Group News
03/01/2024
Sunil is awarded with the 2024 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring. Congratulations and well deserved!
02/01/2024
Zikri’s paper, in collaboration with the Stoll group, “Modeling of Cu(II)-based protein spin labels using rotamer libraries”, is accepted for publication in PCCP. Congratulations!
01/08/2024
Forough joins our group as a first-year graduate student. Welcome!
11/06/2023
Shashank joins our group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!
10/30/2023
Alysia is awarded the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute Fellowship for Spring 2024. Congratulations!
10/06/2023
09/27/2023
Zikri’s paper in collaboration with the Schiemann group, “Differentiating between Label and Protein Conformers in Pulsed Dipolar EPR Spectroscopy with the dHis-Cu2+(NTA) Motif”, is accepted for publication in Chem. Eur. J.. Congratulations!
09/22/2023
Alysia and Zikri’s paper, “Double quantum coherence ESR at Q-band enhances the sensitivity of distance measurements at sub-micromolar concentration”, is accepted for publication in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Congratulations on your first first-author paper, Alysia!
09/15/2023
Xiaowei successfully defends her thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Bogetti! Xiaowei will be a postdoctoral fellow at Stony Brook University with Ivet Bahar.
09/05/2023
Poojitha joins our group as an undergraduate student. Welcome!
08/31/2023
Zikri successfully defends his thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Hasanbasri! Zikri will be joining the lab of David Britt at UC Davis as a postdoc in the fall.
08/28/2023
Anthony joins our group as an undergraduate student. Welcome!
08/24/2023
Xiaowei and Josh’s paper, “Direct observation of negative cooperativity in a detoxification enzyme at the atomic level by EPR and simulation”, is accepted for publication in Protein Science. This work was done in collaboration with the Chong and Rule groups. Congratulations!
08/04/2023
Zikri’s review, “Orientational selectivity does not have to be complicated”, is accepted for publication in Applied Magnetic Resonance. Congratulations!
08/02/2023
Hannah, Niko, and Shramana earn A&S fellowships. Congratulations!
07/26/2023
Xiaowei, Zikri, Josh, Alysia, and Prof. Saxena attend the Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Denver, CO. All of the students presented posters and oral talks. Alysia won an award for Best Student Talk. Great work everyone!
07/05/2023
Niko passes his preliminary exam. Congrats!
06/14/2023
Shramana passes her preliminary exam. Congrats!
06/09/2023
Hannah passes her preliminary exam. Congrats!
03/14/2023
Zikri and Niko’s paper, “Efficient sampling of molecular orientations for Cu(II)-based DEER on protein labels”, is accepted for publication in PCCP. Congratulations!
02/22/2023
Josh’s paper with Xiaowei, Hannah, and Zikri titled “‘Store bought is fine: Sensitivity considerations using shaped pulses for DEER measurements on Cu(II) labels” is accepted for publication in JMR. Congratulations!
01/01/2023
Hannah, Niko, and Shramana officially join the Saxena Lab! Welcome!