Group members

Erin Kenndy (Meyerhoff Scholar)

Tao Zhang

Manuel Huerta-Alvarado

Keynon Bell (MARC U*STAR)

Alumni

Syed Asfand Hussain

Anthony Huynh

Anthony

Kristen Irons – 2017 REU

Vanessa Nwaiwu

Lauren Cho

Blake Ford – 2016 REU

Sarah Pollock (MARC U*STAR) – 2016

Chidera Ekeocha – 2016

Hye Min Baek -2015

Latest News

June 27, 2019 Minjoung Kyoung received R01 Research Funding 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!