Saxena Research Group

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

Xiaowei’s review, “Integrating Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Computational Modeling to Measure Protein Structure and Dynamics”, is accepted for publication in ChemPlusChem. Congratulations!

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!

Journal Covers

We are honored to be invited to create journal covers of our research. Click the image to see our journal covers.

Ph.D. Defenses and Comprehensive Exams

We love to celebrate major milestones in the graduate school process. Congrats to the new Ph.D. candidates and graduates! Click the image for access to Ph.D. dissertations.

Conferences and Presentations

We enjoy attending conferences and sharing our research with others!

Installation of Q-band in 2018

We had an early Christmas in 2018 when we received our Q-band (~35 GHz) and AWG. An exciting start to the academic year!

Outreach Events

We enjoy engaging high school students in fun conversations about science and life as a scientist. We show them around the lab and even collect data together!

Social Events

Although we spend hours together each day in the lab, we enjoy spending time with one another outside of research environments!