Group News
10/21/09 Sophia & Ting-Bin's paper titled "De Novo Design of Saccharide-Peptide Hydrogels as Synthetic Scaffolds for Tailored Cell Responses" is accepted to JACS. This is an important milestone for our biomaterials for tissue engineering studies. Congratulation to Sophia and Ting-Bin! Great job, keep going!
09/14/09 Our web gurus, Greg, Hanxiang, and Ying-Wei have done a fantastic job in re-designing our group web site! It looks very nice and professional. Thanks for all the creativity, high standard, and hard work. Let's give them a big applause!
8/09/09 Congratulations to Sophia and Alan for becoming proud new parents! We are so pleased that both mom and baby are very healthy! Enjoy your precious time with the baby, and best wishes to Evelyn for her healthy development!
7/24/09 Chris Popeney's two recent papers based on his Ph.D. thesis studies were accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. and Organometallics, respectively. The Organometallics paper reports a new catalyst design and the JACS paper details a thorough mechanistic investigation on our cyclophane-based catalyst for polar olefin copolymerization. Congratulations to Chris and enjoy your stay in Europe!
7/17/09 Congratulations to Yingwei and Yanyan on the arrival of their new baby girl, Brea! We are so happy that both mom and baby are healthy. Enjoy the precious moment in your life and pass our best wishes to Brea and your family!
6/28/09 Our recent communication to J. Am. Chem. Soc. on biomimetic adaptive polymers has been highlighted by both C&EN News and Nature Chemistry . Join me to congratulate Aaron, Greg, and John!
5/28/09 We have had a banner year of award winners! Marie Palmquist won the prestigious department staff award, Greg won the Excellent TA award, Hiro won the Michael Zach graduate student award, and Aaron is the recipient of the Moore award of organic chemistry. Please give them a big applause! Great job, keep going!
5/22/09 Aaron's recent communication to JACS titled "A Biomimetic Modular Polymer with Tough and Adaptive Properties" was accepted! John Vossler and Greg Williams also make contributions to it. Please join me to congratulate them all! Great job, keep going!
5/8/09 Congratulations to Ting-Bin! His recent Angewandte Chemie paper was recommended by Prof. Tim Swager at MIT to SYNFACTS as a high impact paper!
5/6/09 Congratulations to Kanika who recently got married! We wish you happiness in the years to come!
3/19/09 Please join me in congratulating Ting-Bin for being awarded the Allergen Graduate Fellowship! This is in recognition of Ting-Bin's recent hot paper in Angew Chemie and his outstanding performance in lab and in classes. Great job, Ting-Bin!
12/23/08 Ting-Bin's recent communication to Angewandte Chemie was selected as a Hot Paper by the editors for "the importance in a rapidly evolving field of high current interest." Excellent job, and congratulations to Ting-Bin!
12/03/08 Prof. Guan was awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow . Thanks for the group's contributions, and the cheers belong to you!
11/10/08 Ting-Bin's communication - "Click" to Fold: Cycloaddition-Promoted Self-Assembly of a Polymer into Well-Defined beta-Sheets and Hierarchical Nanofibrils - was accepted by Angew Chemie for publication. Please join me in congratulating Ting-Bin for this nice work! This is an important milestone in our peptide assembly material project.
10/10/08 Congratulations to Dora for being recognized with an Oral Presentation Award at the 2008 SACNAS National Conference in Salt Lake City, UT.
10/12/08 Congratulations to Dr. Drexel Camacho, a Guan Group Alumni, for recent recognition by the Philippine government. Drexel was selected as one of 10 Outstanding Young Scientists and also awarded the Third World Academy of Science (TWAS) Young Scientist Award .
07/11/08 Here is recent news from my former bosses:
Joe DeSimone (PhD advisor) just won the 2008 Lemelson-MIT Prize: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/lemelson-500k-0625.html
Frances Arnold (postdoc advisor) was elected to National Academy of Sciences this year. This makes her the 1st woman scientist to be inducted in 3 national academies (science, engineering, and medicine): http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/320/5878/857a.pdf
Let's cheer for our academic family. We have long way to go, so let's move on!
06/27/08 Congratulations to Dora for acceptance of her and Jason's paper titled "Using steered molecular dynamics simulations and single-molecule force spectroscopy to guide the rational design of biomimetic modular polymeric materials" by the journal Polymer! I should credit Dora for all the SMD computational work and also orchestrating the whole manuscript writing effort.
06/14/08 Congratulations to our undergraduates: John Vossler, Eric Richard, and Chris Levins for completing their bachelors degree. John will be attending Wake Forest Medical School in the fall, Chris is starting his new job at the end of the month, and Eric is currently on the job market. Good luck to all and best wishes!
06/09/08 Congratulations to our newest Ph.D.: Dr. Chris Popeney !
06/02/08 Congratulations to Chris Levins for accepting a job offer at Gilead Sciences as a Research Associate! Chris conducted undergraduate research in our lab working with Dennis, Chris Popeney, and Aaron.
05/31/08 Congratulations to Chris Popeney for winning the Joan Rowland Graduate Student Award.
05/22/08 Congratulations to Dennis for acceptance of his manuscript to JACS, titled: "Axial Coordinating Ligands: A New Strategy for Late Transition Metal Olefin Polymerization Catalysis".
01/18/08 Congratulations to Yulin & Fei on the arrival of their new baby, Catherine!
01/02/08 Congratulations to Aaron for being granted the Eli Lilly Graduate Fellowship.
12/10/07 Congratulations to Hiro for acceptance of his manuscript to Biomacromolecules:"Living Ring-Opening Polymerization of a Carbohydrate-Derived Lactone for the Synthesis of Protein Resistant Biomaterials".
10/22/07 Congratulations to Aaron for the acceptance of his JACS Communication: "Biomimetic Design of Reversibly Unfolding Cross-linker to Enhance Mechanical Properties of 3D Network Polymers".
9/11/07 Congratulations to Chris Popeney for winning the Regent's Dissertation Fellowship! This is in recognition of Chris' excellent academic achievement.
7/12/07 Please join me in congratulating Chris for the acceptance of his JACS Communication: "Efficient Incorporation of Polar Comonomers in Copolymerizations with Ethylene Using a Cyclophane-Based Pd (II) alpha-Diimine Catalyst".
6/21/07 Please join me in congratulating Dora for winning the NIH Predoctoral Fellowship. This is a very competitive and prestigious award. Congratulations!
6/06/07 Congratulations to Dr. Fiona Lin for being awarded the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program Postdoctoral Fellowship. Also, Eric Richard was awarded the Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) Fellowship.
5/31/07 Congratulations to Dora for winning the Biomedical Informatics Training (BIT) Fellowship.
4/23/07 Congratulations to Vahe Gabuchian on his acceptance to CalTech for graduate school. Vahe spent a couple of quarters doing research in our lab working with Aaron.
4/10/07 Please join me in congratulating Dora for the following travel awards:
1. ACS Women Chemists Committee Travel award (sponsored by Eli Lilly) for attending the ACS meeting in Boston this August
2. Selected to participate in the Procter & Gamble Research & Technical Careers in Industry Conference in June