- 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!
- 8/18/2021, Congratulations to Yue on her manuscript "Specific phenotypic, genomic, and fitness evolutionary trajectories toward streptomycin resistance induced by pesticide co-stressors in Escherichia coli" published in ISME communications!
- 7/26/2021, Congratulations to Shun on his manuscript "Structure-Specific Aerobic Defluorination of Short-Chain Fluorinated Carboxylic Acids by Activated Sludge Communities" published in Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett.!
- 6/11/2021, Congratulations to Yue on passing her final dissertation defense! PhinisheD, Dr. Xing!
- 4/27/2021, Dr. Men has been awarded the NSF CAREER Award 2021 (Award No. 2045658). The awarded project is about getting "A Systematic Understanding of Accelerated Emergence and Transmission of Antibiotic Resistance under Non-antibiotic Micropollutant Exposure", starting on 5/15/2021. Dr. Men and her PhD student Yue Xing and MS student Xiaoxi Kang (graduated) have been working on this area since 2016. We are very excited to continue devoting our efforts toward this direction and advance the fundamental understanding of this critical public health issue .
- 10/30/2020, Yaochun's first paper on microbial reductive defluorination of PFAS has been published in ES&T (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.0c04483) after three years of hard work. It is one of my favorite articles. Congrats! Let's get it rolling and rolling!
- 07/06/2020, Dr. Men has been awarded a "Regents Faculty Fellowship" and an "Omnibus Travel Grant" by the Committee on Research of the Riverside Division of the Academic Senate.
- 06/17/2020, Yue's paper "Exposure to Environmental Levels of Pesticides Stimulates and Diversifies Evolution in Escherichia coli toward Higher Antibiotic Resistance" has been accepted by Environmental Science and Technology. Congrats!
- 04/12/2020, Yue's paper has won the 2020 Graduate Student Paper Award (Gonter Award), the highest award given to students by the Division of Environmental Chemistry, ACS. Congratulations!
- 02/21/2020, Yue has been selected as one winner of the 2020 Graduate Student Awards in Environmental Chemistry. Congratulations!
- 9/26/2019, first day of instruction of Fall Quarter at UCR! M.E.N. group welcomes two new members: Xiaoxi Kang and Bosen Jin, who joined the group as a PhD student and a Jr. Scientist!
- 8/28/2019, Yaochun Yu gave his talk related to his ACS graduate paper award at the ACS National Meeting Fall 2019 in San Diego, CA. Congrats to Yaochun, again!
- 8/25/2919, Dr. Men presented "Organic contaminants of emerging concerns: Environmental fate and impacts" at the symposium "Showcasing emerging investigators & future perspectives: A symposium by the RSC Environmental Science Journals", ACS National Meeting Fall 2019 in San Diego, CA
- 7/1/2019, Dr. Men moved to the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Riverside, to continue her tenure-track as an Assistant Professor. Her three students moved with her to southern California, a place with lots of sunshine and heat waves, with research passion and great adventure.
- 6/23/2019, Yue presented her poster "Exposure to Environmental Level Pesticides Stimulates and Diversifies Evolution in Escherichia coli towards Antibiotic Resistance" at the ASM Microbe 2019 in San Francisco, CA.
- 5/22/2019, Dr. Men served as one of the panelists at the Emerging Contaminants in the Environment Conference 2019, Champaign IL.
- 5/22/2019, Yue gave a talk "Evolution Towards Antibiotic Resistance Induced by Environmental‐Level Pesticide" at the Emerging Contaminants in the Environment Conference 2019, Champaign IL.
- 5/21/2019, Yaochun gave a talk "Biotransformation of sulfonamide antibiotics by different ammonia oxidizers" at the Emerging Contaminants in the Environment Conference 2019, Champaign IL.
- 5/16/2019, Dr. Men gave a talk "Exposure to environmental level pesticides stimulates and diversifies evolution in Escherichia coli towards antibiotic resistance" at the AEESP Conference 2019, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ.
- 4/30/2019, Yaochun and Yue passed their prelim exams! One more step to go! Congrats!
- 4/02/2019, Yaochun gave a talk "Specific micropollutant biotransformation pattern by the comammox bacterium Nitrospira inopinata" at the 257th ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL.
- 3/15/2019, Yue has been selected to receive an ASM Student Travel Award. Congratulations, Yue!
- 2/28/2019, Yaochun has been selected as one recipient of the 2019 Graduate Student Paper Award by ENVR division of ACS. Congratulations!
- 2/4/2019, Yaochun has been selected as one winner of the 2019 Graduate Student Awards in Environmental Chemistry. Congratulations!
- 8/14/2018, Dr. Men gave a talk "Deciphering ecological roles of supportive microorganisms in TCE bioremediation" in Session: Pollutant Control and Bioremediation at the SIMB Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
- 7/17/2018, Yue has her first paper "Occurrence and fate of emerging organic contaminants in wastewater treatment plants with an enhanced nitrification step." accepted by Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology. Congratulations!
- 7/13/2018, Yaochun has his first paper "Ammonia monooxygenase-mediated cometabolic biotransformation and abiotic transformation of micropollutants in an AOB/NOB co-culture." accepted by Environmental Science and Technology. Congratulations!
- 3/22/2018, Yaochun's oral presentation "Ammonia-monooxygenase-mediated cometabolic biotransformation and abiotic transformation of micropollutants" has been awarded "Certificate of Merit" at the 255th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
- 3/20/2018, Yue's oral presentation "Occurrence and fate of emerging organic contaminants in wastewater treatment processes with an enhanced nitrification step" has been awarded "Certificate of Merit" at the 255th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
- 2/20/2018, Yue has been granted a Conference Travel Award by the Graduate College
- 8/23/2017, Kunyang Zhang presented a poster "Micropollutant biotransformation by a nitrifying community enriched from biofilm of a nitrification trickling tower"at 254th ACS National Meeting at Washington D.C.
- 7/10/2017, Dr. Men has one collaborative NSF project granted, "SusChEM: Collaborative Research: Cobalt-catalyzed Defluorination of Branched Perfluorinated Compounds".
- 6/20/2017, Yue Xing gave a poster presentation "Fate of Emerging Organic Contaminants During Domestic Wastewater Treatment Processes with an Enhanced Nitrification Step" at AEESP conference, Ann Arbor, MI.
- 6/16/2017, Shun Che joined M.E.N group as a PhD student, welcome Shun!
- 5/31/2017, Yaochun Yu gave an oral presentation "Micropollutant Biotransformation
by Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria" at the Emerging Contaminants in the Aquatic Environment Conference (ECAEC17) held at Illinois Sustainable Technology Center. - 5/31/2017, Yue Xing gave an oral presentation "Fate of emerging organic contaminants during wastewater treatment processes with an enhanced nitrification step" at the Emerging Contaminants in the Aquatic Environment Conference (ECAEC17) held at Illinois Sustainable Technology Center.
- 4/21/2017, Dr. Men graduated from AE3 Collins Program, and gave a short speech during graduation lunch seminar.
- 4/3/2017, Dr. Men presented on "Roles played by ammonia oxidizers of a nitrifying activated sludge community in micropollutant biotransformation" for the session "Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Natural & Engineered Systems" under Divission of Environmental Chemistry, at ACS 253rd National Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
- 2/7/2017, Dr. Men received UIUC IIP International Research Travel Grant.
- 8/15/2016, Kunyang Zhang, a PhD student joined M.E.N. Group. Welcome Kunyang!
- 8/1/2016, Yue Xing, a PhD student joined M.E.N. Group. Welcome Yue!
- 7/20/2016, Jing Yuan, a senior student from Tongji University started to do a two-month intern in M.E.N. group. Welcome Jing!
- 5/16/2016, Yaochun Yu, a master student at CEE started to work in M.E.N. group for this summer. Welcome Yaochun!
- 3/16/2016, Dr. Yujie Men started working at CEE!
- Prof. Yujie Men will be launching at UIUC from Switzerland on March 16, stop by 3209 Newmark for a chat or a tea break with Swiss chocolate!
- The M.E.N. Group will start at CEE UIUC in March 2016!
- 10/30/2020, Yaochun's first paper on microbial reductive defluorination of PFAS has been published in ES&T (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.0c04483) after three years of hard work. It is one of my favorite articles. Congrats! Let's get it rolling and rolling!