Author: Erkin Seker

Özge Kurtuluş wins a departmental poster award for her work illustrating nanoporous gold as a biomedical device coating. The event attendees included the Board of Visitors and several biotech companies. Congrats, Özge!

Damla Dimlioğlu joins the group as a graduate student researcher. She is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She earned her BS degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Middle East Technical University in Turkey. She will be developing cell-based electrophysiological sensor platforms. Welcome, Damla!

• Chris Chapman is awarded a Graduate Assistance Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship from the US Department of Education. Congrats, Chris!
• Pallavi Daggumati joins the group as a graduate student researcher. She is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She earned her BS degree in Information and Communication Technology at DA-IICT in India and MS degree in Electrical Engineering at Duke University. She will be studying nanostructure-biomolecule interactions for the enhancement of biosensor performance. Welcome, Pallavi!
• Professor Şeker is awarded a UC Lab Fees Grant in collaboration with Dr. Monika Biener at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This three-year award will focus on the development of miniaturized cell-based sensors that utilize nanostructured electrode-neuron combinations for the detection and identification of neurotoxins.

• John Flynn and Ramya Raman join the group as summer student researchers. They will be working on various projects related to material-tissue interactions and learning valuable lab techniques.
• Professor Şeker is awarded a UC Davis Academic Senate Grant. This one-year seed grant will facilitate the electrochemical testing of nanostructured sensors.

Özge Kurtuluş passes her preliminary exam in Chemical Engineering. Congrats, Özge!

Professor Şeker gives an invited talk, titled “Nanotechnology & Neuroengineering,” at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Our paper, titled “Microfabrication-compatible nanoporous gold foams as biomaterials for drug delivery,” is featured as Front Cover in the journal Advanced Healthcare Materials.

Our paper, titled “Solving Medical Problems with BioMEMS,” is published in the magazine IEEE Pulse.

• Professor Şeker joins Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Graduate Program at UC Davis.
• Our paper, titled “Platinum nanoparticle-facilitated reflective surfaces for non-contact temperature control in microfluidic devices for PCR amplification,” is published in the journal Lab on a Chip.
• Professor Şeker joins the Designated Emphasis in Biotechnology Program at UC Davis.

• Özge Kurtuluş joins the group as a graduate student researcher and will be co-advised by Professor Atul Parikh. She is a PhD student in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. She earned her BS in Chemistry at Middle East Technical University in Turkey. She will be working on stimuli-responsive drug delivery platforms. Welcome, Özge!
• Professor Şeker joins Graduate Group in Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis.