April 20th, 2024, Welcome undergraduate students Julian and Selene to the Patterson lab Team. Selene will be working with Nehal and Julian will be working with Riya! We are excited to have you both on board!
April 10th, 2024, Congrats to Graduate student Rain Talosig for receiving the Best Platform Talk award at the UC Chemical Symposium. Additionally, congratulations to Elisa Olivas for earning the Materials Division Award. Well done to both of you on these amazing achievements!
February 15th, 2024, Big shoutout to undergraduate student Saira Cazarez for receiving an MSA undergraduate award for her project!
February 9th, 2024, Congratulations to the Patterson Group Alumna, Dr. Brooke Carpenter, for officially accepting a full-time science writer position at Ergon. Wishing you all the best in your new role!
January 28-February 2nd, 2024, Joe present his talk titled “Liquid EM: Just go with the Flow” at the Gordon Research Conference on Imaging and Elucidating Nanomaterial Formation Morphology and Dynamics held in Italy.
January 25th, 2024, Congrats to graduate student Lily Zeinalvand for receiving the 2nd place poster award from the Center for Complex and Active Research at UCI(CCAM) for her remarkable poster presentation.
January 5th, 2024, Graduate Student Nehal Idris is being selected as one of the ACS Leaders Scholars for the year 2024. Congratulations, Nehal!
December 13th, 2023, Graduate student Rain Talosig receives the 2023-2024 School of Physical Sciences Science Communication Fellowship. Congratulations, Rain!
December 10th, 2023, Congrats to graduate student Riya Singh for being selected as one of the recipients of the DEI fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year. Great work Riya!
December 21st, 2023, Congratulations to undergraduate students, Muna, Saira, Nina, Peter, and Ashlynn for being selected as UROP fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year. keep up the outstanding work!
December 7th, 2023, Rakia gave a talk on her electron tomography work titled “Three-Dimensional Visualization of Proteins within Metal-Organic Frameworks.” at the ISAM-5. Wonderful Presentation, Rakia!
December 7th, 2023, Congrats to fifth-years, Rakia and Justin, for winning prizes for their posters at the 5th International Symposium on Advanced Microscopy and Spectroscopy (ISAMS-5) hosted by UC Irvine. Keep up the great work!
December 1st, 2023- Graduate Student Nehal Idris Advances to Candidacy, Congratulations on this amazing achievement and well done!
November 20th, 2023-Graduate Student Elisa Olivas Advances to Candidacy, Congratulations on this amazing accomplishment and well done!
October 27th-October 31, 2023- Elisa Olivas and Nina/ Fangni Wang both attend and present at the 2023 SACNAS Symposium held in Portland, Oregon.
Oct 26th, 2023, Graduate student Zhaoxu Li joins the Patterson lab! Welcome to the group Zhaoxu!
October 20th-October22, 2023- Nehal Idris and Riya Sing both attend the Soft Matter Symposium at the University of San Diego and conduct experiments in collaboration with Rae Anderson laboratory at the University of San Diego.
Sept 15th, 2023, Congrats to our now 2nd year graduate students: Pushp Raj, Riya Singh, Lilian Zeinalvand and Elmira Baghdadi for successfully passing their end of first year P-Chem Exam! You guys killed it! proud of you!
August 29th, 2023, Our Graduate Student Elisa Olivas receives the 2023 SocalHub Fellowship! Congratulations Elisa and well-deserved! Elisa Olivas will be working under the supervision of John Watt and Stephen David at Los Alamos National Lab at the center for integrated nanotechnologies. Using Enzyme metal organic Frameworks, John and Elisa will develop protocols for for CryoTEM, EELS, EFTEM, and tomography to understand the nucleation and growth mechanisms.
August 17th-August 20th, 2023, Nehal Idris visits the SLAC National Lab at Stanford this Summer and conduct SAXS measurements there, good work Nehal! She met with our Alumni Dr. Paul Hurst who is now a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University!
August 14th, 2023, Congrats to Dr. Brooke Carpenter for successfully defending her thesis. So proud of all your hard work and all of your accomplishments!
August 9th, 2023- Undergraduate students Nina Fangni and Ben Rose both attend and present a poster at the SoCal undergraduate Research Symposium. Awesome Job team!
August 5th, 2023 - Undergraduate student Ben Rose attends the 2023 Beckman conference. Nice Job Ben!
August 1st, 2023- Congrats to graduate student Rain Talosig for being awarded the ACS award for her leadership in research safety. Well-deserved Rain!
July 23rd -July 28th- Our PI Joe Patterson and graduate students: Wyeth Gibson and Justin Mulvey all attend the 2023 Microscopy and Microanalysis (M&M) conference in Minneapolis. Justin Mulvey will both give oral presentations on “ Liquid Electron Microscopy with Non-Aqueous Solvents: Evaluating the Beam-Sample Interactions of Complex Liquid Structures” by Justin Mulvey and “Symbiotic beams: Using non-microscopy electron sources to bring LPTEM’s puzzles into better focus” by Wyeth Gibson.
June 25th, 2023- Our lab welcome undergraduate student Alicia Pascual Herrero who is visiting us this summer from Spain. Alicia will be working with graduate student Nehal Idris and Riya Singh on the synthesis and chracterization of Block copolymers utlizing the RAFT technique.
Alicia Pascual Herrero @Patterson lab! Photo Credit: Muna Nasser
June 9th, 2023-Undergraduate student Ashlynn join the Patterson team, Welcome to the Group Ashlynn!
June 6th, 2023- Congrats to our amazing undergraduate Student Ben Rose for being selected as the recipient for the 2023 American Chemical Society - Division of Physical Chemistry Undergraduate Award! We are so proud of all of your accomplishments Ben!
L to R: Dr. Steve Mang, Ben Rose, and Dr. Joe Patterson
June 6th, 2023- Undergraduate student Kunyu Wang (Peter) officially Join the Patterson lab. Welcome to the Group Peter.
June 7th, 2023- Congrats to Dr. Paul Hurst for being selected as the recipients of the UCI 2023 Edward K.C. Lee Award! This award is intended to support outstanding student in chemistry! Way to go Dr. Hurst!
L to R: Dr. Max Arguilla, Dr. Sarah Finkeldei, and Dr. Paul Hurst
June7th, 2023- Congrats to Dr. Aoon Rizvi for receiving the Joan Rowland Award! This award is given to a top graduate student in the department of chemistry. Way to go Dr. Rizvi
Dr. Aoon Rizvi
June 7th, 2023- a huge congratulations for Graduate students Nehal Idris and Elisa Olivas for being selected as the 2023 recipients of the Gebel Award! This award is given to students with broader life experiences and who had participated in significant volunteer programs and outreach activities while also pursuing their educations. Great Work Nehal Idris and Elisa Olivas!
L to R: Dr. Barabra Finlayson-Pitts, and Jennifer Bentson-Gebel.
R to L: Elisa Olivas, Jessica Granger-Jones, and Nehal Idris
June 7th 2023- Congrats to Nehal Idris for receiving the Chemistry Excellence in DEI Award for her significant contribution and work to create a more inclusive and welcoming environment for students in the UCI’s School of Physical Science! Proud of all your hard work and dedication!
June 7th, 2023- Kudos to Graduate student Nehal Idris for being selected by the department of chemistry as the recipient of the 2023 Graduate Award for Departmental Mentorship for her extraordinary efforts in mentoring and outreach to fellow graduate and undergraduate students in the department and beyond! keep up the good work Nehal!
May 30th, 2023- Joe Patterson gives a seminar at the Molecular Foundry Research Institute located in Berkeley lab. His Talk titled “ Cryo and Liquid EM Reveal the Complex and Non-equilibrium Structural Dynamics of Active Materials.” For Zoom recording Check out this link: Seminar by Joe Patterson.
May 24th-25th, 2023- Shout-out to Dr. Aoon Rizvi and Dr. Paul Hurst on successfully defending their thesis. The Patterson Lab is very proud of your major accomplishments. We will miss you Drs and we are sure that you will continue to do great work at Stanford!
Dr. Aoon Rizvi and Dr. Joe Patterson
Dr. Joe Patterson and Dr. Paul Hurst
Celebrating Dr. Paul Hurst successful thesis defense talk with a lunch at Eureka!
One last group photo with Dr. Aoon Rizvi and Dr. Paul Hurst
May 23, 2023- Undergraduate Saira Leslie Cazarez's research proposal was accepted for the UROP 2023 Distinguished Research Fellowship. Congrats and great work, Saira!
May 22, 2023- Congrats to undergraduate student Ben Rose for receiving the 2023 Beckman Scholarship. The Beckman Scholarship is a program in which undergraduate students receives $21,000 over 15 months, while doing research under an approved mentor program. Ben will be working on invitgating the the formation and applications of Metal Organic Framework biocomposites. Cograts Ben! Way to go!
May 19th, 2023- Kudos to all of our amazing undergraduate students @Nina/Fangni Wang, @Mohamed Faris Abouchaleh, @Ben Rose, and @Saira Cazarez who nailed their poster presentations at the UROP Symposium.
Saira Cazarez
Ben Rose
Mohamed Faris Abouchaleh
Nina/Fangni Wang
Aprill 15th, 2023- SOP Chemistry Graduate Leader Fellow; Nehal Idris and Our Chemistry Department Chair Dr. Douglas J. Tobias attend and participate in the first UC Chemistry Conference on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) held at UC Santa Cruz.
Dr. Douglas J. Tobias presenting on “UCI Department of Chemistry Two-Stage Faculty Application Screening Process.”
Graduate Student Nehal Idris with Dr. Mattanjah S. de Vries (UC Santa Brabra-Chemistry Department Chair).
Aprill 15th, 2023- Congrats to our undergraduate student Saira for presenting her work on enzyme-directed crystallization in ZIF biocomposites at the UC LEADS symposium and winning the best chemistry poster for the event. Way to go Saira!
April 14th 2023-Joe and his former postdoctoral advisor, Professor Nathan Gianneschi, reunite after Prof Gianneschi gave a wonderful talk for the MSE seminar series!
April 6th, 2023- Rain Talosig and Elisa Olivas presents at the Iota Sigma Pi Symposium hosted at UCI. Great Job and Well-done!
March 22-2023- Congarts to Nehal Idris for receiving an honorable mention on her Ford Fellowship Application!
March 17th-2023- Kudos to Our PI for earning the Burton Medal From the Microscopy Society of America in recognition of his work to advance microscopic techniques in research. Congrats Joe and well-deserved! For more details, check out this link: PROFESSOR JOE PATTERSON WINS BURTON MEDAL FROM THE MICROSCOPY SOCIETY OF AMERICA
March 6th-2023- Joe gives a talk on “Electrochemical Liquid TEM of Active Soft Matter” at the Electron Microscopy-X International Symposium held in Standford University.
February 9th-2023- Graduate Student Nehal Idris receives the 2022-2023 School of Physical Sciences DEI Graduate Leader Fellowship. She plans to champion diversity by fostering spirituality in the UCI Department of Chemistry and the School of Physical Sciences. Check out her Project @ THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES DEI GRADUATE LEADERS FELLOWS The leaders are spearheading projects aimed at bolstering the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Photo Credit: Brooke Carpenter
February 8th-2023- Check out this awesome story written by our graduate student and the Science Communication Fellow for the UC Irvine Department of Chemistry. Brooke is also advocating for diversity, equity and inclusion at school of Physical Sciences through storytelling. @ PROFESSOR RENÉE LINK CREATED INTERACTIVE CHEMISTRY TEACHING LABS DURING THE PANDEMIC The labs fostered student engagement through a choose-your-own-adventure format.
Photo Credit: Brooke Carpenter
January 27th-2023- Undergraduate students Emily Wang and Muna Nasser joins the lab! Welcome to the lab!
January 25th-2023- First year graduate students: Elmira Baghdadi, Riya Singh, Lilian Zeinalvand, and Pushp Raj officially joins the group! Welcome to the Patterson lab!
January 15th-2023- Undergraduate Student Jonathan Lee, joins the lab! Welcome to the group!
December 14th-2022- Shout out to all our dedicated undergraduate students who were selected to receive UROP funding for their projects (titles below) for Year 2022-2023:
Redford Fox Hudson for his project titled "Quantifying Defocus: Controlling for Unintended Artifacts during TEM Image Analysis".
Ben Rose for his project titled "Understanding and Engineering the incorporation of Enzymes into Metal-Organic Frameworks".
Mohamed Faris Abouchaleh for his project titled "From Building Blocks to Nanomedicines in One Step Using Pharmaceuticals as Polymerization Catalysts".
Saira Cazarez for her project titled "Exploring Biomolecule Encapsulation within Metal-Organic Framework".
Steven Ho for his project titled "Development of the Organic Controlled Environment Vitrification System(OCEVS)".
Nina/Fangni Wang for her project titled "Analysis of ZIF-8 Amorphous Precursors by Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry".
Congratulations team! We are so proud of all of you!
December 14th-2022- Joe Patterson is selected as a rising star in Polymers by ACS Polymers Au! Congrats Joe! Check it out @ ACS Polymers Au Recognizes 2022 Rising Stars in Polymers
November 18th, 2022- Our own PI Dr. Joe Patterson receives the Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Active Award. The award is funded through NSF’s Division of Materials Research Polymers Program! Congratulations and well-deserved. NSF-Division of Materials Research. UCI News-School of Physical Sciences
October 8th-October 14th - Past and current members of The Patterson Lab reunite at the Gordon Research Conference of Liquid Phase Electron Microscopy.
September 20th - Joe Patterson is selected as the new Diverse Educational Community and Doctoral Experience (DECADE) Mentor for the Chemistry department. His mentoring role include supporting all chemistry graduate students and improve the chemistry graduate program and experience. Congratulations Joe on your well-deserved recognition!
September 15th - Nehal Idris receives the 2022-2023-School of Physical Sciences Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Graduate leaders Fellowship. She will be working closely with the Vice Chair for DEI in the chemistry department, Inclusive Excellence Committee, and the Office of Access Outreach and Inclusion on her proposed project for advancing the ongoing DEI efforts. Congratulation Nehal and well-deserved.
September 15th - Brooke’s work on “Role of Molecular Modification and Protein Folding in the Nucleation and Growth of Protein–Metal–Organic Frameworks” is accepted and available at Chemistry of Materials! Check it out! Congrats Brooke!
September 8th- Brooke Carpenter receives the 2022-2023 the School of Physical Sciences-Science Communication Fellowship! She will be managing the social media channels for the department of chemistry as well as other SciComm projects for the school of physical sciences. Awesome job Brooke and well-deserved. Congratulations!
August 26th -Paul’s paper on “Gaining Structural Control by Modification of Polymerization Rate in Ring-Opening Polymerization-Induced Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly” is now published on ACS Polymers! Congrats Paul
August 23rd - Undergraduate Saira Cazarez has been invited to present her research at the SACNAS National Diversity in STEM (NDiSTEM) Conference scheduled for October 27, 2022, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Nice work, Saira!
August 11th - UC LEADS scholar and undergraduate student Saira Cazarez gave a poster presentation on her current biomolecule@MOF work at the UC Graduate Division’s Summer Research Symposium. Awesome work, Saira!
August 2nd - Graduate Student Wyeth Gibson attends the Microscopy and Microanalysis (M&M) Conference in Portland, Oregon and gives an oral presentations on “Observing nano-scale dynamics of active soft materials by in Situ electrochemistry and Liquid Cell transmission Electron Microscopy”
July 13th-July18th, 2022 - Graduate students Aoon Rizvi, Rain Talosig, and Nehal Idris visit the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and preform both steady state and in-situ SAXS measurements on Beamline 1-5 (BL 1-5).
July 5th, 2022 - Undergraduate student Junsik Yoon joins the lab! Welcome to the group!
June 29th, 2022 - Undergraduate student Fangni Wang (Nina) joins the group! Welcome to the Patterson lab!
June 24th, 2022 - Graduate student Elisa Merced Olivas Joins the group! Welcome!
June 23rd,2022 - Undergraduate Student and UC LEADS scholar Saira Cazarez joins the lab! Welcome to the group Saira.
June 23rd, 2022 - Undergraduate student Gabriel Reginato joins the group! Welcome to the Patterson group Gabriel!
June 15th-18th, 2022 - Graduate Students Rain Talosig and Brooke Carpenter visit the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Advanced Light Source to preform in-Situ WAXS and SAXS measurements on the 7.3.3 beamline.
June 14th, 2022- officially celebrating Rakia and Justin advancement to candidacy at the 2022 end of spring quarter group outing. Congratulations Justin and Rakia!
June 14th, 2022- Joe Patterson receives his official Excellence in Mentorship Certificate from the UCI Department of Chemistry at the end of spring quarter group outing. Congratulations Joe!
June 13th, 2022- Joe gives a virtual seminar at the VISION-Center for Visualizing Catalytic Process at Technical University of Denmark.
June 9th, 2022 - Joe Patterson attends Tosoh Polymer Conference (TPC 2022) and gives a talk on “The Role of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Non-equilibrium Chemistry in the Self-assembly of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers”
June 9th, 2022- Graduate Student Nehal Idris receives her certificate of mentoring for her completion of the 2022 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program-Research Discovery Program (RDP)! Congratulations Nehal!
June 9th, 2022- Undergraduate student Jovany Merham is selected by the Department of Chemistry for the American Chemical Society Division of Physical Chemistry Undergraduate Award! Congratulations Jovany.
May 27, 2022- Group members Rain Talosig and Justin Mulvey wins the first place on the 2022 MRS Spring Meeting Science as Art Competition. Work submitted by Rain and Justin titled “ An Extremely Tiny Garden of MOFs” are shown on the left. Congratulations Justin and Rain!
Scanning electron microscopy image of a self-assembled ZIF-8 metal-organic frameworks. Two distinct crystal structures are seen in this image: the truncated dodecahedron structures are ZIF-8 (DIA) and the flower structures are ZIF-8 (SOD).
May 26, 2022- Graduate student Justin Mulvey passes his candidacy exam! Congratulations Justin!
May 25, 2022- Joe Patterson receives the UCI 2022 Department of Chemistry Excellence in Mentorship award for his superior mentorship, and for going above and beyond to support and develop students in his laboratory. well deserved and congratulations Joe!
May 25, 2022- Graduate Student Rakia Dhaoui receives the Graduate Student Outstanding Contributions to the Department Awards at the 2022 Edward K. C. Lee Student and Staff Award Presentation. Congratulations Rakia!
May 13, 2022- Graduate student Rain Talosig participates in the 2022 MRS Spring Meeting and Exhibit in Honolulu, Hawai’i and gives an oral presentation on “Combined In Situ Synchrotron X-ray and Electron Microscopy Studies of Metal-Organic Framework Crystallization” at the “New Imaging Techniques” Symposium.
May 13th, 2022- The Patterson lab participates in the UCI LEAPS outreach program (Laboratory Experiments and Activities in Physical Sciences) with Mendez Middle School students and engage students in hands-on experiments. Photos below shows Patterson’s lab members: Nehal Idris, Aoon Rizvi, and Paul Hurst demonstrating the Crystallization of Sodium Acetate, the Liquid-Liquid phase Separation, and the Making of Nylon Polymer experiments to students.
April 30th, 2022- Paul Hurst and Nehal Idris participate in the 6th UCI Annual Department of Chemistry Research Event and give a lab tour to prospective undergraduate chemistry majors and honors organic lab series students!
April 28, 2022- Undergraduate student Redford Fox Hudson joins the lab! Welcome to the group Redford!
April 21, 2022- Justin Mulvey and Wyeth Gibson collaborative work with the Guan and Hochbaum groups is now published in The Journal of the American Chemical Society. Check it out!
April 21, 2022- Aoon Rizvi gives a talk at the 4th Yong Macromolecular Research Webinar Series and presents his work on " Observation of Liquid-Liquid-Phase Separation and Vesicle Spreading during Supported Bilayer Formation via Liquid-Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy.”
April 6, 2022 - Joe gives a talk at DENSsolutions Stream Nanotalk and presents his research on The love-hate relationship of electron beam sample interactions in Liquid Phase EM.
April 4, 2022- Graduate student Rakia Dhaoui passes her candidacy exam! Congratulations!
April 1, 2022- Undergraduate student Steven Ho joins the lab! Welcome to the group!
March 31, 2022- Joe presents at the Electron microscopy: the future of drug development and precision medicine in situ seminar organized by the Southern Counties Materials, Minerals & Mining Society and gives a webinar on "A close look at molecular self-assembly with transmission electron microscope."
March 23, 2022- Nehal Idris receives an honorable mention for her meritorious application to the 2022 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship Program! Congratulations Nehal!
March 20th-24th- Undergraduate Student Annissa Graham presents a poster for her study on “Studying the Kinetics of Ring-Opening Polymerization-Induced Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly”(Division of Polymer Chemistry) and wins a third place award for undergraduate research in polymer science! Congrats Annissa! Way to go!
Annissa Graham at the poster session.
March 20th-24th- Brooke Carpenter gives a talk on her work on “Protein Molecular Modification alters structural properties of protein metal organic frameworks” at the 2022 ACS Conference (Division of Inorganic Chemistry). Well done Brooke!
Brooke Carpenter at ACS Conference -excited for her talk!
March 20th-24th (2022 ACS Conference-Division of Polymer Chemistry)- Paul Hurst gives a talk on “Gaining independent control over molecular structure and morphology with ring opening polymerization-induced crystallization-driven self-assembly” at the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research session. Great talk Paul!
Paul Hurst heading to give his talk at the excellence in Graduate Polymer Research session.
March 20th-24th- Rain Talosig gives a talk at the 2022 ACS Conference ,titled “Polymorph Control in protein-metal-organic framework” (Division of Inorganic Chemistry). Awesome Job Rain!
Rain Talosig presenting at ACS conference.
March 15, 2022 - Joe was interviewed for a Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemistry World article "Advanced microscopy tests 60-year-old mechanism of ethylene polymerisation" Check it out! Advanced microscopy tests 60-year-old mechanism of ethylene polymerisation
Scanning tunnelling microscope images of the growing polyethylene oligomers.
March 1st, 2022 - Justin Mulvey participate in the 3rd annual UCI MSE “Science as Art” contest and wins first place! The SEM image, taken by Rain Talosig titled “An extremely tiny garden of MOFs” with the following description: Scanning electron microscopy image of self-assembled ZIF-8 metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Two distinct crystal structures are seen in this image: the truncated dodecahedron structures are ZIF-8 (DIA) and the flower structures are ZIF-8 (SOD). Congrats Justin and great work Rain!
February 11, 2022 - Joe presents at the 2022 UCI Virtual Homecoming Celebration. His talk titled: “A Close Look at Molecular Self-Assembly with the Transmission Electron Microscopy ”
February 2, 2022 - Nehal Idris and Kyle Gassaway officially join the lab! Welcome to the group!
January 26, 2022 - Wyeth Gibson passes his candidacy exam! Congratulations!
December 17, 2021 - Rain Talosig passes her candidacy exam! Congratulations!
December 21, 2021 - Undergraduate Students Ben Rose and Annissa Graham were both selected as UROP fellows! Annissa will be working on her project titled “ Manipulating the Structures Formed through the Self-Assemblies of Block Copolymers by Varying Reactant Concentrations”. Ben will be working on his project titled “ Understanding and Engineering the Incorporation of Urease into Metal-Organic Frameworks”. Congratulations!
December 16-21, 2021 - Joe, Aoon, and Paul attended the Virtual 2021 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies Congress and presented at the 2021 PACIFICCHEM.
November 11, 2021 - Aoon received the ARCS Scholar Award. ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Foundation, Inc. advances science and technology in the United States by providing financial awards to academically outstanding U.S. citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering and medical research. Congrats Aoon!!
October 22, 2022, Brooke and Rakia both received the 2021-2022 graduate student diversity fellowship. Congratulations!
Check it out @ https://ps.uci.edu/news/2568
October 20, 2021 - Paul received the Allergan Graduate Fellowship in Organic Chemistry. The
Allergan Foundation has provided funding for this fellowship to allow UCI Chemistry
graduate students to purse focused research in a variety of sub-disciplines of cutting
edge chemical synthesis. Congrats Paul!
October 15, 2022 - Aoon and Rain visited and spent time at the Advanced Light Source facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. What a cool experience!
August 12, 2021 - Aoon presented at the Virtual Polymer Physics Symposium (supported by American Physics Society).
July 26 - 29, 2021 - Paul presented his work on ring-opening polymerization-induced crystallization-driven self-assembly (ROPI-CDSA) at the virtual National Graduate Research Polymer Conference 2021 (NGRPC).
July 14 ,2021 - Aoon was awarded the Rowland fellowship for his proposed research to create "Living polymer composites from block copolymer coacervates" in collaboration with Prof. Seu Sim. Congrats Aoon! (https://www.chem.uci.edu/rowland-fellows)
June 7, 2021 - Wyeth’s paper titled “Liquid Phase Electron Microscopy Provides Opportunities in Polymer Synthesis and Manufacturing” was selected as an ACS editor’s choice article. Great job Wyeth!!
March 2021: Alana accepts an Assistant Professor position in Analytical Chemistry for the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto-Mississauga. Congrats, Alana!
March 16, 2021 - Patterson lab, in collaboration with the Martin lab and Corona Public Library, delivered 100 remote science kits to the Public Library to be distributed to library patrons! Videos made by lab members of the two labs are hosted on YouTube that offer step by step instructions and explanations of the science contained in the biology and physics themed kits.
Youtube video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPG4X1Spikk
Feb 25, 2021 - Paula defends her PhD Thesis at TU Eindhoven. Congrats!
Feb 24, 2021 -Aoon, Brooke, and Urja organized an outreach event with SISTERS (Success in Science & Technology: Engagement with Role-Models), an organization dedicated to inspiring girls to pursue an education and career in STEM. The SISTERs program is affiliated with the College of Natural Sciences at UC Riverside and is run by undergraduate students passionate about STEM. SISTERs accomplishes this by connecting girls to successful women in STEM and introducing them to different careers in STEM. The Patterson Lab previously partnered with SISTERs in a virtual event last year and was invited to host another event this year. This year, Aoon and Brooke talked with students about why they decided to pursue a Ph.D., their education pathway, their hobbies, their plans after completing their doctorate program, as well as their current research. Additionally, we gave the students a virtual tour of our lab and described the types of chemistry we do. We hope to inspire these students to pursue a career in chemistry!
Linked below is a recording of the virtual event, link to the SISTERs website, and newsletter where the lab is featured!
SISTERS Website: https://cnas.ucr.edu/people/science-ambassadors/activities/sisters
Newsletter where the Patterson Lab is featured!: https://www.canva.com/design/DAEXmrom8KI/2F1AbYm9WFONCVifjgVOkw/view?website#4:sisters
Nov 10, 2020 - We are happy to announce the formation of the MSA Focused Interest Group (FIG) on EM Data Analysis and Management (EM-DAM) founded by Patterson lab member Dr. Alex Rakowski. EM-DAM will broadly focus on 1) the successes, opportunities, and challenges of applying novel algorithms and processing and storage strategies and 2) be a hub for the transfer of knowledge in applying these techniques. EM-DAM hopes to maximize the opportunities that new microscope and computer technologies allow. EM-DAM will begin to conduct meetings in 2021. If you are interested in joining, please contact alex.r@uci.edu for more details.
Nov 4, 2020 - Brooke passed her advancement exam and is officially a PhD candidate. Congrats!!
Oct 5, 2020 - Justin passed the UCI Material’s Science and Engineering Preliminary Exam!!
Sep 17, 2020 - Paul’s paper titled “Ring-opening polymerization-induced crystallization-driven self-assembly of poly-L-lactide-block-polyethylene glycol block copolymers (ROPI-CDSA)” is featured on the Nature Communications Editors’ Highlights webpage. Nature Research also published Paul’s “Behind the Paper” blog post about this publication.
Sep 10, 2020 - Hanglong defends his PhD Thesis at TU Eindhoven. Congrats!
Aug 6, 2020 - Joe featured in 2020 Journal of Materials Chemistry-C Emerging investigators issue. The publication was a collaboration with DENSsolutions, which was listed at a hot topic paper and can be found here.
July 15, 2020 - Aoon and Paul pass their candidacy exam and advance to PhD candidacy!!
Feb 5, 2020 - Alana’s paper featured on front cover of JACS. The paper can be found here.