Lab News - Single Molecule Biophotonics Group

Feb 2023 – Applications for our 2023 high-school student 8-weeks Summer Internship in Nanobiophotonics are now open. Info here.
June 2022 – Our new collaborative article with the Goodman group, that describes the role of RecA in the formation of mutasomal complexes, is now published in Nucleic Acid Research.
May 2022 – Congratulation to Yunke for her co-authorship on a new collaborative article with the El-Naggar group describing the cell surface dynamics of individual cytochromes and electron transport processes in bacteria, that is now published in PNAS.
March 2022– The article on emerin by Tony, Markville and Liying is selected as part of the Research Highlights from the March issue of the Journal of Cell Science. Congrats!!.
Feb 2022 – Congratulation to Tony, Markville and Liying for their research article on emerin now accepted in the Journal of Cell Science.
Feb 2022 – Applications for our 2022 high-school student 8-weeks Summer Internship in Nanobiophotonics are now open. Info here.
Jan 2022 – Kick-start of the NSF-ANR research project DynamoLINC with Fabien on sabbatical in the IBM team at the CBS.
Dec 2021 – The Pinaud lab is awarded an NSF-ANR Research Cooperation grant.
Dec 2021 – Our preprint on emerin available at bioRxiv has been updated with exciting new data.
Sept 2021 – Congratulation to Tony who successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Nanoscale dynamics and nuclear envelope organization of the muscular dystrophy related protein emerin”. Bravo Dr. Fernandez!!!
Aug 2021 – New collaborative article with the Haselwandter group on caveolae mechanics now published in Physical Review E.
May 2021 – Welcome to Liying, who is joining the Pinaud Lab as a PhD student.
Feb 2021 – A preprint of our work on emerin is available at bioRxiv.
June 2020 – Congratulation to Tony, Nan Lee and the Shung group for a collaborative research article on ultrasound stimulation of pannexin-1 channels published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology.
June 2020 – The Pinaud Lab is awarded a NIH grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) to study VGCC dynamics at the nanoscale in live C. elegans.
May 2020 – Welcome to Hannah, who is joining the Pinaud Lab as a PhD student.
May 2020 – Congratualtion to Yunke for her method article on single molecule CALM imaging in CRISPR-engineered C. elegans published in Springer Protocols
April 2020 – Congratulation to Ryan, who received a Summer 2020 Provost’s Research Fellowship.
Feb 2020 – The Pinaud group goes to the Biophysical Society Meeting in San Diego. We will present our latest research.
Feb 2020 – Applications for our 2020 high-school student 8-weeks Summer Internship in Nanobiophotonics are now open. Info here.
Jan 2020 – The Pinaud Lab is awarded a NIH grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) to study the nuclear envelope protein emerin.
Dec 2019 – Fabien presents the lab data on SERS plasmonic nanoprobes at the 2019 Materials Research Meeting (MMR2019) in Yokohama, Japan.
Nov. 2019 – Congratulation to Markville and Tony for their research article on cell micropatterning and emerin mechanotransduction published in Micromachines
Sept. 2019 – Congratulation to Ryan, who recveived a Provost’s Research Fellowship.
Aug. 2019 – Our collaborative research article with the lab of Dr. Amy Lee is highlighted on the cover of Life Science Alliance
Aug. 2019 – Congratulation to Ram and the Lee group for a collaborative research article on GRP78 and breast cancer cells published in Life Science Alliance
June 2019 – Congratulation to Ram who successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Spatial and Quantitative Mapping of Caveolin-1 Membrane Nanodomains and their Functional Dynamic Response to Mechanosignaling Cues”
May 2019 – Fabien becomes a Faculty member of the F1000Prime Cell Biology Faculty, Membranes and Sorting Section
May 2019 – Congratulation to Yunke, who has been awarded a NIH T32 graduate student fellowship in Chemical Biology Interface at USC
May 2019 – Congratulation to Samantha, Hayley and Sana, three high-school students from Los Angeles, who have been selected for our 2019 SMBG summer intership program. They will also participate to the BUGS program at USC this summer
May 2019 – Fabien presents the lab latest data at the ICQMB Seminar series at UC Riverside
April 2019 – Fabien is promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at USC
March 2019 – Applications for high-school students to participate in the SMBG Summer 2019 intership program at USC are now open
Jan 2019 – Congratulation to Ram and the Goodman lab for a collaborative research article on DNA polymerase V and single molecule imaging to be published in PLOS Genetics
Jan 2019 – Congratulation to Ryan for being awarded a Provost Fellowship
Nov 2018 – Congratulation to Yunke who advances to candidacy after a very successful qualification exam
Sept 2018 – Welcome to Ryan, an undergraduate student from BISC who joins the lab
July 2018 – The Pinaud Lab presents data on superresolution imaging of emerin and nuclear mechanotransduction at the Gordon Research Conference on Single Molecule Approaches to Biology in West Dover, VT
June 2018 – The Pinaud Lab presents data on plasmonic nanoprobes at the Gordon Research Conference on Noble Metal Nanoparticles in South Hadley, MA
June 2018 – Fabien presents the lab latest data at the Physical Chemistry Seminar Series at Stanford University
May 2018 – Congratulation to Wendy and Kary, two high-school students from Los Angeles, who have been selected for our 2018 SMBG summer intership program. They will also participate to the BUGS program at USC this summer.
May 2018 – Fabien presents the lab latest data on emerin nuclear organization and its impact on EDMD at the 2018 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting on Nuclear Organization and Function
March 2018 – Congratulation to Tugba and Tony for their research article on improved split-fluorescent protein variants for single molecule imaging and nanomaterial assembly published in Scientific Reports
Feb 2018 – Congratulation to Tugba for her article on novel SERS and photoacoustic nanoprobes for cancer cell imaging published in Nature Communications
Dec 2017 – Fabien presents the lab latest data on the nuclear envelope protein emerin at the ASCB/EMBO 2017 meeting in Philadelphia
Sept 2017 – Congratulation to Taerin and Tugba for their article on gold nanorod/nanosphere clusters for NIR detections published in Optical Materials Express
July 2017 – Congratulation to Anthony, Markville, Ram and Taerin for their article on super-resolution microscopy imaging of micropatterned cells published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
May 2017 – Congratulations to Esmeralda and Mario, two high-school students from Los Angeles, who have been selected for our 2017 SMBG summer intership program. They will also participate to the BUGS program at USC this summer.
May 2017 – Fabien presents the lab latest data at UCLA and McGill University.
May 2017 – Congratulations to Yunke who is joining the group as a graduate student.
March 2017 – Welcome to Anuhpam and Peter who are joining the Pinaud lab as rotating graduate students !
March 2017 – Applications for high-school students to participate in the SMBG Summer 2017 intership program at USC are now open
Sept. 2016 – Congratulation to Taerin and Tugba for their article just published in the Wiley Journal Small !!!
Sept. 2016 – Welcome to Yunke who is joining the Pinaud lab as a rotating graduate student !
Aug. 2016 – Fabien presents the lab latest data on our novel hybrid SERS nanoprobes for cellular imaging at SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering in San Diego.
June 2016 – Congratulations to Jason, Emie and Hannah, three high-school students from Los Angeles, who have been selected for our SMBG summer intership program. They will also participate to the BUGS program at USC this summer.
May 2016 – Congratulations to Navneet who will join the lab this summer on a SURF fellowship.
May 2016 – Congratulations to Markeville who is joining the group as a graduate student.
April 2016 – Fabien presents single molecule techniques for muscular dystrophy disease phenotyping at the Biophysics seminar serie at USC.
March 2016 – Tugba is giving a talk on cellular SERS imaging with sGFP-assembled nanoprobes at the 251st American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Diego.
March 2016 – The whole SMBG group is at the 60th annual Biophysical Society metting in Los Angeles. Ram, Tony and Taerin are presenting posters. Tugba is giving a talk.
Feb 2016 – Fabien is presenting super-resolution imaging and SM tracking of emerin at SPIE-BIO Photonic West in San Francisco.
October 2015 – The whole SMBG group is at the MCB department annual retreat in Lake Arrowhead, CA, presenting posters.
Sept 2015 – Fabien presents the latest lab data at Caltech
Sept 2015 – Taerin presents our latest results on SERS nanoprobes at the SPIE/NIH workshop Biophotonics from Bench to Bedside in Bethesda, MD.
June 2015 – Fabien presents the latest lab data at the CCMB/Keck Symposium at USC.
May 2015 – Our single molecule data in live C. elegans can be viewed in this join Elsevier Webminar: Single Molecule Imaging with Multiple Wavelengths.
April 2015 – Fabien presents the lab latest data to the Chemistry and Biochemistry departments at Cal State L.A.
March 2015 – Our super-resolution data on cell surface GRP78 and caveolae are published on the cover of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Feb 2015 – Our collaborative work on super-resolution imaging of GRP78 and plasma membrane caveolae is published in JBC.
Feb 2015 – Fabien presents CALM imaging and C. elegans single molecule imaging at the 59th Biophysical Society metting in Baltimore.
Jan 2015 – Welcome to Taerin who is joining the lab as a post-doc
Oct 2014 – Our Nature Communications article is highlighted in Nature Methods (Super-resolution imaging in live animals)
Sept 2014 – Our latest work on single molecule imaging and tracking in live animals is published in Nature Communications.
July 2014 – The Pinaud Lab receives a grant from the Division of Material Research at NSF to develop new fluorescent protein/metal hybrid Raman nanoprobes for biosensing
Feb 2014 – Congratulations to Tugba who will present her work her work at the Micro- & Nanotechnology platform at the BPS 2014
Feb 2014 – The Pinaud group goes to the Biophysical Society Meeting in San Francisco. We will present our latest research
May 2013 – Welcome to Tugba and Antony, who join the lab as a graduate students
April 2013 – The Pinaud Lab was awarded a grant from the Ming Hsieh Institute for Engineering Medicine for Cancer.
June 2012 – Congratulations to Luiz for receiving an EDGE/APD scholarship!
May 2012 – Congratulations to Tugba for being accepted to the MCB graduate program!
May 2012 – Luiz and Ram are officially joining the lab as graduate students. Congratulation to both!
April 2012 – Our new microscope is here!
March 2012 – Welcome to Luiz who is joining the lab as a rotating graduate student!
Nov 2011 – Welcome to Ram who is joining the lab as a rotating graduate student!
Nov 2011 – Welcome to Tugba, who just joined the group as a research scholar!