2015
March 2015
- Tulane (JJ as PI) receives an NIH S10 grant for a state-of-the-art Surface Plasmon Resonance Instrument.
- The Biacore T200 will be housed in the interdisciplinary Tulane Vector Borne Infectious Diseases Research Center.
April 2015
- Hong Zhang and Xiao Zhou publish with the Rubstov group in AIP Journal of Chemical Physics on ballistic energy transport
May 2015
- Undergraduate Rory Loo joins the group
July 2015
- Gyan Aryal leaves the group and finds a new post-doctoral position at University of Nevada-Reno, Medical School.
- Xiaoye Su published in Chemical Communications about the development of of a stable bidentate protein binder through DNA self-assembly
- Xiaozhu Chu with Cooper Battle published an article in Bioconjugate Chemistry discussing a microRNA responsive carbonic anhydrase inhibitor
August 2015
- Undergraduate Hannah Case joins the group
September 2015
- JJ receives Graduate Studies Student Association Outstanding Faculty Award, Tulane University.
October 2015
- Graduate Students Berk Atuk and Da Cui join the group.
December 2015
- Xiaoye Su has completed his PhD Defense. Congrats Dr. Su!
2014
February 28, 2014
- Mardi Gras Symposium http://www.gibbgroup.org/mgs2014/ ) was co-hosted by JJ at the Lavin-Bernick Center on the Tulane Uptown campus.
March 2014
- Hong Zhang with Mengyuan Zhu published in Chemical Communications on water soluble porphyrin nanospheres.
May 2014
- Mark Gorelik joins the group
June 2014
- Group starts setting up joint lab space at the Tulane Vector Borne-Infectious Diseases Center in the JBJ building downtown.
August 10-14, 2014
- JJ co-organizes symposium on Stimuli-Responsive Supramolecular, Macromolecular and Nanostructural Systems and Biopolymer-Driven Organization of Nanostructures
September 2014
- JJ and group's work is featured on the National Institute of General Medicine Chem Health Web Blog https://publications.nigms.nih.gov/chemhealth/chemist_jayawickramarajah…
October 2014
- JJ receives Outstanding Achievement Award from theDean ofSchool of Science and Engineering, Tulane University.
December 2014
- Graduate Student Pravin Pathak joins the group
- Mengyaun Zhu publishes in Langmuir on host-guest interactions based multilayered perylene diimide thin film formation.
2013
January 2013
- Cooper and Xiaozhu publish a review in Supramolecular Chemistry on Oligonucleotide-based systems for input controlled and non-covalently regulated protein binders.
July 2013
- Nan Zhang and Xiaozhu pubilsh in Langmuir on photonic DNA-chromophore nanowire networks.
- JJ is promoted to Associate Professor of Chemistry with Tenure
October 2013
- Xiaozhu Chu graduates with PhD
November 2013
- Nan Zhang graduates with PhD
December 2013
- Undergraduate Student Alexandra Carmen joins the group.
2012
October 2012
- Graduate Student Ryan Vik joins the group/
August 2012
- Group sets up new Biochemistry/Biomolecular purification lab in the Flower Building.
July 2012
- Graduate Student Emily Schmidt joins the group.
May 2012
- JJ receives a grant (R01) from the National Institutes of Health to develop molecular recognition triggered protein-inhibitors that are activated by endogenous/overexpressed microRNA.
- Professor Jayawickramarajah has been promoted to full Program Member status at the Tulane Cancer Center.
April 2012
- Graduate student Xiao Zhou joins group
March 2012
- Congratulations to undergraduate researcher Richard Tang who won the "Best Undergraduate Oral Presentation" at the 86th annual meeting of the Louisiana Academy of Sciences
- Cooper's review article on supramolecular approaches to inhibit protein-protein interactions is published in "Supramolecular Chemistry: From Molecules to Nanomaterials".
January 2012
- Dr. Gyan Aryal (PhD from the University of Nevada, Reno) joins the group as a post-doc
2011
September 2011
- JJ receives a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop supramolecular approaches to construct precisely controlled multi-porphyrin arrays in aqueous solution and on surfaces.
July 2011
- Congratulations to David Harris for successfully defending his PhD dissertation. David is off to do a post-doc at Northwestern University with Prof. Michael Jewett.
June 2011
- Congratulations to undergraduate researcher Aaron Coulon for being accepted into the Tulane Medical School.
May 2011
- David's work on protein-binding molecular switches controlled by host-guest interactions and oligonucleotide inputs is published in JACS.
- Congratulations to Cooper Battle for being awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
- Congratulations to group alumnus Matthew Griffin for being awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship at Caltech.
- Undergraduate researcher Aaron Coulon has received a fellowship from the Honors Summer Research Program to conduct research on stimuli responsive agents.
January 2011
- Graduate student Hong Zhang joins group.
- Rob's work on the molecular recognition, solubility, and bioactivity of cytostatic agent CD437 by beta-cyclodextrin is published in Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett.