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.
11/13/2023
Our group is funded by CBM for research in 2024!
11/10/2023
Welcome new graduate student Laura Lukov!
11/05/2023
Karsten presented for our group at Merck! Shivam and Seohee presented posters at PUND!
10/14/2023
Jesse gave an invited talk at SPIE Photonics Asia.
10/13/2023
We have received a $241,000 NIH R35 supplement fund to continue developing RPOC technology!
09/29/2023
Shivam gave an oral presentation at the Turkey Run Analytical Conference! Seohee and Karsten present posters too! Cheers!
09/08/2023
Jesse gave a seminar at the University of Colorado Boulder.
09/07/2023
Jesse gave a seminar at the Colorado State University.
08/07/2023
Matt, Bin, and Jesse attended the inaugural Chemical Imaging GRC at Stonehill College. Congratulations to Bin on receiving the Poster Award!
07/22/2023
Congratulations to Gil Gonzalez on receiving support from the Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate and becoming an AGEP scholar!
07/06/2023
Together with Dr. Garth Simpson's lab, we successfully hosted the 18th Annual Chautauqua on Nonlinear Optics. The Keynote speakers are Dr. Dennis Hore from the University of Victoria and Dr. Sean Roberts from UT Austin.
05/17/2023
Dr. Chi Zhang has received a Pilot Grant from the Purdue Center for Cancer Research (PCCR) for collaborative projects.
05/07/2023
NIH NIGMS has approved our Administrative Supplementary fund to Support Grace Crim for her summer research with our group. Congratulations!
05/02/2023
Congratulations to Quentin on receiving the College of Science Alumni Summer Research Fellowship Award!
04/18/2023
Congratulations to Matthew Clark on receiving the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship. Great Job!
03/23/2023
Matthew Clark received the Guy Mellon Award in Analytical Chemistry. Congratulations!
02/02/2023
Dr. Bin Dong joined our lab as a Postdoctoral Associate! He moved to Purdue from Penn State University. Welcome!!
01/31/2023
Matt, Gil, and Jesse presented at the SPIE Photonics West BIOS on our research!
01/23/2023
Shreya Shivpuje joined our lab. Shreya is a Master's student in Statistics. Welcome!
01/09/2023
Dr. Chi Zhang has received an NIH R01 grant from NIDDK as a co-I together with PI Dr. Shihuan Kuang and others.
11/16/2022
A Zeiss LSM confocal system is installed in our lab.
11/12/2022
Welcome new graduate students Karsten Mohn and Shivam Mahapatra!!!
10/10/2022
Our paper on pulse-picking nonlinear optical microscopy authored by Matt and Gil is accepted by Analytical Chemistry for publication. Cheers!
10/07/2022
Grace Crim joined our lab for undergraduate research. Welcome!
09/30/2022
Seohee, Kent, and Matt presented their posters at Turkey Run Analytical Chemistry Conference! Excellent work!
09/15/2022
Natalie Fiur joined our lab for undergraduate research. Welcome!
09/09/2022
Dr. Chi Zhang gave a seminar at Hope College, Michigan on the group's research.
09/08/2022
Dr. Chi Zhang gave a seminar at Calvin University, Michigan on the group's research.
09/01/2022
Our NIH ESI MIRA funding officially starts!
08/25/2022
After more than 2 months of no laser, finally we are back on power.
08/22/2022
The fall semester of 2022 starts. Dr. Chi Zhang is teaching CHM696, Molecular Spectroscopy and Imaging.
08/22/2022
Our support from the Center for Bioanalytical Metrology is extended. Thank Pfizer for the support!
08/15/2022
Dr. Chi Zhang has presented real-time precision opto-control of chemical processes in live cells at the ICORS 2022 @ Long Beach, CA.
08/10/2022
Gustavo has received second place in the poster award of the Purdue Summer BRIDGE program. Congratulations!
07/27/2022
Our paper "Real-time Precision Opto-Control of Chemical Processes in Live Cells" is published in Nature Communications.
07/07/2022
Dr. Zhang's NIH R35 MIRA Award entitled "Chemical-selective real-time laser precision control of biomolecules" is recommended for funding.
06/20/2022
Congratulations to Matt Clark on getting support from the Ross-Lynn Research Scholar Fund (previously PRF).
06/20/2022
Gustavo Agreda joins our group for summer research through the University's BRIDGE program. Welcome!
06/19/2022
The InSight X3 laser is down. Hopefully, it will be fixed soon.
06/17/2022
17th Chautauqua on NLO is a great success. We have 31 participants from 9 universities. Our invited speakers are Katherine Cimatu from Ohio University and Dan Fu from Washington University.
5/12/2022
Congratulations to Matt for receiving 3rd place in the oral presentation of the Hitchhiker’s symposium!
4/22/2022
Congratulations to Zizy on receiving the Summer Undergrad Research Award 21-22 offered by PCCR!
1/25/2022
Matt Clark gave oral and poster presentations at SPIE Photonics West BIOS in San Franciso, 2022. He talked about our precision opto-control technology and the pulse-picking method.
1/17/2022
Dr. Chi Zhang teaches CHM424, Instrumental analysis in the Spring semester of 2022.
1/12/2022
Ezinne Uzoamaka Osuji joined our lab. Zizy is a second-year pre-pharmacy undergraduate student. Welcome!
11/12/2021
Congratulations to Gil on passing his OP! Let's work towards the next target.
11/11/2021 CBM funding
Our research is funded by the Center for Bioanalytical Metrology!
10/29/2021 Welcome new students!
First-year graduate students Seohee Ma and Helen Campbell joined our lab. Welcome!! We will play with photons together.
10/26/2021
Congratulations to Matt on passing his OP! You are now a Ph.D. candidate! It's time to start working towards your defense.
09/26/2021
Matt has presented his poster at the Turkey Run Analytical Chemistry Conference and won the Best Poster Award. Great job!
07/05/2021 Chautauqua 2021
16th Chautauqua on NLO is a success, we hosted more than 20 participants from 7 countries. We have covered optical polarization, SHG and SFG spectroscopy, CRS microscopy, and 2D-IR spectroscopy.
Teaching fall 2021
Dr. Chi Zhang will be teaching the graduate level CHM696, Chemical Imaging for Biological and Medical Sciences in the fall semester of 2021. Welcome to register for the course!
5/22/2021 Congratulations to Kent on getting married!
5/19/2021 After three weeks of no laser, it's finally back online!
Now we can get back to business!
3/29/2021 Dr. Chi Zhang joined the Purdue Center for Cancer Research (PCCR)
This will certainly help our cancer research through more collaborations!
2/15/2021 Welcome undergraduate student Oliver (Juntao) Shi
Oliver (Juntao) Shi will join us this semester. Oliver is an undergraduate student with a biochemistry major.
Teaching spring 2021
Dr. Chi Zhang will be teaching the undergraduate level CHM424, Instrumental Analysis, in the spring semester of 2021.
10/31/2020 Welcome new students Matt Clark and Kent Brasseale!
Matt Clark and Kent Brasseale joined our lab. Matt is a second-year graduate student in the analytical division. Kent is a first-year graduate student also in the analytical division. Welcome!!!
10/14/2020 Our laser was installed.
This is the first Insight X3+ laser in the world.
09/28/2020 Welcome graduate student Gil Gonzalez!
Gil Gonzalez is a second-year graduate student in biochemistry. Gil decided to join our group. Welcome!!!
09/23/2020 Optical tables have arrived
Our optical tables were installed. We will start to build microscopes soon!
Teaching Fall 2020
Dr. Chi Zhang will be teaching CHM69600, Chemical Imaging for Biological and Medical Sciences in the fall semester of 2020.
Lab under construction
We started on August 3, 2020. Our lab is currently under construction. We will develop novel optical imaging systems, and use our imaging tools to study cell metabolism.
07/05/2020 Welcome graduate student Jesus Aldana-Mendoza!
Jesus Aldana-Mendoza is a second-year graduate student in biochemistry. Jesus decided to join our group. Welcome!!!