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Researcher Highlight: De-en Jiang
Professor of Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering; Professor of Department of Chemistry Energy-efficient chemical transformations and separations are key to solving our society鈥檚 many issues toward substantiality. The long-term goal of the Jiang Research Group is to achieve data-driven design and discovery of functional materials and molecules for… Read MoreJan. 5, 2023
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Researcher Highlight: Marjan Rafat
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering The Rafat Lab combines engineering and cancer biology concepts to examine the mechanisms driving tumor recurrence and metastasis. We study the relationship between tumor cells, normal tissues, and the immune system as a means of understanding the microenvironment to determine how each… Read MoreJan. 5, 2023
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Researcher Highlight: Alex Stoneman
Alex Stoneman, senior Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering & Chemistry undergraduate student in the Lang lab T-cells are key parts of the mammalian immune response, and T-cell receptors (TCRs) help them recognize their foreign targets. Previous lab work has shown that TCRs act as mechanosenors; piconewton-scale forces facilitate their… Read MoreJan. 5, 2023
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Researcher Highlight: Marsalas Whitaker
Marsalas Whitaker,聽2nd聽year Biomedical Engineering graduate student in the Giorgio Lab The level of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) activation is reflected in subpopulations of extracellular vesicles (EVs) originating from cancerous tissue that contain EGFR. Such EVs can be assessed using methods like immunoblots and flow cytometry. One pitfall… Read MoreJan. 5, 2023
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VINSE Community Picnic
Join us for an afternoon of games, food, drink, and fun! Family and friends are welcome (encouraged!) to attend.聽Please聽RSVP here. When:聽April 15 from 11:00-1:00 | Egg Toss Competition at 11:30聽 |聽 Tug-O-War starts at noon What:聽Bubble soccer, corn hole, tug-o-war, egg toss, trivia, and more!! Raffles… Read MoreJan. 5, 2023
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Spring 2023 VINSE Short Courses – Register Now!
VINSE will offer the Atomic Force Microscopy, Electron Microscopy, and Microfluidic Device Fabrication short courses in the spring 2022 semester. Courses will be capped at 16, so don鈥檛 wait too long to register.聽 Details and pricing can be found below! Electron Microscopy Short Course June 12-13 Electron microscopy… Read MoreJan. 5, 2023
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New VINSE Faculty: Mona Ebrish
We are excited to welcome Dr. Mona Ebrish as our newest VINSE faculty member! Ebrish, who is joining Vanderbilt’s Electrical & Computer Engineering Department this spring,聽received her Bachelors from University of Tripoli in Electrical Engineering. In 2009, she received the Fulbright Fellowship and attended University of Minnesota for her… Read MoreJan. 5, 2023
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Analytical Lab Open House
Interested in learning more about the聽VINSE Analytical Lab聽and how our tools could impact your research? Bring your samples to the VINSE Analytical Open House on February 1, 2023 from 1:00-4:00 and use any tool… at no cost! This event is open to everyone, both current and potential new users. Read MoreJan. 5, 2023
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Immersion and Outreach with VINSE
Immersion Vanderbilt is one of the more unique aspects of attending the university, aiming to help students seek out work that they are passionate about.聽VINSE is a leader in Immersion Vanderbilt, and has developed numerous hands-on activities to train the next generation of scientists and engineers. The… Read MoreJan. 5, 2023
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鈥淭unable, ferroelectricity-inducing, spin-spiral magnetic ordering in monolayer FeOCl鈥 published in Nano Letters selected as VINSE Spotlight Publication
五一茶馆儿 the author: Deliang Bao is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy under the direction of Dr. Sokrates T. Pantelides.聽 In recently published work, by employing density-functional-theory calculations, he demonstrated a non-collinear magnetism, namely spin spiral, in the monolayer FeOCl, which features tunability… Read MoreJan. 5, 2023