Jenny Klutts (Rosenzweig group) successfully defended her Master’s thesis, entitled “Molecular level studies of the impact of poly (oxonorbornenes) on D. rerio. embryos.” Congratulations Jenny!
Congratulations to CSN grad students Becky Curtis (left) and Eric Ostovich (right), both from the lab of Rebecca Klaper at UW-Milwaukee, who won awards for their research presentation posters at the Midwest Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry meeting in LaCrosse last week! Becky won the “best poster presentation” award for her poster titled “Next-generation battery cathode material lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) nanosheets and metabolomic impacts to freshwater crustacean Daphnia magna.” Eric won “runner-up” for his poster “Developing an in vitro model from Daphnia magna to evaluate the molecular Interactions of nanoparticles.”
Nicholas Niemuth’s manuscript, entitled “Next-generation complex metal oxide nanomaterials negatively impact growth and development in the benthic invertebrate Chironomus riparius upon settling,” has been accepted by Environmental Science and Technology. Read the online publication here. Nicholas Niemuth, Becky Curtis, Mimi Ngoc Hang, Miranda J. Gallagher, D. Howard Fairbrother, Robert J. Hamers and Rebecca D. Klaper, Environmental Science and Technology, 2019, Available Online.
Congratulations to Dr. Joe Bennett (Mason group), who accepted a position as a Research Assistant Professor in the Natural Sciences Pre-Professorate Fellowship Program at UMBC.
CSN Professor Rebecca Klaper and was featured in a February 25 article on the UWMResearch website, by Adam Hinterthuer, called “Tiny changes, big impact.” Congratulations, Rebecca!
Yi Cui’s manuscript, entitled “Quantitative mapping of oxidative stress response to lithium cobalt oxide nanoparticles in single cells using multiplexed in situ gene expression analysis,” has been accepted by Nano Letters. Read the online publication here. Yi Cui, Eric S. Melby, Arielle C. Mensch, Elizabeth D. Laudadio, Mimi N. Hung, Alice Dohnalkova, Dehong Hu, Robert J. Hamers and Galya Orr, Nano Letters, 2019, Accepted.
CSN graduate student Natalie Hudson-Smith has won one a 2019 Thesis Research Travel Grant from the University of Minnesota.This grant will help support Natalie’s stay in Valencia, Spain to do CSN-related protein corona studies central to Associate Director Christy Haynes’ sabbatical research. ¡Felicitaciones!
Meng Wu’s manuscript, entitled “Solution NMR Analysis of Ligand Environment in Quaternary Ammonium-Terminated Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold Nanoparticles: The Effect of Surface Curvature and Ligand Structure,” has been accepted by the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Read the online publication here. Meng Wu, Ariane M. Vartanian, Gene Chong, Arun Kumar Pandiakumar, Robert J. Hamers, Rigoberto Hernandez and Catherine J. Murphy, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019, Accepted.
CSN faculty member Cathy Murphy and Murphy group alumna Ariane Vartanian were recently interviewed by the American Chemical Society in honor of the United Nation’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science! You can read the interview here.
CSN faculty member Cathy Murphy has been announced as the recipient of the 2019 Remsen Award, which is granted by the American Chemical Society Maryland Section. Dr. Murphy will present the Remsen Lecture on May 30 at the 47th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Congratulations, Cathy!
