September 2019 – Shiyao’s paper on yeast surface display of human tau was accepted for publication in Biotechnology Progress.
July 2019 – Our group received a Research Excellence Program grant from UConn.
July 2019 – Dan’s paper on phospho-tau antibody specificity measurement was accepted for publication in the Journal of Neurochemistry.
July 2019 – Dan Li successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congrats Dr. Li!
April 2019 – Dr. Cho gave an invited talk at the PEGS Boston meeting.
March 2019 – Dr. Cho gave a talk at the American Chemical Society annual meeting.
December 2018 – Dan Li received the Alexion/UConn Dissertation award. Congratulations!
October 2018 – Shiyao Wang gave a talk at the American Institute of Chemical Engineering annual meeting.
October 2018 – Dr. Cho gave an invited talk at the North Eastern Structure Symposium.
October 2018 – Dan Li received the UConn Munson award from the Institute for Systems Genomics. Congratulations!
June 2018 – Monika passed the qualifying exam. Congratulations!
March 2018 – Dan Li gave a talk at the American Chemical Society annual meeting.
October 2017 – Monika Arbaciauskaite (CBE) joined the group as a PhD student.
August 2017 – Our collaboration with Dr. Yu Lei was funded by the National Science Foundation.
April 2017 – Dr. Cho gave a talk on high affinity phospho-tau specific antibodies at the 2017 American Chemical Society national meeting.
January 2017 – Undergraduate student Nicholas Wolslegel joined group for independent research.
September 2016 – Undergraduate students Tori Danis, Jerry Dinan, Jennifer Skoog, Kayla Sagan, Jacob Chicano joined group for independent research.
September 2016 – Azady Pirhanov (BME) joined the group as a PhD student.
August 2016 – Our project on anti-acetyl tau antibodies was funded by the National Institues of Health.
July 2016 – Our group participated in UConn’s daVinci project for the third year. We regularly host the ‘Genetic Engineering and Synthetic Biology’ workshop during this weeklong event.
June 2016 – Dr. Cho received a ‘Best of BIOT’ award from the American Chemical Society.
March 2016 – Dr. Cho gave a talk on our antibody specificity engineering method at the American Chemical Society national meeting.
March 2016 – Our protocol entitled ‘An Optimized Calcium-Phosphate Transfection Method for Characterizing Genetically Encoded Tools in Primary Neurons’ was published in Methods in Molecular Biology.
March 2016 – Our review on optogenetics entitled ‘Optogenetics: Basic Concepts and Their Development’ was published in Methods in Molecular Biology.
January 2016 – Undergraduate students Daniel Wackelin and Moe Uddin joined group for independent research.
July 2015 – Dr. Cho gave a talk at the 2015 US-Korea Conference (UKC).
January 2014 – Undergraduate students Samik Das, Zhaowei Ding, Steven Rodriguez, Moe Uddin, Thomas Kinard, Krystyna Kapalczynski joined the group for independent research.
January 2014 – Cho research group opens door at UConn.