News

2025

11/30/2025: Submitted our paper on investigating Poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) ion binding and comparison with RNA. biorxiv 11/28/2025: Attended and presented at the MDAnalysis UGM at Arizona State University in Tucson, Arizona. photo
10/24/2025: Attended and presented a poster at the Rustbelt RNA Meeting in Huron, Ohio. photo
10/21/2025: Submitted our paper on temperature-dependent ion migration and sequence-specific collapse of single-stranded RNA. biorxiv
08/18/2025: Completed my summer internship at Enveda 🏔️.
08/07/2025: Our work on how RNA structural complexity change its ion atmosphere was published in J Phys Chem Lett! pdf
07/18/2025: Won summer hackathon project at Enveda! We hacked a novel fragmentation scheduler to solve the overfragmentation problem with timsTOF.
05/12/2025: Started my summer internship on the Platform Chemistry team at Enveda.
04/29/2025: Received the Academic Excellence Award from SUNY Buffalo, and presented at the student showcase.
04/03/2025: Invited as a guest lecturer for CE530 (Molecular Modeling) by Dr. Monje to present the fundamentals of coarse-grained biomolecular simulations and applications to RNA systems.
03/10/2025: Presented at the Buffalo RNA Club, fulfilling my fourth-year talk requirement for my PhD program and marking one step closer to completing my doctoral degree.
02/19/2025: Attended the 2025 Biophysical Society Meeting in Los Angeles and presented two poster. There were a lot of great science, I really enjoyed my time!
01/30/2025: Accepted an internship position on the Platform Chemistry team at Enveda Biosciences! I can’t wait to start in May at their beautiful campus in Boulder, Colorado!

2024

10/15/2024: Presented a poster at the NY RNA Symposium in the Finger Lakes and won the outstanding poster award! pdf, photo
05/24/2024: Presented a poster at the 41st Graduate student symposium at UB: pdf, photo.
03/09/2024: Passed my PhD qualifying exam and became a PhD candidate! 🥳

2023

12/09/2023: Published an review article on the topic of photo-activatable bioorthogonal reagents: pdf.
10/01/2023: Joined BioSim lab at UB, embarking my journey as a computational chemist!
04/27/2023: Published a new bioorthogonal ligation reaction in JACS: pdf.