February 2025: Emmanuel's paper on cyclic depsipeptide metal complexes has been accepted in JASMS! Additionally, Miranda, Edward, and Cynthiya's paper on cyclosporines has been accepted in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry—our first J. Med. Chem. paper. Congratulations to all!
January 2025: Our work on cyclosporines using the SUMMIT supercomputer at ORNL is highlighted on the OLCF and ORNL websites.
December 2024: Ava and Caleb received the AURA awards to conduct paid research in the Do lab in Spring 2025.
Edward passed his ORP exam. Congratulations!
October 2024: Thanh gave an invited talk at ASMS Asilomar on Metabolostasis and Metabolopathies. Emmanuel gave a poster, and he won the Poster Award!
Sep 2024: Alex's hopefully-not-the-last paper was published in Biochemistry. This is a collaborative work with the Buchanan lab at Vanderbilt.
July 2024: Dami and Happy's paper on adenine clusters is accepted for publication as a Paper in Front by the Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry journal. Even better, our TOC was selected as the Journal Cover.
Dami successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations! She will work at Corteva in Indianapolis.
June 2024: Alex successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations! Alex will be working at Eli Lilly in Indianapolis.
May 2024: Sarah started her internship at AbbVie in Chicago. Good luck!
May 2024: Miranda has been awarded the Gleb Mamantov Graduate Chemistry Scholar and the ACS Analytical Chemistry Fellowship. Congratulations. She will be doing an internship at Merck this summer.
Feb 2024: Emmanuel passed CRP. Good job!
Jan 2024: Emmanuel and Miranda's paper on beauvericin is published in J. Phys. Chem. B. This is Emmanuel's first first-author paper. Good luck with CRP.
Dec 2023: Dami returned after a one-semester internship at Eli Lilly.
Nov 2023: Miranda and Sarah passed the ORP exams!
Oct 2023: Miranda's paper on Solvent-Free Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Charged Molecules is published in J. Phys. Chem. A
Sep 2023: Thanh is awarded the Eli Lilly and Co. Young Investigator Award in Analytical Chemistry.
Jan-Aug 2023: Some major highlights:
July 2024: Dami and Happy's paper on adenine clusters is accepted for publication as a Paper in Front by the Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry journal. Even better, our TOC was selected as the Journal Cover.
Dami successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations! She will work at Corteva in Indianapolis.
June 2024: Alex successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations! Alex will be working at Eli Lilly in Indianapolis.
May 2024: Sarah started her internship at AbbVie in Chicago. Good luck!
May 2024: Miranda has been awarded the Gleb Mamantov Graduate Chemistry Scholar and the ACS Analytical Chemistry Fellowship. Congratulations. She will be doing an internship at Merck this summer.
Feb 2024: Emmanuel passed CRP. Good job!
Jan 2024: Emmanuel and Miranda's paper on beauvericin is published in J. Phys. Chem. B. This is Emmanuel's first first-author paper. Good luck with CRP.
Dec 2023: Dami returned after a one-semester internship at Eli Lilly.
Nov 2023: Miranda and Sarah passed the ORP exams!
Oct 2023: Miranda's paper on Solvent-Free Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Charged Molecules is published in J. Phys. Chem. A
Sep 2023: Thanh is awarded the Eli Lilly and Co. Young Investigator Award in Analytical Chemistry.
Jan-Aug 2023: Some major highlights:
Alex did a summer internship at AbbVie.
Connor published his first-author paper in JASMS. Alex was an excellent mentor.
Dami published her co-first author paper in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces on the fibrillization and crystal formation of cysteine/cystine pair. Miranda is a co-author.
Miranda is the Department of Defense Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (DoD SMART) Scholarship-for-Service 2023 Semi-Finalist and also the Charles W. Keenan Teaching Award Winner.
Thanh was a speaker on The Future of Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry at the Measurement Science.
Nov 2022: Our Corticosterone/Insulin work is published in J. Proteome Research. Congratulations to Alex and Connor!
Aug 2022: Miranda is one of the 8 Winners of the PHYS Poster Awards at the Fall ACS meeting in Chicago.
Aug 2022: Miranda is one of the 8 Winners of the PHYS Poster Awards at the Fall ACS meeting in Chicago.
July 2022: Thanh returned to UIUC to attend and give a presentation at the 5th International Conference of D-Amino Acid Research.
July 2022: Amber successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Gray!
We have the first JACS paper on Cyclosporine A! The three reviewers helped us significantly improve the quality of the manuscript. Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline wrote a cool piece of commentary about our work.
June 2022: Connor is heading to medical school. We will miss him much.
Miranda received the ACS Bridge Travel Award to attend the Fall ACS Conference in Chicago.
May 2022: Dami's work on charge isomers of m-xylene and pyridyl macrocycles is published in JASMS. This is the third paper from our collaboration with the Shimizu group at USC.
May 2022: Miranda is among 10 graduate students accepted to the 2022 MagLab User Summer School at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, FL. Dami is going to attend the 24th National School on Neutron and X-Ray Scattering. She will spend time at Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
April 2022: Thanh gave a seminar at Vanderbilt's Chemistry Colloquium.
Amber and Alex received the GSS Research and Teaching Awards. Congrats!.
March 2022: Thanh received the 2022 ASMS Research Award. Thanh gave a talk at US HUPO (The HUman Proteome Organization) 2022.
December 2021: Our work on toxic amyloid oligomers is finally published in Protein Science.
Thanh gave a talk on a new class of amyloid oligomers linking selective cellular vulnerability to disrupted lipid metabolism at the ASMS Asilomar Conference in Monterey, CA.
October 2021: Connor and Alex presented posters in person at the ASMS Fall 2021 conference in Philadelphia.
September 2021: Connor will continue to be supported by the Office of Undergraduate Research to do research part-time in our lab this Fall.
August 2021: Alex's work on brominated-triphenylamines in collaboration with the Shimizu group is in press at J Phys Chem C.
Amber and Alex gave oral presentations at the ACS Fall 2021 conference in Atlanta. Dami gave a poster. ACS press release on Alex's talk can be found here.
June 2021: Dami's work in collaboration with the Gazit group at Tel Aviv University is in press at PNAS.
June 2021: Thanh was named one of the Outstanding Reviewers for PCCP in 2020.
May 2021: Congratulations to Amber and Alex. Amber was awarded the Judson Hall Robertson Fellowship in Analytical Chemistry, and Alex was awarded the Keenan Teaching Award.
April 2021: Connor will be supported by the Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program to do research full-time in our lab this summer.
March 2021: Amber is the recipient of the prestigious Eastman Summer Fellowship. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Amber, Alex, and Ben for their outstanding work on CGRP and insulin secretion accepted for publication in Chemical Science. We were able to show that CGRP disrupts amylin aggregation and suppresses Ins2 but stimulates Ins1 secretion in isolated single mouse islets.
February 2021: Amber and Isaac's work on Cyclosporine A is published in the Journal of Physical Chem B. Dr. Carlos Steren taught and helped us with all of the NMR experiments.
July 2020: Amber's first work in the group on PSMα3 peptides is published in Analytical Chemistry. Alex and Dami are co-authors. Good job, everyone!
Amber received the Keenan Teaching Award. Congratulations!
May 2020: Ben and Issac were selected as Outstanding Graduate(s) in Chemistry. Congratulations!
Our undergraduate students, Ben Link and Isaac Haynes, will officially join the PhD Chemistry programs at the University of Washington and Texas A&M University next Fall. In addition to their outstanding academic achievements, both excelled at refilling nitrogen-dewars.
April 2020: Ben's manuscript on characterizations of the Shimizu group's m-xylene macrocycles is accepted for publication in PCCP.
Amber presented and passed her CRP. Congratulations!
January 2020: Amber received the UTK Graduate Student Senate Travel Award to attend the Lake Arrowhead Ion Chemistry Conference. We thank the Department and College for their support.
Isaac's work on water-soluble bis cationic macrocycles in collaboration with the Li group at Zhejiang University, China, is published in Analytical Chemistry.
January 2019: Our instrument is up and running.
We have the first JACS paper on Cyclosporine A! The three reviewers helped us significantly improve the quality of the manuscript. Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline wrote a cool piece of commentary about our work.
June 2022: Connor is heading to medical school. We will miss him much.
Miranda received the ACS Bridge Travel Award to attend the Fall ACS Conference in Chicago.
May 2022: Dami's work on charge isomers of m-xylene and pyridyl macrocycles is published in JASMS. This is the third paper from our collaboration with the Shimizu group at USC.
May 2022: Miranda is among 10 graduate students accepted to the 2022 MagLab User Summer School at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, FL. Dami is going to attend the 24th National School on Neutron and X-Ray Scattering. She will spend time at Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
April 2022: Thanh gave a seminar at Vanderbilt's Chemistry Colloquium.
Amber and Alex received the GSS Research and Teaching Awards. Congrats!.
March 2022: Thanh received the 2022 ASMS Research Award. Thanh gave a talk at US HUPO (The HUman Proteome Organization) 2022.
December 2021: Our work on toxic amyloid oligomers is finally published in Protein Science.
Thanh gave a talk on a new class of amyloid oligomers linking selective cellular vulnerability to disrupted lipid metabolism at the ASMS Asilomar Conference in Monterey, CA.
October 2021: Connor and Alex presented posters in person at the ASMS Fall 2021 conference in Philadelphia.
September 2021: Connor will continue to be supported by the Office of Undergraduate Research to do research part-time in our lab this Fall.
August 2021: Alex's work on brominated-triphenylamines in collaboration with the Shimizu group is in press at J Phys Chem C.
Amber and Alex gave oral presentations at the ACS Fall 2021 conference in Atlanta. Dami gave a poster. ACS press release on Alex's talk can be found here.
June 2021: Dami's work in collaboration with the Gazit group at Tel Aviv University is in press at PNAS.
June 2021: Thanh was named one of the Outstanding Reviewers for PCCP in 2020.
May 2021: Congratulations to Amber and Alex. Amber was awarded the Judson Hall Robertson Fellowship in Analytical Chemistry, and Alex was awarded the Keenan Teaching Award.
April 2021: Connor will be supported by the Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program to do research full-time in our lab this summer.
March 2021: Amber is the recipient of the prestigious Eastman Summer Fellowship. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Amber, Alex, and Ben for their outstanding work on CGRP and insulin secretion accepted for publication in Chemical Science. We were able to show that CGRP disrupts amylin aggregation and suppresses Ins2 but stimulates Ins1 secretion in isolated single mouse islets.
February 2021: Amber and Isaac's work on Cyclosporine A is published in the Journal of Physical Chem B. Dr. Carlos Steren taught and helped us with all of the NMR experiments.
July 2020: Amber's first work in the group on PSMα3 peptides is published in Analytical Chemistry. Alex and Dami are co-authors. Good job, everyone!
Amber received the Keenan Teaching Award. Congratulations!
May 2020: Ben and Issac were selected as Outstanding Graduate(s) in Chemistry. Congratulations!
Our undergraduate students, Ben Link and Isaac Haynes, will officially join the PhD Chemistry programs at the University of Washington and Texas A&M University next Fall. In addition to their outstanding academic achievements, both excelled at refilling nitrogen-dewars.
April 2020: Ben's manuscript on characterizations of the Shimizu group's m-xylene macrocycles is accepted for publication in PCCP.
Amber presented and passed her CRP. Congratulations!
January 2020: Amber received the UTK Graduate Student Senate Travel Award to attend the Lake Arrowhead Ion Chemistry Conference. We thank the Department and College for their support.
Isaac's work on water-soluble bis cationic macrocycles in collaboration with the Li group at Zhejiang University, China, is published in Analytical Chemistry.
January 2019: Our instrument is up and running.
