August 2, 2025

We are delighted to host Sangmo Liu from the University of California, Riverside (Dr. Yadong Yin's group), for a two-week collaborative visit at USF. We look forward to continued collaboration and impactful outcomes.

We gratefully acknowledge support from the NSF Engineering Research Center ATP-Bio Trainee Exchange Program (ATEP), which made this visit possible.

Learn more about the ATP-Bio: https://atp-bio.org/

August 20, 2024

Zongqi participated in a CORDAP (The Coral Research & Development Accelerator Platform) workshop hosted by Florida Aquarium, aiming to cryopreserve critically endangered pillar coral, Dendrogyra cylindrus. 

Cryopreservation Comes to Florida Coral Conservation 

"This project is part of a larger international effort, funded by CORDAP, the G20 Coral Research & Development Accelerator Platform, to establish a global coral cryopreservation network, launching a decade-long effort to create permanent coral biorepositories, bank coral genetic diversity globally, and apply cryopreservation directly in reef restoration programs. "

May 8, 2024

Zongqi will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF) as an Assistant Professor in August 2024. 

November 28, 2023

Our work entitled  “Conduction-Dominated Cryomesh for Organism Vitrification” was published in Advanced Science. Congratulations!

Zongqi Guo, Nikolas Zuchowicz, Jessica Bouwmeester, Amey S Joshi, Amanda L Neisch, Kieran Smith, Jonathan Daly, Michael L Etheridge, Erik B Finger, Suhasa B Kodandaramaiah, Thomas S Hays, Mary Hagedorn, John C Bischof, "Conduction‐Dominated Cryomesh for Organism Vitrification", Advanced Science, 2303317 (2023).