The Zhang research Group

We play with photons

We develop novel optical spectroscopy, imaging, and opto-control technologies and apply them to study chemistry in living samples. We use chemical imaging to answer questions in biological and medical sciences and develop new opto-control platforms to precisely control chemical processes in live cells. 

Group News

12/18/2024

Congratulations to Shivam and Karsten for receiving the College of Science Graduate Student Travel Award for 2025. 

12/10/2024

Congratulations to Seohee Ma for receiving the Women in Science Program (WISP) travel grant for the upcoming SPIE Photonics West. 

11/10/2024

Mingmin Zhou and Callum Appel joined our group for Ph.D. study! Welcome!

10/24/2024

Congratulations to Karsten Mohn for passing his OP!

10/01/2024

Chemical and Biomedical Imaging (ACS journal) has accepted Gil's first-authored paper on hypoxia-induced cancer lipid metabolism change for publication. Congratulations to Gil and coauthors!

08/23/2024

Welcome, Ambhranee and Ishaan, to our group! We're excited to have you join us. And welcome back, Natalie—we're glad to have you continue working with us this semester. 

08/20/2024

Jesse presented an invited talk at the ACS Fall 2024 in Denver. 

08/19/2024

Congratulations to Laura Lukov for receiving the Presidential Doctoral Excellence Award!

08/13/2024

Congratulations to Shivam and co-authors for publishing their work in VIEW

08/02/2024

Jesse presented an invited talk at ICORS at Sapienza University of Rome. 

07/03/2024

Congratulations to Gil on receiving his Ph.D. degree! The second Ph.D. student from our lab!

06/05/2024 

Matt's low-wavenumber SRS microscopy paper has been accepted for publication in Analytical Chemistry. Our graphic design was selected as the supplementary cover of Analytical Chemistry.

06/05/2024 

We received the 2024-2025 Showalter Trusk Research Award with a total fund of $75,000 for using RPOC technology to manipulate cell division!

05/31/2024 

We received a $30,000 Award from the Purdue Trask Foundation to commercialize the RPOC technology. 

05/23/2024 

Bin presented an oral talk 9th Annual Hitchhiker's Guide to the Biomolecular Galaxy 2024, Shivam also gave a poster presentation. 

05/09/2024 

Karsten presented at the CBM symposium at IU Bloomington

05/01/2024 

Karsten and Shivam presented posters in the OIGP poster session. 

04/22/2024 

Jesus received his M.S. degree in Chemistry. Congratulations!

04/18/2024 

Jesse presented at the Purdue Innovation Expo. 

03/08/2024

Congratulations to Matthew Clark for his successful Ph.D. defense. Matt is the first Ph.D. student in our group!

01/31/2024

Jesse, Matt, and Bin presented at SPIE Photonics West. Congratulations to Bin on receiving the best paper in the conference 12840, Optical Interactions with Tissue and Cells XXXV. 

01/26/2024

Our paper "Spatiotemporally Precise Optical Manipulation of Intracellular Molecular Activities" is published in Advanced Science

01/03/2024 

Dr. Chi Zhang will teach CHM424 in the spring semester of 2024. 

Selected publications

Link to Photokinesis

http://www.photokinesis.tech  Link

Lab address:

BRWN 4175, 4175A, 4174, 4174A

560 Oval Dr. 

West Lafayette

IN, 47907, USA

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