Announcements
Undergraduate Gabriel McCarthy was named an APS Student Ambassador!
Congratulations to this year's graduates: Vandy Golestani, Kiara Johnson, Devansh Kalluhole Makam, Tiffany McHenry, Himish Paul, Diya Vashani, Dr. Dustin Johnson, and Dr. Alina Valimukhametova!
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!
Congratulations to Dr. Alina Valimukhametova, who successfully defended her Ph.D on April 11!
Congratulations to Dr. Dustin Johnson, who successfully defended his Ph.D on April 3!
RAP students Arjan Suri and Sahaj Satani have published their work on RSV vaccines in Epidemiologia!
Dr. Yuri Strzhemechny will be presenting his research at the Central European Institute of Technology in Brno, Czech Republic and recently also presented his work at the Centro de Química Estrutural in Lisbon, Portugal.
Congratulations to undergraduate Gabriel McCarthy who is first author on a recently published paper in Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering
Congratulations to undergraduate Danh Pham, whose picture is featured in the APS Division of Biophysics image gallery!
Congratulations to undergraduates Himish Paul, Diya Vashani, and Gabriel McCarthy who were awarded SERC grants for their research projects!
Congratulations to Devansh Kalluholamatham and Anthony Gerg for winning Outstanding Poster awards at the TSAPS Fall meeting!
Congratulations to undergraduate Danh Pham whose research recently made the cover of Luminsecence!
- 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.
- 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.
- Ava Amidei, Hana M Dobrovolny, "Virus-mediated cell fusion of SARS-CoV-2 variants", 2024, Mathematical Biosciences.
- Alina Valimukhametova, Olivia Fannon, Ugur C. Topkiran, Abby Dorsky, Olivia Sottile, Roberto Gonzalez Rodriguez, J L Coffer and Anton Naumov, "Five near-infrared-emissive graphene quantum dots for multiplex bioimaging", 2024, 2D Materials.
- April 5, Dr. Megan Reiter from Rice University will speak about "The Role of Ecology in Star and Planet Formation" at 2:00 pm.
- March 21, Emma Alexander from TCU will speak on "Room temperature phosphorescence: Investigation
into external perturbation of PVA film to enhance spin-orbit coubpling" at 2:00 pm.
- March 8, Dr. Eric Anantua from UT San Antonio will speak on "A Tale of Two Shadows: Emission
Modeling Horizon-Scale Observations of Sgr A* and M87* at 2:00 pm.
- March 1, Dr. Eric Davis from Los Alamos National Laboratory will speak on "Applied Acoustics Research at LANL: Leveraging Science & Engineering for Critical Applications" at 2:00 pm.