Group News:
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Nov 2022 Congratulations to Madison on receiving the Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Award for Mentoring!
Oct 2022 First-year graduate students Annesha, Venus, Hongyuan, and Huiying joined our group! Welcome!
Oct 2022 Congratulations to Erin on winning the best poster award at the Scott Metal Symposium!
Oct 2022 We had a fun chemistry open house showing kids to make nanofibers by electrospinning!
Sept 2022 Congratulations to Madison on receiving the KHP Activity and Demonstration Development Grant!
Sept 2022 Aidan Slagter joined the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Aidan!
Aug 2022 Madison was elected Vice President and Dallas was elected International Liaison at GSAC.
Aug 2022 Tiya and Erin were selected to serve on the chemistry safety committees.
July 2022 Congratulations to Madison and Xi on receiving the departmental travel awards!
Jun 2022 At the 70th ASMS conference in Minneapolis: Dr. Yan gave the presentation on accelerated microdroplet reactions in the section honoring R. Graham Cooks; Madison gave a talk on her exciting theta tip interfacial microreactor; Shuli, Tiya, Dallas, Xi, and Alex gave poster presentations and gained insight from the discussion with peers. Erin enjoyed her first ASMS meeting so much:)
Jun 2022 Nicholas White from Southeastern Oklahoma State University joined our group as an REU student. Welcome, Nick!
May 2022 Congratulations to Shuli on receiving the Dow Symposium Poster award and Dow Chemical Graduate Scholar award!
May 2022 Congratulations to Madison on receiving the First Year Chemistry Program Teaching Award!
Apr 2022 Congratulations to Dallas and Tiya on receiving the OGAPS travel awards!
Apr 2022 Congratulations to Madison on receiving the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP) award!
Mar 2022 Dr. Jiaxin Feng joined our group as a postdoctoral fellow! Welcome, Dr. Feng!
Feb 2022 Dr. Ashok Polu joined our group as a postdoctoral fellow! Welcome, Dr. Polu!
Jan 2022 Luchen Wuyang, Joohan Kim, John A. Bellinger, Armani Bedoy joined the group as undergraduate researchers, welcome Luchen, Joohan, John, and Armani!
Jan 2022 Congratulations to Shuli on receiving the Martin Donald Corera Travel Award for Spring 2022!
Jan 2022 Dr. Yan received the NSF CAREER Award! Congratulations! The group appreciates the support for our students and postdocs to work on our exciting project!
Jan 2022 Our REU student Bianca Aridjis-Olivos will present her research on mass spectrometry imaging at the Spring 2022 ACS Conference.
Jan 2022 Shuli was selected to present her lipid electrochemical analysis work in the Sci-Mix Session at ACS Spring, 2022.
Jan 2022 Our paper "Picomole-Scale Transition Metal Electrocatalysis Screening Platform for Discovery of Mild C–C Coupling and C–H Arylation through in Situ Anodically Generated Cationic Pd" was published online in J. Am. Chem. Soc. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c11179 Congratulations to Dr. Heyong Cheng, Tingyuan Yang, Madison Edwards, and Shuli Tang!
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Dec 2021 Yan group received ACS Petroleum Research Fund! Congratulations!
Nov 2021 Graduate student Erin Hirtzel joins our group, welcome Erin!
Nov 2021 Shuli gives an oral presentation and Tingyuan presents a poster at the ASMS annual conference.
Nov 2021 Madison is invited to give an oral presentation at ACS SWRM; Dallas and Xi present posters at ACS SWRM.
Oct 2021 Congratulations to Shuli on winning the Martin Donald Corera Travel Award!
Sept 2021 Dr. Yan received a Maximizing Investigators Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators (R35) from NIH! Congratulations! The group appreciates the support for our students and postdocs to work on the exciting project!
Sept 2021 Our REU student Bianca Aridjis-Olivos is selected for Purdue University’s Graduate Diversity Visitation Program
Aug 2021 Dallas's Climate and Diversity Grant Mechanism Proposal was funded! Congratulations to Dallas!
Aug 9-13, 2021 Tingyuan is selected for a lightning talk at the 1st CASMS virtual conference. Dallas, Tingyuan, Shuli, and Xi present the posters at the 1st CASMS virtual conference. Madison and Dallas volunteer for the conference.
July 2021 Congratulations to Shuli on winning the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study HEEP Graduate Fellowship!
Jul 2021 Congratulations to Shuli on receiving the ASMS travel award!
Jul 2021 Our REU student Bianca Aridjis-Olivos is selected to film in the Labors of Lab episode! She discusses spending her summer gaining hands-on research experience in our lab.
May 2021 REU student Bianca Aridjis-Olivos who is a senior biochemistry/Spanish double-major from the University of Dallas joins our group. Welcome, Bianca!
May 2021 Our paper “Emerging microdroplet chemistry for synthesis and analysis” was accepted by Int. J. Mass Spectrom. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijms.2021.116639.
May 2021 Congratulations to Shuli on receiving the Innovation [X] Fellowship!
May 2021 Congratulations to Shuli and Xi on receiving the Innovation [X] travel awards!
Apr 2021 Congratulations to Dr. Yan on receiving the ASMS research award!
Apr 2021 Our lipid project is funded by the Robert A. Welch Foundation! The group appreciates the support of our exciting research!
Mar 2021 Our paper “Recent Advances of In‐Source Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry.” was accepted by ChemPlusChem. Congratulations to Dallas, Xi, Heyong, Austin, and Blake!
Mar 2021 Our paper “Accelerated Five-Component Spiro-Pyrrolidine Construction at The Air-Liquid Interface” was accepted by Chem. Commun. Congratulations to Dacheng!
Jan 2021 Undergraduate research student Elizabeth Weisner joins the group. Welcome, Elizabeth!
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Nov 2020 Congratulations to Shuli on winning the ASMS Fall Workshop Attendance Stipend!
Nov 2020 Our paper “Incorporating Electro-Epoxidation into Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry for Simultaneous Analysis of Negatively and Positively Charged Unsaturated Glycerophospholipids.” was accepted by J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. (DOI: 10.1021/jasms.0c00356) Congratulations to Shuli, Licheng, and Heyong!
Oct 2020 Shuli presents a poster at the mass spectrometry symposium Ions@Work
Oct 2020 Graduate students Madison Edwards, Syuan-Ting Guo (Alex), and Leslie Chen join the group. Welcome, Madison, Alex, and Leslie!
Aug 2020 We moved to the new labs!
Jul 2020 Our paper “Accelerating Electrochemical Reactions in a Voltage-Controlled Interfacial Microreactor.” Was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202007736. Congratulations to Heyong, Shuli, and Tiya!
Jun 2020 Shuli presents a poster at the 68th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Applied Topics.
May 2020 Licheng Fan defends his Master's thesis. Great job!
Mar 2020 Our project on mass spectrometry imaging is funded by the Innovation X program! We are excited to begin the project!
Feb 2020 Shuli presents a poster at the Data Blitz Symposium.
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Dec 2019 Our T3 (Texas A&M Triads for Transformation program) seed funding proposal on mass spectrometry imaging with Prof. Chun-Hung Liu and Prof. Adjei, Isaac Morris is funded!
Oct 2019 Our paper “On‐Demand Electrochemical Epoxidation in Nano‐Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry to Locate Carbon‐Carbon Double Bonds.” was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201911070)! Congratulations to Shuli Tang and Heyong Cheng!
Oct 2019 Graduate students Dallas Freitas, Tingyuan (Tiya) Yang, and Xi Chen join the group. Welcome, Dallas, Tiya, and Xi!
Sept 2019 Congratulations to Shuli Tang on being selected to give an oral presentation at A. I. Scott Medal for Excellence in Biological Chemistry Symposium.
Sept 2019 Congratulations to Dacheng Kuai, Shuli Tang, and Licheng Fan on winning the KHP Activity and Demonstration Development Grant!
Aug 2019 Undergraduate research student Blake Fallon joins the group. Welcome, Blake!
Jun 2019 Our project “Brain, Heart and Systemic Epigenetic and Metabolic Profile in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder” with Prof. Jiang Chang and Dr. Chieh Victoria Chen is funded by the Clinical Science & Translational Research (CST*R)!
May 2019 Our project “A Novel Platform to Identify Potent HDAC Inhibitors for Cancer Therapy” with Prof. Carol Fierke is funded by the College of Science FY19 Strategic Transformative Research Program!
May 17, 2019 Shuli Tang presents a poster at the 1st Aggieland RNA Research Symposium.
Mar 2019 Dr. Heyong Cheng joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome, Heyong!
Mar 24, 2019 Shuli presents a poster at the 1st Texas Chemical Biology Conference.
Jan 2019 Undergraduate research student Blair Fose joins the group. Welcome, Blair!
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Oct 2018 Graduate students Shuli Tang, Dacheng Kuai, and Licheng Kuai join the group. Welcome, Shuli, Dacheng, and Licheng!
Aug 2018 Undergraduate research student Austin Davis joins the group. Welcome, Austin!
Aug 2018 The Yan lab opens at Texas A&M University
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