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
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
B. Dong#, S. Mahapatra#, M.G. Clark, et al. and C. Zhang*. "Spatiotemporal precise optical manipulation of intracellular molecular activities", Advanced Science, 2307342 (2024) Link
M.G. Clark, G. Gonzalez, Y. Luo, J. Aldana-Mendoza, M.S. Carlsen, G. Eakins, M. Dai, and C. Zhang*. "Real-time precision opto-control of chemical processes in live cells". Nature Communications, 13, 4343 (2022). Link
M.G. Clark, K.J. Mohn, B. Dong, H.C. Campbell, and C. Zhang*. "Frequency-domain low-wavenumber hyperspectral stimulated Raman scattering microscopy", Analytical Chemistry, (2024) 96 (25) 10341–10347. Link
M.G. Clark, G. Gonzalez, and C. Zhang*. "Pulse-picking multimodal nonlinear optical microscopy". Analytical Chemistry 94, 15405–15414 (2022). Link
S. Mahapatra, S. Ma, B. Dong, and C. Zhang*. "Quantification of cellular phototoxicity of organelle stains by the dynamics of microtubule polymerization" VIEW, 20240013 (2024). Link
Lab address:
BRWN 4175, 4175A, 4174, 4174A
560 Oval Dr.
West Lafayette
IN, 47907, USA
