April 2024: Huge congratulations to Neica on receiving a fellowship from the NSF GRFP!
February 2024: Vlassakis serves as associate track chair, session chair and speaker in the Micro/Nanotechologies Track of the SLAS meeting in Boston.
November 2023: We are happy to welcome bioengineering PhD students Alison Lao and Neica Joseph for their thesis research in the lab!
Vlassakis is selected as a BMES CMBE 2024 Rising Star and will present the lab’s research at the CMBE 2024 meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico in January!
October 2023: Vlassakis is awarded an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award! The award supports the lab’s efforts on “Deep phenotyping of fusion oncoprotein-driven pediatric cancer metastasis with single-cell proteomics”
Project number: 1DP2CA290802-01
https://reporter.nih.gov/search/tqAPqmyRFUCr72wLKQRQNw/project-details/10687394
October 2023: Viraj presents a poster at BMES 2023 in Seattle, WA (with travel support from the BIOE department)!
Vlassakis presents an invited talk in the “Emerging Leaders” session of the American Electrophoresis Society track at SciX in Sparks, NV.
September 2023: Congrats to Viraj Ghosh on his 2nd-place poster award at the Rice University Surface Analysis and SIMS Workshop!
Welcome to our rotation students: Henry Gatica-Gutierrez (SSPB), Katherine Chen (BIOE) and Bakai Sheyitov (BIOE)!
August 2023: Welcome to our new masters student, Carla Canales who will conduct her BIOE MBE research in the lab this year!
Also, welcome to our BIOE rotation students: Jeffrey Venegas, Mehnaz Jahangir, Neica Joseph, Diana Barr and Tinghan Chen!
Congrats to Mel Zhou on winning the first-place undergraduate poster prize at the SCI Research Colloquium!
July 2023: Vlassakis serves as an instructor at the CSHL Single-Cell Analysis course.
June 2023: Vlassakis presents an invited talk and Jocie and Edgar present posters at the GRC on the Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics in Barga, Italy!
Tanushree Dutta presents a poster at ASMS in Houston!
We are happy to welcome three Rice undergraduates to the lab for summer research: Mel Zhou, Naomi Sahle and Amelia Tsai!
Congratulations to Edgar on passing his thesis proposal exam to become a PhD candidate in ChBE!
Vlassakis selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s 2023 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
May 2023: Congratulations to Jocie and Viraj on passing their thesis proposal exams with flying colors to become the lab’s first PhD candidates!
Vlassakis presents a poster at TAMEST 2023 as a protégé nominated by Dr. Richards-Kortum.
March 2023: Vlassakis invited to present at ACS Spring 2023 session on “Chemical Analysis of Single Cells”.
February 2023: Vlassakis chairs “Precision micro- and nano-biomaterials for cell & tissue engineering” session at SLAS 2023.
January 2023: Welcome to our new Research Specialist, Wenchang Zhou!
We are happy to welcome Wesley Leung, an Applied Physics grad student, to the team for his M.S./Ph.D. research!
October 2022: Welcome to BIOE rotation student, Paul Spezza!
We are happy to welcome three rotation students to the lab during the second rotation period: Rocky Han (BIOE), Passa Pungchai (BIOE) and Kyra Birkenfeld (Physics)!
August 2022: Congratulations to Jocie on being named an MD Anderson/Rice Cancer Nanotech T32 Fellow!
May 2022: Welcome to Tanushree Dutta, Ph.D., our new Research Scientist!
We had a great time at the first annual BIOE retreat and Viraj and Jocie presented the lab poster.
January 2022: We have moved into our new lab home in BRC 850. Thank you to all of those involved in the lab renovation process!
January 2022: Edgar Ruiz Bello is now a member of our team for his Ph.D. research!
November 2021: Viraj Ghosh has officially joined our team for his Ph.D. research!
October 2021: Jocie Baker officially joins the lab for her Ph.D. research!
October 2021: Welcome to BIOE rotation student Viraj Ghosh!
September 2021: Welcome to BIOE rotation student Jocie Baker!
July 2021: Vlassakis joins Rice University Department of Bioengineering as an Assistant Professor. We are looking for outstanding researchers, so please reach out if you are interested in joining!
June 2017: Vlassakis co-chairs the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on the Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics in Tuscany, Italy