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Special shout out to Sydney for receiving an Honorable Mention in the 2025 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) competition! Congratulations, Sydney — we are so proud of your achievements and excited for what’s ahead!
Despite all the chaos around us, we persevered and stayed true to what we do best. It’s incredibly rewarding to see our lab members receiving the well-deserved recognition from GSU Chemistry. Proud of this team! Zhane received multiple awards including the ACS Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry. Sydney recieved the Chemistry Master’s Gold Award, and Diyali received the Al Baumstark Chemistry PhD fellowship. Congratulations to the whole group.
We participated in the Atlanta Science Festival with our Optics Playground demo. Thanks to our amazing students, who put in the hard work to make it possible!
March 2025, the 1st Meeting of Scialog NCE cohort is over. It was an amazing experience and a unique kind of conference, featuring intense discussions on Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystem that triggered science dialog on many levels. Thanks to RCSA and cosponsors for this opportunity.
We had a successful SERMACS 2024 here in Atlanta. Diyali and Anaranya presented oral presentations at the conference. Gauri, Sydney, and Edin presented posters. Zhane presented the work she performed at USC last summer as an REU student with Jahan Dawlaty. We also organized a symposium on "Ultrafast and nonlinear spectroscopy." Looking forward to SERMACS 2025 in Orlando, Florida.
Chayan has been selected among 50 early career members as the Scilog Fellow for the Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems Initiative 2025. Looking forward to learning from a group of talented scientists with exciting science and lots of discussions.
We welcome Jahid to our team as a graduate student. Jahid will work on smart hydrogel polymers to detect and separate micro/nano plastics. Welcome to the group, Jahid. Exciting times ahead!
Gauri has been selected for the prestigious Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics (CDT) PhD fellowship. Congratulations to Gauri.
Diyali has been selected for the prestigious Molecular Basis of Disease (MBD) PhD fellowship. Congratulations to Diyali.
We welcome Cristina as a Master's student. She will be working on size-dependent nanoplastic diffusion on lipid membrane surfaces. Welcome to the group.
Sydney Nguyen has joined the Master's program. She will continue her work on polymer-peptide interactions using smFRET.
Diyali and Edin's article is published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. This is also our first research article from the lab. We present a salt-dependent transport model of negatively charged polystyrene nanoplastic on a supported lipid membrane and show that nanoplastics transport on lipid surfaces is non-Gaussian and depends on the salt concentration. We collaborated with Dr. Atanu Acharya's team at Syracuse University who provided molecular insight on the nanoplastic-lipid interaction using Molecular Dynamics simulations. This pilot study is the first time we looked at these nanoscale interactions with high-resolution single-particle details. Congratulations to the whole team! We are proud of your hard work.
Our group is well presented at the Spring symposium hosted by the Chemistry Graduate Student Association. We presented three posters and Edin received the best undergraduate poster award. Congratulations to all the group members on a successful semester!
Excited and proud of our undergraduate students for their selection in prestigious summer fellowships. Zhane has been selected as a summer REU student at the University of Southern California, she will join the USC Chemistry department for the summer of 2024. Sydney and Edin have been selected for the prestigious Molecular Basis of Disease (MBD) summer undergraduate research fellowship. Congratulations to all of them, and looking forward to a productive summer.
We have received the Research Initiation Grant (RIG) from Georgia State University. The seed grant will help us to get some preliminary data on our ongoing efforts to understand the nanoplastic-peptide interactions. We are grateful to the GSU Internal Grants Program.
We are thrilled to welcome three new students to the group in the Fall 2023. Gauri Tripathi has joined us as a graduate student, and she will be working on protein-polymer interaction using smFRET. Adedamola Adebamiro (MS student in Bioinformatics) will be working on machine learning classification of single particle trajectories. Sahadev Bharath (Computer Science major) will be joining the group as a UAP undergraduate student. A warm welcome to all new members of the team.
July 2023: Just attended the Chemical Imaging Gordon conference at Stonehill College, Boston. I was fortunate to be the discussion leader for the "Imaging of Materials and Interfaces" session.
We welcome Dr. Anaranya Ghorai to our group as a postdoctoral researcher. Anaranya will spearhead the nonlinear spectroscopy project in our lab. Stay tuned for the exciting works ahead.
June 2023: We received the ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) award. Thank you, ACS PRF, for supporting our research on the mechanism of phase separation at the interface.
May 2023: We are starting our first summer at GSU. Lots of exciting developments are underway, and we are beyond excited.
Thanks to Keairra and Karemma for this vintage click with their Polaroid.
05/08/2023: We welcome the newest member of our group Sydney Nguyen. Sydney is a senior Chemistry major pursuing her undergraduate degree at GSU.
05/05/2023: We present our first poster at the annual symposium organized by the Chemistry Graduate Student Association at GSU. Congratulations to graduate student Diyali and undergraduate student Edin for all the hard work in organizing the poster. Also, it was the graduation day for Keairra and Karemma, Congratulations to them on their big achievement.
05/05/2023: Congratulations to group members Keairra and Karemma on their graduation. Best wishes for a bright future.
August 2022: Welcome to graduate student Diyali Sil, and undergraduate students Edin Osmanbasic, Keairra R. Brown, and Karemma L. Brown to our group. Exciting days ahead.
We are co-editing a Collection titled “Current Methods in Non-linear Microscopy” in the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE):
This collection is going to be co-edited by myself, Dr. Stephen Lee, and Dr. Christy Landes.
The purpose of the Collection is to offer a comprehensive overview of Current Methods in Non-linear Microscopy. Our goal is to provide a collection of video articles covering the latest developments in multi-photon non-linear microscopies. Here we intend to cover multiple experimental techniques on multiphoton microscopies, such as two-photon excited fluorescence (TPEF), Second-harmonic generation (SHG), Third harmonic generation (THG), Sum frequency generation (SFG), 2D- infrared (2D IR), Coherent anti-stokes Raman (CARS), Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS), Upconversion microscopy, etc.
If you are interested, please reach out to me (cdutta@gsu.edu) or submit an abstract here.
We are excited to begin operation in Fall 2022, stay tuned to know more and contact Chayan if you want to work with us.
Excited to announce that this picture won 3rd place in the Weiss School of Natural Sciences Scientific Image Contest 2021.
This image will be featured in Rice's annual magazine with a 1-page research highlight. Stay tuned.
Check out our latest article and the Scilight article published in the Journal of Chemical Physics as a part of The Ever-Expanding Optics of Single-Molecules and Nanoparticles Collection.
Our recent article “Untying the Gordian KNOT: Unbiased Single Particle Tracking Using Point Clouds and Adaptive Motion Analysis” has been selected to be included in the upcoming Virtual Issue entitled, “A Venue for Advances in Experimental and Theoretical Methods in Physical Chemistry” in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
Excited for the upcoming "Fututre of Chemistry" Symposium, at the Department of Chemical Sciences, TIFR Mumbai.
Presented in the South East Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, 2021 in the Magic City of Birmingham, Alabama.
Thanks to Dr. Kevin Welsher at Duke University for the opportunity and for organizing the "Single Molecule Approaches to Chemistry and Biology" session.
Presented at the Physical Chemistry Physical Biology 2021 virtual conference. Thanks to the organizers for this amazing opportunity to present here as a postdoctoral researcher among the accomplished speakers.
I talked about the novel three-color microscope I built for imaging and simultaneous tracking in complex environments. 3D tracking with ~30 nm precision has been achieved using phase-engineering methods.
It is great to be able to attend in-person meetings again. All the speakers at the Wintergreen Meeting of Physical Chemists in September 2021.
Our recently published article in Nature caught some media attention for the right reasons. We know that interfacial water behaves differently. But if you ever wondered how interfacial water reacts in response to an applied electric field, check it out here. Also check out the media articles here, ScienceMagazine, PhysOrg .
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