News September 29, 2025 Dr. Yeh 2026 joined the panel to review CPRIT High-Impact/High-Risk Research Awards UT internal competition proposals. September 17, 2025 Dr. Yeh served as a poster judge at the National Postdoc Appreciation Week Research Symposium event. September 11, 2025 Dr. Yeh participated in the NIDA Genetics and Epigenetics Cross-Cutting Research In-Person Team Meeting at Natcher Conference Center, NIH Campus. August 4, 2025 Louise Chen joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome! July 22, 2025 Dr. Yeh joined the CMT panel to review NIH proposals. July 5, 2025 Janet presented a poster on “High-throughout screening of RNA fluorogenic aptamers with distinct fluorescence lifetimes” at the 2024 Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Oligonucleotides Gordon Research Conference. June 20, 2025 Dr. Yeh visited the at Taipei Medical University and gave an invited talk on advanced fluorescence sensing techniques. June 18, 2025 Dr. Yeh visited the Office of International Affairs at National Taiwan University and met with Associate Vice President for International Affairs Dr. Jiun-Haw Lee. June 9, 2025 Dr. Yeh visited National Taiwan Normal University and gave an invited talk on “What starts here changes the world” April 15, 2025 Dr. Yeh joined the panel to review Texas Global proposals. May 30, 2025 Invited by Dr. Osamu Tabata, Dr. Yeh visited the Kyoto University of Advanced Science and gave an invited talk on “What starts here changes the world”. May 6, 2025 Dr. Yeh led the Mayterm course BME 377T in Kyoto, Japan. March 25, 2025 Dr. Yeh gave a keynote speech at the IEEE NSENS conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. March 18, 2025 Sohyun presented a poster on “Characterization of the cleavage and color-switching properties of the non-FRET probe Subak” at the 2025 ACS Spring conference. March 13, 2025 Yeh group members conducted a lab tour to BELoNG Pod 4 members. March 4, 2025 Aaron Luong was admitted to EECS program at MIT. Congratulations! March 3, 2025 Janet He presented a poster on “Aptamer screening against viral variants on a massively sequencing platform” at the 2025 Pittcon conference. February 28, 2025 Johnny Tran was selected to join the Rice REU summer program. Congratulations! February 19, 2025 Saeed Seifi presented a poster on “Developing a nanopore sensing platform for multiplex detection of proteins using aptamer-modified DNA carriers” at the 2025 BPS conference. February 10, 2025 We received a 2024-2025 OVPR Special Research Grant. January 27, 2025 Dr. Yeh joined the Provost’s Mentored Faculty Scholars Program and served as Dr. Juan Guan’s mentor. January 24, 2025 Our Texas Global proposal with National Taiwan Normal University was selected to be funded. January 29, 2025 Janet He presented a poster on “Aptamer screening against viral variants on a massively sequencing platform” at the 2025 GAIN conference. January 28, 2025 Natalie Nguyen gave an oral presentation on “Fluorescence-lifetime-modulating probes for neural activity sensing” at the 2025 SPIE conference. December 16, 2024 Dr. Yeh joined the panel to review NSF Nanoscale Interactions proposals. November 25, 2024 Our group received a new grant from the NSF Biosensing program. November 20, 2024 Kyle Le presented a poster on “Rapid screening of new DNA fluorogenic aptamers with SELEX-NGS platform” at the 2024 IMECE conference. November 15, 2024 Dr. HooiCheng Lim joined our group as a research scientist. Welcome! November 11, 2024 Dr. Yeh joined the panel to review Sandia CINT proposals. October 23, 2024 Dr. Yeh joined the panel to review NSF Biosensing CAREER proposals. October 1, 2024 Johnny Tran’s I-CARE project on “Development of a more affordable phoropter for developing countries” has won the 1st Place and Audience Choice Freed Family Pitch Competition, the 2nd place in BMES Makeathon, and made the RICE 360 Design Competition 2024 Semifinalist. Congratulations! September 13, 2024 Dr. Yeh joined the panel to review NSF CMI CAREER proposals. August 20, 2024 Dr. Yeh gave a talk on “A nanomaterial probe that changes fluorescence color upon cleavage” in the 2024 International Materials Research Congress. July 31, 2024 Soonwoo left UT for a postdoc position in Dr. Cameron A. Myhrvold’s laboratory at Princeton University. Best wishes to Soonwoo and his family! July 29, 2024 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. July 23, 2024 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar on “Subak: A novel color-switching reporter for nuclease activity and nucleic acid detection” in the Chemistry Department at National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. July 22, 2024 After 8 years with us, Nina left for a senior engineer position at Elephas Biosciences in Madison, Wisconsin. Thank you Nina. We have our best wishes for you. July 19, 2024 Dr. Yeh taught a summer on-line Python programming course to 10 junior high or high school students in Taiwan (aged from 12-17, totally 17 lectures). July 9, 2024 Our research is now funded by NSF CSDM-B program. June 17, 2024 Sohyun presented a poster on “Subak: A novel color-switching reporter for nuclease activity and nucleic acid detection” at the 2024 Noble Metal Nanoparticles Gordon Research Conference. May 31, 2024 Soonwoo received the 2024 KSEA-KUSCO graduate scholarship ($2,000). Congratulations. May 31, 2024 Ted left UT for a postdoc position in Dr. Reto Fiolka’s laboratory at UT Southwestern Medical School. Best wishes to Ted and his family! May 31, 2024 Michael left UT for a postdoc position in Dr. Hussein Abbas’ laboratory at MD Anderson Cancer Research Center. Best wishes to Michael and his family! April 28, 2024 Soonwoo won the 3rd MOGAM-KASBP Scholarship ($5,000). He will attend the 2024 Spring KASBP Symposium in Boston to present an award talk on June 8, 2024. Congratulations! April 15, 2024 Soonwoo and Dr. Yeh are funded by NSF to participate in the NSF National I-Corps Program. April 6, 2024 We have our 2024 summer outing at Tim’s Lake LBJ condo. It was great fun! March 26, 2024 Soonwoo’s work is highlighted in the Daily Texan. Congratulations! March 20, 2024 Our group is funded by NIH NIDA. February 27, 2024 Soonwoo’s Subak probe is highlighted in the Cockrell School of Engineering. Congratulations! February 26, 2024 Dr. Yeh gave a speech at BOGO gathering about the Suabk probe development. February 26, 2024 Michael successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Kuo! February 23, 2024 Dr. Yeh was promoted to Full Professor. Congratulations! February 21, 2024 Soonwoo’s work is highlighted on TMI website “Subak Sensing: Silver Nanocluster Reporters Transform Genetic Testing”. February 8, 2024 Soonwoo successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Hong! January 25, 2024 Soonwoo won the 2023 American Chemical Society Division of Biochemical Technology’s W.H. Peterson Award for the best student oral presentation titled “Activatable fluorescent silver nanoclusters for nucleic acid detection” and a $1,000 prize. Congratulations! January 22, 2024 Sohyun won $90,000 Asan Foundation Fellowship. Congratulations! December 14, 2023 Dr. Yeh joined the panel to review the NCI IMAT R61 proposals. December 12, 2023 Ted successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Nguyen! November 28, 2023 Dr. Yeh gave a talk on “Subak: A novel color-switching reporter for nuclease activity and nucleic acid detection” in the 2023 MRS Fall Meeting. August 20, 2023 Sohyun Kim and Saeed Seifi joined our group as PhD students. Welcome! August 16, 2023 Soonwoo gave an oral presentation on “Activatable fluorescent silver nanoclusters for nucleic acid detection” at the ACS Fall conference. July 12, 2023 Soonwoo received the 2023 BME professional development award. Congratulations! July 6, 2023 Dr. Yeh joined the panel to review the NCI IMAT R61 proposals. June 13, 2023 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar on “New sensing techniques based on fluorescent nanomaterials and 3D tracking microscopes” in the Symposium of Advanced Fluorescence Innovations in Biotechnology at China Medical University in Taichung, Taiwan. June 13, 2023 Soonwoo was awarded the $4,500 Charles M. Simmons Endowed Presidential Fellowship in Engineering from the Cockrell School of Engineering for 2022-2023. Congratulations! June 8, 2023 Dr. Yeh gave a talk on “A new cleavable probe for enzymatic activity and nucleic acid detection using DNA-templated silver nanoclusters” in the Biosensors 2023 Meeting. May 2, 2023 Dr. Yeh led the Mayterm course BME 377T in Barcelona, Spain. April 28, 2023 Dr. Yeh joined the review panel to review the DOE Los Alamos National Lab LDRD proposals. April 6, 2023 Dr. Yeh gave a Tau Beta Pi Faculty Fire Talk to ~40 UT undergraduate engineering students. March 29, 2023 Dr. Yeh joined the review panel to review the NIH George M. O’Brien Kidney Consortium U54 and U24 proposals. March 27, 2023 Nina gave an oral presentation on “Probing fibrin’s molecular response to tensile loading via FLIM-FRET,” at the ACS Spring conference. March 23, 2023 Dr. Yeh hosted the BeLong Pod2 March gathering event and talked about the recent industrial interview process. February 28, 2023 Limin left to take a new position in Dr. Svante Pääbo’s lab at OIST. Best wishes! February 28, 2023 Dr. Yeh hosted the BeLong Pod2 February gathering event to tour the Yeh’s and Cosgriff-Hernandez’s labs. February 28, 2023 Mitchell Litvinov received the Distinguished College Scholars Award. Congratulations! February 22, 2023 Dr. Yeh gave a departmental seminar on “New sensing techniques based on fluorescent nanomaterials and 3D tracking microscopes” in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at UC Irvine. February 21, 2023 Limin gave a poster presentation on “Measuring hybridization kinetics in live cells using a single-molecule imaging and tracking method,” at the BPS conference. February 20, 2023 Michael received a University Graduate Continuing Fellowship for 2023-2024. Congratulations! February 20, 2023 Dr. Yeh gave an oral presentation on “DNA-templated silver nanocluster-based cleavable probes for nucleic acid detection,” at the BPS conference. February 20, 2023 Limin gave a poster presentation on “Measuring hybridization kinetics in live cells using a single-molecule imaging and tracking method,” at the BPS conference. February 14, 2023 Siem Yonas won $1,000 Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations! February 14, 2023 Mitchell Litvinov won $1,000 Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations! December 28, 2022 Our group is funded by NSF Dream Sentinels program. December 8, 2022 Dr. Yeh gave a departmental seminar on “New sensing techniques based on fluorescent nanomaterials and 3D tracking microscopes” in the Mechanical Engineering Department at University of Colorado Boulder. December 3, 2022 Soonwoo received a $300 Professional Development Award for attending the ACS Fall conference. Congratulations! October 21, 2022 Zeynep Korkmaz won $1,000 Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations! October 21, 2022 Aaron Luong won $1,000 Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations! October 18, 2022 Dr. Yeh gave a departmental seminar on “New sensing techniques based on fluorescent nanomaterials and 3D tracking microscopes” in the Chemistry Department at Indiana University. September 15, 2022 Nina gave a video presentation on “Generative adversarial network improves the resolution of pulsed STED microscopy” at the Asilomar conference. August 24, 2022 Soonwoo gave an oral presentation on “New digestion-and-turn-on probes for enzymatic activity and nucleic acid detection” at the ACS Fall conference. August 20, 2022 Janet He and Natalie Nguyen joined our group as PhD students. Welcome! June 13, 2022 Nina gave an oral presentation on “Rapid multiphoton autofluorescence lifetime imaging of retinal tissue” at the 2022 TechConnect conference. May 9, 2022 Nina received the 2022 Outstanding Dissertation Award and $6,000 cash prize from UT. Congratulations! March 23, 2022 Ted received 2022 BPS Student Research Achievement Award on his poster presentation. March 23, 2022 Michael gave an oral presentation on “Revealing NanoCluster Beacon design rules using an NGS chip” at the ACS Spring conference. March 22, 2022 Manasa Sripati won $1,000 Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations! February 27, 2022 Manasa Sripati and her teammates won the 2nd place in South-Southwest Medical Device Make-a-thon, hosted by the University of Texas at San Antonio, and awarded $300 prize. Congratulations! February 21, 2022 Ted gave a poster presentation on “Full-spectrum multiphoton autofluorescence imaging with temporal focusing” at the BPS conference. February 20, 2022 Nina gave a flash talk on “Rapid fluorescence lifetime imaging for live cells and retinal endogenous fluorophores” and a poster presentation at the BPS conference. February 16, 2022 Manasa Sripati and her teammates won the 2nd place in Texas Student Research Showdown, a video competition for undergraduate researchers, and awarded $750 prize. Congratulations! November 24, 2021 Nina received $300 2022 BPS travel award. Congratulations! November 24, 2021 Ted received $300 2022 BPS travel award. Congratulations! November 21, 2021 Ted received $250 Fall 2021 Professional Development Award for attending the 2021 BMES conference. Congratulations! November 17, 2021 Dr. Yeh gave an invited talk on “Advanced microcopy for cancer research” in the Livestrong Cancer Institutes Basic/translational retreat. November 10, 2021 Dr. Yeh gave a departmental seminar on “Helping molecules to tell a colorful tale” in the Chemistry Department at Smith College. November 1, 2021 Dr. Yeh gave an invited talk on “Using the next-generation sequencing platform for massively parallel selection of fluorescent nanomaterials” in the 2021 SWRM ACS Meeting. October 9, 2021 Ted gave an oral presentation on “Full-spectrum multiphoton autofluorescence lifetime imaging with single excitation,” at the BMES conference. October 9, 2021 Soonwoo gave a poster presentation on “Mass spectrometry characterization of monomeric and dimeric DNA-templated silver nanoclusters,” at the BMES conference. September 9, 2021 Soonwoo won the Earnest E. and Elsie M. Clawson Endowed Scholarship in Engineering for 2021-2022. Congratulations! August 23, 2021 Michael won a poster award at the 2021 BME Graduate Student Retreat. Congratulations! August 23, 2021 Dr. Yeh served as a poster competition judge at the 4th BME graduate student retreat. July 27, 2021 Soonwoo gave a poster presentation on “Differential biosensor for metastatic cells using DNA-templated silver nanoclusters,” at the Biosensors 2020/2021 conference. July 26, 2021 Nina gave an oral presentation on “Probing DNA hybridization kinetics in living cells using a 3D single-molecule tracking method,” at the Biosensors 2020/2021 conference. July 7, 2021 Soonwoo received the 2021 BME Professional Development Award for attending the biannual Biosensors conference. Congratulations! July 1, 2021 Nina received $10k from Texas Health Catalyst Program for supporting the development of her lifetime imaging algorithm flimGANE. Congratulations!. June 28, 2021 Together with Dr. Grady Rylander, our research is sponsored by the NIH National Eye Institute. June 14, 2021 Dr. Yeh served on the review panel for the NSF CBET Nanoscale Interactions Program. May 20, 2021 Ted received 2021 CSE PhD Continuing Fellowship. Congratulations! April 26, 2021 Dr. Yeh gave a lecture on “Advanced Imaging Techniques” at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. April 23, 2021 Michael has received 2021 BME professional development award. Congratulations! April 19, 2021 Soonwoo gave an oral presentation on “Spectroscopic and structural characterization of silver nanoclusters with DNA monomers and dimers using mass spectrometry,” at the MRS Spring conference. April 18, 2021 Michael gave an oral presentation on “Optimization of NanoCluster Beacons (NCB) using an NGS platform and machine learning,” at the MRS Spring conference. March 15, 2021 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. March 8, 2021 Dr. Yeh gave a lecture on “Biobarcode Techniques” at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. March 1, 2021 Our research is sponsored by the NSF Biosensing Program. February 25, 2021 Michael gave a poster presentation on “High-throughput optimization of NanoCluster Beacons using an NGS platform,” at the BPS conference. February 25, 2021 Soonwoo gave a poster presentation on “Correlation between spectroscopic and structural features of dimeric DNA-templated silver nanoclusters using mass spectrometry,” at the BPS conference. January 26, 2021 Dr. Yeh spoke at Graduate Professional Development Seminar about his postdoc life at Los Alamos National Lab. November 24, 2020 Our proposal has been awarded a 2020-2021 VPR Research & Creative Grant in the amount of $10,000. November 24, 2020 Soonwoo has received 2021 Virtual Travel Award from Biophysical Society Conference. Congratulations! November 22, 2020 Dr. Yeh served as a judge at the 2020 UT BMES case competition. November 21, 2020 Dr. Yeh gave an invited career development talk at the UT Taiwanese Student Association. October 29, 2020 Jonathan Mathews won $1,000 Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations! October 15, 2020 Michael gave an oral presentation on “Massive selection of NanoCluster Beacons using a sequencing chip,” at the BMES conference. October 14, 2020 Nina gave a poster presentation on “Evaluation of algorithms for fluorescence lifetime estimation via Monte Carlo-based simulation methods,” at the BMES conference. September 15, 2020 Nina’s project “Ultrafast and highly reliable fluorescence lifetime imaging analysis using flimGANE” has entered the Consulting Phase of Texas Health Catalyst grant. Congratulations! July 15, 2020 Our research is sponsored by the NSF Nanoscale Interactions Program. April 13, 2020 Nina received the University Graduate Continuing Fellowship for 2020-2021. Such an award speaks highly of Nina’s record of accomplishments as a graduate student. Congratulations! March 2, 2020 Pranav Anbarasu won $500 Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations! February 29, 2020 Invited by the Taiwanese Student Association, Dr. Yeh gave a career development talk at Johns Hopkins University. February 17, 2020 Ted gave a poster presentation on “Single-objective multiphoton light-sheet microscopy for lung cancer organoid screening” at the BPS conference February 15, 2020 Nina gave an oral presentation on “Comparison of in-vitro and in-vivo DNA hybridization kinetics using 3D single-molecule tracking” at the BPS conference. February 4, 2020 Ted received $250 poster award at GAIN 2020 – Graduate and Industry Networking Event. Congratulations! February 3, 2020 Soonwoo gave a poster presentation on “Array-based sensing of metastatic cells using DNA-templated silver nanoclusters” at SPIE Photonic West. December 12, 2019 Soonwoo received $250 travel grant for the SPIE Photonic West Conference. Congratulations! November 27, 2019 Nina Chen received $200 travel grant from BPS. Congratulations! November 27, 2019 Nina was selected as one of the two nominees for the University Graduate Continuing Fellowship in academic year 2020-2021. Congratulations! November 15, 2019 Together with Dr. Jennifer Brodbelt in the Chemistry Department, we have been awarded the 2019 CNS Catalyst Grant. October 25, 2019 Ryan Su received $500 Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations! October 18, 2019 Nina gave an oral presentation on “Studying JNK2 oligomers in live cells using a 3D single-molecule tracking technique” at the BMES conference. October 17, 2019 Nina gave an oral presentation on “Measuring DNA hybridization kinetics in live cells using a 3D single-molecule tracking method” at the BMES conference. September 1, 2019 Dr. Yeh gave an invited talk at the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in the Physics Department at UT Austin. September 1, 2019 Dr. Yeh is appointed to the Raymond F. Dawson Centennial Teaching Fellow in Engineering. August 28, 2019 Jack Li joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome! August 23, 2019 We have been awarded a US patent 10,407,715 “Metal nanocluster beacons for detection of epigenetic modifications”. Congratulations to all co-inventors! August 7, 2019 We had our 2019 summer outing at Schlitterbahn water park. It was great fun! July 2, 2019 Invited by Prof. Akihiro Kusumi, Dr. Yeh gave a lecture and an invited seminar at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. June 26, 2019 Dr. Yeh gave an invited career development talk at Center for Research and Development of Engineering Technology in National Chung Hsing University. June 26, 2019 Dr. Yeh gave an invited talk in the Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering at National Chung Hsing University. May 3, 2019 Oliver Zhao and Sarah Bi received the Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarship from UT Austin. Congratulations! April 26, 2019 Dr. Yeh gave an invited talk in the ECE Department at Texas A&M University. April 1, 2019 Our group received an R21 grant from NIGMS. March 15, 2019 Our group received $30k Texas 4000 grant. March 5, 2019 Congratulations to Oliver Zhao and Prathyush Shankar for winning the Undergraduate Research Fellowship! February 4, 2019 Michael Kuo gave an oral presentation on “High-throughput activator sequence selection for silver nanocluster beacons” at SPIE Photonic West. February 3, 2019 Ted Nguyen gave a poster presentation on “Single-objective multiphoton light-sheet microscopy for tumor organoid screening” at SPIE Photonic West. January 22, 2019 Dr. Yeh gave an invited talk in the Chemistry Department at the University of Houston. December 11, 2018 Nina gave a poster presentation at the 2018 ASCB conference “Studying JNK2 oligomerization in live cells by a 3D single-molecule tracking technique”. December 4, 2018 Dr. Yeh gave an invited talk at the 2018 IEEE Nanomed conference “EGFR dynamics are different in breast cancer cell lines with distinct metastatic potential”. November 12, 2018 Nina gave an oral presentation at the 2018 microTAS conference “Quantifying the DNA Hybridization Kinetics in Live Cells using a 3D single-Molecule Tracking (3D-SMT) Technique”. November 6, 2018 Dr. Yeh served as a panelist at FIG. November 5, 2018 Dr. Yeh received $25k APX (Associate Professor Experimental) funding. October 31, 2018 Sarah Bi, Katie Blocher, and Angela Liu received Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations! October 26, 2018 Dr. Yeh spoke at the BOGO meeting “Optics and Opportunities at National Laboratories”. October 3, 2018 Our BUILD scholar program student Victor Madrid has won the 1st place in the 2018 BUILDing SCHOLARS Symposium Poster Presentation (Translational Biomedicine & Biomedical Education). The title is “High-Throughput Silver Nano Cluster Beacons Activator Sequence Selection.” Congratulations, Victor! October 3, 2018 Nina received the BME professional development award and $250 support to attend microTAS conference in Taiwan. Congratulations! September 1, 2018 Dr. Yeh was promoted to Associate Professor. August 29, 2018 Soonwoo Hong joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome! August 27, 2018 Dr. Yeh and BME Graduate Student Society co-hosted the 1st BME graduate student retreat at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. August 26, 2018 Nina won the poster award from 2018 Novartis-Academia Conference, Quantitative Sciences in Drug Development. Congratulations! August 24, 2018 Huong Vu joined our group as a postdoc. Welcome! August 16, 2018 Allen successfully defended his PhD dissertation today. Dr. Liu, well done!! August 9, 2018 Our group had our 2018 summer “tubing” outing at the Comal River in New Braunfels. June 22, 2018 Dr. Yeh gave an invited talk in the Chemistry Department at National Taiwan University. June 21, 2018 Dr. Yeh gave a career talk in the College of Life Science at National Taiwan University. June 19, 2018 Dr. Yeh gave a career talk in the Mechanical Engineering Department at National Chiao Tung University. May 11, 2018 Dr. Yeh gave an invited talk at Scripps Florida. May 4, 2018 Sunny Kim participated in the BME undergraduate research poster competition and WON the 1st place. Congratulations to Sunny!!! April 18, 2018 Katie Blocher participated in the Spring 2018 Poster Exhibition on Engineering Research (PEER) and WON the second place in the underclassmen division. Congratulations to Katie!! April 18, 2018 Phyllis Ang participated in the Spring 2018 Poster Exhibition on Engineering Research (PEER) and WON the third place in the upperclassmen division. Congratulations to Phyllis!! April 12, 2018 Dr. Yeh joined the Texas Materials Institute. April 5, 2018 Dr. Yeh gave an invited talk “TSUNAMI 3D tracking microscope for studying EGFR dynamics” in the Subcellular to Cellular Cancer Imaging Workshop, cosponsored by the National Cancer Institute and The American Society for Cell Biology. March 28, 2018 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Southern Methodist University. March 3, 2018 Allen, Nina, Ted, Michael and Angela held the “Exploring Nanomedicine and Light” event on the 2018 Explore UT Day. A huge success. Congratulations! March 1, 2018 Dr. Yeh presented at Pittcon 2018 – “LNA thymidine monomer enables differentiation of the four single-nucleotide variants by melting temperature”. February 19, 2018 Nina Chen received SRAA poster award at BPS annual meeting in San Francisco (Measuing oligonucleotide hybridization kinetics in solution using a time-resolved 3D single-molecule tracking technique). Congratulations! February 15, 2018 After being with UT for five and half years, Dr. Yeh is tenured today! Glory belongs to God. January 30, 2018 Dr. Yeh served as a judge at the Graduate Engineering Council’s (GEC) annual event: Graduate and Industry Networking (GAIN) 2018. January 12, 2018 Yu-An Chen left our lab after 4 years. His new position is the Research Engineer in Dr. Peter Sorger’s lab at Harvard University (Harvard Medical School Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology). We wish him the best luck in the new job. December 15, 2017 Dr. Yeh served on the Technical Committee of IEEE NEMS 2018. December 7, 2017 Dr. Yeh attended the NCI PI meeting and presented his research on 3D single-particle tracking of EGFR in cancer cells. November 15, 2017 Nina Chen received $1,000 North America Taiwanese Engineering & Science Association (Dallas-Chapter) Scholarship. Congratulations! November 6, 2017 Dr. Yeh served as a panelist in the 1st year FIG interest group panel discussion. November 4, 2017 Allen served as the President of 2017 Texas Taiwanese Biotechnology Association (TTBA) and had a successful 2-day symposium on UT campus. Congratulations! October 13, 2017 Nina presented a poster at 2017 BMES – “Characterization of DNA hybridization kinetics in solution using a 3D single-molecule tracking technique”. September 1, 2017 Dr. Yeh starts to serve as the Chair of BME Graduate Studies Committee. August 21, 2017 Dr. Yeh presented at the 2017 International Materials Research Congress – “LNA thymidine monomer enables differentiation of the four single-nucleotide variants by melting temperature”. August 8, 2017 Michael Kuo joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome! August 7, 2017 Ted Nguyen joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome! June 13, 2017 Dr. Yeh gave an invited talk in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at National Cheng Kung University. June 8, 2017 Dr. Yeh gave an invited talk in the Electrical Engineering Department at National Taiwan University. June 1, 2017 Nina Chen won $32,000 Study Abroad Scholarship from Ministry of Education in Taiwan. Congratulations! May 31, 2017 Cong Liu left us for an engineer position at ASML. We wish him a successful career! May 5, 2017 Rohan Vasisht won the 2nd place in the spring semester BME poster competition. Congratulations! May 5, 2017 Dr. Yeh gave an invited talk at Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute in UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. April 20, 2017 Evan successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled “Nonlinear microscopy methods for imaging and particle tracking in thick biological specimen”. Congratulations to Dr. Perillo! April 19, 2017 Rohan Vasisht participated in the Spring 2017 Poster Exhibition on Engineering Research (PEER) and WON the third place in the underclassmen division. Congratulations to Rohan!! April 19, 2017 Dr. Yeh chaired two sessions and presented at the 2017 IEEE-NEMS conference – “Characterization of binding kinetics in solution using 3D single-molecule tracking techniques”. April 10, 2017 Allen received $1000 student travel award from the 2017 Single-Cell Biophysics Conference in Taiwan. Congratulations! April 1, 2017 Dr. Yeh served as a judge at the 2017 Design Competition hosted by BMES. March 23, 2017 Cong successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled “Single-molecule tracking and its application in biomolecular binding detection”. Congratulations to Dr. Liu! March 17, 2017 Nina received a travel award from the 2017 q-bio summer school. Congratulations! March 10, 2017 Rohan Vasisht won a Spring 2017 Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congratulation March 3, 2017 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. February 17, 2017 Our lab received $25k grant from the Texas 400 Foundation. February 14, 2017 Dr. Yeh presented in the 2017 BPS conference – “LNA thymidine monomer enables differentiation of the four single-nucleotide variants by melting temperature”. January 31, 2017 Dr. Yeh served as a judge at the Poster Session at GAIN 2017. January 9, 2017 Judy Obliosca left our lab after 4 years and 2 months. Her new position is the Research Scientist in Luna NanoWorks Division at Luna Innovations. We wish her the best of luck in the new job. January 7, 2017 Dr. Yeh presented the TSUNAMI microscope in the 2017 Quantitative BioImaging meeting. December 1, 2016 Dr. Yeh attended the NCI-IMAT PI meeting. November 21, 2016 Dr. Yeh received a US patent on “Compositions and methods for detecting single nucleotide polymorphisms” (U.S. patent 9,499,866). November 4, 2016 Karena Yu won a Fall 2016 Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations! September 20, 2016 Dr. Yeh spoke to 9 Wolf Boy Scouts (Den 10, Pack 371) about his job as a professor at Patsy Sommer Elementary School. September 8, 2016 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar in the Electrical and Computer Department at the University of Minnesota. August 30, 2016 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar in the Bioengineering Department at Rice University. August 23, 2016 Dr. Yeh presented in the 2016 ACS fall meeting – “Multicolor three-dimensional tracking of receptor tyrosine kinases”. August 22, 2016 Dr. Yeh presented at the special session dedicated to Dr. Richard Keller (Pioneering Single Molecule Detection under Ambient, Aqueous Conditions: A Tribute to Richard Keller) in the 2016 ACS fall meeting – “Few-atom silver cluster-based activatable probes for biosensing”. July 28, 2016 The dissertation committee approved Allen’s proposal. Congratulations! June 16, 2016 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar in the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences at Academia Sinica. June 15, 2016 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Nanomedicine (IBEN) at National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) in Taiwan. June 14, 2016 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar in the Engineering and System Science Department at National Tsing Hua University. June 13, 2016 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar in the Mechanical Engineering Department at National Taiwan University. May 23, 2016 Hannah Horng, a sophomore student from University of Maryland, joins our group as a summer REU student. Welcome! May 11, 2016 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar in the Chemistry Department at Oregon State University. May 9, 2016 Our group is now sponsored by an NSF_CHE grant – “Engineering silver clusters for molecular measurement”. May 1, 2016 Allen received a scholarship from the Ministry of Education in Taiwan (Government Scholarship to Study Abroad). Congratulations! April 27, 2016 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar in the Pathology Department at Johns Hopkins University. April 20, 2016 Dr. Yeh received the 2016 outstanding faculty award for BME from the Cockrell School of Engineering and the Student Engineering Council. March 30, 2016 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Pennsylvania State University. March 17, 2016 Dr. Yeh presented in the 2016 ACS meeting – “Deep and high-resolution 3D tracking of single particles using nonlinear and multiplexed illumination”. March 15, 2016 Dr. Yeh presented in the 2016 ACS meeting – “NanoCluster Beacons for detection of a single N6-methyladenine epigenetic modification”. March 9, 2016 Dr. Yeh presented in the 2016 Pittcon – “Deep and high-resolution 3D tracking of single particles using nonlinear and multiplexed illumination”. March 8, 2016 Dr. Yeh presented in the 2016 Pittcon – “NanoCluster Beacons for detection of a single N6-methyladenine epigenetic modification”. March 2, 2016 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar in the Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine at the University of Pennsylvania. March 1, 2016 Cong gave an oral presentation at the 2016 BPS conference – “NanoCluster Beacons enable enzyme-free N6-methyladenine detection”. February 23, 2016 Allen gave an oral presentation in the 2016 ASME/NEMB conference – “NanoCluster Beacons enable enzyme-free N6-methyladenine detection”. February 22, 2016 Allen gave an oral presentation in the 2016 ASME/NEMB conference – “Deep and high-resolution three-dimensional tracking of single particles using nonlinear and multiplexed illumination”. February 18, 2016 Dr. Yeh spoke at UT Taiwanese Student Association Career Advising Seminar. January 22, 2016 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Columbia. January 20, 2016 Karena Yu, Sunny Kim, Rohan Vasisht, and Kevin Han join our group as undergraduate volunteers. Welcome! January 14, 2016 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar in the Bioengineering Department at UCLA – “Advanced molecular tracking microscopes and few-atom silver cluster-based biosensing”. December 2, 2015 Dr. Yeh presented in the 2015 MRS meeting – “Deep and high-resolution 3D tracking of single particles using nonlinear and multiplexed illumination (TSUNAMI)”. November 30, 2015 Dr. Yeh presented in the 2015 MRS meeting – “NanoCluster Beacons enable detection of a single N6-methyladenine”. November 17, 2015 Dr. Yeh presented in the 2015 IEEE-Nanomed conference – “NanoCluster Beacons enable detection of a single N6-methyladenine” and “Deep and high-resolution 3D tracking of single particles using nonlinear and multiplexed illumination (TSUNAMI)”. November 10, 2015 Our group formed a collaboration with Dr. Chun-Liang Chen’s group at UT Health Science Center in San Antonio in studying prostate circulating tumor cells. October 28, 2015 Dr. Yeh served as a panelist at Graduate Engineering Council (GEC) Career Panel and talked about his work experience at a DOE national lab. October 23, 2015 Mary Gwozdz, Darren Imphean, and Peter Yu have won $1k Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations!! October 8, 2015 Judy gave an oral presentation in the 2015 BMES conference – “NanoCluster Beacons enable detection of a single N6-methyladenine”. October 6, 2015 Dr. Yeh presented at the 2015 BMES conference – “Improving z-tracking accuracy in TSUNAMI 3D tracking microscope”. August 20, 2015 Ajay Rastogi and Peter Yu won 1st place at the Engineering World Health annual design competition and 3rd place at the National Institutes of Health’s Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge for their work on the design of a low-cost patient monitor. Congratulations!! August 18, 2015 The dissertation committee approved Cong’s proposal. Congratulations! August 1, 2015 We had our annual summer group gathering at Dr. Yeh’s house in Avery Ranch. June 17, 2015 Evan Perillo achieved the first STED imaging on immobilized red fluorescent beads. June 2, 2015 Ajay Rastogi joins our group as an undergraduate volunteer. Welcome! June 1, 2015 Mary Gwozdz joins our group as an undergraduate volunteer. Welcome! May 26, 2015 Dr. Yeh gave a seminar at the Pickle Research Center – “Super-resolution 3D molecular tracking microscopy and few-atom silver cluster-based biosensing”. May 26, 2015 Darren Imphean participated in the 2015 Spring BME Undergraduate Research Poster Competition and WON the second place. Congratulations to Darren!! April 21, 2015 Darren Imphean participated in the 5th Annual Cockrell School Poster Exhibition and WON first place in the underclassmen division. Congratulations to Darren!! April 20, 2015 Dr. Yeh spoke at Texas 4000 general meeting. April 8, 2015 Dr. Yeh spoke at the Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology Lunch Seminar – “Development of Super-Resolution 3D Molecular Tracking Microscopes”. April 3, 2015 Dr. Yeh spoke at the UTHSCSA/UTSA BME Seminar – “Advanced Molecular Tracking Microscopes and Few-Atom Silver Cluster-Based Biosensing”. March 28, 2015 Dr. Yeh served as a panelist in the 2015 SASE South Central Regional Conference. March 19, 2015 Our group is now sponsored by an NIH_NCI_IMAT R21 grant. February 20, 2015 Dr. Yeh spoke at UT Taiwanese Student Association Career Advising Seminar. February 8, 2015 Evan Perillo won the PicoQuant Young Investigator Award in the Single-Molecule Spectroscopy and Imaging session at the SPIE Photonics West BiOS conference. Great achievement!! February 7, 2015 Cong gave an oral presentation at the 2015 SPIE/BiOS conference – “Observing Bimolecular Interactions with Single-Molecule Tracking Microscopy”. February 7, 2015 Evan gave an oral presentation in the 2015 SPIE/BiOS conference – “Single-particle tracking through highly scattering media with multiplexed two-photon excitation”. January 20, 2015 Mohammad Syed joins our group as an undergraduate volunteer. Welcome! December 4, 2014 Dr. Andrew Tsourkas from UPenn was invited by Dr. Yeh to give a seminar “Engineering contrast agents for molecular imaging and therapeutic applications” in our department. November 15, 2014 Allen Liu received North America Taiwanese Engineering & Science Association (Dallas-Chapter) Scholarship. Congratulations! October 27, 2014 Darren Imphean, Kevin Varghese, Phung (Ben) Hoang, and Peter Yu have won $1k Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations!! October 25, 2014 Darren Imphean gave an oral presentation in the 2014 BMES conference – “New Chameleon NanoCluster Beacons for Emission-Spectrum-Based SNP Detection”. October 25, 2014 Evan gave an oral presentation in the 2014 BMES conference – “Intracellular Three-Dimensional Single-Particle Tracking with Multiplexed Two-Photon Excitation”. October 25, 2014 Peter Yu gave a poster presentation in the 2014 BMES conference – “High-Resolution Particle-Tracking Microrheology In Endothelial Cells And Glycocalyx Layer”. October 24, 2014 Allen gave an oral presentation at the 2014 BMES conference – “Multicolor Three-Dimensional Tracking of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptors using TSUNAMI microscope”. October 24, 2014 Judy gave an oral presentation at the 2014 BMES conference – “New Design Strategies for Multicolor NanoCluster Beacons”. October 23, 2014 Cong gave an oral presentation at the 2014 BMES conference – “Single-Molecule Tracking Using Different Fluorescent Labels”. October 18, 2014 Jenny Lin joins our group as a visiting scholar. Welcome! August 28, 2014 Yu-An Chen joins our group as a visiting scholar. Welcome! August 23, 2014 Kevin Varghese joins our group as an undergraduate volunteer. Welcome! August 3, 2014 Our group received the Texas 4000 seed grant. July 8, 2014 Our group will have five oral presentations at this year’s BMES conference. Great work!! June 15, 2014 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. June 12, 2014 Dr. Yeh gave a distinguished lecture at the iNANO center of the University of Aarhus, Denmark. June 2, 2014 Darren Imphean joins our group as an undergraduate volunteer. Welcome! April 18, 2014 Dr. Yeh spoke at the annual SCBA-TX symposium. April 17, 2014 Our group formed a collaboration with Dr. Mien-Chie Hung’s group at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in studying EGFR trafficking in cancer spheroids. April 14, 2014 Cong Liu gave an oral presentation at the 9th IEEE-NEMS conference – “Three-dimensional single-molecule tracking with confocal-feedback microscope”. March 25, 2014 Dr. Yeh gave an invited seminar in the Chemistry Department at Furman University. February 14, 2014 Ben Phung joins our group as an undergraduate volunteer. Welcome! February 14, 2014 Peter Yu joins our group as an undergraduate volunteer. Welcome! February 1, 2014 Cong Liu gave a poster presentation at the SPIE conference – “3D single-molecule tracking using one- and two-photon excitation microscopy”. January 13, 2014 Evan Perillo gave an oral presentation at the SPIE conference – “Enhanced 3D localization of individual RNA transcripts via astigmatic imaging”. December 18, 2013 Dr. Yeh presented “A colorful tale of NanoCluster Beacons” at the Physics Auditorium in Los Alamos National Lab, before the award ceremony. September 26, 2013 Judy Obliosca gave a poster presentation in the BMES conference – “NanoCluster Beacons as reporters for Rolling Circle Enhanced Enzyme Activity Detection”. September 17, 2013 Cong Liu achieved 3D tracking of a 20nm fluorescent bead for more than 6 sec today. Great work!! September 9, 2013 Dr. Yeh won the Postdoc Publication Prize in Experimental Sciences at Los Alamos National Laboratory. September 5, 2013 Dr. Gang Bao from Georgia Tech was invited by Dr. Yeh to give a seminar “Engineering Imaging Probes and Molecular Machines for Nanomedicine” in our department. August 4, 2013 We had our first summer group outing at Barton Spring Pool. Thanks, Austin, for picking up this great place and coordinating the outing. August 1, 2013 Allen Liu joins our group as a PhD student. Welcome! August 1, 2013 Anthony Hsu joins our group as an undergraduate volunteer. Welcome! April 21, 2013 Our first lab baby, Ionica, was born around 1pm. Congratulations to Judy and Bobby! April 19, 2013 Austin Batson participated in the 3rd Annual Cockrell School Poster Exhibition and WON first place in the underclassmen division. Congratulations to Austin!! April 1, 2013 Our group is sponsored by the Welch Foundation. February 1, 2013 Quincy Zhuang joins our group as an undergraduate volunteer. Welcome! January 5, 2013 Mark Babin joins our group as an undergraduate volunteer. Welcome! November 12, 2012 Dr. Judy Obliosca joins our group, as the first postdoctoral associate. October 1, 2012 Cong Liu joins our group, as the first PhD student. September 10, 2012 Austin Batson joins our group, as the first undergraduate student. August 20, 2012 The Nanobiosensors and Molecular Tracking Laboratory is founded. July 18, 2012 Silver nanoclusters spot single-base mutations in DNA (C&EN) August 14, 2011 Improving on existing molecular beacons (R&D Magazine).
