LUK GROUP
| Postdoc and Visiting Scholar: | Fei Cheng, JunJie Han, DaWei Cui |
| Graduate Students: | Karen A. Simon Erik A. Burton Sri Kamesh Narasimhan » view Kamesh's research Debjyoti Bandyopadhyay Deepali Prashar Nisha Varghese Eric Falcone |
| Undergraduate: | Nemal S. Gobalasingham |
| High School Student: | Ying Chen |
| Former Members: | Preeti Sejwal, Scientist, BMS, Syracuse YongBin Han, Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, BeiJing, China |
| Ph.D. Graduate: | Preeti Sejwal (2008), Now a Scientist at Bristol Myers Squibb, Syracuse, NY Thesis: I. Water-Driven Chemoselective Reactions of Squarate Serivatives with Amino Acids and Peptides: Mechanism and Applications. II. Biocompatible Hydrogels: Transferring Bio-inert Chemistry from Surfaces to 3-Dimensional Materials.
Karen A. Simon (Defended on July 2nd, 2009),
Erik A. Burton (expected, 2010),
Sri Kamesh Narasimhan (expected, 2010), |
Recent News from Luk Group:
| • | Eric Burton successfully builds a new hydrogel-based biosensor for aqueous toxins. |
| • | Karen Simon gave three talks at the recent colloidal conference - 13th IACIS International Conference on Surface & Colloid Science and 83rd ACS Colloid and Surface Science symposium, New York, NY. |
| • | Dr. Luk received a phone call from NSF program manager regarding his CAREER award. |
| • | Research on assembly of large quantity (more than 2.6x10^12) of water-soluble small molecule has been accepted to Journal of The American Chemical Society. This work from Luk group presents a fundamental discovery on molecular interactions and assembly that is different from what has been known for almost 5 thousand years, and suggests a new paradigm in the fabrication of materials and biocatalyst. |
| • | Research on controlling biofouling has received some highlights. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319142435.htm http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/cb/Volume/2009/4/biofilms_under_control.asp |
| • | Congratulations. Preeti Sejwal defended her Ph.D. successfully on 31st October 2008. |
| • | Deepali Prashar has been awarded a grant as a WISE-FPP associate. |
| • | Preeti Sejwal received an internship and a full time position (Ph.D. entry level) offer by two different sites of Bristol Meyers Squibb. |
| • | Karen Simon was selected as one of the recipients of a Biomaterials Graduate Fellowship for Spring and Summer 2008. |
| • | Luk is invited to give a talk at Bristol-Myers Squibb on 1.15.2008. |
| • | Dr. Lei (Ricky) Wu will arrive on Thanksgiving 2007 to join Luk group as a Postdoctoral researcher. |
| • | Luk's research and funding is highlighted by Syracuse News: http://sunews.syr.edu/story_details.cfm?id=4555 |
| • | Luk attended New York Academy of Sciences Gala Event in New York City with Linda Milosky, Julie Hasenwinkel, Jae Oh, Shiu-Kai Chin, Eric Spina and Nancy Cantor. |
| • | Preeti's work on Water-Driven Chemoselective Reaction is highlighted by Syracuse Biomaterials Institute (SBI). http://biomaterials.syr.edu/news/luk.html |
| • | Luk is invited to be a member of newly establish Syracuse Biomaterials Institute (SBI), which has just been officially approved by the Board of Trustee of Syracuse University. http://biomaterials.syr.edu/people.html |
| • | Luk funded Preeti, Karen and Erik for an etiqutte dinner for industry and academic job interviews. |
| • | Preeti's work on Water-Driven Chemoselective Reactions is accepted for publication in Organic Letters. |
| • | A Wikipedia entry on "water-in-water emulsion" has been set up public education: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-in-Water_Emulsions |
| • | Luk received a phone call from NSF program manager ... * |
| • | The patent on the work of new integrin antagonist by Preeti, ShiFa and Luk was filed. |
| • | Luk was awarded a travel grant by Stereochemical Society of Greater New York to present Luk group's research in both theoretical and experimental stereochemistry in the 19th International Symposium on Chirality, July 8-11, San Diego, CA. |
| • | Preeti Sejwal got an offer of summer internship at Bristol-Myers Squibb. |
| • | Preeti Sejwal presented her work in the ACS meeting in Chicago. |
| • | Luk got another CARTI award for using novel hydroshell to detect aqueous toxins. |
| • | Luk was invited to be on the review panel for NSF Biomaterials Division.< |
| • | Karen and Erik's work on enhancing cell adhesion and confinement by using gradient nanotopography was accepted for publication by J. Am. Chem. Soc. |
| • | Shuyu Hou, Erik A. Burton, Karen A. Simon's work on controlling the formation of biofilm was accepted for publication by Appl. Environ. Microbiol. |
| • | Kamesh and Shifa solved a very difficult problem in regioselectivity for the substitution reaction with trioxatriconan. |
| • | Luk and Kamesh and Xiaoying Lu solved a century-old open problem in theoretical stereochemistry on how to construct chiral molecules with the symmetry point group of T, O or I. |
| • | Undergraduate Anny Huang won the departmental Birge award for excellence in biochemistry. |
| • | Karen's work on water-in-water emulsion appeared in Langmuir. |
| • | Yongbin Han's work on a biocompatible folded surfactant appeared in J. Am. Chem. Soc. |
