Welcome to Fei Lab
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Oct 2023: Jingyi gave a seminar at Department of Chemistry, Stanford University.
                   Jingyi gave a seminar at Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin at Madison.
                   Jingyi gave a seminar at the Department of Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
                   Jingyi gave a talk at the Advanced Optical Imaging Symposium 2023 organized by University of Illinois at Chicago

Sep 2023: Sneha, Jinjun, Li and Jingyi all presented at the BMB departmental retreat. 

Aug 2023: Our lab was awarded a MPI grant from NSF to study nuclear speckles with Prof Oded Regev (NYU)!
                   Jingyi gave a talk at the Amerian Chemical Society Fall Meeting.

Jul 2023: Jingyi gave a talk at the 37th annua symposium of the Protein Society.

Jun 2023: Jingyi gave a talk at the IBD symposium on RNA biology this year.

Mar 2023: Jingyi gave a seminar at the Department of Chemistry, Arizona State University.

Dec 2022:  Both Xinqi and Sneha were selected for the Yen Fellowship from the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics. Thanks Yen and IBD for the generous support! Congratulations to Xinqi and Sneha!
                    Alyssa and Sneha decorated Jingyi's office door for the first BMB holiday door decoration competition. And the Fei Lab won the first prize!! Wonderful job Alyssa and Sneha!

Oct 2022:  Jingyi gave a seminar at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah.
                    Sneha gave a talk at the Chicagoland RNA Club.

Sep 2022:  Jingyi gave a seminar at the Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University.
                    Jingyi gave a seminar at the Université de Strasbourg, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology.
                    Jingyi was in this month's RNA Society Member Spotlight!

Aug 2022:  Jingyi gave a talk at the Symposium "Dynamics of biomolecules in complex environments" at the American Chemical Society Fall Meeting 2022.
                    Jingyi gave a talk at the 15th Asia Pacific Physics Conference (APPC15).

Jul, 2022:   Dr. Xinqi Fan joined the lab as postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Xinqi! Xinqi will also be co-mentored by Dr. Chuan He.
                    Andrew Huang Joined the lab for summer research! He is supported by the Katen Scholars Program. Welcome Andrew!

Jun, 2022:  Jingyi gave a talk at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CCCE) 2022.
                    Jingyi gave a talk at the TSRC workshop: The Complexity of Dynamics and Kinetics from Single Molecules to Cells.

Apri, 2022: Jingyi gave a seminar at the Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University.
                     Jingyi gave a seminar at the Department of Chemistry, Columbia University.

Mar, 2022: Li Wen joined the lab. She is a Ph.D. candidate from the Physics Department. Welcome Li!

Jan, 2022: Jingyi gave a talk at the 6th Meeting on Regulating with RNA in Bacteria and Archaea.
                   Glingna Wang Joined the lab for undergraduate research! She is supported by the Quad Faculty Research Grant. Welcome Glingna!

Nov, 2021: Congratulations to Jeff for defending his thesis! The lab celebrated at Tang's Garden, but we forgot to take pictures....

Oct, 2021: Yunzheng Liu joined the lab. She is a master student in the PSD master program and majored in physics. Welcome Yunzheng!

Sep, 2021: Matt's study on kinetic determinant of sRNA regulation hierarchy is published in Cell Reports. Congulations to Matt!
                    Dr. Sneha Paul joined the lab as postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Sneha!

Jul, 2021: Welcome our new Research Professional, Dr. Zunwu Zhou!

Jun, 2021: Our lab is awarded a NIH R21, together with Dr. Weixin Tang (UChicago Chemistry), to develop a new method for spatially resolved lineage tracing!

May, 2021: Congratulations to Matt for defending his thesis! First lab party since the pandemic~


                      Jingyi gave a seminar at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University.
                      Welcome our new Research Specialist, Alyssa Guzman!

Apr, 2021: Jingyi gave a seminar at the Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University.

Mar, 2021: Jingyi gave a seminar at the Department of Chemistry, McGill University.

Feb, 2021: Jingyi gave a seminar at the Department of Chemistry, Boston College.
                    Seongjin's study on Hfq protein in live bacterial cell is published in eLife. Congulations to Seongjin!

Nov, 2020: Welcome our new postdoc, Dr. Jinjun Wu!

Oct, 2020: Jingyi gave a talk at the Regulating with RNA in Bacteria Virtual Conference.

Apr, 2020: Magda's method on site-specific quantification of  m6A fraction is published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Congratulations to Magda!

Oct, 2019: Seongjin's new immunostaining method is published in Biochemistry. Congratulations to Seongjin!
                   Amine was selected as a Yen Postdoctoral Fellow, supported by IBD. Congratulations to Amine!

Sep, 2019: Seongjin and Jeff presented their posters at the Chicago Biophysics Networking Symposium.
                   Jingyi gave a Biophysics seminar at the University of Notre Dame.

Aug, 2019: Matt gave a talk at the Biophysics retreat. 
                    Jingyi gave a talk at the Gordon Research Conferences: Mechanisms of Microbial Transcription. 

Jul, 2019: Our lab participated the summer school @ NSF Center for the Physics of Living Cells, UIUC. Seongjin and Matt were teaching assistants this year. Jingyi gave a lecture there.  
                  We have two students, Jiawei Ding (Tsinghua University) and Yu Fu (Peking University), joining us through the international undergraduate summer research program. Welcome Jiawei and Yu!

May, 2019: Jingyi gave a talk at the 5th Biophysical Society of Canada (BSC) annual meeting

Apr, 2019: Jingyi gave a seminar at the Department of Physics, University of Arkansas.

Mar, 2019: Seongjin, Jeff and Matt presented their posters at the  63rd annual meeting of Biophysical Society.
                     Seongjin gave a talk at the RNAClub.
                     Dr. Amine Driouchi Joined lab as a postdoc. Welcome Amine!
                    Jingyi gave a seminar at the Institute for Genomic Biology at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Nov, 2018: Jeff gave a talk at the RNAClub.

Oct, 2018: Jeff gave a talk at the Molecular Bioscience retreat.
                    Jingyi gave a seminar at Center for Precision Environmental Health and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine.
                    Jingyi spoke at the 16th Annual CBC symposium "A New Age of Structural biology: Structure Meets Dynamics".

Sep, 2018: Seongjin put together our "3-in-1" microscope design in a manuscript in JoVE. Check it out if you are interested in building one.

Sep, 2018: Jeff's single-molecule FRET study on the T-box riboswitch is published in eLife! Great collaboration with Prof. Alfonso Mondragón's group (Northwestern University). Check out the eLife Digest to find out how T-box recognizes the tRNA ligand!

Jul, 2018: Our lab participated the summer school @ NSF Center for the Physics of Living Cells, UIUC. Seongjin and Matt were teaching assistants this year. Jingyi gave a lecture there.  

Jun, 2018: Congratulations to Jingyi for beling selected as a Scialog Fellow for Chemical Machinery of the Cell
                   Congratulations to Shriram for being selected as both an Amgen Scholar and an  Astronaut Scholar!

Oct, 2017: Matt's new image analysis tool is published in Biochemistry. With this tool, you can easily segment bacteria cells in 2D or 3D from fluorescence or DIC images. Please email us if you are interested in trying it out!

Oct, 2017: Jingyi is selected as one of the recipients for the NIH Directors' New Innovator Award in 2017. Congratulations to Jingyi!

Jul, 2017: Our collaboration with Dr. Bryan Dickinson (UChicago) and Dr. Engin Ozkan (UChicago) is funded by NIH.
                  Joanna has joined the lab. She is a visiting scholar in the 2017-18 Visiting Research Graduate Traineeship Program, from University of Technology in Wroclaw, Poland. Welcome Joanna!

Jul, 2017: Our lab participated the summer school @ NSF Center for the Physics of Living Cells, UIUC. Seongjin, Jeff and Matt were teaching assistants this year. Jingyi gave a lecture there.           
 

Apr, 2017: Our collaboration with Dr. Cari Vanderpool (UIUC) and Dr. Eric Masse (University of Sherbrooke) is funded by NIH. 
 
Mar, 2017: Jingyi gave a talk at the American Physical Society 2017 March Meeting, DBIO focus session.
                     Jingyi is named the Searle Scholar for 2017. Congratulations to Jingyi!
                     Shriram is accepted into the 2017 UCIHP Katen scholars propram. Congratulations to Shriram!
                     Welcome Soo Ji Kim for her rotation in the lab!

Jan, 2017: Congratulations to Jingyi and Dr. Alfonso Mondragón (Northwestern University) for winning the Catalyst Award from the Chicago Biomedical Consortrium!

Dec, 2016: Congratulations to Jeff, Eric and Matt on passing their qualifying exams

Oct, 2016: Jingyi gave a talk at the Cancer Epigenetics and Nuclear Dynamics (CEND) Minisymposium at Northwestern University. 

Sep, 2016: Jingyi gave a talk at the RiboClub Annual Meeting.

Jul, 2016: Jeff and Matt both officially joined the lab!
                  Shriram chennakesavalu joined the lab for summer research. Welcome Shriram!
                  Our lab participated the summer school @ NSF Center for the Physics of Living Cells, UIUC. Seongjin and Eric were teaching assistants there and trained students in super-resolution RNA imaging module. 


Jun, 2016: Eric officially joined the lab after two-month rotation!
                   Magda Bujnowska joined the lab as undergrad research assistant. Magda is a second-year undergraduate student in chemistry. Welcome Magda! 
                   Emily Heideman joined the lab as research technician. Welcome Emily!

May, 2016: Jeff Zhang and Matt Reyer started their rotations. Jeff and Matt are both first-year graduate student in biophysics program. Welcome Jeff and Matt!

Mar, 2016: Carter Stout joined the lab as undergrad research assistant. Carter is a first-year undergraduate student in chemistry. Welcome Carter! 
                    Eric McLean and Cody Hernandez started their rotations. Cody and Eric are both first-year graduate student in CMB program. Welcome Eric and Cody!

Jan, 2016: Jingyi started her lab @ UChicago. Dr. Seongjin Park joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Seongjin!