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2024.11.12. Zhiyuan passed his PhD thesis defense today. Congratulations to Dr. Song and his newborn!
2024.10.9. Gangtong’s paper, “Deciphering the Morphological Difference of Amyloid-β Fibrils in Familial and Sporadic Alzheimer’s Diseases”, is now published in JCIM. Congratulations to Gangtong, Zhiyuan, and Yun Xu!
2024.8.26. Zhiyuan’s paper, “Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Fibril Catalyzes Amyloid-β Aggregation by Promoting Fibril Nucleation Rather than Direct Axial Growth”, is now accepted for publication in an Elsevier journal: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. Congratulations to Zhiyuan and all co-authors!
2024.7.23. Adam’s first first-authored research paper is now accepted for publication in ACS Chemical Neuroscience. Congratulations to Adam!
2024.3.29. Adam is the recipient of 2024 Goldwater scholarship. Congratulations to Adam! well done!
2024.1.18. Our joint study with Dr. David Leong at National University of Singapore and Dr. Pu-Chun Ke at Monash University, “Endothelial leakiness elicited by amyloid protein aggregation”, is now published in Nature Communications.
2023. 8.31. Our study on the direct observation of single-molecular fibril growth of IAPP fibrils with different morphologies in silico, first authored by Gangtong Huang, is now accepted for publication in JCIM. Congrats to Mr. Gangtong Huang!
2023. 8.15. Our joint paper with Dr. Pu-Chun Ke and Dr. Guotao Peng groups, entitled “Spike Protein Fragments Promote Alzheimers Amyloidogenesis”, is now published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
2022.9.14. It is official! We just got awarded another 5-year R35 – Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA R35GM145409) – from NIGMS.
2022.8.13. Our joint work with Dr. Pu Chun Ke on nanoplastic particles causing vascular endothelial leakage, entitled “Anionic Nanoplastic Exposure Induces Endothelial Leakiness”, is now published in Nature Communications. Congratulations to the team!
2022.7.11. Our collaborative paper with Prof. Yunxiang Sun’s group on the microphase separation of suckerin self-assembly is now accepted for publication in Small. Congratulations to Prof. Sun!
2022.6.3. Nadav Benhamou Goldfajn, an NSF REU student worked in the lab last summer, published his first first-author paper in ACS Chemical Neuroscience on the sub-stoichiometric inhibition of amylin aggregation by insulin. Congratulations to Nadav!
2021.11.16. Yanting Xing successfully defended her PhD thesis today. Congratulations to Dr. Xing!
2021.7.21. “A Framework of Paracellular Transport via Nanoparticles-Induced Endothelial Leakiness”, co-authored by Myeongsang and Huayuan, is now accepted for publication in Advanced Science. Congratulations to the collaborative team!
2021.3.5. “Spontaneous Formation of β-sheet Nano-barrels during the Early Aggregation of Alzheimer’s Amyloid Beta”, a joint work by Clemson, Monash University, Ningbo University, and Southwest University, is now accepted for publication in Nano Today. Congratulations to Yunxiang and the collaborative team!
2020.12.24. “Amyloid Aggregation under the Lens of Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation”, first authored by Yanting, is now in press in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letter. Congratulations to Yanting, who also became a new mother recently!
2020.2.10. “Thermo- and pH-Responsive Fibrillization of Squid Suckerin A1H1 Peptide”, first authored by Yunxiang, is now accepted for publication in Nanoscale. Congratulations to Yunxiang, now an Associate Professor of Physics at Ningbo University!
2019.9.16. “Graphene quantum dots rescue protein dysregulation of pancreatic β-cells exposed to human islet amyloid polypeptide”, coauthored by Yunxiang, is now accepted for publication in Nano Research. Congratulations to Yunxiang and the collaboration team!
2019.8.28. “Single-molecular hetero-amyloidosis of human islet amyloid polypeptide”, co-authored by Yanting and Yunxiang, is now accepted for publication in Nano Letter. Congratulations!
2019.8.4. Our collaborative work, “Inhibition of Amyloid Beta Toxicity in Zebrafish with A Chaperone-Gold Nanoparticle Dual Strategy”, is now accepted for publication in Nature Communications. Congratulations to Yanting and the team!
2019.5.28. The work “Amphiphilic Surface Chemistry of Fullerenols Is Necessary for Inhibiting the Amyloid Aggregation of Alpha-Synuclein NACore” first authored by Yunxiang Sun is now accepted for publication in Nanoscale. Congratulations to Yunxiang!
2019.4.26. Our jointed review paper with Drs. Thomas Davis and Pu Chun Ke on “Mitigation of Amyloidosis with Nanomaterials” is accepted for publication in Advanced Materials. Congratulations to Yunxiang!
2019.3.1. Our work on the aggregation of hIAPP8-20 via accumulation of helical oligomers, alpha-helix-to-beta-sheet transition, and beta-barrel intermediates has been accepted for publication in Small and featured as the inside Cover article. Congratulations to Yunxiang and Yanting!