Julie Biteen Group


Last update: May 14, 2013 © University of Michigan		News 2013 Welcome summer students Kevin Durand, Rachel Choi and Burke Gao! Congratulations to Kevin and Rachel on winning UM Department of Chemistry Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships, and congratulations to Burke on being selected for the UM REU Program in the Chemical Sciences. The Biteen Lab has two more "permanent" PhD students: Chanrith Siv and Bing Fu. We're glad you'll be sticking around! Congratulations to Dave, Hannah, Bing, Jessica and Yi on winning travel awards for the University of Toronto Chemical Biophysics Symposium! Congratulations to Beth Haas on having a winning poster at the 2013 UM Biophysics Symposium! Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Tuson on winning an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB)! Congratulations to Dave Rowland on passing his candidacy exam! Congratulations to Jessica Donehue on winning the Susan Lipschutz Award, which recognizes students who have demonstrated exceptional scholarly achievement, a sense of social responsibility and service, and a lively interest in promoting the success of women in the academic community! Welcome new lab member Applied Physics rotator Ben Isaacoff! Congratulations to Dr. Esther Wertz on winning the PicoQuant Young Investigator Award at the SPIE Photonics West Meeting! JSB receives a NSF CAREER Award for Increasing the Power of Single-Molecule Bio-Imaging with Plasmon-Enhanced Fluorescence! Welcome new lab members: postdoc Dr. Hannah Tuson and Chemistry rotation student Bing Fu and UM Biomolecular Science major Kevin Durand! 2012 "Super-Resolution Imaging of PDMS Nanochannels by Single-Molecule Micelle-Assisted Blink Microscopy" by Mou-Chi Cheng et al. has been accepted for publication in Journal of Physical Chemistry B! Yi Liao was selected as the University of Michigan nominee for the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Graduate Student Research Fellowship. Good luck, Yi! We got Cubed! The Biteen Lab and collaborators Eric Martens and Nicole Koropatkin won the lottery for research funding through U-M’s new innovative multidisciplinary grant program MCubed. JSB was keynote speaker at the UIUC Molecular Biophysics Training Grant Symposium! Congratulations to Courtney on being awarded Top Physical Chemistry prize at the Midwestern Symposium on Undergraduate Research in Chemistry! A belated welcome to this fall's new lab members: rotators Chanrith Siv, Aaron Konopko and Bruce Kraay, and undergraduate researchers John Jurkas and Evan Anderson! Congratulations to Beth and Yi on winning Vaughan Symposium travel awards! Congratulations to Mou-Chi on his new job at the University of Michigan! Congratulations to Beth on winning a MWSMW poster prize! University of Michigan hosts the 2nd Midwest Single Molecule Workshop (MWSMW). Congratulations to Beth on winning the Milton Tamres Outstanding Teaching Award! Congratulations to Yi on winning the George Ashworth Analytical Chemistry Fellowship! Welcome to Christopher Hayes and Austin Little who join us for Summer 2012! Congratulations to Jessica on a successful meeting with her new thesis committee! "Extending the tools of single-molecule fluorescence imaging to problems in microbiology," by JSB appears in Molecular Microbiology! "Heterogeneous Single-Molecule Diffusion in One- Two- and Three-Dimensional Microporous Coordination Polymers: Directional, Trapped and Immobile Guests," by Liao et al. appears in Nano Letters! Congratulations to Yi Liao on passing his candidacy exam! Courtney wins a fellowship for the UM Chemistry Summer Undergraduate Research Program! "Three-Dimensional Super-Resolution Imaging of the Midplane Protein FtsZ in Live Caulobacter crescentus Cells Using Astigmatism," appears in ChemPhysChem. Welcome to our newest lab members, David Rowland and Courtney Talicska! Farewell to Rachel who leaves the lab to concentrate on academics before beginning Pharmacy school in 2012! 2009-2011 (expand/collapse)