News
Mar 2024: Bisma receives UIC Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant. Congrats, Bisma!
Mar 2024: Anam (Biological Sciences) joins the group. Welcome, Anam!
Mar 2024: Dr. Sunny Yang joins the group. Welcome, Sunny!
Dec 2024: Isabel receives her Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences. Congratulations, Isabel! We can't wait to hear about your next adventures.
Nov 2024: Helen (Chemistry) joins the group. Welcome, Helen!
Oct 2024: Horace receives UIC Chemistry's Paaren Graduate Fellowship. Congrats, Horace!
Sept 2024: Bisma (Neuroscience, UIC Class of 2026) joins the group. Welcome, Bisma!
Aug 2024: Arij receives UIC's Chancellor's Undergraduate Research Award (CURA) for the second time. Congrats, Arij!
Aug 2024: Our work featuring a novel approach for peta- to exabyte-scale super-resolution volumetric fluorescence imaging, "Nanoscale volumetric fluorescence imaging via photochemical sectioning," is now available on bioRxiv.
Aug 2024: Evelyn completes her summer research internship. Evelyn is our first high school summer research internship student. Congrats and good job, Evelyn! We are excited to hear about your next adventures.
July 2024: Horace receives the Outstanding Oral Presentation Award for his presentation on Gel-Assisted Mass Spectrometry Imaging (GAMSI) at the International Mass Spectrometry Imaging Society Americas (IMSIS-Americas) 2024 Summer Workshop. Congratulations, Horace!
June 2024: Our group's first research paper, "Gel-assisted mass spectrometry imaging (GAMSI) enables sub-micrometer spatial lipidomics," is now published! The paper introduces a new approach to enhance the spatial resolution of MALDI Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MALDI-MSI) for single-cell and subcellular spatial lipidomics. The bioRxiv preprint can be found here. Congratulations, Horace and Maddie!
May 2024: Evelyn from a local high school joins the group for a summer research internship. Welcome, Evelyn!
May 2024: Arij receives the 2024 Paaren Summer Research Award from UIC's Chemistry Department. You are on fire, Arij!
May 2024: Our group is expanding! We have got the beautiful Chicago skyline as the backdrop for our group photos:
Jan 2024: Arij receives UIC's Chancellor's Undergraduate Research Award (CURA) and NSF S-STEM Award. Congrats, Arij!
Nov 2023: Maddie (Chemistry) joins the group. Welcome, Maddie!
Aug 2023: Isabel receives UIC's Chancellor's Undergraduate Research Award (CURA). Congrats, Isabel!
July/Aug 2023: Jamuna Tandukar passes the Biological Sciences preliminary exam. Congrats, Jamuna!
June 2023: Our first research paper, "Gel-assisted mass spectrometry imaging (GAMSI)," is available on bioRxiv!
May 2023: Wei Wang and Horace Chan pass the Chemistry preliminary exam. Congrats, Wei and Horace!
May 2023: SoYoung successfully defends her Master's research and receives her degree. Congrats, SoYoung! We can't wait to hear your next adventures!
Aug 2022: Gao Lab is awarded the Scialog Advanced Bioimaging Collaborative (Scialog ABI) Award! We are grateful to Scialog ABI and its funding agencies for their continuing support.
Aug 2022: Rui Gao is named a recipient of the 2022-23 McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award. We are grateful to the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience and the McKnight Foundation for supporting our effort to develop new and accessible imaging technologies for neuroscience and neuropathology.
Aug 2022: Arij (Biochemistry, UIC Honors College) joins the group. Welcome, Arij!
July 2022: Rui Gao is named to the 2022 Class of Searle Scholars. We are grateful to the Searle Scholars Program for supporting our science and method development.
May 2022: Joseph, the first member of the group, receives his Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from UIC. Congratulations! We can't wait to hear about your next adventures.
April 2022: Group photo from our second group gathering. We are ready for the spring!
April 2022: Isabel (Biological Sciences, UIC Honors College) joins the group. Welcome, Isabel!
Mar 2022: Jamuna completes her first-year rotations and joins the group. Welcome, Jamuna!
Nov 2021: SoYoung from UIC's BVIS program joins our lab as a close collaborator/affiliated researcher. Welcome, SoYoung!
Nov 2021: Yanyu kicks off her second rotation. Welcome, Yanyu!
Oct 2021: Jamuna successfully completes her first rotation. Congrats, Jamuna!
Oct 2021: Our lab is ramping up and growing. Our first group photo (a more complete version will come soon):
Oct 2021: Joseph receives UIC's Chancellor's Undergraduate Research Award (CURA). Congrats Joseph, you are on fire!
Oct 2021: Jamuna (Biological Sciences, first rotation), Wei (Chemistry), and Horace (Chemistry) join the group. Welcome to the lab, Jamuna, Wei, and Horace!
Aug 2021: Joseph (Biological Sciences, Honors College) joins the group. Joseph is the first member of the lab. Welcome, Joseph!
Aug 2021: Booting...stay tuned.