Dynamics of molecules and chemistry in the condensed phase, especially molecular assemblies, molecules in confined environments. Fundamental properties and processes governing cryopreservation.
Sam and Fionna participated in the 2019 Graduate Student Showcase, presenting their current research to their peers, faculty, and the public. Having impressed the judges with their pitches, both Sam and Fionna were invited to compete with 40+ other graduate students to become Vice President of Research (VPR) fellows. The challenge: condense their research into …
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Sam Miller and Fionna Samuels are now PhD candidates. To pass orals, Sam presented her research on nano-confined water and glucose mixtures in AOT reverse micelles. She studies these systems primarily with NMR techniques. Fionna presented her research on cryoprotectants interacting with plant cells. Congrats!
Ke’Lani recently presented her research for the public. Her REU research focused on determining how different cryoprotectants interact with each other. She did this using NMR.
The group went up to Wyoming for a day of hiking and a BBQ cookout.
Fionna Samuels is now an NSF Graduate Research Fellow! She is working on imaging cryoprotectants in living rice callus cells using coherent stimulated Raman microscopies.
Sam Miller passed her candidacy exam today and is now officially a doctoral candidate! Congratulations on a stellar presentation! She will continue her work in understanding the fundamental nature of nano-confined water using NMR to investigate reverse micelles.
Sam will be travelling to South Carolina in March to participate in Practical Applications of NMR in Industry Conference (PANIC) with her poster titled ‘Developing a Direct NMR Method to Measure Chemical Exchange in Aqueous Systems’. Read her abstract here, hers is poster #32!
Cyrus’s abstract for the abstract the 2019 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM was accepted for presentation. He will be traveling to the ERN Conference in Washington, DC in January 2019.
We are excited to welcome Chris Gale to the Levinger group as a first year graduate student! He comes to us from Boise State and plans to start research investigating AOT reverse micelles with SAXS in the coming semester. Welcome!
Cyrus left CSU to go back to Nicholls State to finish up his B.S. in Chemistry, while Owen travelled to start his undergraduate studies. Good luck guys, it was great having you in our lab for the summer!