Fall 2023 Recap: Faculty Spotlight
BUnano faculty have been busy throughout the fall semester, publishing papers, presenting their innovative work, and patenting their inventions. Browse this fall’s highlights:
18 papers published:
- Anna Swan; Xi Ling: Improving Strain-localized GaSe Single Photon Emitters with Electrical Doping in Nano Letters;
- Arturo Vegas: Quantitative biodistribution of nanoparticles in plants with lanthanide complexes in Scientific Reports;
- Catherine Klapperich: Transmission Dynamics and Rare Clustered Transmission Within an Urban University Population Before Widespread Vaccination in the Journal of Infectious Diseases;
- Darren Roblyer: Special Section Guest Editorial: Short Wave Infrared Techniques and Applications in Biomedical Optics in the Journal of Biomedical Optics;
- Irving Bigio: Multiscale label-free imaging of myelin in human brain tissue with polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography and birefringence microscopy in Biomedical Optics Express;
- Kenneth Rothschild: Evaluation of antibody-based single cell type imaging techniques coupled to multiplexed imaging of N-glycans and collagen peptides by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry;
- Maria Kamenetska: Single-Molecule Conductance of Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding in Histamine on Gold in the Journal of Physical Chemistry;
- Mark Grinstaff: High dose, dual-release polymeric films for extended surgical bed paclitaxel delivery in the Journal of Controlled Release; Transcription-Factor-Induced Aggregation of Biomimetic Oligonucleotide-b-Protein Micelles in Biomacromolecules;
- Michelle Sander: Time-Resolved Mid-Infrared Photothermal Microscopy for Imaging Water-Embedded Axon Bundles in Analytical Chemistry;
- Mo Khalil: A Multiplex MoClo Toolkit for Extensive and Flexible Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in ACS Synthetic Biology;
- Ophelia Tsui: Correlation between fragility and surface glass transition temperature of polymers in the Journal of Chemical Physics;
- Pinghua Liu; Arturo Vegas: Biochemical and Structural Characterization of OvoATh2: A Mononuclear Nonheme Iron Enzyme from Hydrogenimonas thermophila for Ovothiol Biosynthesis in ACS Catalysis;
- Rama Bansil: Unraveling the Intertwined Effect of pH on Helicobacter pylori Motility and the Microrheology of the Mucin-Based Medium It Swims in in Microorganisms;
- Wilson Wong: Engineered bacteria guide T cells to tumors in Science;
- Xi Ling: Ultrathin GaN Crystal Realized Through Nitrogen Substitution of Layered GaS in the Journal of Electronic Materials; Magnetic proximity boosts chiral quantum emission in Nature Materials.
13 preprints released:
- Claudio Chamon: Circuit complexity and functionality: a thermodynamic perspective in arXiv;
- David Bishop: Non-linear pH responses of passivated graphene-based field-effect transistors in the Journal of Applied Physics;
- David Campbell: Zigzag materials: selective interchain couplings control the coexistence of one-dimensional physics and deviations from it in arXiv;
- Lee Goldstein: Associations between white matter integrity of the cingulum bundle, surrounding gray matter regions, and cognition across the dementia continuum in the Journal of Computational Neurology;
- Linda Doerrer: Metallophilic interactions and magnetism in heterobimetallic {Pt,M} lantern complexes in Polyhedron;
- Mark Grinstaff: Cationic tantalum oxide nanoparticle contrast agent for micro computed tomography reveals articular cartilage proteoglycan distribution and collagen architecture alterations in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage;
- Sam Thiagalingam: Gut microbiota defined epigenomes of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases reveal novel targets for therapy in Epigenomics;
- Selim Unlu: Sequential separation and profiling of extracellular vesicles using antibody-aptamer conjugates in Analytical Chemistry;
- Selim Unlu; Nese Lortlar Unlu: Interferometric reflectance imaging sensor for diagnosis and therapy in Biophysics at the Nanoscale;
- Stephan Anderson; Xin Zhang: K-space Cold Diffusion: Learning to Reconstruct Accelerated MRI without Noise in arXiv;
- Thomas Bifano; Stephan Anderson: Computational-design Enabled Wearable and Tunable Metamaterials via Freeform Auxetics for Magnetic Resonance Imaging in arXiv;
- Xi Ling: Revealing the three-state nematicity in atomically-thin antiferromagnetic NiPS3 via magneto-optical effect in arXiv;
- Xue Han: The autism spectrum disorder risk gene NEXMIF over-synchronizes hippocampal CA1 network and alters neuronal coding in Frontiers in Neuroscience.
9 patents finalized:
- Chen Yang: Methods and devices for optoacoustic stimulation;
- David Bishop; David Campbell: System and method for measuring second order and higher gradients;
- John Ngo: Novel cellular receptors and uses thereof;
- Kenneth Rothschild: Novel photocleavable mass-tags for multiplexed mass spectrometric imaging of tissues using biomolecular probes;
- Mark Grinstaff: Antileishmanial compounds, compositions and use thereof;
- Mo Khalil: Systems and methods for control of gene expression;
- Selim Unlu; Nese Lortlar Unlu: Method and device for high-quality imaging of embedded tissue sections;
- Wilson Wong: Inducible control of gene expression; Cal-t constructs and uses thereof.
6 conference proceedings published:
- Alice White: Rolling Helical Microrobots for Cell Patterning at the 2023 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS); Programmable Modular Acoustic Microrobots at the 2023 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS);
- Kamil Ekinci: The Dynamics of a Micron Scale Beam Driven by Synthetic Noise in a Fluid at the APS 76th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics;
- Michelle Sander: Temporal characterization of mid-infrared photothermal signals at aqueous interfaces at the SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference 2023;
- Stephan Anderson; Xin Zhang: Distributionally Robust Image Classifiers for Stroke Diagnosis in Accelerated MRI at the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2023;
- Xi Ling: Nanoscale measurement and manipulation of single-photon emitter photophysics at the SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference 2023.
2 appointments and honors:
- Mark Grinstaff, Speaker, 2023 BU Alumni Weekend;
- Wilson Wong: Member, BU AI Task Force.