NEWS
- 05/15/2023, Congratulations to Bosen on his first research paper "Substantial defluorination of polychlorofluorocarboxylic acids triggered by anaerobic microbial hydrolytic dechlorination" published in Nature Water! A full text can be found on eSchlorship. It has been covered by several media reports: Nature Research Highlights, NewScientist, and ChemistryWorld.
- 04/03/2023, Roxanna Pignolet, from the Microbiology Graduate program, joined M.E.N. Group for her Ph.D. project.
- 09/06/2022, Fengjun Xu started in M.E.N. Group as a Ph.D. student working on PFAS projects. Welcome on board!
- 08/23/2022, Bosen Jin presented at the ACS Fall Meeting in Chicago, IL.
- 07/05/2022, Shun Che passed his final dissertation defense. He is PhinishD now! Congrats!
- 05/23/2022, Our recent studies on the structure-dependent microbial defluorination of PFAS have been featured in a story "Microbes can degrade the toughest PFAS" on UCR News.
- 05/23/2022, Bosen Jin received the Student Paper Award at the Battelle Chlorinated Conference 2022. Congrats!
- 04/18/2022, Weiyang Zhao just started in M.E.N. Group as a PhD student working on PFAS projects. Welcome on board!
- 04/04/2022, Bosen Jin's presentation at the ACS Spring Meeting was the winner of the ACSenvr-SETAC Exchange Award. Congrats!
- 04/04/2022, Yaochun's 2nd paper about microbial defluorination is published in ES&T: Microbial Defluorination of Unsaturated Per- and Polyfluorinated Carboxylic Acids under Anaerobic and Aerobic Conditions: A Structure Specificity Study. Let's keep rolling!
- 03/23/2022, Shun Che and Bosen Jin presented their biodefluorination work at the ACS Spring Meeting in San Diego. Dr. Men also presented in Yaochun's place about the physiological and community analyses of an anaerobic defluorinating enrichment.
- 03/21/2022, Dr. Yue Xing started her new job with Wondfo Inc. in San Diego. Best luck!
- 02/2022, Dr. Yaochun Yu started his new Postdoc position at Eawag with Dr. Kathrin Fenner. Best luck!
- 12/16/2021, Dr. Men presented at iFAST Environmental Biotechnology Special Perry McCarty Symposium to celebrate Prof. Perry L. McCarty's 90th birthday and honor his outstanding contributions to Environmental Biotechnology. Check the link here and the McCarty Academic Family Tree.
- 10/29/2021, Yaochun has passed his final dissertation defense, who will be starting as a postdoc at Eawag in Feb 2022! Congrats, Dr. Yu!
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