Group members

Erin Kenndy (Meyerhoff Scholar, joined winter 2015)

Tao Zhang (joined spring 2018)

Haotian Wu (joined winter 2019)

Spencer Jaquet (Joint Biochemistry Program with UMB, Joined summer 2020)

Undergraduate researchers

Michelle Ramsahoye (MARC U*STAR)

Alumni

Manuel Huerta-Alvarado (Undergraduate researcher)

Keynon Bell (MARC U*STAR) (Undergraduate researcher)

Syed Asfand Hussain (Undergraduate researcher)

Anthony Huynh (Undergraduate researcher)

Anthony

Kristen Irons – 2017 REU

Vanessa Nwaiwu (Undergraduate researcher)

Lauren Cho (High School researcher)

Blake Ford – 2016 REU (Undergraduate researcher)

Sarah Pollock (MARC U*STAR) – 2016 (Undergraduate researcher)

Chidera Ekeocha – 2016 (Undergraduate researcher)

Hye Min Baek -2015 (Undergraduate researcher)

Latest News

March 6th, 2020 Tao Zhang presented his research at Graduate Research Day at Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in UMBC !

March 4th, 2020 Minjoung Kyoung chaired the virtual session, for APS March Meeting 2020

Session J26: Multimodal Optical Trapping/Microscopy/Spectroscopy of Living Matter

February 6th, 2020 Minjoung Kyoung was invited to give a seminar talk at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in Ohio State University!

January 10th, 2020 Minjoung Kyoung was invited to give a talk at the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Retreat in University of Maryland, Baltimore!

December 6th, 2019 Minjoung Kyoung was invited to give a seminar talk at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in University of Minnesota, Duluth!

December 4th, 2019 Minjoung Kyoung was invited to give a seminar talk at the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics in University of Minnesota, twin city!

November 21st, 2019 Minjoung Kyoung was invited to give a seminar talk at the Department of Chemistry in Pennsylvania State University!

November 9th, 2019 We hosted

The 6th Chesapeake Bay Area Single Molecule Biology Meeting

August 30, 2019 We are in the News !!! https://news.umbc.edu/umbcs-minjoung-kyoung-to-help-develop-first-4d-map-of-a-cells-metabolic-pathways/

June 27, 2019 Minjoung Kyoung received R01 award for 5 years from NIGMS

May 11, 2019 Minjoung Kyoung gave a talk at 5th Chesapeake Bay Area Single Molecule Biology Conference at Janelia Research Campus, MD.

May 11, 2019 Patricia Boyd presented a poster at 5th Chesapeake Bay Area Single Molecule Biology Conference at Janelia Research Campus, MD.

April 24, 2019 Keynon Bell presented a poster, 4D Mapping Of Spatiofunctional Enzyme Droplets in Living Cells’ at 2019 URCAD , UMBC.

April 10 – April 13, 2019 Minjoung Kyoung presented a poster at 2019 Keystone symposium -Biomolecular Condensates, Salt Lake City, UT.

March 31- April 4-2019 Minjoung Kyoung was invited to give a talk at 2019 ACS national meeting in Orlando, FL.

March 15-2019 Minjoung Kyoung was invited to give a seminar talk in the Department Chemistry at U of Akron.

March 10 -2019 Minjoung Kyoung was selected as a Must-See Presenters in 2019 ACS national meeting at C&EN magazine – https://cen.acs.org/acs-news/acs-meeting-news/guide-ACS-Spring-2019-National/97/i10

March 2-6-2019 Minjoung Kyoung was invited to give a talk at 2019 Annual Biophysical Society Meeting in Baltimore, MD.

February 18-23-2019 Minjoung Kyoung was invited to give a talk at 2019 Quantitative Biology Conference, Oahu, HI.

January 6-11-2019 Minjoung Kyoung presented Kyoung lab research at Single Molecule Biophysics Conference at Aspen, Co.

December-7-2018 Minjoung Kyoung was invited to give a seminar at Biophysics department in U of Michigan, Ann Arbor !

August-29-2018 Minjoung Kyoung presented “Spatiofunctional enzyme assemblies in living cells” at 2018 Cold Spring Harbor meeting: Single Biomolecules !

August-9-2018 Erin Kennedy presented a poster at “Celebrating 21 years, 100+ PhDs, and a Culture of Excellence” for Meyerhoff program !

July-24-2018 Minjoung Kyoung and her collaborators received a seed grant from The Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis Foundation for Health and Policy!

July-16-2018 Minjoung Kyoung was invited to give a talk “4D characterization of spatiofunctional enzyme assemblies in live cells” at Gordon Research Conference: Single Molecule Approaches to Biology!

June-24-29-2018 Minjoung Kyoung was selected to attend “NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Initiative, NSF and the 2018 Innovation Lab”!

May-24-2018 Minjoung Kyoung was invited to give a K-12 STEM talk at Centennial lane elementary school in MD !

May-5-2018 Minjoung Kyoung was invited to give a talk at FCBIS in UPenn !

May-5-2018 Erin Kennedy presented her research at FCBIS in UPenn !

May-4-2018 Erin Kennedy received Excellence in Graduate Research award at CNMS ceremony ! Way to go Erin !

May-4-2018 Manuel Huerta-Alvarado received Excellence in Undergraduate Research award at CNMS ceremony ! Way to go Manny !

March-16-2018 Erin Kennedy Presented her research in Graduate Research Day at UMBC!

February-16-2018 Minjoung Kyoung was invited to give a talk at George Washington University!

January-29-2018 Tao Zhang joined our group as a graduate student!

November-4-2017 Manuel Huerta-Alvarado presented “Developing nano-reaction chambers to characterize transient macromolecular complexes” at Chesapeake Bay Area Single Molecule Biology Meeting !

October -2017 Joelle Cusic started rotation in our lab!

August-2017 Tao Zhang started rotation in our lab!

August-30-2017 Celeste Chung joined our group as an undergraduate researcher!

August-24-2017 Asfand Hussain joined our group as an undergraduate researcher!

August-10 2017 Manuel Huerta-Alvarado presented “Nano-Reaction Chambers to Differentiate Binding Affinities for Modified FKBP-Rapamycin/FRB Ternary Complexes” at SURF!

August-10 2017 Kristen Irons presented “Developing Mutant FKBP-Rapamycin/FRB Ternary Complexes” at SURF!

June-12-2017 Kristen Irons joined our group as a REU student!

June-8-2017 Erin Kennedy won Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) fellowship!

May-11-2017 Noah Robinson won Teaching Award !

May-1-2017 Manuel Huerta-Alvarado joined our group as an undergraduate researcher!

April-26-2017 Minjoung Kyoung was invited to give a talk at Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET), Baltimore, MD.

April-20-2017 Minjoung Kyoung was invited to give a talk at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at George Mason University, Manassas, VA.

April-8-2017 Minjoung Kyoung, Noah Robinson and Erin Kennedy attended Chesapeake Bay Area Single Molecule Meeting, at Johns Hopkins University, MD.

April-7-2017 Minjoung Kyoung, Noah Robinson and Erin Kennedy attended Single-Molecule and Single-Cell Biophysics Symposium, , at Johns Hopkins University, MD.

March-24-2017 Minjoung Kyoung gave an invited talk, “seeing is believing: one molecule at a time” at Mt. Hebron High School!

March-22-2017 Anthony Huynh won 2017-2018 undergraduate Research Award(URA) ! Congratulations!

January-27-2017 Erin Kennedy presented ” Imaging transient protein-protein interactions inside living cells using lattice light sheet microscopy” in Biotechnology conference!

January-27-2017 Noah Robinson presented “Vesicle Based Nano-Chamber for Single Molecule Studies” in Biotechnology conference!

January-20-2017 Erin Kennedy presented ” Imaging transient protein-protein interactions inside living cells using lattice light sheet microscopy” in 6th Annual Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Retreat at UMB!

January-20-2017 Noah Robinson presented “Vesicle Based Nano-Chamber for Single Molecule Studies” in 6th Annual Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Retreat at UMB !

August-10-2016 Anthony Huynh presented “Developing transient tertiary complexes with various binding affinities” in SURF!

August-10-2016 Blake Andrew Ford presented “Developing nano-reaction chamber to probe transient macromolecular complexes” in SURF!

July-5-2016 Minjoung Kyoung presented “Visualizing regulatory interactions in metabolic networks” in Single molecule GRC!

June-27-2016 Aiya Smith from Merganthaler Vocational High School (MERVO), a Baltimore City high school, joined the group for the Summer Biomedical Training Program!

June-6-2016 Blake Andrew Ford from Stevenson University joined the group as a REU student!

May-17-2016 Anthony Huynh joined the group as an undergraduate researcher!