Announcements
Welcome back students! We hope you have a great spring semester!
Congratulations to our December graduates: Evie Mangan, Madeline Smit (undergraduate), John Brannon, Anthony Gerg, Ugur Topkiran (Master), Natalie Myers and Alessa Ibrahim Wiggins (Ph.D)
Congratulations to graduate student Ugur Topkiran who was awrded a front from Tarrant Area Gerontological Society (TAGS) Scholarship Fund to study "Near Infrared Imaging of Vesicular Aberrations Using Graphene Quantum Dots in Mice Brain and Investigation of Their Relations to Alzheimer's Disease."
Congratulations to graduate students Anthony Gerg and Ugur Topkiran, along with postdoc Pramita Sharma, who won Leaders in Research awards at the TCU Research and Creative Activities Poster Symposium!
Congratulations to graduate students Diya Vashani, who won the best poster award, and Anthony Gerg, who won best oral presentation, at the TAOAPS section fall meeting!
Ph.D graduate Dr. Amy Ray is featured in a recent article on Texas Skies.
Undergraduate Gabriel McCarthy was named an APS Student Ambassador!
Congratulations to Intrapic, a startup originating from Dr. Anton Naumov's lab, for receiving a grant from Neeley's CREATE Accelerator!
Congratulations to our recent award winners! Dr. Anton Naumov won the Dean's Award for Research and Creative Activity; Dr. Peter Frinchaboy won the CSE award for outstanding graduate mentor; Dr. Alina Valimukhametova won the CSE award for best dissertation; Dr. Dustin Johnson won the department's outstanding graduate TA award; Anthony Gerg won the best SRS physics poster; and Tiffany McHenry was named senior scholar!
RAP students Arjan Suri and Sahaj Satani have published their work on RSV vaccines in Epidemiologia!
- Ta, D.D., B. Lee, A. Jablonska, W. L. Burnett, R. Sagoo, D. Pham, L. Ceresa, J. L. Chavez, J. D. Kimball, C. B. Powell, J. L. Coffer, K. N. Green, I. Gryczynski, Z. Gryczynski, B. G. Janesko, and S. V. Dzyuba. "Symmetric Bis-Kryptopyrrol-2-Yl Squaraine as a Viscosity Probe and Dual-State Emitter". 2025 ChemPhotoChem.
- Alina Valimukhametova, Olga Zub, Natalia Castro-Lopez, Diya Vashani, Himish Paul, Ugur Can Topkiran, Ali Gasimli, Kseniia Malkova, Floyd L. Wormley Jr., Anton V. Naumov, "Combination Diagnostics In Vivo: Dual-Mode Ultrasound/NIR Fluorescence Imaging with Neodymium- and Thulium-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots" 2025 ACS Applied Biomaterials.
- A. Gerg and H.M. Dobrovolny, "Quantifying Impact of HIV Receptor Surface Density Reveals Differences in Fusion Dynamics of HIV Strains" 2025 Viruses.
- R Max Petty, R. M. L. Ceresa, E. Alexander, D. Pham, N. Sabnis, R. Fudala, A. G. Lacko, R. R. Krishnamoorthy, Z. Gryczynski, I. Gryczynski. "Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer for Drug Loading Assessment in Reconstituted High-Density Lipoprotein Nanoparticles", 2025 Int. J. Mol. Sci.
- G. McCarthy and H.M. Dobrovolny, "Determining the best mathematical model for implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions," 2025 Mathematical Biosciences & Engineering.
- D. A. Johnson, P. Ahluwalia, J. H. Brannon, P. Jodhka, V. Wayman, Z. Rabine, and Y. M. Strzhemechny, "Influence of morphology and surface properties on the antibacterial
action of GaOOH microparticles", 2025 Biointerphases.
- Ugur C. Topkiran, Alina R. Valimukhametova, Diya Vashani, Himish Paul, Abby Dorsky,
Olivia Sottile, Dustin A. Johnson, William Burnett, Jeffery L. Coffer, Giridhar R. Akkaraju, Anton V. Naumov, "Holistic Investigation of Graphene Quantum Dot Endocytosis", 2025 Small.
- Lee, B.; Jablonska, A.; Pham, D.; Sagoo, R.; Gryczynski, Z.; Pham, T.T.; Gryczynski, I, "Luminescence Properties of Hoechst 33258 in Polyvinyl Alcohol Films", 2025 International Journal of Molecular Science.
- Mar. 6, Dr. Alan Farhan from Baylor University.
- Feb. 27, Dr. Fabian Pena from Baylor University.
- Feb. 20, Dr. Cormac Toher from UT Dallas.
- Feb. 3, Dr. Kevin Brenner from UT Dallas.
- Jan. 20, Dr. Chetraj Pandey from TCU.
- Nov. 21, Dr. Barbara Castanheira Endl from Baylor University will speak on "White Dwarfs as Probes of Stellar Evolution" at 2 pm in SWR 357.
- Nov. 14, Dr. Stephen Eller from the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders will speak on "Vignettes from a Career in Medical Physics: How Physics Becomes Patient Care" at 1 pm in SWR 357.
- Nov. 7, John Brannon from TCU will speak on "Optoelectronic Transport and Antibacterial Properties Driven by Surface Defects in Micro-and Nanoscale Oxides of Zinc and Gallium" at 2 pm in SWR 357.
- Oct. 31, Dr. Sebastian Requena at 2 pm in SWR 357.
- Oct. 20, Anthony Gerg from TCU will speak on "Density-dependent syncytia formation in HIV" at 9 am in RJH 213.
- Oct. 15, Dr. Rafal J. Wiglusz from the Polish Academy of Sciences will speak about "Nanotechnology - panacea or Pandora's box?" at 2 pm in SWR LH1.