2024

Oct. 2024 Yawen and Tom were selected as finalists in the ACS AGFD Withycombe-Charalambous Graduate Student Competition. They will compete for the first place in ACS San Diego next March.

Aug. 2024 Big congratulations to Yawen, for winning the AlChE travel award.

Jul. 2024 We have received a 3-year grant from USDA NIFA to engineer yeast surfaces for PET plastic degradation. 

Jun. 2024 August and Luciano join our lab for the undergraduate summer research. Welcome. 

Jun. 2024 Our paper describing self-powered digital LAMP microfluidic chip (SP-dChip) has been accepted by Lab on a Chip.

May. 2024 Dr. Xiaodong Lin joins the lab as a postdoc associate. Welcome, Dr. Lin.

May. 2024 Tom Kasputis has been awarded with USDA AFRI Predoctoral Fellowship. Huge congrats, Tom. 

Apr. 2024 Our invited mini-review has been accepted by Analytical Science Advances. 

Apr. 2024 Our paper detecting African swine fever virus using CRISPR-Cas14 on paper-based microfluidics has been accepted by ACS Sensors. 

Mar. 2024 Our paper detecting ssDNA using anti-CRISPR proteins (named AcrVA1) has been accepted by ACS Sensors. 

Mar. 2024 Our paper detecting Salmonella using a graphene oxide-assisted CRISPR system has been accepted by Analytical Chemistry. 

Feb. 2024 Dr. Tathagata Pal joins the lab as the first postdoc associate. Welcome, Dr. Pal.

Jan. 2024 Juhong Chen has received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER). 

2023

Nov. 2023 Our paper comparing the performances of Cas12 and Cas14 to detect single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) has been accepted by ACS Sensors. 

Oct. 2023 Congratulations Tom and Yawen on passing their prelim exams, officially Ph.D. candidates. 

Sep. 2023 Dr. Chen and his graduate student (Tom Kasputis) as duo received the Chemistry's Role in Tackling World Hunger Convergent Chemistry Community Travel Award. They will present their research studies in New Orleans next March. 

Sep. 2023 The Chen Research Lab will be up and running in the Department of Bioengineering at UC Riverside on January 2024. Currently, we are looking for postdoc, graduate, and undergraduate students.