Announcements
12/03/2023
Congratulations to Chamika Algama on successfully defending her Ph.D. proposal!!!
11/13/2023
Congratulations to Kalani Wijesinghe for successfully defending her PhD defense !!!
06/01/2023
Congratulations to Roaa Mahmoud for receiving the Bass Scholarship for the 2023-2024 academic year !!!
Congratulations to Kalani Wijesinghe for receiving the Albert T. Sneden III Scholarship for the 2023-2024 academic year !!!
05/04/2023
Dr. Dhakal is on Bruker Research Highlight: Optical-Tweezers-Based Mechanical Manipulation Makes Novel Research Possible
05/06/2022
Congratulations to Roaa Mahmoud for receiving the Albert T. Sneden III Scholarship 2022-2023 academic year !!!
04/17/2022
Congratulations to Kalani Wijesinghe for receiving the Altria Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year !!!
Congratulations to Roaa Mahmoud for receiving the Departmental Summer Fellowship for the 2022 summer!!!
06/12/2021
Congratulations to Mischa Ellison for being accepted for the MS program at Arizona State University (ASU) funded by the ACS Bridge program!!!
6/01/2021
Congratulations to Anoja Megalathan for her postdoctoral position at Yale University!!!
5/28/2021
Congratulations to Sydney Pettit for receiving the NIH Postbaccalaureate fellowship!!!
5/10/2021
Congratulations to Anisa Kaur for her position as a Research Scientist at PPD Richmond!!!
Congratulations to Kalani Wijesinghe for receiving the Lidia M. Vallerino Scholarship in Chemistry for 2021-2022 academic year !!!
4/12/2021
Congratulations to Anoja Megalathan for successfully defending her PhD defense !!!
4/08/2021
Congratulations to Anisa Kaur for successfully defending her PhD defense !!!
03/29/2021
Congratulations to Dalton Gibbs for successfully defending his PhD defense !!!
05/15/2020
Congratulations to Dalton Gibbs for receiving the Distinguished Chemist Fund Award 2020 !!!
Congratulations to Anisa Kaur for receiving the Lidia M. Vallerino Scholarship in Chemistry for the 2020-2021 academic year !!!
Congratulations to Mischa Ellison for receiving the UROP Fellowship 2020 !!!
02/05/2020
A manuscript entitled ‘FRET-Based Aptasensor for the Selective and Sensitive Detection of Lysozyme’ has been accepted for publication in Sensors. Congratulations to the entire team!!!
08/05/2019
A manuscript entitled ‘Single-step FRET-based detection of femtomoles DNA’ has been accepted for publication in Sensors. Congratulations to the entire team!!!
06/17/2019
A manuscript (collaborative project with Dr. Reiner at VCU Physics) entitled ‘Single molecule analysis of i-motif within self-assembled DNA duplexes and nanocircles’ is accepted for publication in Nucleic Acids Research. Congratulations to the entire team!!!
04/24/2019
Congratulations to Kumar Sapkota on successfully defending his Ph.D. proposal!!!
04/15/2019
Congratulations to Benjamin Kass for receiving the Baker Award 2019 !!!
Congratulations to Anoja Megalathan for receiving the Distinguished Chemist Fund Award 2019 !!!
03/28/2019
Congratulations to Dalton Gibbs for receiving the Altria Fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year !!!
Congratulations to Anisa Kaur for receiving the Altria Fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year !!!
02/20/2019
Anisa’s paper entitled ‘Multiplexed nucleic acid sensing with single-molecule FRET’ has been accepted for publication in ACS Sensors. Congratulations Anisa!!!
11/27/2018
Congratulations to Anisa Kaur on successfully defending her Ph.D. proposal!!!
11/19/2018
Congratulations to A. Megalathan on successfully defending her Ph.D. proposal!!!
11/16/2018
Congratulations to Dalton Gibbs on successfully defending his Ph.D. proposal!!!
05/16/2018
Dalton’s paper on single-molecule fluorescence analysis of the ‘Conformational manipulation of Holliday junction (HJ) DNA by RuvA protein‘ is accepted for publication in Biochemistry. Congratulations Dalton!!!
07/17/2017
Dr. Dhakal to present as a Keynote Speaker at the International Conference on Nanomaterials and Nanochemistry 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia on the topic ‘From Material to Biotechnology Applications of Structural DNA Nanotechnology’.
05/05/2017
Congratulations to Anisa Kaur for receiving the Billy Stump/Ray Ottenbrite Fellowship!!!