March 27, 2023 Jordan Hammock and Ashley Sewsankar participate in UCF student scholar symposium.
March 9, 2023
Ashley Sewsankar participated in Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC).
Ashley said: ‘I was inspired by many different students, had interesting conversations about our research and I had the chance to meet with grad schools that I have been considering!’ on our lab web site?’
March 5, 2023.
Brittany Mueller, Andrea Bardales and Jordan Hammock participated in NanoFlorda; http://nanoscience.ucf.edu/nanoflorida/
Nov 14, 2022. Congratulations to Dr. O’Steen with successful defense of his PhD theses!
Nov 05, 2022. Congratulations to Martin O’Steen with his publication in Sensors and Actuators Reports as a single corresponding author!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666053922000522
August 5, 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Tatiana Molden with her graduation from Chemistry PhD program!
July 8, 2022: Congratulations to Andrea Bardales with excellent defense of her candidacy: ‘Development of DZ-X chimeric nanomachines for gene editing
July 6, 2022: Tatiana Malden successfully defended here thesis ‘‘From DNA Logic Gates to DNA Nanomachines: “Smart” DNA Constructs for Detection and Therapy of Diseases’. Thanks to the committee members: Dr. Altomare, Dr. Caranto, Dr Uribe Romo, Dr. Xiaohu Xia!
Ashley Sewsankar Burnett Honor’s College Scholar’s day
April 1st, 2022. Mark Liberman presents his Undergraduate Reserach presentation at UCF Chemistry seminar
April 1st, 2022. Martin O’steen presents his dissertation at UCF Chemistry seminar
March 21, 2022: Andrea Bardales presents at ACS Meetings & Expositions – American Chemical Society
March 16, 2022: Ashley Sewsankar awarded an HUT scholarship.
Ashley, Congratulations!
Citation from a message of Xiaohu Xia (on behalf of the College of Science HUT scholarship committee) to Ashley: I am pleased to inform you that, based on your excellent work in the Honors Undergraduate Thesis (HUT) program, the College of Science (COS) HUT scholarship selection committee has recommended to the Burnett Honors College that you be awarded an HUT scholarship in the amount of $1,000.00 for Spring 2022.
Ms. Sophia Bertot presents a new approach for cleavage of double stranded DNA using DNA hydrolyzing deoxyribozyme April 5th, 2018
Ms. Marcella Grillo presents a new design for DNA NAND gates and DNA Half adder at SURE April 5th, 2018
Mr. Chris Roldan Presents a DNA nanomachine for influenza A virus therapy at SURE April 5th, 2018
Ms. Brittany Mueller presents her approach to inactivate HIV RT at SURE April 5th, 2018
April 9-13, 2017 Tatiana Fedotova represents our resreach group at FNANO17 14th Annual Conference on FOUNDATIONS OF NANOSCIENCE
April 5, 2017. Alexandra Smith and Nanami Kikuchi represent our group at 53rd American Chemical Society
NATIONAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
Advanced Materials, Technologies, Systems & Processes
APRIL 2-6, 2017 | San Francisco, CA
Nanami Kikuchi April 5, 2017
Alexandra Smith, April 5, 2017
May 25-27 Nanami Kikuchi and Rebekah Karadeema present their research at Biosensors 2016, 26th Anniversary World Congress on Biosensors in Gothenburg, Sweden.
May 2015: Tatiana Fedotova (Molden) published her 1st paper: Bioelectronic Interface Connecting Reversible Logic Gates Based on Enzyme and DNA Reactions.
May 5-7: Carlos Ledezma represent Kolpashchikov Lab at FAME 2016-Florida Annual meeting and Exposition
May 5, 2016: Congratulations to PhD student Hillary Bengtson with winning 2nd place at 11th Annual BSBS Graduate Research Symposium!
April 7, 2016: Brooke Bayless, Amanda Cox, Tatiana Fedotova (Molden), and Courtney Powell represented our group at SURE 2016. Congratulations to the winners: Amanda and Brooke!!!
April 5, 2016: Hillary Bengtson and Rebekah Karadeema represented our group at 2016 Graduate Research Forum at UCF
November 3, 2015: Maria Stancescu defended her PhD thesis ‘Optimization of Molecular Beacon-based Multicomponent Probes for Analysis of Nucleic Acids’. Congratulations, Dr. Stancescu!!!
August 5, 2015: Carlos E. Ledezma successfully defended his candidacy ‘Development and Synthesis of Reagents for Two-Component Covalent Inhibitors (TCCI’s)‘
June 24, 2015: Hillary Bengtson Successfully defended her candidacy ‘Determining the role of Rv2633c in the pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
May 7-9, 2015: PhD students Maria Stancescu and Nanami Kikuchi represent the laboratory at Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition – FAME 2015 with their poster presentations ‘BINARY DNA SENSORS FOR SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS DETECTION’ and ‘AptamersDevelopment of aptameric sensors for detection prostate cancer’
May 8, 2015: Evan Cornett graduated with his PhD degree in Biomedical Sciences. Congratulations to Dr. Cornett!!!
Rebekah Karadeema graduated with BS in chemistry. Congratulations to Rebekah!
April 2, 2015 Rebekah Karadeema won the 1st place and $600 at the 2015 Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence with her poster presentation: General Method for Analysis of Nucleic Acid Structures by Deoxyribozyme Sensors‘
April 16, Rebekah Karadeeema received two Chemistry awards:
1. Award in Physical Chemistry for outstanding knowledge of physical chemistry
2. Award in undergraduate seminar presentation.
Congratulations to Rebekah!!!
Congratulations to the WINNER!!
May 8-10, 2014. Hillary H. Bengtson and Martin R. O’Steen present their results at American Chemical Society Florida Annual Meeting and Exhibition (FAME)
Nicole Parada won the 1st place and $600 at the 2014 Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence with her poster presentation: ‘DEVELOPMENT OF A DEOXYRIBOZYME-BASED SENSOR FOR THE DETECTION OF THE MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX’
