Mar 2024: Jingyi was selected as a Kavli Fellow by the Kavli Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences, and invited to the 34th Kavli Science Fronteris of Science Symposium. Congrtulations to Jingyi!

Feb 2024: Xinqi gave a talk at Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University.

Jan 2024: We had a new undergraduate student join the lab, Nurai El Ashry. Welcome Nurai!

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)!

Jul 2023: Anna Perez Joined the lab for summer research! She is supported by the Katen Scholars Program. Welcome Anna!

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:  Sneha gave a talk at the Chicagoland RNA Club.

Sep 2022:  Jingyi was in this month's RNA Society Member Spotlight!

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!

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

Jan, 2022: 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~

                      Welcome our new Research Specialist, Alyssa Guzman!

Feb, 2021:  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!

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.

Aug, 2019: Matt gave a talk at the Biophysics retreat. 

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!

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!

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

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 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!


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!