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28 July 2016 Our undergraduate student Madeline Masi
received two awards: the Best Poster Award
and the Best
Oral Presentation Award at the SURE conference in Clarkson on
July 28th. These awards were given
to her for presenting research results obtained in our lab during the
summer. Her research was supported by the NSF REU grant for
undergraduate students.
Congratulations, Maddie !!!!! Now you have already 4 awards for your excellent work !!! |
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26 July 2016 Ou July 26, our PhD student Brian E. Fratto had successfull PhD defense with the thesis "Utilization of a Fluidic Infrastructure for the Realization of Novel Boolean Logic Operations: A Modular Approach to Enzymatic Biomolecular Information Processing". Brian was performing his PhD research in the group for 3 years (+ 2 years as an undergraduate student) and completed the study with 11 published papers (which is unbelievable number for a graduate student!!!). Good luck Brian in your future life !!! We will be missing you in the lab. The photo shows our research group after the Brian's defense (Brian is 4th from the left). |
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30 July 2015 Our undergraduate student Madeline Masi
received the Best Poster Award
at the SURE conference in Clarkson on July 30th. This award was given
to her for presenting research results obtained in our lab during the
summer. Her research was supported by the NSF REU grant for
undergraduate students.
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| 12 May 2015 Our research group received the first award for the best poster presented at "Magnetically Stimulated Soft Materials" conference at University of Georgia, Athens, GA. The poster entitled "Controlled DNA delivery and detection triggered by magnetic field" was presented by Dr. Nataliia Guz on behalf of the co-authors: S. Bakshi, N. Guz, A. Zakharchenko, D. Kolpashchikov, S. Minko and E. Katz. |
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December 5,
2014
On December 5, our PhD student Kevin MacVittie had successfull PhD defense with the thesis "Biocomputing Architectures for Bioelectronic Interfacing: Biochemical Memory and Biofuel Cell Power Modules for Bionic Human Machine Hybrids". Kevin was performing research in the group for 3 years and completed the study with 19 published papers (which is unbelievable number for a graduate student!!!). Good luck Kevin in your future life !!! We will be missing you in the lab. The photo shows our research group after the Kevin's defense (Kevin is second from the left). |
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October 31,
2014 Dr.
Jan Halámek (SUNY
Albany), who was a former postdoctoral fellow in our group, visited
Clarkson University and presented a seminar talk for the Department of
Chemistry and Biomolecular Science. He was talking about his new
research in the area of forensic science.
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October 26,
2014 Prof. Katz presented an invited plenary
lecture "Implantable Bioelectronics - Towards
Cyborgs: From Science Fiction to Reality - Tutorial" at BioCAS
2014: Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference; IEEE 2014.
Lausanne, Switzerland, October 22-24, 2014. At the end of the lecture
he received an award as a plenary speaker.
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August 26,
2014 On August 26, our PhD student Shay Mailloux had successfull
PhD
defense with the thesis "Sense and
Treat Systems: From Biomarker Detection to Responsive Release".
Shay was performing research in the group for 3 years and completed the
study with 10 published papers (a few more papers are on the way). Good
luck Shay in your future life !!! We will be missing you in the lab.
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July 15,
2014 Our PhD student Kevin MacVittie received the Shipley fellowship for 2014 Fall semester to recognize his outstanding academic achievements - he coauthorized 16 research papers published in the top scientific journals. Kevin is planning his PhD defense by the end of 2014. |
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June 19,
2014 Prof. Evgeny Katz was awarded with a
Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing by the journal Electrochemistry Communications.
Only awarded once a year to a small
hand-picked selection of reviewers, as identified by the journal
Editors and Editor-in-Chiefs, this accolade is recognition of hard work
and contribution to the publication of scientific and medical research.
(Note that the journal is using the old spelling of the first name used prior 2006) |
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June 13,
2014 Evgeny
Katz was invited by students to give a lecture "Bioelectronics: From
Novel Concepts to Practical Applications" at the ECS Montreal
Student
Chapter.
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May 28,
2014 Evgeny Katz, the Milton Kerker
Chaired Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular
Science in Clarkson University’s School of Arts & Sciences, has
been awarded Clarkson's Lifetime Research Achievement Award.
The Lifetime Research Achievement Award is granted annually to recognize research by a tenured faculty member who is recognized internationally for a body of work that exemplifies the highest level of research accomplishment and has made a significant impact on their chosen field of study. An esteemed scientist, Katz has received numerous awards, including two Kaye Awards for Scientific Innovations (1995 and 2004); and the Humboldt Scholarship, which gave him an opportunity to work at the Technical University of Munich. His research interests are biocomputing; biosensors; biofunctionalized nanomaterials for bioelectronic and biomedical applications; bionanoengineering; bioelectronics & optobioelectronics; and bionanotechnology for bioelectronic applications. Ranked as one of the world’s top 100 chemists by Thomson Reuters, Katz has been inducted into Clarkson’s Million Dollar Club for attracting more than $1 million of external funding for his research activities in the last five years. He has received awards from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Defense, and private industry. Katz and his research team of Ph.D. candidates, post-doctoral researchers and undergraduate students work in his Laboratory of Bioelectronics and Biotechnology at Clarkson, where they are exploring chemical building blocks for technologies that combine biology and nanotechnology. He explains, "We can program the chemical system in the same way engineers can program computers." A gifted scholar, Katz is an expert in colloid science, nanomaterials and bioelectronics. He holds more than 20 international patents and has written or co-written 380 articles for scholarly journals, book chapters and conferences. His H-index (reflecting the citation rate) reached the value of 74, meaning that his 74 papers (from total number of papers 380) have been cited at least 74 and more times. The total citations of his work are above 18,000. He has taught and conducted research at the world’s top universities in Russia, Spain, Germany and Jerusalem. Amid all the international acclaim, Katz counts his blessings in the number of his students who have gone on to their own success. He says, "One of my driving forces is not only doing science, but 'making' people. If I know my students are successful in doing research, in publishing papers, in getting good jobs, this is what makes me the most happy.” Evgeny Katz joined Clarkson University in 2006, coming from The Institute of Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the A.N. Frumkin Institute of Electrochemistry, Moscow. He received his bachelor of science and master of science degrees in chemical engineering from D.I. Mendeleyev Chemical Engineering University, Moscow, graduating Summa Cum Laude. (Text above is copied from the Clarkson's News) Photo: Prof. Evgeny Katz has been awarded Clarkson's Lifetime Research Achievement Award. Clarkson President Tony Collins (left) presents the award to Katz. |
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May 16,
2014 Our PhD student Kevin MacVittie received the 2nd award for the best poster presented at the CAMP meeting (May 14-16, 2014, Gideon Putnam Resort Saratoga Springs, NY). |
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May 16,
2014 Our research team: Dr. Nataliia Guz, Dr. Maria Gamella Carballo and PhD student Shay Mailloux, received the 2nd award for the most attractive poster presented at the CAMP meeting (May 14-16, 2014, Gideon Putnam Resort Saratoga Springs, NY). |
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April 26,
2014 Our PhD student Shay Mailloux won the Best Graduate Poster Award at the Fifth Annual Undergraduate and Graduate Chemistry & Biology Research Symposium on April 26th, 2014 at SUNY Plattsburgh. Congratulations !!!!! |
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April 16,
2014 A new book edited by Prof. Katz, "Implantable
Bioelectronics - Devices, Materials and Applications",
Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2014, was acknowledged at the University
Libraries at the Sixth Annual Clarkson Authors Recognition Event.
The photo shows the authors of recently published books (Prof. Katz is at right). |
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November 4,
2013 Prof. Evgeny Katz gave a lecture on "Implantable Bioelectronics" for the SOAR educational program. SOAR is a member-directed learning group,
sponsored locally by SUNY Potsdam through the Center for Lifelong
Education and Recreation (CLEAR). SOAR is also one of almost 400 such
lifelong learning groups affiliated with the Elderhostel Institute
Network. The 350+ members of SOAR are “Third Age” adults, post-family
and career people who are actively enjoying their lives. SOAR members
are inquisitive, energetic and creative. They enjoy intellectual
stimulation, hands-on activities, going places, and good fellowship.
SOAR members love learning just for the sake of learning, and they love
sharing what they know.
SOAR employs just one part-time staff person. Everyone else - board and committee members, course presenters, classroom ambassadors, office helpers, and many others - is a volunteer. Video - the beginning of the lecture. |
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September 5,
2013 Dr. Maria Gamella Carballo joined the research group as a new Research Associate (postdoc) arriving from Spain. Welcome to the group and good luck at the new place !!! |
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September 1,
2013 Dr.
Jan Halámek left
the group after staying for 5 years at the position of Research
Assistant
Professor. He received Assistant Professor tenure-track position at
SUNY
Albany. Dr. Lenka
Halámková
left the group and started her new position as Research Scientist in
lab of Dr. Lednev, at State University of New York at Albany. Congratulations
with the excellent positions and good luck at
the new
place!!! |
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June 1,
2013 Dr.
Nataliia Guz joined
the research group as a new Research Associate (postdoc) after
completing PhD study at Clarkson (Physics Department) with Professor
Igor Sokolov. Welcome to
the group !!!
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May 5,
2013 Dr. Lenka
Halámková
was promoted to the title of the Research
Assistant Professor. Congratulations!!! This is a well deserved
promotion after publishing 12 papers in our research team.
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March 2, 2013 Prof. Katz participated in the meeting of the Society of Asian Scientists and
Engineers (SASE) in Binghamton University.
Text below was copied from the SASE web page at Clarkson: Our National Conference was an eye-opening event and there is no way that we will miss the next SASE conference. Our trip for the 3rd Annual North East Regional Conference at Binghamtom University was amazing. We were able to bring twenty-two members to the conference. This year we are one of the co-host chapter coordinate a panel regarding to "Innovation & Science". We invited Clarkson Professor, Dr. Evgeny Katz and Clarkson PhD Candidate, Fang Hua to speak about their research in their specific fields. It was a great networking experience for everyone and this opportunity have inspired many of our member about SASE mission. We can't wait to meet everyone again at the next National Convention! |
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December 15, 2012 Kevin L.
MacVittie, PhD student, received the 2012 Clarkson University, Chemistry and
Biomolecular Science Department Graduate Student Award. He
was also presenting a poster entitled "Implantable
Biofuel Cells Operating In Vivo - Towards Biomedical Devices Powered By
Electricity Harvested Inside the Body" at the students'
conference where the award was given to him.
Congratulations Kevin !!! |
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May 12, 2012 Five graduate students from the team of
Prof. Katz received their diploma during Clarkson University’s 119th
commencement (from left to right): Zhiyuan
Jin (MS), Jian Zhou
(PhD), Soujanya Chinnapareddy
(PhD), Prof. Evgeny Katz, Mary Anitha
Arugula (PhD), Tsz Kin Tam
(PhD).
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April 24,
2012 Our student (internship from Turkey) Sevim Korkmaz left the group to make her MS defense in Turkey. The title of her MS thesis is "Enzyme Based Logic Systems for Information and Signal Processing". She finished her MS study in 1 year with 1 published paper and several papers in preparetion. |
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April 24,
2012 On April 24, our student Zhiyuan Jin had successfull MS defense. The title of his MS thesis is "Electrochemically Controlled Protein Delivery System based on Surface modified Graphite Electrodes with Iron-Alginate Cross-Linked Thin-Film". He finished his MS study in less than 2 years with 2 papers published in top scientific journals. |
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April 17,
2012 On April 17, our student Soujanya Chinnapareddy had successfull
PhD
defense. This was the fifth PhD defense in the research group at
Clarkson. The title of her PhD thesis is "Novel Biomedical Approaches in Health
Monitoring and Oral Care". She finished her PhD
study in less than 4 years
with 7 papers published in top scientific journals. She also spent
significant period of time doing research at P&G. She will start
her research job at P&G in June.
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March 15,
2012
Clarkson PhD student Shay Mailloux of Malone, N.Y., has been selected by the National Science Foundation to participate in the prestigious 2012 East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes. Mailloux, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in chemistry, is advised by Evgeny Katz, the Milton Kerker Chaired Professor of Colloid Science. In June, Mailloux will travel to Canberra, Australia, to be hosted by the Australian Academy of Science for the eight-week research program. The institutes provide U.S. graduate students in science and engineering with first-hand research experiences in Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Singapore or Taiwan. The students also gain an introduction to the science, science policy, and scientific infrastructure of their respective location, as well as an orientation to the country’s society, culture and language. The primary goals of the institutes are to introduce students to East Asia and Pacific science and engineering in the context of a research setting, and to help students initiate scientific relationships that will better enable future collaboration with foreign counterparts. |
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 Shay with a group of students awarded by NSF with a research fellowship. |
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March 1,
2012 Dr.
Vera Bocharova left
the group receiving prestigious Wigner Scholar
position at Oak
Ridge National Laboratory.
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November 3,
2011 Professor Evgeny
Katz among several other Clarkson University faculty has been
inducted into the school's Million
Dollar Club for the significant amount (over 1 million) of
external funding that his research activities have garnered (more
details here).
Photo caption:
Clarkson University Provost Thomas C. Young and Director of Research
and Technology Transfer Gregory C. Slack recently inducted faculty and
staff into the school's Million Dollar and Multi-Million Dollar clubs
for the significant amounts of external funding that their
investigations and research activities have garnered. Left to right:
Slack, Chemistry & Biomolecular Science Prof. Evgeny Katz,
Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering Prof. Brian Helenbrook,
Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering Prof. Kathleen Issen, Civil
& Environmental Engineering Prof. Yongming Liu, Mechanical &
Aeronautical Engineering Prof. Piergiovanni Marzocca, Shipley Center
for Innovation Fellow and Civil & Environmental Engineering Prof.
James Bonner, Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering Prof. Daniel
Valentine, and Young.
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September 7,
2011 On September 7, our student Mary Anita Arugula had successfull
PhD
defense. This was the forth PhD defense in the research group at
Clarkson. The title of her PhD thesis is "Enzyme Based Logic Systems for Information
Processing and Biomedical Applications". She finished her PhD
study in 4 years
with 10 papers published in top scientific journals. She will start her
postdoctoral job at the group of Prof. Zhen He
(University of Wisconsin -
Milwaukee)
in September.
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 Kevin on top of one of the mountains in
the Julian Alps
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July,
2011 Our undergraduate
student Kevin MacVittie
received an award
for the research trip to Europe. This trip was supported jointly by
Clarkson University and University of Ljubljana, top University in
Slovenia.
His description of the trip is given below: "During the summer of 2011, Clarkson
University granted me the
opportunity to spend eight weeks abroad, through an exchange program
being set up by Dean Prof. Turner. Six of these weeks were spent
performing
research in a biochemistry lab at the Jozef Stefan Institute at the
University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Here I performed protein synthesis
research to isolate a specific region of an uncharacterized surface
protein believed to be tied to tumor growth. During the six weeks I was
able to absorb much of the culture from the capital city Ljubljana, as
well as the surrounding towns and villages. Much of my free time was
spent climbing in the Julian Alps with a few of my comrades from the
lab. After the six weeks I was able to travel through Italy and France
for two weeks. I spent a day in Venice, six in Rome, and six in Paris.
This was a fantastic opportunity for me to immerse myself in the
cultures of the many different countries there, as well as see the many
monuments and works of art that many only get to see in photographs."
This option is still open next year for other students in Clarkson. |
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July 25,
2011 On July 25, our student Jian Zhou had successfull
PhD
defense. This was the third PhD defense in the research group at
Clarkson. The title of his PhD thesis is "Biochemical Logic Systems for Information
Processing and Biomedical Applications". He finished his PhD
study in less than 4 years
with 21 papers published in top scientific journals. He will start his
postdoctoral job at the group of Prof.
Yuzhuo Li (Clarkson University)
in September.
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