Latest News
September 27, 2023
PhD Defense
Minji Kim has successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled "Development and evaluation of novel detection techniques for food borne pathogens". Congratulations, Minji!
May 3, 2023
Minji Kim wins IAFP Technical Talk Competition
Congratulations to Minji Kim for winning the International Association for Food Protection European Symposium Technical Talk Competition in Aberdeen, Scotland!
August 3, 2022
Poster Award
Congratulations to Minji Kim for winning the "Developing scientist poster presentation award" at the International Association of Food Protection Conference.
April 2022
1000 Plasmids!
Celebration of more than 1000 plasmids made by our group!
June 2021
NIH R01 Grant to the Chen Group
Our proposal "Probing Functional States and Inhibition of Flaviviral Proteases Using Nanopore Tweezers" has been funded by the NIH. Thank you, NIH!
May 2020
New member to the Chen Group
Katie Gilliam, a MCB PhD student has joined our group. Welcome Katie!
May 10, 2019
Bye-Bye, Gisele
Time to say Good-bye to Gisele! We were lucky to have you with us for the last three and half years! Wish you all the success in MIT!
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July 28, 2023
Masters Defense
Congratulations to Samantha Schultz for completion of the Masters Defense!
January 2023
Welcome new Chen lab members!
We have three new members in our laboratory from the Chemistry and MCB PhD Program. Welcome Lily Nguyen, Moly Rani and David DeCoeur!
June 2022
CBI Fellowship Award
Congratulations to Crystal for receiving the NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Program Fellowship!
April 2022
Data defense completion!
Congratulations Fanjun on passing your data defense!
April 2021
NIH R21 Grant to the Aksimentiev and Chen Group
Our proposal "Improving Biological Nanopores for Precision Nucleic Acid Sequencing Using a Computational Microscope" has been funded by the NIH. Thank you, NIH!
May 13, 2019
NIFA grant to the Moore and Chen group
We are funded by the NIFA to develop an OmpG nanopore sensor to detect food-borne pathogens.
Thank you! NIFA.
May 10, 2019
Giesele Won Many Awards
Congratulations to Gisele! She has won Dr. Uche Anyanwu Memorial Fund, Richard W. Fessenden Award, Senior Class Award, Positron Award,
Departmental Recognition Award!
June 1, 2023
NIH R01 grant to the Aksimentiev, Chen, Niederweiser and Wanunu group
Our proposal "Asymmetric Single-Chain MspA nanopores for electroosmotic stretching and sequencing proteins" has been funded by the NIH. Thank you!
August 22, 2022
Final Defense Completion
Congratulations to Dr. Fanjun Li for successfully defending her PhD dissertation research entitled “Investigation of kinase conformational dynamics and analytes detection with protein nanopore".
May 2022
New member to the Chen Group
Jackie Sharp, a MCB PhD student has joined our group. Welcome Jackie!
April 2022
Prospectus completion!
Congratulations Crystal on successfully defending your prospectus qualifying exam.
December 2020
New member to the Chen Group
Crystal Rodriguez, a chemistry PhD student has joined our group. Welcome Crystal!
May 10, 2019
New member to the Chen Group
Josh Foster, a MCB class 19 student joined our lab.
Welcome! Josh.
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May 2, 2019
Gabi won Jessica Hayes Award
Gabi has been awarded the BMB Jessica Hayes Award! Congratulations to Gabi!
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