News from the Landes Research Group at Rice University
New Postdoctoral Scholar 11/04/2023
We are happy to welcome our new Postdoctoral Researcher Nikita Kovalenko We look forward to your future successes in this group!
The Landes research group V2.0 09/06/2023
The Landes Research Group is at Midwest!
Departmental Achievement Awards 08/06/2023
Congratulations to JagritiChatterjee, Zhenyang Jia for winning the Gold and Silver Awards respectively at 9th SCI colloquium poster session.Keep up the good work!
Congratulations. 06/20/2023
Congratulations Zhenyang Jia on passing your Qualifying exam! Best wishes for your future work!
Departmental Achievement Awards 04/28/2023
Congratulations to Selena Zermeño for winning this year's School of Natural Sciences winner of the Staff Service Award!!!, You deserve every success!
Congratulations 04/04/2023
Congratulations, Emily Searles, on your Ph.D. defense. We will miss you ! Good luck with the coming future!
Congratulations. 03/31/2023
Congratulations Jagriti Chatterjee, Emil Gillett and Jiamu Lin on passing your Qualifying Exam. Good luck on the years to come!
New Postdoctoral Scholar 11/10/2022
We are happy to welcome our new Postdoctoral Researcher Jeladhara Shobhanan We look forward to your accomplishments in this group!
Welcome! 09/15/2022
The Landes Research Group welcomes our Visting Scientist Dr. Zhe Qiang (Asst. Prof at University of Southern Mississippi) and Visiting Student , Sara Valdez We are glad you are here!
Thank you Summer Interns 08/07/2022
Thank you Dr. Shawna Lee , John Ferguson and Malaysia Moses for joining us this summer! We had a great time having you all and best wishes for your future endeavors
Departmental Achievement Awards 08/06/2022
Congratulations to JagritiChatterjee for winning the Silver Award at 8th SCI colloquium poster session.Keep up the good work!
Ph.D. 08/05/2022
Congratulations to AnastasiiaMisiura for successfully completing her Ph.D thesis defense! We will miss you and wish you the best luck at Intel!
In the News... 08/05/2022
Congratulations to ChayanDutta for joining Georgia State University as an Assistant Professor! We will miss you and wish you the best for your future!
Welcome 05/11/2022
The LRG welcomes our new PhD student Zhenyang Jia We look forward to your future successes in this group!
Congratulations 04/26/2022
Congratulations to AnnetteJones for winning the second position at Chemistry undergrad poster session.Keep up the good work!
New Postdoctoral Scholar 12/01/2021
We are happy to welcome our new Postdoctoral Researcher Subhojyoti Chatterjee We look forward to your future successes in this group!
Welcome 11/24/2021
The LRG welcomes three new members, Jagriti Chatterjee, Emil Gillett and Jiamu Lin. Good luck on the years to come!
Congratulations 10/06/2021
Dr. Rashad Baiyasi is working as a Senior Data Scientist at Sandia National Labs now. Congratulations to your new dream job!
Fellowship 10/04/2021
We are happy to welcome our new Postdoctoral Researcher Hyuncheol Oh who is supported by the Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Research Foundation of Korea! We look forward to your future successes!
New Undergraduate Researcher 08/05/2021
The LRG welcomes our new undergraduate researcher Annette Jones! Good luck!
In the news... 08/03/2021
A multiuniversity team led by Christy Landes has landed a National Science Foundation grant to establish the NSF Phase 1 Center for Adapting Flaws into Features. Read more from Rice News here.
Congratulations 07/23/2021
Suparna Sarkar-Banerjee is now working at Loxo Oncology at Lilly! Congratulations and good luck with your new career!
Ph.D. 06/17/2021
Congratulations to Charlotte Flatebo for successfully completing her Ph.D thesis defense! We will miss you and wish you the best luck at UCSB!
Quals Passed 06/09/2021
Congratulations to Dongyu Fan on passing her Qualifying Exam! We look forward to more awesome work from you in the future!
Ph.D. 03/31/2021
Congratulations to Logan Bishop for successfully defending his Ph.D! Good luck at 3M!
Ph.D. 03/11/2021
Congratulations to Rashad Baiyasi for passing his thesis defense. Good luck with the coming future!
Congratulations 08/10/2020
Congratulations to Anastasiia Misiura and Logan Bishop for winning Weiser Awards this year!
Promotion 04/27/2020
Congratulations to Landes Group Alum Prof. Jixin Chen for receiving tenure at Ohio University!
Promotion 04/02/2020
Congratulations to Landes Group Alum Prof. Charlisa Daniels for receiving tenure at Northern Kentucky University. We are proud of all you have accomplished and are excited to see what the future holds in store for you!
In the news... 02/25/2020
Christy Landes has been featured in ACS Energy Letter's Women Scientists at the Forefront of Energy Research virtual feature!
Congratulations 02/14/2020
Congratulations to Charlotte Flatebo, Lauren McCarthy, Emily Searles, Lauren Warning for winning presentation awards at the Smalley-Curl Spring Symposium!
Welcome 01/28/2020
The LRG welcomes in two new members, Dongyu Fan and Wesley Leung. Good luck you two!
Ph.D. 06/17/2021
Congratulations to Charlotte Flatebo for successfully completing her Ph.D thesis defense! We will miss you and wish you the best luck at UCSB!
Quals Passed 06/09/2021
Congratulations to Dongyu Fan on passing her Qualifying Exam! We look forward to more awesome work from you in the future!
Ph.D. 03/31/2021
Congratulations to Logan Bishop for successfully defending his Ph.D! Good luck at 3M!
Ph.D. 03/11/2021
Congratulations to Rashad Baiyasi for passing his thesis defense. Good luck with the coming future!
Congratulations 08/10/2020
Congratulations to Anastasiia Misiura and Logan Bishop for for winning Weiser Awards this year!
Promotion 04/27/2020
Congratulations to Landes Group Alum Prof. Jixin Chen for receiving tenure at Ohio University!
Promotion 04/02/2020
Congratulations to Landes Group Alum Prof. Charlisa Daniels for receiving tenure at Northern Kentucky University. We are proud of all you have accomplished and are excited to see what the future holds in store for you!
In the news... 02/25/2020
Christy Landes has been featured in ACS Energy Letter's Women Scientists at the Forefront of Energy Research virtual feature!
Congratulations 02/14/2020
Congratulations to Charlotte Flatebo, Lauren McCarthy, Emily Searles, Lauren Warning for winning presentation awards at the Smalley-Curl Spring Symposium!
Welcome 01/28/2020
The LRG welcomes in two new members, Dongyu Fan and Wesley Leung. Good luck you two!
Congratulations 12/12/2019
Congratulations to Nicholas Moringo for completing his Ph.D. studies. We know you are bound for great things but will miss your input. Good luck!
Congratulations 08/09/2019
Congratulations to Nicholas Moringo for winning the Army Futures Presentation Award at the 5th Annual SCI Summer Research Symposium!
Lab Outing 08/06/2019
The Super Group returned to Minute Maid Stadium for our yearly Astros Game. Go 'Stros!
In the news... 06/01/2019
Congratulations to Miranda Gallagher, who was awarded a short talk selected from poster abstracts at the Environmental Nanotechnology GRC in Newry, ME. Her talk featured ongoing research in the Landes Group funded by the Department of Energy using single-particle spectroscopy to understand structure property relationship of nanocatalysts.
Quals Passed 04/11/2019
Congratulations to Anastasiia Misiura for passing her Qualifying Exam this week. We look forward to your accomplishments in the coming years.
Ph.D. 04/09/2019
Congratulations to Sudeshna Chatterjee for passing her Thesis defense. Good luck in Portland Sudeshna!
In the news... 02/14/2019
Congratulations to Wenxiao Wang, Nicholas Moringo, and Chayan Dutta for getting their newest publication featured in the press!
New Postdoctoral Scholar 01/07/2019
We are happy to welcome our new Postdoctoral Researcher Suparna Sarkar-Banerjee to the Landes Lab. We look forward to seeing what exciting ideas you bring to the office!
In the news... 02/14/2019
Congratulations to Wenxiao Wang, Nicholas Moringo, and Chayan Dutta for getting their newest publication featured in the press!
New Postdoctoral Scholar 01/07/2019
We are happy to welcome our new Postdoctoral Researcher Suparna Sarkar-Banerjee to the Landes Lab. We look forward to seeing what exciting ideas you bring to the office!
New Postdoctoral Scholar 01/07/2019
We are happy to welcome our new Postdoctoral Researcher Min Zhou to the LRG Offices. What a great way to ring in the New Year!
Ph.D. 12/12/2018
The LRG congratulates Wenxiao Wang on successfully passing his thesis defense. Good luck at Google, we know you'll do great!
New Laboratory Space 12/07/2018
The LRG is officially out of Dell Butcher Hall! Stay tuned for pictures of all the exciting things happening in our new lab space!
Happy Holidays! 12/02/2018
The Super Group hosted their yearly Christmas Party on Sunday. Good food and frivolaties were had by all. Happy Holidays!
New Graduate Student 11/01/2018
We are happy to welcome our new Graduate Student in Chemistry, Emily Searles, to our office. Good luck in the years to come!
New Graduate Student 10/15/2018
We are happy to welcome our new Graduate Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Jorge Zepeda O to our lab. We look forward to all of your future successes!
New Postdoctoral Scholar 08/22/2018
We are happy to welcome our new Postdoctoral Researcher, Miranda Gallagher to the lab. We look forward to all of your future successes!
Departmental Achievement Awards 08/17/2018
Congratulations to Logan Bishop and Nicholas Moringo for winning awards at this years departmental awards ceremony. Keep up the good work!
Lab Outing 07/05/2018
The Super Group went to watch the Astros beat out the White Sox. 'GO STROS!
Quals Passed 04/26/2018
Congratulations to Charlotte Flatebo for advancing to Ph.D. candidacy!
Thesis Proposal 04/13/2018
Congratulations to Wenxiao Wang for successfully proposing his thesis. Good luck with the work ahead!
Quals Passed 04/04/2018
Congratulations to Rashad Baiyasi for graduating to Ph.D. candidacy.
NSF Fellowship 04/02/2018
Congratulations to Logan Bishop on becoming a 2018 NSF GRFP Fellow!
Quals Passed 03/12/2018
Congratulations to Logan Bishop on passing his Qualifying Exam! Good luck in the years ahead!
Welcome 01/22/2018
We wish to welcome our new Group Admin Corina Knowlton.
New Undergraduate Researcher 01/15/2018
The Group would like to welcome our new undergraduate researcher Theresa Leibig.
New Postdoctoral Scholar 01/08/2018
The Group would like to welcome our new postdoc Chayan Dutta to the group.
New Graduate Student 10/28/2017
The Group would like to welcome our new graduate researcher Anastasiia Misiura. Good luck on the research ahead!
Departmental Achievement Awards 08/18/2017
Congratulations to Nicholas Moringo on winning a Departmental Achievement award.
Congratulations to our Summer SCI Winners 08/15/2017
Congratulations to Logan Bishop and Nicholas Moringo for winning awards on their oral presentations in the Summer SCI Symposium.
NDSEG Fellowship 04/11/2017
Congratulations to Charlotte Flatebo for being named a 2017 NDSEG Fellow. Also congratulations to Logan Bishop for being named an NDSEG 2017 Alternate Candidate.
Quals Passed 03/20/2017
Congratulations to Nicholas Moringo on passing his Qualifying Exam! Good luck in the years ahead!
NSF Fellowship 03/17/2017
Congratulations to Nicholas Moringo on becoming a 2017 NSF GRFP Fellow!
Congratulations 02/09/2017
Benjamin Hoener and Charlotte Flatebo won presentation awards in the 2nd Annual SCI Transdisciplinary Symposium. Congratuations to both!
New Postdoctoral Scholar 01/18/2017
The Group would like to welcome our new postdoc Dr. Sean Collins to the Lab.
In the news... 01/14/2017
Congratulations to Dr. Lydia Kisley on making Forbes' 30 Under 30 list for 2017!
New Graduate Student 10/28/2016
The group would like to welcome a new graduate student, Logan Bishop. We look forward to what you will do in the coming years, Logan!
In the news... 10/24/2016
Wenxiao Wang and coworkers developed a method to improve temporal resolution of super-resolution images. Read the Rice News report here
Poster Award 08/21/2016
Congratulations to Sudeshna Chatterjee and Rashad Baiyasi for winning poster awards at this years SCI Summer Symposium
Teaching Award 08/19/2016
Congratulations to Sudeshna Chatterjee for winning a Harry B. Weiser teaching award for her excellence as a T.A. and the Stephen C. Hoffmann fellowship award for her outstanding qualifying exam! Way to go Sudeshna!
Thesis Award 05/17/2016
Congratulations to Bo Shuang for winning the John L. Margrave Thesis Award in Chemistry for his great work while earning his Ph.D.
Congratulations 04/26/2016
Congratulations to Rashad Baiyasi his award winning presntation at the First Annual SCI Transdisciplinary Symposium. Keep up the good work!
Ph.D. 04/20/2016
Congratulations to Dr. Lawrence Tauzin on his successful thesis defense!
Ph.D. 04/19/2016
Congratulations to Dr. Bo Shuang on his successful thesis defense!
Quals Passed 03/29/2016
Congratulations to Sudeshna Chatterjee on passing her Qualifying Exam! Good luck in the years ahead!
NSF GRFP Honorable Mention 03/29/2016
Congratulations to Charlotte Flatebo on achieving Honorable Mention in the NSF GRFP!
Congratulations 01/28/2016
Congratulations to Dr. Christy Landes on winning the 2016 Early Career Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry from the American Chemical Society. We are all proud of Christy and the members of the Landes group contributing to this award winning research!
Ph.D. 11/24/2015
Congrtulations to Chad Byers on his successful thesis defense!
New Graduate Students 11/09/2015
Welcome to two new graduate students, Nicholas Moringo and Charlotte Flatebo!
Congratulations 08/07/2015
Congratulations to Chad Byers for winning the Peoples Choice for his oral presentation and Dr. Hao Shen for winning a poster reward at the first annual SCI Summer Symposium.
Ph.D. 04/16/2015
Congratulations to Dr. David Cooper on his successful thesis defense!
Ph.D. 04/14/2015
Congratulations to Dr. Lydia Kisley on his successful thesis defense!
New Graduate Student 11/06/2014
Welcome to our new Graduate student Sudeshna Chatterjee
Congratulations to our RQI Symposium Winners 08/08/2014
The Group made an excellent showing at this year's Annual RQI Symposium with multipled members giving talks and two members, Bo Shuang and Rachel, winning prizes for their work.
Promotion 03/21/2014
CHRISTY GOT TENURE!!! This past Friday, Christy was officially informed she would receive tenure at Rice. We here in the Landes group are, of course, thrilled with the news and want to offer our sincerest congratulations to Christy for this wonderful opportunity.
Congratulations 03/20/2014
Congratulations to Charlisa Daniels for taking a position as a Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at Northern Kentucky University.
Congratulations 03/20/2014
Congratulations to Carmen Reznik for her promotion to Supply Excellence Manger for Chemicals Business.
Paper Accepted 03/14/2014
Our friend and colleague Jixin Chen has accepted an offer from Ohio University as an Assistant Professor. We will miss him in our lab but wish him well on this next step in his career!
Congratulations 02/26/2014
Congratulations to Chad Byers for winning Best Pitch in Natural Sciences in the 90 second thesis contest!
In the news... 01/22/2014
Our groups work in using single molecule fluorescence to understand ion exchange chromatography was recently featured in the Rice news. See the full story here
In the news... 10/04/2013
The Groups work on development of the super-resolution technique mbPAINT was featured in Rice News.
Congratulations 08/02/2013
On Friday, the annual RQI Summer Research Colloquium was held and the Group had a very strong showing. Alberto, Bo Shuang, Chad Byers, David Cooper, and Lawrence Tauzin all gave poster presentations on their most recent work, while Jixin Chen and Lydia Kisley were both selected to give oral presentations. Lydia Kisley's presentation titled 'Super-resolution Imaging by Motion Blur Points Accumulation for Imaging in Nanoscale Topography (mbPAINT)' won this years Halliburton Award.
Quals Passed 07/11/2013
Congratulations to Chad Byers for passing his Masters defense and moving on to candidacy
Quals Passed 04/15/2013
Congratulations to Lawrence Tauzin and Bo Shuang for advancing to candidacy. We look forward to your future successes in the group!
NSF Fellowship 03/30/2012
Congratulations to Lydia Kisley on becoming a 2012 NSF GRFP Fellow!
Congratulations 11/04/2012
Congratulations to Group undergraduates Julia Zhao and Andrea Mansur for their excellent presentations at the ACS Southwest Regional Meeting.
Poster Presentations 10/13/2012
Two undergraduates from the Group, Andrea Mansur and Nick Uhm successfully presented their research at the Rice Centennial Poster Session
Research Award 08/17/2012
The group received much recognization during the Departmental Awards ceremony. Lydia Kisley was awarded the Stephen C. Hofmann Award for outstanding early achievement towards the Ph.D. degree due to early publication and one of the highest qualifying exam scores, while Nick Uhm was awarded George Holmes Richter Memorial Fellowship to assist in funding his summer research
Quals Passed 06/21/2012
Congratulations to David Cooper and Lydia Kisley for graduating on to Ph.D. candidacy.
Ph.D. 05/29/2012
Congratulations to Dr. Nick Taylor on his successful thesis defense!
Ph.D. 04/04/2012
Congratulations to Charlisa Daniels for passing her thesis defense!
New Graduate Students 10/10/2011
The Group is happy to welcome two new graduate students, Lawrence Tauzin, and Bo Shuang.
Ph.D. 05/13/2011
Congratulations to Carmen Reznik for successfully defending your thesis. We will surely miss you in the years ahead!
Research Award 05/13/2011
This year's Chemistry Departmental Awards Ceremony saw four members of the Group receive prestigious awards. Carmen Reznik, who graduated this year, won the illustrious John L. Margrave Thesis Award, which is given to the student with the best thesis each year. Nick Taylor received the Harry B Weiser Research Award for major research contributions in the chemistry community. Rosalie Berg was presented with the Zevi & Bertha Salsburg Memorial award in Chemistry, noting an outstanding undergraduate in the Chemistry Depatment. Finally, the George Holmes Richter Memorial Fellowship was awarded to Nick Uhm. Join the rest of us in the Group as we congratulate our award winners and look forward to another productive year.