At the interface of bioanalytical and biomaterials chemistry
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Analytical Chemistry
Immunology
Toxicology
The Haynes group focuses on applications of analytical chemistry in the fields of immunology and toxicology, with much expertise in the area of single cell analysis.
One major area of interest is nanotoxicology - an emerging field investigating the biological and ecological impacts of engineered nanomaterials.
Another major focus in the group is on studying fundamental properties of cells involved in inflammation. In fact, the Haynes group has performed the first ever real-time single blood platelet measurements, examining the chemical messenger molecules that platelets secrete upon stimulation.
While most of the Haynes lab research employs electrochemical and spectroscopic techniques, the group is always exploring new and exciting technologies to answer pressing bioanalytical questions.
Christy gives an invited lecture on sustainable nanomaterials at Colorado State University.
The Haynes group, in collaboration with the groups of Profs. Vivian Ferry and Ping Wang, have been granted 2 years of funding from the International Instutite of Biosensing.
Congratulations to Jiayi, Eleni, Clare, and Casey on the acceptance of a manuscript titled "Recent Advances in the Development and Characterization of Electrochemical and Electrical Biosensors for Small Molecule Neurotransmitters" in ACS Sensors!
Congratulations to Wilanyi on passing her oral preliminary exam and advancing to PhD candidacy!
Christy gave a guest lecture on CSN work in UMN's "Green Chemistry" class.
Congratulations to Casey on passing her oral preliminary exam and advancing to PhD candidacy!
The Haynes Lab is happy to welcome Sharmaka Mohamud, a new post-bac researcher, to the group. Sharmaka will be working with Cheng-Hsin and Tana on silica nanoparticle synthesis.
The Haynes Lab is happy to welcome Rima Jamous, a new undergraduate researcher, to the group. Rima will be working with Wilanyi on nanoparticle-enabled delivery of nucleic acids.
Congratulations to Clare and Jiayi on the acceptance of a manuscript titled "Investigation of Charged Small Molecule-Aptamer Interactions with Surface Plasmon Resonance," in Analytical Chemistry!
Christy joins the editorial advisory board for Nano Letters.
Christy is chosen as the American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry's representative on the steering committee for the Convergent Chemistry Communities (CCC) "Zero Hunger Initiative.".The outcome of this service will include a symposium at the Spring 2024 ACS National Meeting.
Congratulations to Tana on the acceptance of a collaborative manuscript with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, titled "Engineered nanoparticles, natural nanoclay and biochar, as delivery systems of plant-growth promoting bacteria," in Nanomaterials!
Christy gives an invited talk on the group's collaborative work on nanomaterials for agriculture at the Atlantic Basin Conference on Chemistry in Marrakech, Morocco.
Congratulations to Wilanyi on passing her written preliminary exam!
Congratulations to Casey on passing her written preliminary exam!
The Haynes group is happy to welcome Abby and Clare (co-advised) to the group for their doctoral studies!
Christy gives an invited lecture on sustainable nanomaterials for the Baylor College of Medicine-Rice Superfund Research Program.
Congratulations to Eleni and group alumni Dr. Sarah Gruba, Dr. Xiaojie Wu, Dr. Jiayi He, and Dr. Kang Xiong-Hang on the acceptance of a manuscript, titled "Platelet Response to Allergens, CXCL10, and CXCL5 in the Context of Asthma," in ACS Bio & Med Chem Au!
Congratulations to Xiaoxiao and Riley on the acceptance of a manuscript, titled "Synthesis processes, photoluminescence mechanism, and toxicity of amorphous or polymeric carbon dots," in Accounts of Chemical Research!
Congratulations to Xiaoxiao, Clare, and former undergraduate researchers Meghan, Trever, and Mary on the acceptance of a collaborative manuscript with the Hernandez group, titled "Machine learning-assisted carbon dot synthesis: Prediction of emission color and wavelength," in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modleing!
Christy co-delivers a workshop entitled, "Creating a culture of wellness: Lessons learned from the NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology" with collaborators in the NSF CSN at the 2022 National Diversity Equity in STEM meeting organized by SACNAS in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
A collaborative manuscript titled, "Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: A guide for writing anti-racist tenure and promotion letters" was accepted for publication at eLife. Christy is a co-author, and this manuscript was a result of a 2022 A4BL bootcamp project.
Christy hosts the "Innovation in Measurement Science" virtual symposium session focused on single cell measurements.
Christy gives the Amy-Mellon lecture at Purdue University.
The Haynes group hosts the second annual Underrepresented Students in STEM Symposium at the University of Minnesota.
Christy gives a talk about the group's research at TEDxMinneapolis.
Both group alumna, Dr. Becky Rodriguez, and Christy give invited talks about the Fall 2022 ACS National Meeting in Chicago.
All four summer undergraduate researchers, Andrea, Salman, David, and Timmy, presented posters at the UMN Summer Undergraduate poster session.
Undergraduate researchers David Ajayi and Salman Jaiteh presented their summer REU/REV work to the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology.
Congratulations to Beza on being awarded a UMN Chemistry Excellence Fellowship!
The Haynes group (and friends) had the opportunity to do an outreach event at Keystone Community Center in St. Paul, MN. We did an afternoon of demonstrations, hands-on experiments, and ate liquid nitrogen ice cream with 50 K-12 campers.
Undergraduate researcher Andrea Ligocki presented her work to an audience of Heisig/Gleysteen summer fellowship researchers.
Summer researcher Timmy Nguyen presented his work to an audience of other Lando summer researchers.
The Haynes group had their annual pie bake-off as we celebrated with our summer undergraduate research symposium. Congratulations to Tana on her winning "Swedish Apple" pie!
Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoxiao Yao on the successful defense of her PhD thesis, titled "Photoluminescence Mechanism and Agricultural Application of Carbon Dots"!
The Haynes group had the opportunity to do an outreach event with the American Indian Summer Institute (AISI) program participants where they used analytical chemistry techniques to solve a mysterious “chemical spill” in the Mississippi River.
Congratulations to Dr. Jiayi He on the successful defense of her PhD thesis, titled "Development of Advanced Analytical Chemistry Approaches for Small and Large Molecule Detection"!
Congratulations to Wilanyi on being appointed as a trainee for the Chemical Biology Interface Training Grant!
Christy gives an invited keynote talk about polymer-enabled sensing at the "Bioanalytical Sensors" Gordon Research Conference.
Beza gives a talk and poster at the "Convergence of Nanotechnology With Food and Agriculture" Gordon Research Conference. She was recognized with a poster award and elected to co-chair the 2024 GRS.
The Haynes group is happy to welcome Antavia Paredes-Beaulieu, an incoming UMN Chemistry graduate student, to the lab for the summer. She will be working with Cheng-Hsin on PFAS detection.
Beza, Eleni, and Riley all presented their research at the Univeristy of Minnesota Department of Chemistry 3rd Year Symposium!
The Haynes group is happy to welcome two summer undergraduate researchers: Timmy Nguyen is coming from Cal Poly Pomona as a Lando REU student to work with Casey for the summer, and David Ajayi is coming from University of Minnesota Rochester as a CSN REV student to work with Eleni for the summer.
Christy visited the National Resource Research Institute at the University of Minnesota Duluth to talk about the group's work on PFAS remediation.
Tana gave a talk about her work at the annual IPrime meeting while Beza, Eleni, and Riley presented posters about their work.
Eleni presented her work as a flash talk during the Chemical Biology Interface Training Grant Symposium.
Both Wilanyi and Christy did "Energy and U" outreach shows for thousands of 3-6th graders. Many Haynes group members volunteered their time as safety experts to keep the kids safe during the explosive demonstrations.
Congratulations to our graduating seniors: Clare, Astrid, Ali, and Salman! Thank you for being part of our research team.
Congratulations to Mahmoud for passing his oral preliminary candidacy exam!
Ali, Astrid, and Andrea all present posters at the Winchell Research Symposium, and Andrea was selected for a Judges' Choice award.
Christy gives an invited talk at Oberlin College about the group's work on sustainable nanomaterials design.
Congratulations to Clare on being awarded a 3M Science and Technology Doctoral Fellowship to support her upcoming graduate work in UMN CEMS!
Congratulations to Andrea on winning BOTH an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program grant and a UMN Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
Christy gives an invited talk for the MN American Association of University of Women on sustainable nanotechnology.
Xiaoxiao, Tana, Beza, Riley, Eleni, and Cheng-Hsin give poster presentations at the CSN All-Hands Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
Xiaoxiao and Eleni give flash talks as part of the Jeanette Brown Lectureship event.
Congratulations to Casey for winning a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Program Fellowship!
Christy attends the Science Talk 2022 conference in Portland, OR and presents a poster about the ACS Diversity & Inclusion cover art intiative.
Christy gives an invited (virtual) talk at St. Paul College about career paths into chemistry.
Congratulations to Mahmoud for winning a GEM Fellowship, sponsored by NASA!
Christy gives the Brown & Williamson Distinguished seminar at the University of Louisville about the group's work on sustainable nanotechnology.
Christy gives an invited talk at Western Washington University about the group's work on plasmonic sensing.
Beza has been awarded a University of Minnesota Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship to support her research for the 2022-2023 academic year!
Congratulations to Dr. Amani Lee on the acceptance of a collaborative manuscript with the Pomerantz and Cramer groups, titled "Development of a Highly Responsive Organofluorine Temperature Sensor for 19F Magnetic Resonance Applications," in Analytical Chemistry!
Christy gives an invited (virtual) talk at Andrews University about the group's work on plasmonic sensing.
Congratulations to Cheng-Hsin for passing her oral preliminary candidacy exam!
Christy gives two invited talks at Pacifichem 2021, one on the group's SERS sensing work and one honoring the accomplishments of her PhD advisor, Professor Richard Van Duyne. Aloha!
Congratulations to Christy and a large number of non-UMN co-authors on the acceptance of a collaborative manuscript, titled "NGen2021: Electrochemistry is Everywhere" in ACS Energy Letters!
Congratulations to Mahmoud and Cheng-Hsin on passing their written preliminary exams!
Christy (virtually) gives an invited talk about the group's polymer-enabled SERS work at the "2021 International Tea Conference & 3rd Global Forum for Directors of Tea Research Institutes" meeting in Hangzhou, China.
The Haynes lab is happy to welcome new graduate students Wilanyi Alvarez Reyes and Casey Wouters to the group!
Congratulations to Dr. Rebeca Rodriguez on the successful defense of her PhD thesis, titled "Leveraging Linear Polymer Affinity Agents and Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering for the Detection of Food Contaminants"!
The Haynes lab welcomes three new undergraduate researchers to the group: Ali Anod, Salman Jaiteh, and Andrea Ligocki!
Congratulations to Beza for winning a MN ACS travel award to support her attendance and presentation at the Fall 2021 National ACS meeting in Atlanta, GA!
Congratulations to Drs. Sarah Gruba, Audrey Meyer, Donghyuk Kim, and Kang Xiong-Hang as well as Danielle Francis, Eleni Spanolios, Jiayi He, and Ben Meyer on the acceptance of a collaborative manuscript, titled "Characterization of the Presence and Function of Platelet Opioid Receptors," in ACS Measurement Science Au!
Undergraduate researchers Radwa and Astrid presented posters about their research at the UMN summer undergraduate poster session.
After last year's hiatus, the Haynes group enjoyed their undergraduate research symposium and annual pie bake-off.
Jiayi, Riley, and Christy present the group's work at the annual (virtual) IPrime meeting.
Congratulations to Riley on being chosen as a trainee for the UMN NIH Biotechnology Training Grant!
Christy gives a joint invited talk with Dr. Jeanita Pritchett focused on career advocacy skills at the ACS Innovations in Measurement Science virtual meeting.
Christy gives an invited talk about the group's sustainable nanotechnology research to the summer Lando researchers.
Christy presents the group's electrochemistry work on two invited panels for the virtual "Next Generation Electrochemistry 2021" conference.
Beza is recognized with a ACS Great Lakes Regional Meeting award for her exceptional oral presentation at the 2021 meeting - congratulations to Beza!
The Haynes group is excited to welcome Kaitlyn Gruber to the group as a UMN Lando program summer research student!
The Haynes group is excited to welcome both a new UMN undergraduate researcher, Astrid Hernandez, to the group as well as CSN summer research student, Radwa Abdelaziz!
Congratulations to Meghan on defending her undergraduate honors thesis and graduating summa cum laude!
Congratulations to Trever on graduating with his undergraduate degree!
Congratulations to Becky on being chosen as an Analytical Chemistry Diversity Colloquium (AC/DC) Rising Star! She will give a special colloquium presentation about her research to a national audience in May 2021.
Congratulations to Becky on winning the Department of Chemistry Diversity & Inclusion Award!
Congratulations to Meghan on winning the Department of Chemistry Diversity & Inclusion Award!
Congratulations to Dr. Amani Lee and undergraduate researchers Sang-Hyuk Lee, Huan Nguyen, Meghan Cahill, and Elaine Kappel on the acceptance of a collaborative manuscript with the Pomerantz group, titled "Investigation of the Post-Synthetic Confinement of Fluorous Liquids Inside Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles," in Langmuir!
Congratulations to Becky on winning the 2021 Josie R. Johnson Human Right and Social Justice Award!
Congratulations to Becky on winning a 2021 President's Student Leadership and Service Award!
Congratulations to Meghan on winning a 2021 President's Student Leadership and Service Award!
Congratulations to Dr. Kang Xiong-Hang on the acceptance of her manuscript, titled "Plasmodium chabaudi Affects Mast Cells Degranulation as Measured by Carbon-Fiber Microelectrode Amperometry," in ACS Infectious Diseases!
Congratulations to Eleni on successfully completing her oral preliminary exam!
Collaborative CSN work led by Hyunho, on designing silica nanoparticle to optimally dissolve for agricultural applications, is accepted for publication in Environmental Science & Technology.
Congratulations to Riley on successfully completing his oral preliminary exam!
Congratulations to Beza on successfully completing her oral preliminary exam!
Collaborative CSN work led by Xiaoxiao and group alumnus Bo Zhi with contributions from Elaine Kappel and Riley Lewis, on the potential structure and luminescence mechanism in multicolor emissive carbon dots, is accepted for publication in Chemical Science.
The Haynes lab is happy to welcome new graduate students Mahmoud Matar Abed and Cheng-Hsin Huang to the group!
Congratulations to Becky and group alumna Dr. Victoria Szlag on the acceptance of collaborative work with the Reineke group about SERS-based multiplex detection of mycotoxins in Materials Advances!
Congratulations to Becky, Tana, Clare, Riley, and Trever on the acceptance of their invited review about detecting food contaminants in Analytical Chemistry!
Xiaoxiao delivers her delayed "3rd year talk" about her carbon dot work as part of the University of Minnesota seminar series.
Collaborative work led by Becky with contributions from former group members Matt Styles, Dr. Victoria Szlag, Sam Bryson, and Dr. Zhe Gao as well as Dr. Seyoung Jung and Prof. Theresa Reineke, on optimizing SERS substrates for allergen detection, is accepted for publication in Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. This special issue of JRS honors the work and life of Prof. Richard P. Van Duyne.
Congratulations to Dr. Natalie Hudson-Smith on the successful defense of her PhD thesis, titled "Nanoparticle Transformations and Toxicity: Impact of Complex Metal Oxide Nanoparticles, Experimental Tools, and Methods for Communicating Nanotechnology to the Public"!
CSN work led by group alumna Dr. Autumn Qiu demonstrating bacterial DNA damage induced by nanoscale battery cathode materials is accepted for publication in Chemical Science.
Congratulations to Beza for winning the 2019-2020 Robert L. Ferm Outstanding TA Award - this is one of only two awards recognizing UMN Chemistry TAs!
Congratulations to Dr. Amani Lee on the successful defense of his PhD thesis, titled "Diagnostic Nanoplatforms: Engineering Multifunctional & Multimodal Fluorinated Nanosensors for Fluorine-19 MRI Diagnostic Applications"!
Christy joins the advisory boards for the Royal Society of Chemistry journals Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.
Congratulations to Dr. Kang Xiong-Hang on the successful defense of her PhD thesis, titled "Single Cell Study of Malaria and Antimalarial Drug Impacts on Platelets and Mast Cells"!
Collaborative work with contributions from Hyunho, on co-crystallization methods for drug manufacture, is accepted for publication in Crystal Growth & Design.
Congratulations to Xiaoxiao on being award the 2020-2021 Newman and Lillian Bortnick-Excellence Fellowship, a strong endorsement of her excellent research!
Trever is awarded a Department of Chemistry summer research fellowship to support his summer work in the Haynes lab both on SERS, with mentor Becky Rodriguez, and carbon dots, with mentor Xiaoxiao Yao.
The Haynes group, with collaborators from the Frontiera and Ferry groups, are awarded a MRSEC seed grant for a new plasmonics project!
We're excited to wecome undergraduate (virtual) researcher, Wilanyi Alvarez Reyes, joining the Haynes lab as a CSN summer student!
Congratulations to Jiayi on being awarded an Eastern Analytical Symposium Graduate Student Research Award, recognizing her outstanding talent for scientific research!
Collaborative CSN work including contributions from Natalie and Meghan, on how spatial distribution of cationic functional groups impact nanoparticle-bacteria interactions, is accepted for publication in JACS.
Congratulations to Clare on being chosen as the winner of the Victoria Kolehmainen Veach Scholarship for 2020, recognizing an outstanding junior chemistry major!
Congratulations to Meghan on being chosen as the winner of the 2020 Wayland E. Noland Award for Academic Excellence in Chemistry, recognizing an outstanding senior chemistry major!
Congratulations to Becky on winning a University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship!
Collaborative work including contributions from Joe Buchman, on regulation of perovskite-based photovoltaics, is accepted for publication in Joule.
Haynes group work done by Kang, Jiayi, and former undergraduate researcher Kaila, using single cell measurements to understand the impact of antimalarial drugs, is accepted for publication in Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports.
Collaborative CSN work including contributions from group undergraduate alumnus Kyle Johnson, on the role of wall teichoic acids in nanoparticle-bacteria association, is accepted for publication in Chemical Science.
Congratulations to Becky on being awarded a 2020-20201 American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Fellowship sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company!
Collaborative CSN work including contributions from group alumnus Dr. Bo Zhi, on phototransformations of carbon dots, is accepted for publication in Environmental Science & Technology.
Becky designed a cool new Haynes Lab logo - you can find it on our research page.
Becky is featured in Chemical & Engineering News' Twitter campaign highlighting excellent women chemists.
Hyunho's blog post about measuring nanoparticle size in suspension is featured on the Sustainable Nano blog.
Amani is featured in UMN Chemistry's student voices series.
Christy worked with Profs. George Schatz and Paul Weiss to assemble a virtual issue in honor of her PhD advisor, Prof. Richard Van Duyne. We highly suggest reading the editorial and the highlighted papers from Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Physical Chemistry, and ACS Nano.
Congratulations to Clare on being chosen for Boston Scientific’s undergraduate summer internship program! We’ll miss Clare this summer but are excited for her!
Congratulations to Meghan for winning a Mitacs-Fulbright Canada Globalink Award and Internship! Meghan will use this award to spend summer 2020 at the University of Montreal studying atmospheric chemistry with Dr. Patrick Hayes.
Becky is featured in UMN Chemistry's student voices series.
Christy gives an invited lecture and 12 hours of short course as part of the 40th Summer School on Chemistry at the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil.
Congratulations to Becky for winning a University of Minnesota Louise T. Dosdall Fellowship for the 2020-21 academic year!
Collaborative CSN work led by Peter Clement and with contributions from Meghan and group alumni Joe and Autumn, on bacterial impact of multiphase lithium cobalt phosphate nanomaterials, is accepted for publication in Chemical Research in Toxicology.
Becky is chosen as a recipient of the WCC Merck Research Award, recognizing her research excellence with an invited talk at a special award symposium at the national ACS meeting. Congratulations Becky!
Christy gives an invited lecture about collaborative CSN work at the University of Florida.
Christy gives an invited lecture about collaborative CSN work as the Dean Martin lecturer at the University of South Florida.
Welcome to Mary McIntire, a new University of Minnesota undergraduate researcher who will be working with Xiaoxiao on carbon dot synthesis.
Collaborative work with the Hogan and Pomerantz groups, including important contributions from Amani, is accepted for publication in Analytical Chemistry. This paper describes a new ion mobility mass spectrometry method to characterize nanoparticle populations.
Congratulations to Tana O'Keefe for passing her PhD oral candidacy exam!
Christy joins the editorial advisory board for ACS Nano.
Collaborative CSN work led by Joe Buchman and with contributions from group alumni Peter and Bo, on exploring the transformation and impact of high Ni content lithium ion battery materials, is accepted for publication in ES: Nano.
Congratulations to Hyunho Kang on the successful defense of his doctoral thesis, titled "Design of Silicon Dioxide Nanomaterials and Understanding their Colloidal Behaviors for Sensing and Biological Applications."
Collaborative work led by Prof. Klaus Schmidt-Rohr's group with contributions from Bo, on NMR analysis of CSN carbon dots, is accepted for publication in the Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry.
Collaborative work led by Prof. Calvin Sun's group with contributions from Bo and Hyunho, on how crystallization methods influence pharmaceutical delivery, is accepted for publication in the International Journal of Pharmaceutics.
Congratulations to Meghan on being awarded an ACS Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry to recognize her excellent research achievements! Meghan is also a featured undergraduate in the UMN Chemistry Department annual newsletter.
The Haynes group happily welcomes Riley Lewis, Eleni Spanolios, and Beza Tuga as new first year graduate students in the group. You can find a few details about them on our "people" page.
Collaborative CSN work led by Joe Buchman, on using chitosan-coated mesoporous silica for agricultural applications, is accepted for publication in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
Christy spends the day at Merck headquarters and gives an invited seminar.
Collaborative work led by former Haynes group postdoc, Dr. Zhe Gao, on the scalable synthesis of core-shell nanoparticles for nanowarming is accepted for publication in Advanced Science.
Christy is named to Analytical Scientist's 2019 Power List.
Hyunho and Christy attend SciX 2019 in Palm Springs, CA where Christy gives a plenary lecture on the group's polymer-enabled sensor work and Hyunho presents a poster on his CSN work. Group alumni Drs. Melissa Maurer-Jones and Tian Autumn Qiu also presented invited talks in a symposium honoring Christy.
Hyunho gives an invited seminar at the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station in New Haven, CT as part of his week-long lab exchange with Dr. Jason White.
CSN work led by the Carlson group, with Haynes group contributions, is featured in the Star Tribune newspaper.
Haynes group work on ITC-evaluation of polymer affinity agents is featured in the Spectroscopy magazine.
Christy gives an invited lecture about carbon dots at the Oesper Symposium at the University of Cincinnati in honor of Prof. R. Mark Wightman.
Congratulations to Amani on being recognized as the best graduate student poster presenter at the annual meeting for the Institute for Engineering in Medicine!
Joe's blog post about designing nanoparticles for sustainability is featured on the Sustainable Nano blog.
Congratulations to Hyunho on the acceptance of a manuscript exploring the driving factors for small molecule SERS detection using core-shell substrates in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
Christy is a co-author on a new manuscript accepted in ACS Nano, written by a large group of leaders in SERS, titled "Present and Future of Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering."
Congratulations to Natalie and Meghan, contributors on a collaborative CSN paper led by the Carlson group, on the acceptance of the paper titled "Chronic Exposure to Complex Metal Oxide Nanoparticles Elicits Rapid Resistance in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1," in Chemical Science.
Christy shared Haynes group and CSN research on carbon dots during an invited talk at the National ACS Meeting in San Diego, CA.
Congratulations to Bo Zhi on the successful defense of his doctoral thesis, titled "Group IV Element-based Luminescent Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Environmental Impact Evaluation, and Bio-imaging Applications." Shortly, Bo will be departing for a position as a senior research scientist at Zeon in Japan.
Congratulations to Joe and Becky on the acceptance of a collaborative CSN paper titled "Coating Iron Oxide Nanoparticles with Mesoporous Silica Reduces their Interaction and Impact on S. oneidensis MR-1," in Chemosphere.
Congratulations to Becky on being chosen for a 2019-2020 Excellence Fellowship! This competitive fellowship recognizes Becky's outstanding research and leadership in the UMN Chemistry Department.
Congratulations to Amani on being chosen as a 2019 Institute for Engineering in Medicine (IEM) Doctoral Fellow! This award will support Amani's final year of doctoral work and allow him to be an ambassador for the IEM.
A collaborative MRSEC paper titled "Bacterial Toxicity of Germanium Nanocrystals Induced by Doping with Boron and Phosphorous," including contributions from Bo and Natalie, has been accepted for publication in ACS Applied Nano Materials.
Congratulations to Becky, group alumna Victoria, former undergraduate Sam Bryson, and collaborators in the Reineke and Schatz groups on the acceptance of a manuscript detailing design of polymer affinity agents for the detection of aflatoxin B1 in Molecular Systems Design & Engineering.
Christy gives an invited lecture at Instituto de Tecnología Química in Valencia, Spain.
Welcome to Emma Henshaw, a CSN summer undergraduate researcher from St. Lawrence University, who will be spending the summer in the Haynes lab working with mentor Hyunho Kang.
Congratulations to Natalie, Meghan, group alumnus Nathan Klein, and CSN collaborator Miriam Krause on the acceptance of a manuscript detailing a model TEM for classroom/outreach use in the Journal of Chemical Education.
Collaborative CSN work including contributions from Natalie, describing a microreactor for synthesizing metal oxide nanoparticles, is accepted for publication in Journal of Vaccum Science and Technology A.
Congratulations to Hyunho and Davis on the acceptance of a manuscript demonstrating how to synthesize silica with a stable, positive zeta potential in Langmuir.
Congratulations to Joe, Natalie, and Katie on the acceptance of a critical review focused on nanoparticle redesign for sustainability in Accounts of Chemical Research.
Christy gives an invited lecture at Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique in Paris, France as part of the CECAM workshop on "Biomolecular mechanisms at functionalized solid surfaces".
Congratulations to Becky on winning the 2019 Richard D. Amelar and Arthur S. Lodge Fellowship for Outstanding Collaborative Research in Materials!
The Haynes lab wins the University of Minnesota Chemistry Department's Safest Lab Award for Spring 2019.
Collaborative CSN work including contributions from Bo, on functionalization of carbon-based nanoparticles, is accepted for publication in JACS.
Congratulations to Meghan and Elaine, current undergradauate researchers in the Haynes lab, for having been chosen as recipients for the 2019 Lloyd W. Goerke Scholarship and the 2019 Robert C. Brasted Fellowship, respectively. These Chemistry Department awards recognize their excellence both in the classroom and in the laboratory!
Both Meghan and Elaine, current undergradauate researchers in the Haynes lab, have been awarded Heisig-Gleysteen summer undergraduate research fellowships. This means that they'll be doing research full-time for summer 2019!
Christy gives an invited lecture at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain.
Natalie presents two talks at the Spring 2019 National American Chemical Society meeting in Orlando.
Becky is recognized with an Honorable Mention for the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Graduate Fellowship.
Christy gives invited lectures at the University of Bath, Swansea University, and NUI Galway during her Royal Society of Chemistry award tour.
Becky and Jiayi present their research at PittCon 2019 in Philadelphia.
Christy is named a Distinguished McKnight University Professor.
Congratulations to Natalie on a MN ACS Travel Award to support her upcoming presentations at the Spring 2019 National ACS Meeting in Orlando, Florida.
Christy was interviewed for the Analytical Scientist.
Congratulations to Natalie on winning a University of Minnesota 2019 Thesis Research Travel Grant! This grant will help support Natalie's month-long visit to Spain to complement Christy's sabbatical work.
Congratulations to Kang, Kaila, and Anna on the acceptance of our first manuscript about platelets in malaria in ACS Infectious Diseases.
Welcome to Clare Froehlich, a University of Minnesota Chemistry major who will be performing research in the Haynes lab working with mentors Becky Rodriguez and Jiayi He.
Christy's blog post about art and sustainability in Morocco is featured on the Sustainable Nano blog.
Congratulations to Dr. Sunipa Pramanik on the successful defense of her doctoral thesis, titled "Interactions of Semiconductor Nanoparticles with Environmentally Relevant Bacteria Model."
Congratulations to Xiaoxiao on successfully completing her oral preliminary exam!
Congratulations to Dr. Joe Buchman on the successful defense of his doctoral thesis, titled "An Investigation of Nanoparticle Toxicity Mechanisms against Environmentally Relevant Bacteria and the Potential for Sustainable Agriculture Applications."
Bo's blog post about colorful carbon dots is featured on the Sustainable Nano blog.
A new graduate student, Tana O'Keefe, joins the Haynes group to pursue her PhD in the area of sustainable nanotechnology. Welcome Tana!
Collaborative work by Hyunho with the Frontiera group, on how silica impacts plasmonic heating, is accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Collaborative work led by Victoria with the Reineke and Schatz groups, including contributions from Becky and undergraduate Sam Bryson, on using isothermal titration calorimetry to assess SERS affinity agents, is accepted for publication in Analytical Chemistry.
Collaborative CSN work led by Autumn and including contributions from Peter, with a future-looking perspective on nanoparticle sustainability, is accepted for publication in ChemComm.
Christy gave two invited talks at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.
Both Bo and Zhe win 1st place for their posters at the Institute for Engineering in Medicine conference, Bo in the graduate student category and Zhe in the postdoctoral scholar category.
Collaborative work led by Hyunho and including contributions from Joe, Becky, Hattie, Jiayi, and group alumna Dr. Kyle Bantz, on strategies for stabilizing nobel metal nanoparticles, is accepted for publication in Chemical Reviews. This manuscript will be featured in a themed issues on "Chemical Sensors."
Collaborative CSN work including contributions from Natalie, on copper nanoparticles for agricultural applications, is accepted for publication in ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering.
Collaborative CSN work including contributions from Joe, on nanoparticle interactions with lipid bilayers, is accepted for publication in Langmuir.
Collaborative work led by Victoria and including contributions from Becky, Natalie, Hyunho, Jiayi, and the Reineke group, on the design of SERS sensors, is accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Collaborative MRSEC work led by Bo and including contributions from Natalie, on the toxicity of doped silicon nanocrystals, is accepted for publication in ACS Applied Nano Materials.
Collaborative CSN work including contributions by Sunipa, Bo, Natalie, and Eileen, on the toxicity of core-shell quantum dots, is accepted for publication in ACS Applied Nano Materials.
The Haynes group makes their annual trip to W. 7th Community Center to host hands-on activities for 80 excited kids. Special thanks to Peter for coordinating this year's visit!
Collaborative CSN work including contributions from group alumni Autumn, Ian, and Katie, on the formation of lipid coronas on membrane-interacting nanoparticles, is accepted for publication in Chem.
Joe's work "Using an environmentally-relevant panel of Gram-negative bacteria to assess the toxicity of polyallylamine hydrochloride-wrapped gold nanoparticles" is being featured in ES:Nano promotional materials.
Natalie and Meghan run a chemical education activity they've designed to teach about transmission electron microscopy with two groups of high school students visiting UMN as part of the DiscoverSTEM program.
Work led by Hattie, on the use of the ferrozine assay to quantify iron in core-shell nanoparticles, is posted on ChemRxiv.
Collaborative CSN work led by the Klaper lab, including contributions from Joe, on the toxicity of nanodiamond in Daphnia magna is accepted for publication in Environmental Research.
Collaborative MRSEC work led by Sunipa, including contributions by Bo, Natalie, and Amani as well as undergraduate researchers Jacob and Eileen, on the toxicity of Si nanocrystals is accepted for publication in Environmental Science:Nano.
Kang has been awarded a second year of funding with a National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Training Grant in Biotechnology.
Collaborative CSN work co-led by Bo and Yi (at PNNL) on super-resolution imaging with carbon dots is accepted for publication in ACS Nano.
Collaborative CSN work including contributions by Joe, Autumn, Bo, and Katie on the degradation and toxicity of nanoparticle/polymer composites is accepted for publication in Environmental Science:Nano.
Natalie, Amani, and Kang all present their research at the UMN Chemistry Graduate Research Symposium.
Christy is chosen as a finalist for the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists. She is one of 10 chemists recognized with this honor.
Joe, Amani, and Sunipa give oral presentations and Peter and Bo gave poster presentations about their research at the IPRIME meeting, sharing Haynes Lab work with industrial scientists.
Jiayi passes her doctoral candidacy exam!
Becky passes her doctoral candidacy exam!
Christy is chosen as the Royal Society of Chemistry's 2018 Theophilus Redwood Award winner, recognizing her accomplishments in both analytical chemistry and scientific communication.
Congratulations to undergraduate Kaila Kemnetz-Ness on being granted an "Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program" award to support her continued research in the Haynes group.
Kyle successfully defends his undergraduate honors thesis!
Christy has been chosen as the Coblentz Society's 2018 Craver Award winner. This award recognizes significant contributions in applied analytical vibrational spectroscopy.
The University of Minnesota Joint Safety Team has recognized the Haynes Lab with the "Safest Lab Award" for Spring 2018.
Christy delivers the plenary lecture at the Winchell Undergraduate Research Symposium in St. Paul, MN.
Congratulations to undergraduate Meghan Cahill on being granted an "Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program" award to support her continued research in the Haynes group.
Collaborative CSN and MRSEC work co-led by Natalie and Solaire, on educational activities to teach about the chemistry of climate change, is accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Education.
Collaborative work on nanotheranostics, with contributions by Zhe, is accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Congratulations to former summer researcher Susan Pham on winning a 2018 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and to Peter Clement for being recognized with an Honorable Mention!
Christy delivers the "Bryant Minor Lecture" in the Chemistry Department at the University of Utah.
Collaborative CSN work co-led by Natalie, and with significant contributions by Peter, on how complex oxide nanoparticle morphology and crystal structure impact toxicity is accepted for publication in ACS Applied Nanomaterials.
Congratulations to Meghan, an undergraduate researcher co-mentored by Natalie and Peter, on being chosen as a winner of the Thomas DuBruil Undergraduate Research Award for 2018!
Autumn successfully defends her PhD thesis, titled "Bacterial Response to Nanoparticles at the Molecular Level"!
Elaine Kappel, a University of Minnesota undergraduate chemistry major, joins the Haynes group to work with Hattie on developing assays to characterize nanoparticles.
Collaborative work that includes contributions from Bo and Autumn, as part of the CSN, on amine-terminated Au nanoparticles is accepted for publication in Langmuir.
Congratulations to Amani on winning the Academic-Leadership Collegiate Scholarship, granted by the State of Iowa Black Belt Association (SIBBA) - this award recognizes Amani's leadership and academic merit!
Natalie, Joe, Katie, and Christy attend and present research results at the Spring 2018 National ACS Meeting in New Orleans.
Christy delivers an invited talk in the Chemistry Department at Rice University.
Christy delivers an invited talk at the "OneChemistry Symposium" at Johns Hopkins University.
Joe, Natalie, Bo, Hyunho, and Peter present their work a the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology All-Hands meeting in Baltimore, MD.
Congratulations to Joe on winning a travel grant from the MN section of the American Chemical Society to support his upcoming Spring 2018 ACS presentation in New Orleans, LA.
Congratulations to Eileen on being chosen for an internship at Ecolab for Summer 2018.
Christy gives an invited seminar in the Chemistry Department at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).
Victoria successfully defends her PhD thesis, titled "Linear Polymer Affinity Agents for the Intrinsic SERS Detection of Food Safety Targets"!
Christy co-guest edited a virtual issue of Analytical Chemistry highlighting selected women analytical chemists, including an editorial recognizing some challenges for women chemists.
Katie Landy is chosen as a recipient of an I. M. Kolthoff award from the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry based on her fantastic undergraduate research. Katie will be recognized with this award at the Spring 2018 National ACS meeting in New Orleans.
Welcome to Sang-Hyuk Lee, a University of Minnesota Chemistry major who will be performing research in the Haynes lab working with mentor Amani Lee.
Christy gives an invited seminar in the Chemistry Department at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
Peter passes his doctoral candidacy exam!
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Start-up funds and a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship from the University of Minnesota
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