April 27, 2024
Poker night at Dmitry’s place.
Happy Birthday, Charles!
April 26, 2024
Isaac gave a talk at Soil and Crop Sciences Plant Breeding Symposium.
April 23, 2024
Happy Birthday, Yana!
April 16, 2024
Happy Birthday to Shannon and Axell!
April 13, 2024
We are very proud of our extraordinary talented student, Aidan P. Holman, receiving 2024 Senior Merit Award! Congrats, Aidan!!!
April 11, 2024
Many congrats to Jadon on the acceptance of his first paper to The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
April 10, 2024
Many congrats to Misha on the acceptance of his signature paper entitled “Macrophages and Natural Killers Degrade α-Synuclein Aggregates” to Molecular Pharmaceutics.
April 9, 2024
Group fun at Dixie Chicken.
Happy Birthday, Andrew!
April 08, 2024
Welcome back, Dr. Dou. We prepared a full solar eclipse here for you (it actually got somewhat dark).
April 06, 2024
April 04, 2024
Gay Lowden visits the lab.
March 26, 2024
Billiards night at P.O.E.T.S.
March 19, 2024
Isaac and Aidan presented their research findings at 2024 TAMU Student Research Week.
March 14, 2024
Many congrats to Aidan, Mackenzi and Emily on the acceptance of their paper entitled “Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy to Probe Artificial Dye Degradation on Hair Buried in Multiple Soils for Up to Eight Weeks” to Scientific Reports!
March 5, 2024
Many congrats to Isaac on the acceptance of this paper entitled “Diagnosing arsenic-mediated biochemical responses in rice cultivars using Raman spectroscopy” to Frontiers in Plant Science!
February 29, 2024
Happy Birthday, Isaac!
February 22, 2024
teamwork makes the dream work…
February 20, 2024
Aidan, Emily, Mackenzi and Dmitry attended AAFS 2024, Denver, CO. Many thanks to the organizers for such an excellent meeting.
February 15, 2024
Isaac won the 3rd Place Award in Student Poster Competition at 2024 Plant Breeding Symposium! Many congrats, Isaac!
February 13, 2024
Volleyball fun 🙂
February 10, 2024
Many congrats to Aidan on being selected for 2024 Senior Merit award, the highest award given to undergraduates in our college!
February 6, 2024
Happy Birthday, Aidan!
February 1, 2024
Recruitment week at TAMU
January 18, 2024
Many congrats to Shannon on the acceptance of her paper to Analytical Methods! A stellar success: Shannon joined the lab in the Fall; quickly learned Raman spectroscopy and chemometrics and successfully picked up the project that was left over by Mackenzi. As a result – the first paper is published within only 3-4 months after joining the lab. Wow!
January 12, 2024
Swati’s 9 month project is successfully finished. Look at this little princess. No revisions needed. Many congrats to both Swati and Kiran!
January 8, 2024
TERS alignment is in progress…
January 5, 2023
Many congrats to Abid and the team on the acceptance of their paper entitled “Large Unilamellar Vesicles of Phosphatidic Acid Reduce the Toxicity of α-Synuclein Fibrils” to Molecular Pharmaceutics.
January 1, 2023
Many congrats to Aidan on the acceptance of his paper entitled “Elucidation of Sex from Mature Palmer Amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) Leaves Using a Portable Raman Spectrometer” to RCS Advances!
December 21, 2023
Many congrats to Kiryl and Abid on the acceptance of their paper to ACS Chemical Neuroscience!
December 15, 2023
Now it’s official: Many Congrats, Dr. Dou!!!
December 12, 2023
Many congrats to Swati on the acceptance of her paper to JPCC entitled “Chemical Nano-imaging and Characterizing Kinetics of Bimetallic Nanostructure-Plasmon-Driven Dimerization Reactions by Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy”!
December 11, 2023
Many thanks to Tianyi and Aidan on the acceptance of their paper entitled “Identification of Adult Ixodid Tick Species by Raman Spectroscopy of Their Feces” to Parasites and Vectors! Excellent collaboration work with Dr. Teel’s group.
December 8, 2023
Many congrats to Isaac on the acceptance of his paper to Frontiers of Plant Sciences! This is an excellent collaboration work with Kiran’s group at Texas A&M Research and Extension Center at Amarillo, TX.
December 6, 2023
Christmas party at Dmitry’s place.
Find out more about our exciting collaboration with CBTS:
December 2, 2023
Kickball fun
December 1, 2023
Very proud of these guys! They can fix any broken things.
November 28, 2023
Many congrats to Abid and all amyloid team on the acceptance of their paper entitled “Cholesterol and Sphingomyelin Uniquely Alter the Rate of Transthyretin Aggregation and Lower the Toxicity of Amyloid Fibrils” to the The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
November 27, 2023
Many congrats to Mackenzi on the acceptance of her paper on NIRS-based identification of dyes on fabric to Molecules!
November 24, 2023
Many thanks to Kiryl on the acceptance of his paper entitled “Nano-Infrared Analysis of Amyloid β1-42 Fibrils Formed in the Presence of Lipids with Unsaturated Fatty Acids” to Nanoscale!
November 17, 2023
November 16, 2023
Many congrats to Mackenzi on the acceptance of her paper entitled “Raman-based diagnostics of drought, heat and light-induced stresses in three different varieties of hemp” to Planta!
November 12, 2023
Many congrats to Axell on the acceptance of his paper entitled “Nanoscale Analysis of Transthyretin Aggregates at Various Stages of Induced Protein Aggregation via Atomic Force Microscopy-Infrared Spectroscopy” to Protein Science! This paper has an extraordinary TOC (see below):
November 11, 2023
Many congrats to Abid on his newly born boy!!!
November 1, 2023
Group fun at Four Downs
October 22, 2023
Many congrats to Abid on the acceptance of his paper “The Toxicities of A30P and A53T α‑Synuclein Fibrils Can be Uniquely Altered by The Length and Saturation of Fatty Acids in Phosphatidylserine” to The Journal of Biological Chemistry!
October 15, 2023
Many congrats to Abid on the acceptance of his paper entitled “Saturation of Fatty Acids in Phosphatidic Acid Uniquely Alters Transthyretin Stability Changing Morphology and Toxicity of Amyloid Fibrils” to Chemistry and Physics of Lipids!
October 12, 2023
Aidan and Isaac presented posters, while Dmitry gave a talk at SCIX 2023.
October 11, 2023
Many congrats to Abid on the acceptance of his paper entitled “Secondary Structure and Toxicity of Lysozyme Fibrils are Determined by the Length and Unsaturation of Phosphatidic Acid” to Proteins!
October 5, 2023
Now it’s official: Many congrats, Aidan!
Many congrats to Aidan on the beautiful journal cover that was accepted by Analytical Methods!
October 2, 2023
Many congrats to Abid on the acceptance of his paper entitled “Secondary Structure and Toxicity of Transthyretin Fibrils Can Be Altered by Unsaturated Fatty Acids” to International Journal of Biological Macromolecules!
September 14, 2023
Congrats Dr. Dou!
September 1, 2023
Many congrats to Abid on the acceptance of his amazing artwork as a cover of ACS Chemical Neuroscience!
August 31, 2023
Happy Birthday to Swati and Abid!
August 24, 2023
Many congratulations to Aidan on receiving 2023 College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Dean’s Outstanding Achievement Award for Undergraduate Research!
August 23, 2023
Group fun at P.O.E.T.S. Billiard
August 23, 2023
Many congrats to Abid on the acceptance of his paper to ACS Chemical Neuroscience!
August 18, 2023
August 17, 2023
We are very proud of Isaac who represents our group at Texas A&M University Regulatory Science Symposium.
August 15, 2023
Many congrats to Isaac on the acceptance of his paper entitled “Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Hair Analysis after Household Contamination” to Analytical Methods!
August 11, 2023
Check out this amazing video about our group. Many thanks to all participants and a special thanks to Mackenzi for the outstanding camera work and film editing!
Aug 9, 2023
Many congrats to Tianyi on the acceptance of his paper entitled “Elucidation of Secondary Structure and Toxicity of Alpha-Synuclein Oligomers and Fibrils Grown in the Presence of Phosphatidylcholine and Phosphatidylserine” to ACS Chemical Neuroscience!
Aug 8, 2023
Many congrats to Swati on the acceptance of her fantastic paper entitled “Tip-Enhanced Raman Imaging of Plasmon-Driven Dimerization of 4- Bromothiophenol on Nickel Decorated Gold Nanoplates Bimetallic ” Nanostructures” to Chemical Communications!
August 4, 2023
Many congrats to all CBTS fellows on the successful defense of their research projects. Last two months were lots of fun: research experiments, travel, talks and networking. Many thanks to Dr. Heather Manley Lillibridge, Christopher Scarmardo and Dr. Mary Bryk for the opportunity to collaborate with CBTS.
August 1, 2023
The work on mice is in progress. Many thanks to our amazing collaborators, Alex Naron and Dr. David Threadgill.
July 24, 2023
Many congrats to Aidan on the acceptance of his beautiful artwork for the cover of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
July 17-19, 2023
Aidan, Axell, Joseph and Luke, CBTS students together with Dmitry visited US Port of Entry at the Mexican border. Many thanks to CBTS officials and Prof. Krathni Mandadi for this exciting opportunity.
July 19, 2023
What a great day for Aidan: two of his papers got accepted to The Journal of Forensic Sciences and The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Many congrats, Aidan!
July 12, 2023
July 7, 2023
Hot sauce challenge
June 21, 2023
Group fun 🙂
June 2, 2023
Many congrats to Kiryl on the acceptance of his jounral cover to ACS Chemical Neuroscience!
May 26, 2023
Surface Plasmon Photonics (SPP) 10 at Rice University, Houston, TX. Amazing conference on plasmonics. Many thanks to the organizers for such a great venue. Dmitry gave a talk, Isaac and Swati presented posters. Luke and Tianyi attended the conference. Look at these great Aggies: Swati, Luke, Isaac and Tianyi on pics!
May 24, 2023
Many congrats to Misha and Kiryl on the acceptance of their paper to ACS Chemical Neuroscience!
May 17, 2023
BBQ and trivia at Dmitry’s place.
May 17, 2023
Many congrats to Aidan on the acceptance of his paper entitled “The Role of Race/Ethnicity, Sex, and Age in Surface-Enhanced Raman- and Infrared Spectroscopy-Based Analysis of Artificial Colorants on Hair” to ACS Omega!
April 28, 2023
Many congrats to Samantha on the acceptance of her paper to Scientific Reports!
April 13, 2023
Dmitry was awarded with 2023 Ermering Leader in Molecular spectroscopy Award.
April 12, 2023
Many congrats to Swati on the acceptance of her beautiful cover to JPCC!
March 30, 2023
Many congrats to Swati on the acceptance of her TERS paper to JPCC!
March 30, 2023
Many congrats to Axell on the acceptance of his paper to the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
March 29, 2023
Dmitry Presented at ACS Spring 2023 in Indianapolis, IN.
March 24, 2023
Many congrats to Isaac and Mackenzi on winning the 2nd Poster and Oral Talk Prizes at 2023 Texas A&M Student Research Week!
Aidan, Axell, Isaac, Mackenzi and Tianyi presented at 2023 Texas A&M Student Research Week.
March 11, 2023
Friday night at Dixie Chicken 🙂
March 3, 2023
Many congrats to Tianyi on the 1st Place Oral Presentation at the Annual Student Research Symposium, Galveston, TX.
March 2, 2023
Aidan presented his fantastically cool research project on the spectroscopic analysis of hair using SERS and IR at the Annual Student Research Symposium that was held in Galveston, TX. Great job, Aidan!
March 1, 2023
Many congrats to Kiryl and the entire team on the acceptance of their work to the BBA – Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids.
Many congrats to Mackenzi on the acceptance of her first paper to the Journal of Forensic Sciences entitled “Elucidation of the Effect of Heat Exposure on Hair Colored by Permanent and Semi-Permanent Colorants Using Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS)”!
February 28, 2023
Exciting news story about Kiryl’s work on Alzheimer disease
February 13-17, 2023
Mackenzi, Aidan and Dmitry attended AAFS meeting in Orlando, FL. Many thanks to the National Institute of Justice for the invitation and financial support.
February 15, 2023
Many congrats to Kiryl on the acceptance of his super cool paper to Protein Science In this paper, Kiryl investigated the secondary structure of individual amyloid beta and alpha-synuclein fibrils extracted from brains of patients with Alzheimer and Parkinson, diseases, respectively.
February 14, 2023
Many congrats to Misha and Stas, former lab members, on the acceptance of their paper to ACS Omega!
January 31, 2023
Many congrats to Rosie and our potato collaborators on the acceptance of our paper entitled ” Raman Spectroscopy Detects Chemical Differences between Potato Tubers Produced under Normal and Heat stress Growing Conditions” to Frontiers of Plant Science.
Many congrats to Aidan on his first research paper accepted today to Nature Scientific Reports! This amazing work summarizes 10 week long experiment in which Aidan investigated dynamics of light-driven photodegradation of hair colorants in the context of the accuracy of dye identification using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) on such sun-exposed hair.
January 28, 2023
Bowling fun
January 25, 2023
Many congrats to Kiryl and Misha on the acceptance of their outstanding work entitled “Lipids Uniquely Alter the Secondary Structure and Toxicity of Amyloid beta 1-42 Aggregates” to FEBS Journal!
January 23, 2023
Many congrats to Axell and Val on the acceptance of their historic paper to the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. We are the first who did Raman on Ramen!
January, 5, 2022
Check out exciting news about our fantastically successful collaboration project with Dr. Artem Rogovskyy
December 13, 2022
We finally have our AKTA placed in the fridge and ready to purify proteins. Abid is ready to kick the ball.
December 12, 2022
Christmas Party at Dmitry’s house.
November 11, 2022
Friday night golfing at BigShots
November 2, 2022
Dmitry gave invited talk at TERS 8 meeting that was held at Sorbonne University in Paris, France. Many thanks to Emanuel, Ivan and all French team members for the fantastically interesting and excellently organized meeting.
October 21, 2022
Many congrats to Isaac on the acceptance of his first paper on “Effects of Crime Scene Contaminants on Surface-Enhanced Raman Analysis of Hair” to the Journal of Forensic Sciences!
October 20, 2022
Axell and Isaac represent our group at the opening of the new digital greenhouse presenting a poster that summarizes excellent results of the collaboration work with Kolomiets group.
October 4-6, 2022
Samantha presented a poster, while Dmitry gave two invited talks at SCIX in Cincinnati, OH.
October 2, 2022
Many congrats to Misha and Stas on the acceptance of their paper to BBA – Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids!
September 30, 2022
Sushi night at Blue Fin.
September 30, 2022
Many congrats to Samantha and Val on the acceptance of their paper to Frontiers of Plant Sciences! Excellent collaboration work with Gadhave group at Texas A&M Research and Extension at Amarillo, TX.
September 18, 2022
Check out a new press release about our collaboration work with Mariposa: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mariposa-technologys-groundbreaking-non-invasive-testing-technique-proven-to-differentiate-between-hemp-plant-sexes-301619529.html
September 16, 2022
Many congrats to Kiryl on the acceptance of his paper to ACS Chemical Neuroscience. The paper highlights complex nature of aggregation of amyloid beta, a peptide that is linked to Alzheimer disease.
September 15, 2022
Many congrats to Zhandong on the acceptance of his outstanding work to Nano Letters! This work shows that light can be used to alter the yield of plasmon-driven reactions on gold and gold-palladium nanoplates.
September 13, 2022
Many congrats to Kiryl on the acceptance of his paper entitled “Charge of Phospholipids Determines the Rate of Lysozyme Aggregation but Not the Structure and Toxicity of Amyloid Aggregates” to the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
September 5, 2022
Many congrats to Nico and the entire “blood pathogen” team on the acceptance of their paper entitled “Testing Raman spectroscopy as a diagnostic approach for Lyme disease patients” to Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, section Parasite and Host! This is a great collaboration work with Artem Rogovsky from Veterinary Scholl at Texas A&M University. Many thanks to The Bay Area Lyme Foundation and Insect Vector Grant for the financial support of our team.
September 10, 2022
Look at these Aggies: Abid, Ritu and Swati are at the TAMU football game against Appalachian State.
September 2, 2022
Look at this great poster 😉
September 2, 2022
Many congrats to Tianyi on the acceptance of his amazing paper on “Solid-to-Liposome Conformational Transition of Phosphatidylcholine and Phosphatidylserine Probed by Atomic Force Microscopy Infrared Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory Calculations” to Analytical Chemistry! This is a great collaboration work with our colleagues from Merck and Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, Germany.
August 29, 2022
Many congrats to Misha, Kiryl and Stas on the acceptance of their paper, which showed that “Lipids Uniquely Alter Secondary Structure and Toxicity of Lysozyme Aggregates” to FASEB Journal!
August 16, 2022
Tianyi, Nico and Dmitry are at The International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS) at Long Beach, CA. Look who joined us 🙂
August 4, 2022
Many congrats to Kiryl on the acceptance of his beautiful artwork as the journal cover by ACS Chemical Neuroscience! This cover highlights the work by Misha and Stas on the role of phosphatidic acid in neurodegeneration.
August 1, 2022
Many congrats to Nico on the acceptance of his paper to Molecules. This is a great work that was done in collaboration with Mariposa folks. Thanks Mariposa for their financial support!
Goff, N., Guenther, J. F., Roberts, J. III, Adler, M., Dalle Molle, M., Mathews, G., Kurouski, D. (2022) Non-Invasive and Confirmatory Differentiation of Hermaphrodite from Both Male and Female Cannabis Plants Using a Hand-Held Raman Spectrometer. Molecules, accepted.
July 30, 2022
Many congrats to Tianyi on the acceptance of his beautiful artwork as the journal cover by ACS Chemical Neuroscience!
July 27, 2022
Dmitry gave a talk at CD2022, scientific conference of chirality that was held at NYU in NYC, NY
July 26, 2022
Many congrats to Tianyi, Misha and Stas on the acceptance of their papers to ACS Chemical Neuroscience! Two outstanding studies on the role of lipids in the aggregation properties of a-synuclein and insulin.
July 20, 2022
Many congrats to Samantha on the acceptance of her super cool work on Forensics to Talanta!
July 9, 2022
Axe throwing fun with the group
July 5, 2022
Many congrats to Misha and Stas on the acceptance of their work entitled “Amyloid Aggregates Exert Cell Toxicity Causing Irreversible Damages in the Endoplasmic Reticulum” to Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) Molecular Basis of Disease!
June 24, 2022
Ice skating fun
June 22, 2022
Many congrats to Stas, Kiryl and Misha, as well as to our amazing Biotools partner, Kimberly on the acceptance of their paper to FEBS Journal. This paper reports a very interesting discovery. We found that lipids reversed supramolecular chirality of amyloid aggregates and lower their cell toxicity.
May 13, 2022
Many congrats to Kiryl on the acceptance of his amazing graphic to JPCL as the journal cover of our paper on “Unsaturation in Fatty Acids of Phospholipids Drastically Alters the Structure and Toxicity of Insulin Aggregates Grown in Their Presence”
May 12, 2022
Group fun in Hopdoddy.
May 11, 2022
Look at these rising stars: Samantha and Nico got Golden Launch Medals for their Outstanding Undergrad Research Work! So proud of you, guys! Congrats to y’all!!!
May 10, 2022
Many congrats to Misha and Stas on the acceptance of their paper on “Unsaturation in Fatty Acids of Phospholipids Drastically Alters the Structure and Toxicity of Insulin Aggregates Grown in Their Presence” to The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
May 6, 2022
Many congrats to Tianyi on the acceptance of his paper to Frontiers of Plant Sciences! Excellent collaboration work with Patil group.
May 5, 2022
Check out C&EN story about our work on hemp and cannabis
April 22, 2022
Fun and croquet at Dmitry’s place
March 28, 2022
Many congrats to Samantha on the acceptance of her paper to Frontiers of Plant Sciences!
March 27, 2022
Many congrats to Nico on the 1st Place in Undergraduate Oral Presentation in Medicine at Texas A&M Student Research Week Symposium and Finalist Award at Capital of Texas Undergraduate Research Conference!
March 8, 2022
Congrats to Kiryl on the acceptance of his amazing graphic to JPCL as the journal cover of our paper on “Nanoscale Structural Analysis of a Lipid-Driven Aggregation of Insulin”!
March 2, 2022
Many congrats to Samantha on the acceptance of her first paper in Planta on Raman-based ID of hemp sex! Excellent work that is so desired by the plant community!
February 14, 2022
Many congrats to Stas and Misha on acceptance of their paper to The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
February 10, 2022
Kiryl’s amazing artwork was selected for the Journal Cover of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C to highlight our paper “Characterization of Substrates and Surface-Enhancement in Atomic Force Microscopy Infrared (AFM-IR) Analysis of Amyloid Aggregates (10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c09643)”. Many congrats, Kiryl!
February 8, 2022
Many congrats to Stas on acceptance of his first paper to JPCC!
January 25, 2022
Congrats to Tianyi on the acceptance of the results of his project in our group to Spectrochimica Acta A! Also, many congrats to our collaborators on this project: Dr. Teel and his group!!!
January 14, 2022
Dmitry was awarded with 2021 Vice Chancellor’s Award in Excellence in Early Career Research.
December 11, 2021
Look who is in town! Charlie now looks like Dr. Farber. Many congrats, Charlie! It was great seeing you again!!!
December 10, 2021
We are grateful to NIJ for giving us an award to develop a spectroscopic analysis of colorants on hair.
December 9, 2021
Thanks y’all for coming over! It was a great Christmas party!
December 3, 2021
Our collaboration paper with Signe Ptak and Xavier Frette has been accepted to Plant Methods. Congrats, Signe!
November 24, 2021
Many congrats to Zack and Tianyi on the acceptance of their paper to Frontiers of Plant Sciences! Great job!
October 30, 2021
Group Saturday’s lunch at J. Cody’s
and it’s actually almost Halloween
October 7, 2021
Check out news story about our discovery:
October 5, 2021
We are grateful to the National Institute of Health for awarding our laboratory with MIRA grant. These funds will be used to determine the underlying cause of Parkinson disease, as well as other neurodegenerative diseases.
We also want to thank to Olga Kuchmet for putting a news story that highlights our success.
agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2021/10/01/a-new-view-of-parkinsons-disease/
September 17, 2021
Group fun trip: Fredericksburg, wineries and Austin
August 3, 2021
This is how you should be dressed if you collect Raman spectra…
August 20, 2021
Congrats to Zhandong and Dmitry on acceptance of their paper on “Tip-Enhanced Raman Analysis of Plasmonic and Photocatalytic Properties of Copper Nanomaterials” to The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
August 11, 2021
Many congrats to Dr. Farber! Well done, Charlie!!!
July 30, 2021
Bowling group outing
July 29, 2021
Many Congrats to Charlie and all ‘Corteva’ team on acceptance of our super cool paper to Frontiers! Long nights in rubber boots finally paid off. We also want to thank to Mike Kolomiets and his team for their help and support on this project!
July 26, 2021
Charlie got a job! Many congrats, Charlie!
July 23, 2021
Many congrats to Rosie and Charlie, as well as all Stephenville team on acceptance of our paper to Plant Direct!
July 15, 2021
Now we have our own cell facility! Thanks to Michael and everyone who helped putting it together.
July11, 2021
Zack’s and Dmitry’s paper entitled “Raman Spectroscopy enables phenotyping and assessment of nutrition values of plants. A review” is accepted to Plant Methods. Congrats!
June 25, 2021
Farewell pizza party to Zhandong. Safe travels back and all the best to you, Zhandong! We will miss you.
June 12, 2021
We made it to Alamo!
June 8, 2021
Again many congrats to Zhandong on acceptance of his paper entitled “Probing the Redox Selectivity on Au@Pd and Au@Pt Bimetallic Nanoplates by Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS)” to ACS Photonics!
June 7, 2021
Many congrats to Zhandong on acceptance of his wonderful paper on Cargo-TERS to Nanoscale!
May 31, 2021
Contrast to Tianyi and our Weslaco friends (Kranthi’s lab) on acceptance of a very important paper for our group to Frontiers of Plant Sciences! In this paper, we performed HPLC analysis of plant extracts to identify the biochemical origin of Raman signals.
May 23, 2021
Congrats to Charlie on acceptance of his paper entitled ” Non-Invasive Identification of Nutrient Components in Grain” to Molecules!
May 4, 2021
Many Congrats to Tianyi on acceptance of his awesome paper on AFM-IR imaging of the individual a-synuclein oligomers to JPCL!
April 26, 2021
Congrats to Tianyi on the acceptance of his paper entitled “Raman spectroscopy can distinguish glyphosate-susceptible and -resistant Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri)” to Frontiers of Plant Sciences! Great result of the collaboration work with Muthu group from The Department of Horticultural Sciences.
April 23, 2021
Again many congrats to Nick on getting Texas Sea Grant Award!
This award honors the most innovative, yet practical research that exemplifies the focus areas of Texas Sea Grant: Resilient Coastal Communities & Economies, Healthy Coastal Ecosystems, Sustainable Fisheries & Aquaculture, and Environmental Literacy & Coastal Workforce Development.
April 19, 2021
Many congratulations to Nick Goff on getting the 2nd Place in Oral Presentation Competition at Student Research Week at Texas A&M University! Great job, Nick!
April 15, 2021
Congrats to Zhandong and Dmitry on acceptance of their paper to The Account of Chemical Research!
April 13, 2021
Probably the longest reviewed paper finally crossed the finish line: Many congrats to Charlie on acceptance of his great work to ACS Agricultural Science & Technology!
March 3, 2021
Many congrats to Charlie on 2020 College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Dean’s Outstanding Achievement Award for Graduate Research!
January 27, 2021
Our review on “Nanoscale structural characterization of plasmon-driven reactions” has been accepted to Nanophotonics. Congrats to Zhandong and Dmitry
January 19, 2021
Many congrats to Charlie on acceptance of his paper to Journal of Biophotonics! Excellent team work in collaboration with Rogovsky group.
January 13, 2021
Many congrats to Zhandong on acceptance of his paper to J. Phys. Chem. C entitled “Underlying Mechanisms of Hot Carrier-Driven Reactivity on Bimetallic Nanostructures”. Very cool study and a great team work with El-Khoury and Large groups.
December 16, 2020
Many congrats to Zack! His review on “Raman-based diagnostics of biotic and abiotic stresses in plants” has been accepted to Frontiers of Plant Sciences!
December 15, 2020
Congrats to Zhandong on acceptance of his paper to Chemical Communications! “Tip-Enhanced Raman Imaging of Photocatalytic Reactions on Thermally-Reshaped Gold and Gold-Palladium Microplates” should appear soon online.
October 27, 2020
More news about Charlie’s FFAR Fellowship: https://agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2020/10/21/two-aggies-among-2020-cohort-for-national-fellows-program/
September 30, 2020
Congrats to Lee Sanchez! Lee’s paper on “Raman Spectroscopy Enables Non-Invasive and Confirmatory Diagnostics of Salinity Stresses, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium Deficiencies in Rice” has been accepted to Frontiers of Plant Sciences. Congrats, Lee!
September 12, 2020
Check out Texas A&M AgriLife news story about our discovery:
New method allows scientists to quickly ‘view’ individual virus particles
August 12, 2020
Charlie’s paper on Non-invasive Characterization of Single-, Double- and Triple-Viral Diseases of Wheat with a Hand-held Raman Spectrometer has been accepted to Frontiers of Plant Sciences. Congrats, Charlie!
July 20, 2020
Tianyi’s first paper on “Nanoscale Structural Characterization of Individual Viral Particles Using Atomic Force Microscope Infrared (AFM-IR) and Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS)” has been accepted to Analytical Chemsitry! Excellent work that shows complimentary of AFM-IR and TERS. Congrats!!!
July 6, 2020
Corteva experiment is in progress. Many thanks to Dillon for awesome videos and pics!
June 22, 2020
Congrats of Zhandong and Rui on acceptance of their paper to The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters! Great job guys!!!
Many congrats to Fern and Alex on acceptance of their paper to Analytical Methods!
June 18, 2020
Huge respect to our field Raman team: John, Tianyi and Yousef!
June 15, 2020
Many congrats to Charlie on winning FFAR Fellowship! Charlie was one of 23 students in the U.S. who was awarded the FFAR fellowship, beginning in the fall. The FFAR Fellows Program was established to provide professional development and career guidance to the next generation of food and agriculture scientists across the Foundation for Food and Agriculture’s Challenge Areas and strategic initiatives. The program provides early career support to graduate students and industry peers to equip students with the skills needed to facilitate their transition to the workforce and prepare future leaders for food and agriculture. Fellows will be co-mentored over the 3-year program by the university and industry representatives and engage with their peers in professional development programming both virtually and at the annual one-week residential sessions.
June 9, 2020
Many congratulations to Spectroscopy Magazine on their 35th Anniversary! Check out Dmitry’s Future Article that was published in the special Anniversary Issue of Spectroscopy: “A Spectroscopic Revolution in Agricultural World“.
June 3, 2020
Lee’s paper on “Raman Spectroscopy vs Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction In Early Stage Huanglongbing Diagnostics” has been accepted to Nature Scientific Reports. Congrats, Lee!
May 28, 2020
Rui’s paper on the “Use of Raman Spectroscopy and Size-exclusion Chromatography Coupled with HDX-MS Spectroscopy for Studying Conformational Changes of Small Proteins in Solution” has been accepted to The Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. Congrats, Rui!
May 25, 2020
Check out AgriLife story about our peanut paper https://agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2020/05/25/fast-accurate-way-to-check-peanut-plants-for-healthy-traits/
May 21, 2020
Charlie’s and Lee’s paper on Raman-based identification of poison ivy has been accepted to RSC Advances. Congrats Charlie and Lee!
May 15, 2020
Zhandong’s paper on “Elucidation of Photo-Catalytic Properties of Goldplatinum Bimetallic Nanoplates Using Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy” has been accepted to The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Congrats, Zhandong!
May 13, 2020
Dmitry’s interview on Raman-based diagnostics of cannabis is in Cannabis Science and Technology Journal. Check it out: https://www.cannabissciencetech.com/article/how-distinguish-between-hemp-and-cannabis-plants-using-raman-spectroscopy
Lee’s paper on “Raman-Based Differentiation of Hemp, Canabdiol-Rich Hemp and Cannabis” has been accepted to Analytical Chemistry! Congrats, Lee!
Rosie’s paper has been accepted to Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. Many congrats to Rosie! Also, Charlie’s hand became a part of history 🙂
April 29, 2020
Lei’s paper on “Structural Characterization of Individual α-Synuclein Oligomers Formed at Different Stages of Protein Aggregation by Atomic Force Microscope Infrared Spectroscopy” has been accepted to Analytical Chemistry. Congrats, Lei!
April 27, 2020
Rui’s paper on Gap-Mode Tip-Enhanced Raman Scattering on Au Nanoplates of Varied Thickness has been accepted to The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Congrats, Rui!
April 17, 2020
Our paper on Raman-based identification of peanut genotypes and value-added traits has been accepted to Nature Scientific Reports! Many congrats to everyone who contributed to it! Special congrats to Charlie Farber who led the work!
April 7, 2020
Dmitry is talking about hemp and cannabis:
March 11, 2020
Our review on complimentary of AFM-IR and TERS has been accepted by Chemical Society Reviews, the top journal of The Royal Chemical Society. The review is co-authored by Andrea Centrone, the expert in AFM-IR from NIST, USA as well as Renato Zenobi (ETH, Switzerland) and Alexandre Dazzi (Université Paris-Sud, France), the discoverers of TERS and AFM-IR respectively.
February 28, 2020
Farewell lunch to Lei and Rui
February 21, 2020
Group lunch at Fritella.
January 18, 2020
Mark is presenting his poster at Biophysical Society Meeting in San Diego.
January 1, 2020
Check out news about us:
Is it hemp or marijuana? Scanning technology may provide an instant answer
https://phys.org/news/2020-02-hemp-marijuana-scanner-instant.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/taac-iih021020.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200210133152.htm
Is it hemp or marijuana? Scanner gives instant answer
January 30, 2020
Lee and Dillon are developing Raman-based fungal disease diagnostics on corn. Exciting collaboration project with Kolomiets group and Corteva.
January 29, 2020
Lee’s paper on “Non-invasive diagnostics of Liberibacter disease on tomatoes using a hand-held Raman spectrometer” has been accepted to Planta. Congrats, Lee!!!
January 24, 2020
Happy Chinese New Year!
January 21, 2020
Lee and Dmitry are on TV talking about non-invasive diagnostics of cannabis.
January 3, 2020
FeedNavigator put a news story about our research. Check it out here: https://www.feednavigator.com/Article/2019/12/20/Texas-A-M-develops-hand-held-grain-analysis-device
January, 2, 2020
Rui’s paper on “Direct Experimental Evidence of Hot-Carrier-Driven Chemical Processes in Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS)” has been accepted to J. Phys. Chem. C.
The paper showed experimental evidence and theoretical support of hot-carrier driven chemical reactions in TERS.
Congrats, Rui!
December 27, 2019
Lee’s paper on Raman-based confirmatory non-invasive and non-destructive differentiation between hemp and cannabis has been accepted to RCS Advances.
This is the groundbreaking work that shows non-invasive and 100% accurate diagnostics of marijuana.
Congrats, Lee!
December 6, 2019
Great Christmas party. Happy Holidays to Everyone!
December 2, 2019
Interview with Dr. Kurouski about Raman-based digital nutrition and farming.
https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Focus-at-Four-Nutrient-Scanner-Technology-565703852.html
November 25, 2019
Charlie’s work on rose rosette diagnostics by Raman spectroscopy has been highlighted by Growertalks.com. Check it out here: https://www.growertalks.com/Newsletters/View/?article=3022
November 17, 2019
Check out a news story in Eagle about our research:
November 13, 2019
Mark is teaching forensics Texas A&M students how to use Raman spectroscopy.
November 1, 2019
We made the news!
Check the story on here:
https://today.agrilife.org/2019/11/01/researchers-scan-for-nutrient-content/
https://phys.org/news/2019-11-quickly-accurately-scan-nutrient-content.html
October 31, 2019
Halloween Group Meeting
October 15, 2019
Rui’s paper on temperature-induced transformations in gold microplates has been accepted to ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Congrats, Rui!
October 14, 2019
Dmitry gave three invited talks at SXIC 2019, Palm Springs, CA.
September 17, 2019
Mark’s and Charlie’s paper on non-invasive assessment of nutrient content in corn and Raman-based phenotyping of corn varieties has been accepted to ACS Omega. Congrats Mark and Charlie!
August 25, 2019
Lee’s paper on detection and identification of canker and blight on orange trees using a hand-held Raman spectrometer has been accepted to the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. Congrats, Lee!
July 19, 2019
Friday lunch at Hopdoddy
July 12, 2019
Stas’s paper on AFM-IR study of amyloids has been accepted to ChemBioChem. Congrats, Stas!
July 10, 2019
Dmitry gave a talk at ICAVS 10 that was held in Auckland, New Zealand.
July 7, 2019
We are delighted to have Dr. Lei Zhou and Dr. Zhandong Li joining our group as Postdoctoral Researchers. Welcome Lei and Zhandong!
July 3, 2019
Dmitry gave a talk at 7th International Conference on Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
June 24, 2019
Dmitry gave a talk at Forensics Section of North East Regional ACS Meeting (NERM 2019) that has held in Saratoga, NY
June 18,2019
Dmitry is giving a talk at ICES 2019 in London, Canada on the discovered by Rui 3D TERS.
June 13, 2019
Charlie’s paper on Raman-based diagnostics of rose rosette has been accepted to Planta. Congrats, Charlie!
May 17, 2019
Our review on “Advanced Spectroscopic Techniques for Plant Disease Diagnostics” has been accepted to Trends in Analytical Chemistry. Congrats to Charlie, Mark M. and Lee!
May 8, 2019
Isaac got a Golden Medal for completing the LAUNCH Undergraduate Research Scholars program and submitting a senior thesis. Congratulations, Isaac!
May 4, 2019
Isaac’s and Rui’s paper on SERS-based analysis of hair colorants is accepted to Analytical Chemistry. Congrats, guys!
April 26, 2019
Mark continues working on his corn project.
April 19, 2019
Group meeting at Dmitry’s house.
April 5, 2019
Dr. Rizevsky made a very interesting presentation about biology of human cercarial dermatitis and newly developed approaches to battle this disease. Thank you, Stas!
April 4, 2019
BBQ lunch at J. Cody.
March 29, 2019
Charlie and Isaac presented posters at The 1st Annual Biochemistry & Biophysics Research and Technologies Symposium.
March 27, 2019
We are delighted to have Dr. Stanislav Rizevsky as a visiting scholar from Biology Department, Belarussian State University. Welcome, Stas!
March 26, 2019
Mark has been accepted to a Graduate Program in Biophysics at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Congratulations, Mark!
March 21, 2019
Charlie and Isaac made excellent oral and poster presentations at PittCon 2019 that was held in Philadelphia, PA. Great job, guys!
March 11, 2019
Lee’s paper on “Rapid and Non-invasive Diagnostics of Huanglongbing and Nutrient Deficits on Citrus Trees with a Hand-Held Raman Spectrometer” is now accepted to Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. Congratulations, Lee!
March 8, 2019
Look what a great work these two guys made. Isaac is going to report these exciting results at PittCon 2019 that will start in just a week in Philadelphia, PA.
March 7, 2019
We got our AFM-IR system! Now we are the first group in the world that is going both TERS (nano-Raman) and AFM-IR (nano-IR). Many thanks to Anirban and Yi (Bruker) for such a quick and efficient installation.
March 3, 2019
Awesome bowing night!
February 20, 2019
Lee and Dr. Kurouski visited Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at Stephenville, TX. Many thanks to Bill McCutchen, Charles Simpson and John Cason for their kind invitation to visit the center. Our lab is excited to work together with a great team of scientists on the launched peanut breeding program.
February 18, 2019
Mark Krimmer was accepted to 2019 Summer Research Program at Brandeis University. Mark will work on cell and molecular visualization. Congratulations, Mark!
February 15, 2019
Signe made an excellent presentation about fucoidan, a sulfated polysaccharide that has various excited application in medicine and cosmetics. Great job, Signe and thank you!
February 5, 2019
Charlie’s paper on “Complementarity of Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy for Structural Characterization of Plant Epicuticular Waxes” is now accepted to ACS Omega. Great job, Charlie!
February 4, 2019
We are delighted to have Signe Ptak as a visiting scholar from Chemical Engineering Department of University of Southern Denmark. Welcome, Signe!
January 9, 2019
Charlie’s paper on “Nanoscale Structural Organization of Plant Epicuticular Wax Probed by Atomic Force Microscope Infrared Spectroscopy” is now accepted to Analytical Chemistry! This work opened up a new direction in our laboratory: AFM-IR. Great job, Charlie!
January 8, 2019
Lee’s and Charlie’s paper on “Non-Invasive and Non-Destructive Detection of Cowpea Bruchid Within Cowpea Seeds with a Hand-Held Raman Spectrometer” is now accepted to Analytical Chemistry. Congrats, guys!
January 6, 2019
Dr. Kurouski was invited to give a talk at PQE 2019 meeting in Snowbird, UT.
December 14, 2018
Our project “Non-Invasive And Non-Destructive Detection Of Huanglongbing On Citrus Trees Using Raman Spectroscopy” has been funded by T3 Grant of Texas A&M University!
December 12, 2018
Finals are over and Winder Break is coming. Happy Holidays y’all!
November 1, 2018
Charlie was selected by our Department for The Graduate Student Spotlight. Congrats, Charlie!
October 23, 2018
Dr. Kurouski gave an invited talk on the meeting on rose rosette disease in Crossville, TN. Many thanks to Profs. Byrne and Windham for their invitation.
October 22, 2018
Dr. Kurouski gave a talk on SCIX 2019 in Atlanta, GA on “Raman-based plant pathogen diagnostics”.
October 19-20, 2018
Charlie, Lee and Rui presented their research work on 2018 Scott Medal Symposium. Well done!
September 10, 2018
Rui’s first paper on TERS entitled “Elucidation of Tip-Broadening Effect in Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS): A Cause of Artifacts or Potential for 3D TERS” is accepted to The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Great job, Rui!
August 28, 2018
Charlie Farber got The Best Poster Award on ICORS 2018! This year, around 900 scientists came to ICORS from all different parts of the world and more than 300 posters presented. There were only 20 poster awards, which means that only ~5% of students got awarded. Many congratulations, Charlie!
August 27, 2018
Dr. Kurouski gave an invited talk and Charlie Farber presented a poster on The International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS) 2018 in Jeju, Korea.
August 15, 2018
Dr. Kurouski and Lee Sanchez visiting Citrus Center and laboratory of Dr. Mandadi at Weslaco on Raman-based detection of HLB on citrus trees.
July 16, 2018
Dr. Kurouski was invited to give a talk at LPHYS 18, Nottingham, UK
June 13, 2018
Our paper on “Detection and Identification of Fungal Infections in Intact Wheat and Sorghum Grain Using a Hand-Held Raman Spectrometer” is accepted by Analytical Chemistry, the top analytical journal of ACS!
June 8, 2018
Congratulations to Rui and his wife on the birth of their beautiful baby girl!!! We all are wishing both of you the best of luck with your new little princess!!!!
May 9, 2018
Our paper on “Forensic Identification of Urine on Cotton and Polyester Fabric with a Hand-held Raman Spectrometer” is accepted by Forensic Chemistry. Many congratulations to Elizabeth and Charlie!
April 25, 2018
Our confocal Raman system is built and aligned!
April 12, 2018
Prof. Kurouski was invited to give an invited seminar at the Department of Physics, Florida International University.
April 4, 2018
Prof. Kurouski was invited to give an invited seminar at the Department of Physics, Baylor University.
March 28, 2018
We are delighted to host Chris Welch, formal Scientific Lead at Merck! Chris gave excellent talk about “High throughput analysis and high throughput experimentation in pharmaceutical development” in our department and conduced a great career workshop for our graduate students. Thank you Chris!
March 23, 2018
Many congratulations to Charlie, who just won The First Place Poster Award on 21st Annual Student Research Week!
February 21st, 2018
We are pleased to host Peter Tessier from The University of Michigan, as our department seminar speaker!
February 21st, 2018
Our first paper is accepted to Analytical Chemistry. Congratulations, Charlie! Great job!
Check it out here
January 18th, 2018
We are pleased to host Niklas Waasem from Hübner, who gave an excellent talk about lasers and career development in both academia and industry. Thank you, Niklas!
January 9th, 2018
Prof. Kurouski gave an invited talk on TERS at PQE 2018 meeting, Salt Lake City, UT
December 21, 2017
Welcome to Charlie, Elizabeth and Veronica, first year graduate students! We are excited to have every one of you in the lab.
November 21, 2017
Our review on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is published by Spectroscopy Magazine. Check it out here!
November 14, 2017
Our TERS system has arrived! Andrei Krayev (HORIBA) explains how great and hard is TERS.
November 13, 2017
We are excited to have Rui Wang (PhD from Fudan University, China) as a Postdoctoral Fellow in our group. Welcome, Rui!
November 2, 2017
Electrochemistry in action!
We are delighted to host Dr. Alex Peroff, the expert in electrochemistry from Pine Instruments.
October 19, 2017
Elizabeth and Charlie making gold nanoplates.
September 15, 2017
Alex and Minal help setting up the lab.
September 6, 2017
The laser tables have arrived!
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