed Simultaneous Multiple Vesicular Exocytosis mechanism for the observed doublets and multiplets during chemical transmission!

Congratulations to our group members: Zizheng, Justin, Theresa, Ran!

This is Theresa’s second paper as an undergraduate students, congratulations!

Summer 2018: Summer Shen Group Retreat at Frozen Yogurt.

May 2018: Congratulations to 2018 Shen Group Graduates!

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May 2018: Patent published.

Mei’s patent with Jeff, Joaquin, Nag, Kavin and Tim gets published. Congratulations Everyone!

May 2018: Our Paper on nm Spatial Resolution Study of Somatic Exocytosis was accepted for publication in Chemical Science.

In this work we pioneered a new analytical strategy, the use of nanoITIES electrodes, for the study of somatic exocytosis with nm spatial resolution. We created an analytical platform to measure vesicle density at the cellular environment, while the cell is alive. Congratulations to Theresa, Kristen, and Michelle!

May 2018: Our Chemical Science paper was featured as Journal front cover.

May 2018: The editors of Chemical Science selected our work as “HOT Chemical Science Article”.

Thank you!  Link to our article: http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=C8SC01131A 

April 2018: Our Undergraduate Students, Miwei Hu and Sidrah Ahmed, presented poster at Undergraduate Research Symposium.

April 21 2018: Our Undergraduate Student, Yuanyuan Wei, is hosting Prof. Charles Lieber from Harvard for Krug Lecture.

Great Job, Yuanyuan!    Thank you Prof. Lieber for a fantastic talk!

March 2018: Symposium Organization at Pittcon, Orlando!

Mei organized a symposium titled “Neurotransmission at Single and Nano-Resolved Bio-Structures”, together with Christian Amatore of École Normale Supérieure (ENS), France. Thank you all the speakers, Profs. Michael Mirkin, Jill Venten, Shigeru Amemiya, co-organizer, Prof. Amatore for a great symposium together!

Feb-March 2018: PITTCON symposium titled “New Technologies for Rapid Monitoring of Neurochemicals In Vivo”, Orlando.

Mei gave an invited talk at a PITTCON symposium titled “New Technologies for Rapid Monitoring of Neurochemicals In Vivo”, organized by Martyn Boutelle of Imperial College London, UK.

Thank you Martyn for the invitation to speak!

Thank you Martyn and all the speakers (Anne Andrews, Anne Belle, Bob Kennedy, Xize Niu) for a fabulous symposium together!

Feb 2018: Our work on Zwitterion Detection using Electroanalytical methods was published in Analytical Chemistry.

In this work, we pioneered a novel strategy based on pH modulation to enable the detection of a zwitterionic transmitter, GABA. Congratulations to our group members: Nick, Michelle, Daniel, Yuanyan and Ran! This is Nick’s 2nd paper in our group as an undergraduate student!

Feb 2018: CEC Annual Workshop on Electrochemistry in University of Texas at Austin.

Mei presented a poster at the Center for Electrochemistry Annual Workshop on Electrochemistry in Austin. It was great to attend the fantastic talks, visit Mei’s PhD advisor, Prof. Allen J. Bard, and see some old friends!

Jan 2018: 2018 Gordon Research Conference on Electrochemistry, Ventura.

Mei gave an invited talk at 2018 Gordon Research Conference on Electrochemistry. Thank you Shelley and Janine for the invitation to speak!

2017.

Sept 2017: Theresa presented on Turkey Run Analytical Conference!

August 27 2017: International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) Meeting, Providence, RI

Mei just came back from giving a talk at the 68th Annual ISE meeting.

August 13-17 2017: Invited Talk, Warsaw, Poland.

Mei gave an invited talk at the 9th Workshop on SECM and Related Techniques. Thank you Wojciech Nogala of Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, for the kind invitation and hospitality!

May 2017: Congratulations to 2017 Graduates of Shen Group!

April 2017: ACS Analytical Neuroscience Symposium, San Francisco.

Mei gave an invited talk at ACS Analytical Neuroscience Symposium. Thank you Adrian Michael for the invitation and a fantastic symposium.

April 2017: Our Undergraduate Student, Philip Oweimrin, presented a poster at Undergraduate Research Symposium!

March 2017: Our undergraduate students presented in Pittcon!

Great job, Theresa, Justin, Zizheng.

March 2017: Organizing PITTCON session titled “Electrochemistry at nanostructures”, Chicago

Mei organized a PITTCON session titled “Electrochemistry at nanostructures”, together with Lane Baker of Indiana University, and Takashi Ito of Kansas State University. Thank you, Lane and Takashi for the opportunity to contribute!

March 2017: PITTCON session titled “Ionophore-Based Chemical Sensors II”, Chicago.

Mei gave an invited talk at PITTCON session titled “Ionophore-Based Chemical Sensors II”, organized by Philip Buhlmann of University of Minnesota. Thanks Phil for the invitation to speak!

2015-2016.

March 2016: Organizing Pittcon Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia.

Mei organized a PITTCON symposium titled “Neurotransmission at Single and Nano-Resolved Bio-Structures”, together with Christian Amatore of École Normale Supérieure (ENS), France. Thank you all speakers, Mark Wightman, Henry White, Andy Ewing and Christian, for an awesome symposium together.

Oct 2015: The 8th International Workshop on Scanning Electrochemical Microscope, Xia Men, China.

Mei gave an invited talk at the 8th International Workshop on Scanning Electrochemical Microscope. Thank you Dongping Zhan of Xiamen University for the kind invitation, and hospitality!

May 2016: Congratulations to Albert for his Graduation!

Dec 2015: Our work on Studying Assisted Ion Transfer at nanometer scale gets published in Journal of the Electrochemical Society.

Congratulations to graduate student, Michelle, and undergraduate students, Swami, Nicholas, and Albert!

June 2015: Our invited review gets published in Analytical Methods, featured in Emerging Young Investigator Themed Issue.

In this review, we talk about Electrochemical Nanoprobes for the Chemical Detection of Neurotransmitters. Thank you the editors for the invitation!

April 2015: Our work on Developing Nanoelectrodes for Acetylcholine Detection gets published in Analytical Chemistry.

Thank you graduate student Michelle for her hardworking! Congratulations!