Spring 2021
05.31.2021 – Markita will give a talk titled A Protein Corona-Based Design Strategy for Carbon Nanotube Sensors at the ECS 239th Meeting – 2021 – Carbon Nanostructures in Medicine and Biology Symposium in Chicago, IL.
05.31.2021 – Markita will give a talk titled Nanomaterials Engineering to Probe and Control living Systems at the ECS 239th Meeting – 2021 – Carbon Nanostructures in Medicine and Biology Symposium in Chicago, IL.
05.03.2021 – Markita will give a talk titled Tiny things to engineer solutions for life’s big problems at the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Seminar in Los Angeles, CA.
04.19.2021 – Markita will give a talk titled Nanomaterials to probe and control biological systems at the University of Florida Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar in Gainesville, FL.
04.09.2021 – Markita will give a talk titled Tiny things to engineer solutions for life’s big problems at the University of Cincinnati Department of Chemistry in Cincinnati, OH.
02.26.2021 – Markita will give a talk titled Nanomaterials Engineering to Probe and Control Living Systems at Carnegie Mellon University Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Pittsburgh, PA.
01.28.2021 – Markita will give a talk titled Nanomaterials Engineering to Probe and Control Living Systems at the Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Seminar series in Cambridge, MA
01.28.2021 – Markita will give a talk titled Nanomaterials enable delivery of genetic material to plants without transgene integration at the University of California Riverside Plant Sciences Seminar Series in Riverside, CA.
01.22.2021 – Markita will give a talk titled Nanomaterials enable delivery of genetic material to plants without transgene integration at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich, Germany.
01.21.2021 – Markita will give a talk titled Nanomaterials enable delivery of genetic material to plants without transgene integration at the Naval Research Laboratory Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering in Washington, DC.
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Fall 2020
12.15-20.2020 – Markita will give an invited talk at the Pacifichem conference titled “Imaging Striatal Dopamine Release with a Non-Genetically Encoded Near-Infrared Fluorescent Nanosensor“ in Honolulu, HI.
12.15-20.2020 – Markita will give an invited talk at the Pacifichem conference titled “Carbon Nanotubes Enable Delivery of Genetic Material Without Transgene Integration in Mature Plants“ in Honolulu, HI.
12.15-20.2020 – Markita will give an invited talk at the Pacifichem conference titled “Understanding Brain Neurochemistry: Imaging Neuromodulation with Near Infrared Fluorescent Nanocarbons“ in Honolulu, HI.
12.10-11.2020 – Markita will give an invited talk at Corteva Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology (PBGB) symposium titled “Nanomaterials enable delivery of genetic material to plants without transgene integration“ at Michigan State University in East Lancing, MI.
11.23.2020 – Markita will give an invited talk at the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy – Rising Stars in Drug Delivery and Novel Carriers Seminar titled “Nanomaterials enable delivery of genetic material to plants without transgene integration” in Chapel Hill, NC.
11.15-20.2020 – Markita will give an invited plenary talk at the AIChE Annual Meeting in the Bionanotechnology Division titled “Nanomaterials Engineering to Probe and Control Living Systems“ in San Francisco, CA.
11.15-20.2020 – Markita will give an invited talk at the AIChE Annual Meeting in the Education Division titled “Integration of Professional Development Practices in Doctoral and Postdoctoral Training – Approaches for Supporting Career Navigation in Chemical Engineering” in San Francisco, CA.
11.05.2020 – Markita will give an invited talk at the Carnegie Mellon University Department of Chemical Engineering “Nanomaterials Engineering to Probe and Control Living Systems“ in Pittsburgh, PA.
10.30-31.2020 – Markita will give an invited talk at the 4th International Conference on Plant Synthetic Biology, Bioengineering, and Biotechnology titled “Nanomaterials Enable Delivery of Genetic Material Without Transgene Integration in Mature Plants“ in Copenhagen, Denmark.
10.24.2020 –Markita will give an invited seminar on Nanotechnologies for Life Sciences Applications at the University of Rhode Island Department of Chemical Engineering in Kingston, RI.
10.23.2020 – Markita will give an invited talk at the NIMH 2020 Symposium on Advancing Technologies to Investigate Mechanisms of Gut-Microbiota-Brain Interaction, titled Imaging Neuromodulators with Near Infrared Nanosensors in Stockholm, Sweden.
10.22-23.2020 – Markita will give an invited talk at the 2020 Texas A&M Genome Editing Symposium titled “Nanomaterials Enable Delivery of Genetic Material Without Transgene Integration in Mature Plants“ in College Station, TX.
10.19.2020 – Markita will give an invited talk at the 8th Plant Genomics & Gene Editing Congress titled “Nanomaterials Enable Delivery of Genetic Material Without Transgene Integration in Mature Plants“ in Raleigh, NC.
10.04-07.2020 –Markita will give an invited talk at the 2020 Fronteirs in Neurophotonics Conference on the topic of imaging neuromodulation in Quebec City, QC.
09.26.2020 – Markita will give an invited award talk at the Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy session of the SciX 2020 conference on the topic of Nanomaterials Engineering for Life Science Applications, in Sparks, NV.
09.20.2020 – Markita will give an invited seminar at the Pennsylvania State University Department of Biology on the topic of biomolecule delivery in plants in State College, PA.
09.01.2020 – Markita will give an invited award talk at the ETH Department of Biology on the topic of Nanomaterials Engineering for Plant Genetic Engineering, in Zurich, Switzerland.
08.18-19.2020 –Markita is The Leslie Wanner Keynote Speaker at the Mid-Atlantic Plant Molecular Biology Society Meeting on the topic of DNA and RNA delivery to plants in Baltimore, MD.
08.16-20.2020 –Markita will give an invited talk at the JACS-sponsored symposium titled “Spotlight on Chemistry from Bench to Market” at the 2020 ACS National Meeting on the topic of DNA and RNA delivery to plants in San Francisco, CA.
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Summer 2020
07.31.2020 –Markita will give a talk titled Tiny things to engineer solutions for life’s big problems in the Biological Physics/Physical Biology virtual seminar series.
06.28.2020 –Sarah will give a talk on imaging dopamine modulation in Huntington’s Disease mouse models at the 18th Annual International Conference on Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience (MMiN) in Lyon, France.
06.21-26.2020 –Markita will give an invited talk on nanoscale technologies for plant genetic engineering at the 2020 Nanoscale Science and Engineering for Agriculture and Food Systems Gordon Research Conference in Manchester, NH.
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Spring 2020
05.22.2020 – Markita will give an invited talk at the Carnegie Institute on the use of nanomaterials for genome editing in plants in Stanford, CA.
05.22.2020 –Markita will give an invited short talk on genetic modification of plants for sustainable agriculture at the Carnegie Plant Cell Atlas conference in Stanford, CA.
05.17-21.2020 –Sarah will give a talk on imaging dopamine modulation in Huntington’s Disease mouse models at the Dopamine 2020 conference in Montreal, QC.
05.17-21.2020 – Madeline will give an invited talk on imaging dopamine in vivo at the Dopamine 2020 conference in Montreal, QC.
05.14.2020 – Markita will give an invited talk on the use of nanomaterials for plant genome editing at the Seed Central Initiative for Private-Public Partnerships in Davis, CA.
05.10-15.2020 – Markita will give an invited award talk titled Nanomaterials Engineering to Probe and Control Living Systems at the 2020 ECS Nanocarbons Division Young Investigator Award Symposium in Montreal, QC.
05.08.2020 –Markita will give an invited talk on engineering protein nanosensors at the PROTEO 2020 Annual Symposium in Quebec City, QC.
04.27.2020 –Markita will organize and lead a ‘breakthroughs in biotechnoloty’ discussion at the 2020 West Coast Innovation Forum in Davis, CA.
04.20.2020 –Markita was selected as the graduate student-invited seminar speaker and will give a talk on nanomaterials for biomolecule delivery in plants at the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering in Cambridge, MA.
04.20.2020 –Markita will give an invited seminar on the topic of nanoparticle-mediated plant transformation in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
04.03-06.2020 – Huan will give a talk at the Keystone Symposium on Plant Genome Engineering, From Lab to Field, titled Engineered Nanomaterial Guided Biomolecule Delivery for Genome Engineering in Mature Plants in Breckenridge, CO.
04.03-06.2020 – Frankie will present a poster at the Keystone Symposium on Plant Genome Engineering, From Lab to Field, titled Nanoparticle-mediated delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 systems for transient expression in leaves in Breckenridge, CO.
04.03-06.2020 – Eduardo will present a poster at the Keystone Symposium on Plant Genome Engineering, From Lab to Field, titled Nanoparticle mediated delivery of gene-editing tools (CRISPR/Cas9) to plants in Breckenridge, CO.
03.23.2020 –Markita will give an invited seminar on nanoscale tools for plant transformation and genome editing at the University of Georgia Department of Plant Biology in Athens, GA.
03.16-20.2020 –Markita will give an invited talk on nanomaterials for neuromodulator imaging at the 7th International Winterschool on Bioelectronics, BioEl2020, in Kirchberg in Tirol, Austria.
03.10.2020 –Markita will give an invited talk at the RIKEN Chemistry and Plant Biology Symposium for nanoscale approaches to plant biotechnology in Tokyo, Japan.
03.08-12.2020 –Markita will be a discussion leader for the 2020 Basal Ganglia session titled Insights into Old Problems from New Tools in Ventura, CA.
03.06.2020 –Markita will give an invited talk at the UCSB Department of Chemistry on the topic of nanomaterials for life sciences applications in Santa Barbara, CA.
03.05.2020 –Markita will give an invited talk at National Academies of Sciences US-UK Scientific Forum on Sustainable Agriculture the topic of Nanomaterials for genetic modification of plants in Washington, DC. Watch the talk here.
03.03.2020 –Markita will give an invited talk at the 2020 San Francisco Neurological Society Annual Meeting on the topic of Imaging Neuromodulation with Synthetic Nanosensors in Monterrey, CA.
03.01-05.2020 –Markita will give an invited talk at PittConn 2020 titled ‘A near-infrared fluorescent nanosensor enables high spatial resolution imaging of dopamine release in striatal brain tissue’ in Pittsburg, PA.
02.20.2020 –Markita will give an invited talk on the topic of plant transformation with nanomaterials at the – University of Tennessee Knoxville Center for Agricultural Synthetic Biology in Knoxville, TN.
01.17.2020 –Markita will give an invited talk at the Departamento de Ingeniería Genética in Irapuato, Mexico. (Talk to be delivered in Spanish)
01.12.2020 –Markita will give an invited talk at the 2020 International Plant and Animal Genome Conference in San Diego, CA.
01.10.2020 –Markita will give an invited talk at UC San Diego 2020 CMG Symposium.
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Fall 2019
12.10.2019 –Markita will give an invited talk at the NIH Chemogenetic Innovations in the Manipulation and Monitoring of Labeled Neurons Meeting titled ‘Probes and Activity Monitoring of Brain Neuromodulation‘ in Bethesda, MD.
12.09.2019 –Markita will give an invited talk at the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum titled ‘Understanding Brain Neurochemistry: Imaging Neuromodulators with High Spatiotemporal Resolution‘ in Alexandria, VA.
12.06.2019 –Markita will give an invited seminar at Corteva Agriscience on the topic of nanotechnologies for transgene expression in plants in Johnston, IA.
12.03.2019 –Markita will give an invited seminar at the Stanford University Materials Science & Engineering Department in Palo Alto, CA.
12.01.2019 –Markita will give an invited talk at the Smart Materials, Devices and Systems for Interface with Plants and Microorganisms symposium at the annual MRS Meeting in Boston, MA.
11.20.2019 – Markita will give an invited talk at the American University in Cairo on neuromodulator probe development at the international workshop on biosensors and biotechnology in Cario, Egypt.
11.13.2019 – Markita will give an invited talk at the 2019 International Tropical Agriculture Conference (TropAg) on the topic of nanoparticle-based plant transformation in Brisbane, Australia.
10.31.2019 – Markita will give a talk on opportunities for underrepresented students in science at a the Increasing Understanding of Diverse Scientific Approaches in Designing Therapeutic Solutions panel at the 2019 SACNAS conference in Honolulu, HI.
10.04-06.2019 –Markita will give a talk at the International ITU Molecular Biology and Genetics Congress in Istanbul, Turkey.
10.03.2019 –Markita will give an invited talk on nanomaterials-based delivery in plants at Rijk Zwaan in the Netherlands.
09.24.2019 – Markita will give an invited talk at the US-Korea Forum on Nanotechnology in San Diego, CA.
09.10.2019 –Markita will give a research seminar at the UC Berkeley Department of Chemistry.
08.24.2019 – Markita at will give an invited talk at the C&EN Talented Twelve Symposium at the 2019 ACS meeting in San Diego, CA. Watch the talk here.
08.25.2019 – Frankie will give a talk titled “Transient expression of CRISPR-Cas systems to mature plant tissues with nanoparticle-mediated delivery” in the CRISPR/Gene Editing & RNAi – Utilization for Enhanced Crop Production symposium at the 2019 ACS meeting in San Diego, CA.
08.25.2019 – Huan will give a talk titled “DNA Nanostructures Coordinate Gene Silencing in Mature Plants” in the CRISPR/Gene Editing & RNAi – Utilization for Enhanced Crop Production symposium at the 2019 ACS meeting in San Diego, CA.
08.25.2019 – Gozde was selected to give a talk in the 2019 Graduate Student Award Symposium in the Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Division at the 2019 ACS meeting in San Diego, CA.
08.25.2019 – Gozde will give a talk titled “High aspect ratio nanomaterials enable biomolecule delivery and transgene expression or silencing in intact plants” in the AGRO division at the 2019 ACS meeting in San Diego, CA.
08.23.2019 – Markita will be giving an invited talk at Zymergen on the topic of nanotechnologies for gene delivery in Emeryville, CA.
08.22.2019 – Markita will be giving an invited talk at the Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub on nanotechnologies for life science applications in San Francisco, CA.
08.25.2019 – Gozde was selected for the 2019 Merck Reseaerch Award and will be presenting a talk at the Merck ACS Award symposium at the 2019 ACS meeting in San Diego, CA.
08.14.2019 – Markita will give an invited talk at the Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, MO.
08.5-9.2019 – Huan will give a talk titled “DNA Nanostructures Coordinate Gene Silencing in Mature Plants” at the 25th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming in Seattle, WA
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Summer 2019
08.07-09.2019 –Markita will give an invited plenary talk at the Plant Biology 2019 Meeting in San Jose, CA.
07.17.2019 –Markita will give an invited talk at the Nanotechnology in Sustainable Plant Agriculture: Exploring safe Pathways from the Laboratory to the Field Symposium at McGill University in Montreal, QC.
07.01-05.2019 –Markita will teach at the 2019 RIKEN Center for Brain Science summer research course in Saitama, Japan.
06.24-28.2019 – Gozde will give an invited talk as a featured speaker at the 2019 CRISPR AgBio Congress on her gene delivery work in plants, in San Diego, CA.
06.23-28.2019 –Markita will give an invited talk at the Parkinson’s Disease Gordon Research Conference in Newry, ME.
06.16-21.2019 –Markita will give an invited talk at the Bioelectronics Gordon Research Conference in Andover, NH.
06.09-12.2019 –Markita will give an invited keynote talk at the Society for In Vitro Biology in the session for Delivery of Genome Editing Reagents and Drugs, in Tampa FL.
05.26-30.2019 – Several group members will present at the Carbon Nanostructures in Medicine and Biology Symposium at the 2019 Electrochemical Society Meeting in Dallas, TX.
- Paper B02-0683: Understanding Corona Exchange Dynamics on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Multiplexed Fluorescence Monitoring presented by Rebecca Pinals.
- Paper B02-0675: (Invited) DNA Library Evolution of Carbon Nanotube Molecular Recognition presented by Markita Landry.
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Spring 2019
05.14.2019 – Markita will give an invited research seminar at the Umeå Plant Science Centre in Umeå University, Sweden.
05.10.2019 – Markita will give an invited lecture at the 2019 Yale Chemical Biology Symposium in New Haven, CT.
05.10.2019 – Markita will give an invited research seminar in the UC Berkeley Department of Bioengineering in Berkeley, CA.
03.19.2019 – Markita will speak at the 2019 World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco, CA.
03.18.2019 – Markita is a keynote speaker at the 2019 AIChE Midwest Regional Conference in Chicago, IL.
03.12.2019 – Abraham will give a talk titled ‘A versatile synthetic platform for generating near-infrared neurochemical probes’ at the HHMI Janelia Farms Research Campus in Ashburn, VA.
02.19.2019 – Markita will give an invited research seminar at the Rockefeller University Physics and Biology Center in New York City, NY.
02.18.2019 – Markita will give an invited research seminar at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of Molecular Imaging and Nanotechnology in New York City, NY.
01.16.2019 – Markita will give an invited talk at the UCSD Plant Biology Symposium in San Diego, CA.
01.14.2019 – Markita will give an invited research seminar at the University of Washington Chemical Engineering Department in Seattle, WA.
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Fall 2018
12.06-07.2018 – Markita will give an invited talk at the 2018 Kavli Sensing the Future Workshop at Rice University in Houston, TX
11.04.2018 – Society for Neuroscience (SfN) in San Diego, CA
- Abraham will give a talk titled Near Infrared fluorescent sensor for imaging catecholamine dynamics in the brain extracellular space.
- Session #112, Session title: Physiological Methods, Session date and time: Nov 4, 2018 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM, Session Location: SDCC 30B
10.28-11.02.2018 – AIChE 2018 in Pittsburgh, PA
- Markita will chair the Nanostructured Biomimetic and Biohybrid Materials and Devices session (22B05)
- Markita will co-chair the Carbon Nanomaterials Graduate Student Award session (22A01)
- Markita will chair the Materials Chemistry for Biosensors session (T9002)
- Several group members will present their research:
11.01.2018 – Rebecca will tive a talk titled Development of a Novel Nanosensor Platform By Noncovalent Surface Engineering of Two-Dimensional Graphene Quantum Dots at the AIChE annual meeting nanoscale science and engineering forum in Pittsburgh, PA.
11.01.2018 – Sanghwa will tive a talk titled Evolution of Nanoparticle-Based Synthetic Molecular Recognition at the AIChE annual meeting nanoscale science and engineering forum in Pittsburgh, PA.
11.01.2018 – Travis will tive a talk titled Two-Photon Microscopy for Deep-Tissue Imaging of Dopaminergic Neuromodulation in the Brain at the AIChE annual meeting particle technology forum in Pittsburgh, PA.
11.01.2018 – Ian will tive a talk titled Dual Near Infrared Two Photon Microscopy for 3D Imaging of Biological Systems at the AIChE annual meeting in Pittsburgh, PA.
11.01.2018 – Darwin will tive a talk titled Quantification of Inflammatory Response and Morphological Change of SIM-A9 Microglia By Neuro-Probes
at the AIChE Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum in Pittsburgh, PA.
10.31.2018 – Darwin will tive a talk titled Brain Imaging Probes Elicit Microglial Inflammatory Responses and Induce Cellular Morphological Changes at the AIChE Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum in Pittsburgh, PA.
10.31.2018 – Rebecca will tive a talk titled Elucidating Protein Corona Formation on Nanoparticles in Complex Biological Fluids at the AIChE Engineering Sciences and Fundamentals Division in Pittsburgh, PA.
10.31.2018 – Markita will tive an invited talk titled Invited Speaker: Exciton Engineering for Brain Nanosensor Delivery, and Imaging of Modulatory Neurotransmitters at the AIChE Engineering Sciences and Fundamentals Division in Pittsburgh, PA.
10.30.2018 – Linda will tive a talk titled Probing Peptoid-Carbon Nanotube Coatings for Biological Imaging at the AIChE Engineering Sciences and Fundamentals Division in Pittsburgh, PA.
10.30.2018 – Linda will tive a talk titled Protein Detection with Peptoid-Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Optical Sensors at the AIChE Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering division in Pittsburgh, PA.
10.29.2018 – Travis will tive a talk titled In Vivo Imaging of Larval Zebrafish Neurochemistry with Near-Infrared Dopamine Nanosensors at the AIChE Nanomaterials for Applications in Energy and Biology Topical Conference in Pittsburgh, PA.
10.29.2018 – Gozde will tive a talk titled Nanoparticle-Mediated Transgene Expression and Silencing in Agriculturally-Relevant Plants at the AIChE Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering division in Pittsburgh, PA.
10.29.2018 – Gozde will tive a talk titled 1-Dimensional Carbon Nanoparticles for Functional Biomolecule Delivery to Mature Plants at the AIChE annual meeting Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum in Pittsburgh, PA.
10.29.2018 – Travis will tive a talk titled An Optical Near Infrared Doxorubicin Sensor Discovered By Spectroscopic and Chemometric Analysis of Nanosensor Libraries at the AIChE Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering division in Pittsburgh, PA.
10.08.2018 – Markita will give an invited research seminar at the University of Washington department of chemistry in Seattle, WA.
09.25.2018 – Markita will give an invited research seminar at KAUST’s plant science program in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
09.15.2018 – Markita will give a TEDx talk at TEDx Marin in Kentfield, CA.
09.14.2018 – Markita will give an invited talk at the Asilomar Bioelectronics Symposium in Pacific Grove, CA.
8.20-16.2018 – Abraham will be giving a seminar titled Imaging Striatal Dopamine Release Using a Non-Genetically Encoded Near- Infrared Fluorescent Catecholamine Nanosensor at the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering.
08.15-16.2018 – Molecular Foundry Meeting in Berkeley CA.
- Linda will give a talk on peptoid-nanotube conjugates in the Semisoft Matter session
- Younghun will give a talk on glucose nanosensors in the Semisoft Matter session
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Summer 2018
07.15-20.2018 – Markita will give an invited talk at the Optogenetic Approaches to Understanding Neural Circuits and Behavior Gordon Research Conference in Newry, ME.
07.14.2018 – Markita will attend the American Society of Plant Biologists Meeting in Montreal, Canada.
06.21.2018 – Markita will give a seminar at the Northwestern University in the Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, IL.
06.19.2018 – Markita will present at the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation Annual Grantee Meeting in Miami, FL.
06.03-06.2018 – Markita will attend the 2018 Nano-Enabled Technologies to Improve Efficiency, Quality, and Health in Food and Agriculture Gordon Research Conference in Hadley, MA.
05.30.2018 – Gozde will present her work on the genetic transformation of plants with nanomaterials at the 2018 Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Forum in Boston, MA.
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Spring 2018
05.17.2018 – Markita will give a seminar at the UC Davis department of Chemical Engineering in Davis, CA.
05.13-17.2018 – Several group members will present at the Carbon Nanostructures in Medicine and Biology Symposium at the 2018 Electrochemical Society Meeting in Seattle, WA
- Paper B02-0687: Elucidating Protein Corona Formation on Nanocarbons in Complex Biological Fluids. Presented by Rebecca Pinals
- Paper B02-0683: High Aspect Ratio Nanomaterials Enable Biomolecule Delivery and Transgene Expression or Silencing in Mature Plants. Presented by Markita Landry
- Paper B02-676: Imaging Dopamine Neuromodulation with Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Sensors. Presented by Abraham Beyene
05.03.2018 – Markita will present at the DuPont Plant Sciences Symposium Series‘ 3rd annual Plant Genome Engineering Symposium in Berkeley, CA.
05.01.2018 – Markita will participate in a panel discussion at the Lindau Nobel Laureate and UC Davis Forum on the Future of Food, Health and Nutrition, in Davis, CA.
04.27.2018 – Markita will lead a discussion for the Sloan University Center’s Women of Color in STEM group at the University of Illinois.
04.17.2018 – Markita will give a talk on nanoparticle-based gene delivery toward plant genome editing at the Innovative Genomics Institute in Berkeley, CA.
04.08-11.2018 – Abraham will give a talk at Janelia Farms at the Junior Scientist Workshop on Solving Biological Problems with Chemistry in Ashburn, VA.
04.06.2018 – Markita will give a talk titled Nanomaterials Engineering to Probe and Control Living Systems at the UC Berkeley Nano Seminar Series.
03.29.2018 – Markita will give a talk titled Nanomaterials Engineering to Probe and Control Living Systems at the UNC Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University Biomedical Engineering Seminar, in Raleigh NC.
03.06.2018 – Travis will give will give a talk titled Imaging Brain Chemistry at the Nanoscale: Nanomaterial-based optical sensors for visualizing neurotransmission at the University of California Santa Barbara.
02.17-21.2018 – Abraham, Gozde, and Travis will attend and present at the 62nd Annual Biophysical Society Meeting in San Francisco, CA
- Invited Subgroup Talk: 2018 Bioengineering Subgroup – Imaging Dopamine Neuromodulation in Brain Striatum and Prefrontal Cortex. Presented by Abraham Beyene
- Paper DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2017.11.1072 – Fluorescent Nanosensors for Two-Photon Infrared Imaging of Dopamine Release in Brain Tissue. Presented by Travis O’Donnell
- Paper DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2017.11.1988 – Imaging Dopamine Neuromodulation in Brain Striatum and Prefrontal Cortex. Presented by Abraham Beyene
- Paper DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2017.11.1988 – Nanoparticle-Guided Biomolecule Delivery for Transgene Expression and Gene Silencing in Mature Plants. Presented by Gozde Demirer
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Fall 2017
11.30.2017 – Gozde will present a talk titled Nanoparticle-Mediated Mature Plant Genetic Transformation at the Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Confab in San Francisco, CA.
11.15.2017 – Abraham will present at SfN 2017 in Session 809 for Optical Probes and Functional Readouts: 809.10 VV52 – Near-infrared nanosensors for brain imaging of modulatory neurotransmitters in Washington, D.C.
11.08-10.2017 – Markita will present an invited talk at the US-Brazil Workshop on Biosensors: Bioanalytics to Device Integration at the Federal University of ABC in São Paulo, Brazil.
11.02.2017 – Abraham Beyene will present an invited talk at the Biomaterial Interfaces division of the AVS 64th International Symposium in Tampa, Florida.
10.29-11.03.2017 – AIChE 2017 in Minneapolis, MN
- Markita will co-chair the Nanostructured Biomimetic and Biohybrid Materials and Devices session (22B06)
- Abstract #491479 – Research careers in academia for young faculty members. Presented by Markita Landry
- Abstract #492767 – Antibody-Mimetic Protein Detection with Peptoid-Functionalized Near-Infrared Carbon Nanotube Optical Sensors. Presented by Linda Chio
- Abstract #494970 – Carbon Nanotube-Assisted Delivery of Genetic Material into Mature Plants. Presented by Gozde Demirer
- Abstract #497901- Molecular Recognition of Dopamine with Near Infrared Dual Excitation-Emission Two-Photon Microscopy of Nanosensors. Presented by Travis Del Bonis-O’Donnell
10.27.2017 – Gozde will present our work on nanoparticle-based plant transformation at the Innovative Genomics Institute Open House, in Berkeley, CA.
10.06.2017 – SciX2017 in Reno, NV
- Markita will give an invited talk titled Engineering and Imaging Excitons for Brain Imaging of Modulatory Neurotransmitters, at the FACSS SciX 2017 Emerging Leader in Spectroscopy Award Session
09.29.2017 – Markita will present a seminar on imaging neuromodulation at the NYU Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology in New York, NY.
09.25.2017 – Markita will attend the National Academy of Engineering’s 2017 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in East Hartford, Connecticut.
09.20.2017 – Markita will present our work on nanotechnologies for life science applications at the University of San Francisco Department of Physics in San Francisco, CA.
08.10.2017 – Markita will present our work on gene editing in plants at the International Rice Research Institute in Los Baños, Philippines.
08.03.2017 – Markita will present our work on deep tissue dual near infrared imaging at the 2017 Arnold and Mabel Beckman Symposium in Irvine, CA.
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Summer 2017
07.16-22.2017 – Linda will participate in the Center for the Physics of Living Cells Summer School for Single-Molecule FRET at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
06.29-30.2017 – Markita will give an invited presentation on our single protein detection research at the NIH Single Cell Analysis Program at the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD.
06.28-29.2017 – Travis will give a talk on dual infrared two-photon imaging at the UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA.
06.28.2017 – Markita will give a talk titled Engineering and Imaging Excitons for Brain Imaging of Modulatory Neurotransmitters at the Georgetown University Department of Physics in Washington, DC.
06.22.2017 – Gozde will give an oral presentation on her mature plant genetic transformation work at Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED) 2017 in Vancouver, BC.
06.14.2017 – Gozde will present her work on plant nanotechnology at the Photosynthesis, Carbon Fixation & the Environment Symposium at UC Berkeley.
06.01.2017 – Markita will give an invited lecture on our neurotransmitter imaging research at the 2017 Electrochemical Society Meeting in New Orleans, LA.
05.26.2017 – Markita will present our work on single protein detection from single-cells at the Single Cell ‘Omics Keystone Symposium in Stockholm, Sweden.
05.12.2017 – Travis will present his work on dual near-infrared imaging of dopamine with infrared 2-photon microscopy at the qb3 postdoc symposium in Berkeley, CA.
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Spring 2017
04.02-07.2017 – At ACS Spring 2017, Aliasghar Alizadeh-Mojarad and Lela Vuković will present our collaborative efforts for molecular dynamics modeling of polynucleic acid encapsulated single-walled carbon nanotube sensors.
03.27.2017 – Markita will present our group’s work on single-molecule imaging of nanosensors at the Gettysburg College Biophysics department.
03.08.2017 – Markita will present our group’s work on nanomaterials for life sciences applications at the inaugural Chan-Zuckerberg Investigators Meeting in the CZ Biohub in Mission Bay.
02.06.2017 – Travis will present results on peptoid-nanotube sensors for protein detection at the LBNL’s Molecular Foundry.
01.25-27.2017 – Advanced Imaging Methods Workshop in Berkeley, CA. Markita will present on infrared imaging techniques at the 14th annual AIM workshop.
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Fall 2016
12.16-18.2016 – International Conference on Plant Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering in Miami, Florida. Gozde will give a talk on Nanoparticles As Biomolecular Cargo Transporters in Plants and Plastids.
12.06-10.2016 – IDIFARMA 2016 in Havana, Cuba. Markita is a co-chair of a Nanomaterials and Drug Delivery Systems session at IDIFARMA 2016.
11.13-16.2016 – AIChE 2016 in San Francisco, CA
- Abstract 468792 – Optical Nanosensors for High Spatial and Temporal Studies of Neurotransmitter Imaging in the Brain. Presented by Abraham Beyene
- Abstract 471298 – Nanoparticles as Biomolecular Cargo Transporters in Plant Systems. Presented by Gozde Demirer
- Abstract 470631 – DNA Functionalized, Fluorescent Nanomaterials for the Specific, Ratiometric Detection of Dopamine for in vivo Sensing. Presented by Travis Del Bonis-O’Donnell
11.06-10.2016 – AVS 2016 in Nashville, TN – Markita is on the Biomaterial Interfaces Division program committee to organize a plenary session and a series of flash presentation sessions for recent advances in materials science and molecular biology. Apply here.
10.20.2016 – Markita will present results on neuro-imaging at the George Mason University physics department.
09.05.2016 – Markita and Linda will present recent work in cytokine protein detection at the QBiC Quantitative Cell Profiling Symposium in Osaka, Japan
08.12.2016 – Markita will present a talk titled ‘Nanoparticle-Polymer Conjugates for Near-Infrared Biomolecular Detection’ at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Molecular Foundry Meeting.
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Summer 2016
07.25.2016 – Abraham will attend the 2016 Center for the Physics of Living Cells summer school at the University of Illinois, and will share our work on neurotransmitter imaging.
07.21.2016 – Travis will present a talk at the Burroughs Wellcome Fund featuring our statistical sensor work done in collaboration with Dr. Russ Wolfringer at the SAS Headquarters in Raleigh, NC.
07.08.2016 – Markita presents a talk at the NYU Langone Medical Center titled Synthetic Infrared Nanosensors for Modulatory Neurotransmitters
07.06.2016 – Markita will present our lab’s work on nanoparticle imaging at the University of Havana, Cuba Chemistry Department (to be presented in Spanish)
06.29.2016 – Markita will present a research seminar at the University of Texas at El Paso Chemistry Department
06.2016 – The Landry Lab opens!