Chen Lab News Gallery Lab highlights, awards, publications, and milestones A visual record of recent progress from the Chen Research Group in Bioengineering at UC Riverside. |
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| 2025 People, papers, and conference honors |
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Oct. 2025 BMES Student Travel Award Micky has been selected as a BMES Student Travel Award winner to attend BMES 2025 in San Diego. | | 
Oct. 2025 Congratulations, Jason Jason passed his preliminary exam and officially became a Ph.D. candidate. |
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May. 2025 Congratulations, Yawen Yawen received her Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech and will continue in our lab as a postdoctoral associate. | | 
Apr. 2025 CIMNE-CRISPR accepted Our paper describing covalently immobilized magnetically enhanced CRISPR has been accepted by Biosensors and Bioelectronics. | | Recent momentum Awards, publications, and new milestones are collected here as a visual gallery. |
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| 2024 Funding, awards, papers, and new lab members |
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Oct. 2024 ACS AGFD finalists Yawen and Tom were selected as finalists in the ACS AGFD Withycombe-Charalambous Graduate Student Competition. | | 
Aug. 2024 AIChE travel award Big congratulations to Yawen for winning the AIChE travel award. | | 
Jul. 2024 USDA NIFA grant We have received a 3-year USDA NIFA grant to engineer yeast surfaces for PET plastic degradation. |
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Jun. 2024 SP-dChip paper accepted Our paper describing the self-powered digital LAMP microfluidic chip has been accepted by Lab on a Chip. | | 
May. 2024 USDA AFRI fellowship Tom Kasputis received a USDA AFRI Predoctoral Fellowship. Huge congrats, Tom. | | 
May. 2024 Welcome, Dr. Lin Dr. Xiaodong Lin joins the lab as a postdoctoral associate. Welcome, Dr. Lin. |
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Apr. 2024 ASFV detection paper Our paper detecting African swine fever virus using CRISPR-Cas14 on paper-based microfluidics has been accepted by ACS Sensors. | | 
Apr. 2024 Invited mini-review Our invited mini-review has been accepted by Analytical Science Advances. | |
Mar. 2024 Anti-CRISPR paper Our paper detecting ssDNA using anti-CRISPR proteins named AcrVA1 has been accepted by ACS Sensors. |
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Mar. 2024 Salmonella detection paper Our paper detecting Salmonella using a graphene oxide-assisted CRISPR system has been accepted by Analytical Chemistry. | | 
Feb. 2024 Welcome, Dr. Pal Dr. Tathagata Pal joins the lab as the first postdoctoral associate. Welcome, Dr. Pal. | | 
Jan. 2024 NSF CAREER Award Juhong Chen has received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER). |
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| 2023 First milestones before the lab launch |
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Nov. 2023 Cas12/Cas14 SNP paper Our paper comparing Cas12 and Cas14 for detecting single nucleotide polymorphism has been accepted by ACS Sensors. | | 
Oct. 2023 Prelim exam milestone Congratulations to Tom and Yawen on passing their preliminary exams and officially becoming Ph.D. candidates. | | 
Sep. 2023 Convergent Chemistry award Dr. Chen and graduate student Tom Kasputis received the Chemistry's Role in Tackling World Hunger Convergent Chemistry Community Travel Award. |
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 | Sep. 2023 Chen Research Lab launch The Chen Research Lab will launch in the Department of Bioengineering at UC Riverside in January 2024. |
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