Prof. Wylie received an NIH supplement entitled “Title: “The Purchase of a Liquid Chromatography System to facilitate the high-throughput quantification of lipid-protein interactions and membrane ordering using solid-state NMR.” + More The award was for $93,306.00
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Prof. Josh Tropp and colleagues at UT-Austin and UH, have received a Welch-X Grant entitled "Unraveling the Role of Iron in the Gut Microbiome using Iron-Selective Organic Electrochemical Transistors.” The one-year grant is for $100k, with $34k coming to Joshs lab.
Prof. Mechref received $75,000 in funding from USDA-Foreign Agriculture Service OCBD for Understanding Wheat Varietal Resistance to the Hessian Fly; Insights from Genomics and Transcriptomics.
An article from Prof. Gamez group is the winner of the internationally competitive 2023 Edward Steers Memorial Award for the Best Paper in Glow Discharge Spectroscopy from the European Working Group on Glow Discharge Spectroscopy: + More - Finch, K.; Hernandez, A.; Gamez, G.* High Throughput Nanoparticle Characterization via Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectroscopy Elemental Mapping. Anal. Chem., 2023, 95, 4, 2269–2277. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.2c03940
Several articles authored by Prof. Gamez and his lab are featured in the compilation “Landmark Publications in Analytical Atomic Spectrometry” (G.C.-Y. Chan, et al., Appl. Spectrosc., 2024, DOI: 10.1177/00037028241263567), which contains 1055 articles spanning almost two centuries and considered “the most impactful publications in the area”.
Prof. Joshua Tropp received an ACS PRF grant for Nanoconfinement Enabled Synthetic Control of Conjugated Polymers in the amount of $110,000 that begins on 09/01/2024.
Robert Posey, graduate student in the Tropp Research Group, was selected as a recipient of the C.B. and Fran Carter Foundation Scholarship.
Peilin Jiang (a member of the Mechref Omics Laboratory) is the recipient of 2024 Ginny Shen Lin and CGSO Scholarship Analytical Division.
Sherifdeen Onigbinde (a member of the Mechref Omics Laboratory) is the recipient of the 2024 Ming Sun Family Graduate Research Award, Ginny Shen Lin Award, and CGSO Scholarship Biochemistry Division
Oluwatosin Daramola (a member of the Mechref Omics Laboratory) is the recipient of the 2024 Ming Sun Family Graduate Research Award
Mojibola Fowowe (a member of the Mechref Omics Laboratory) is the recipient of the 2024 Ming Sun Family Graduate Research Award
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