PhD candidate Ying Liu has won a Dowd Fellowship for 2018-2019. Supported by this fellowship, Ying will be developing an innovative new application for her nanobiosensor platform during the coming academic year.
Many thanks to Philip and Marsha Dowd for this generous support!
PhD candidates Emma Benjaminson and Susana Beltran have joined the lab! Welcome!!
The Taylor lab has been awarded a Berkman Faculty Development Fund grant to kickstart a new and innovative project. Many thanks the Carnegie Mellon University for this support!
The Phillips Medal is the highest award given to an undergraduate in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. It is presented annually to the senior chemistry major with the most outstanding record, and this year our very own Ian Mitchell Harmatz was awarded The Phillips Medal.
Congratulations, Mitchell!
Mitchell (left) grins while Dr. George Bandik (right) announces The Phillips Medal award at the Annual Chemistry Awards Luncheon at the University of Pittsburgh.
Congratulations to Alex Kwakye and Paula Arambel for completing their Masters Research degrees! Congratulations to Mitchell Harmatz for graduating with his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh. We are delighted that Mitchell is joining us full time as a research assistant for the 2018/2019 year!
Professor Taylor has been awarded a 2018/2019 Wimmer Faculty Fellowship to enhance the junior-level mechanical design course 24-370 Engineering Design I: Methods and Skills.
Many thanks to the Eberly Center for their support throughout this project!
Our lab's first review article is now published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology! This article entitled "Mix-and-match nanobiosensor design: Logical and spatial programming of biosensors using self-assembled DNA nanostructures" describes novel opportunities for nanobiosensors made using structural DNA nanotechnology.
This work was also highlighted in Advanced Science News.
Congratulations Ying and Sriram!
At the October 27th "Invisible Jazz Labs" at The Space Upstairs Prof. Taylor improvised with dancers, musicians, and poets to tell the story of her research. The video from this Invisible Jazz Labs performance is available here.
At the same performance, Prof. Alan McGaughey of MechE at CMU also presented his work on nanoscale heat transfer and that video is available here. Many thanks to Pearlann Porter and John Lambert for presenting this wonderful event series.
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has recently announced the 2018 Young Investigator Program announcement, and Professor Taylor is among the group of 43 investigators who were funded. With this support, the Microsystems and Mechanobiology Lab will be investigating PNA-Driven Remote Actuation of DNA Nanospring Strain Sensors. Many thanks to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for supporting this work.
The NSF has awarded funding for the proposal "CPS: Small: Geometric Self-Propelled Articulated Micro-Scale Devices," a collaboration between the MMBL and the Travers lab (website) in the Robotics Institute.
Masters student Taylor Clayton has joined the lab to develop these microswimmers. Welcome, Taylor!