Faculty News Nate Wittenberg In 2021, Prof. Wittenberg received an NSF CAREER Award for a project entitled, “CAREER: Investigating the Molecular Factors that Underlie Myelin-Associated Glycoprotein Binding.” (read more) This $665,000 grant will fund research activities in the Wittenberg lab for the next five years. In the past year, Nate presented the group’s research at virtual versions of the ACS National Meeting, PittCon, and the Eastern Analytical Symposium. The Wittenberg lab welcomed Alexandria Pellett, a junior biochemistry major at Lehigh, for Summer 2021 undergraduate research. In 2021, the Wittenberg lab published the following articles: Cawley, J.L.; Blauch, M.E.; Collins, S.M.; Nice, J.B.; Xie, Q.; Jordan, L.R.; Brown, A.C. and Wittenberg, N.J. "Nanoarrays of Individual Liposomes and Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles by Liftoff Nanocontact Printing" Small, 2021, doi: 10.1002/smll.202103338. Cawley, J.L.; Jordan, L.R. and Wittenberg, N.J. "Detection and Characterization of Vesicular Gangliosides Binding to MyelinAssociated Glycoprotein Binding on Supported Lipid Bilayers" Analytical Chemistry, 2021, 93, 1185-1192. Baxter, A.M.; Jordan, L.R.; Kullappan, M. and Wittenberg, N.J. "Tubulation of Supported Lipid Bilayer Membranes Induced by Photosensitized Lipid Oxidation" Langmuir, 2021, 37, 5753-5762. Julien, J.A.; Pellett, A.L.; Shah, S.S.; Wittenberg, N.J. and Glover, K.J. "Preparation and Characterization of Neutrally-Buoyant Oleosin-Rich Synthetic Lipid Droplets" Biochim Biophys Acta, 2021, 1863, 183624. lt Xiaoji Xu Dr. Xu has been named a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation (see Page 6 to read more.) Haomin Wang and Devon Jakob have successfully defended their doctoral dissertations and they have started their post-doctoral research at Caltech and NIST, respectively. Dr. Xu has given several invited presentations at conference and universities: 1. Invited presentation , Advanced Chemical Microscopy for Life Science and Translational Medicine, SPIE Photonics West Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA. Feb. 1-6, 2020. 2. Invited presentation, Microscopy and Microanalysis Meeting 2020, Milwaukee, WI, USA, Aug.2-6, (online) 3. Invited seminar, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Feb. 5 of 6 8, 2021 (online) 4. Invited seminar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA, Apr. 2. 2021 (online) 5. Invited colloquium, Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada. Apr. 6, 2021. (online) 6. Invited presentation, Material Research Society 2021 MRS Spring Meeting and Exhibit, Seattle, Washington, Apr. 18-23 2021. (online) 7. Invited presentation , Enhanced Spectroscopies and Nanoimaging 2021, SPIE Optical + Photonics Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA. Aug. 1-5, 2021 (online) His lab has contributed to the following publications: Li, N.; Niu, X; Li, L.; Wang, H.; Huang, Z.; Zhang, Y.; Chen, Y.; Zhang, X.; Zhu, C.; Zai, H.; Bai, Y.; Ma, S; Liu, H.; Liu, X.; Guo, Z.; Liu, G.; Fan, R.; Chen, H.; Wang, J.; Lun, Y.; Wang, X.; Hong, J.; Xie, H.; Jakob, D.S.; Xu, X.G.; Chen, Q. and Zhou,, H. "Liquid Medium Annealing for Fabricating Durable Perovskite Solar Cells with Improved Reproducibility" Science, 2021, 373, 561-567. Jakob, D.S.; Li, N.; Zhou, H. and Xu, X.G. "Integrated Tapping Mode Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy with Photo-induced Force Microscopy for Correlative Chemical and Surface Potential Mapping" Small, 2021, doi.org/10.1002/smll.202102495 (Featured as a back cover) Page 12 · Lehigh University
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