De Yoreo Research Group

Conferences/Presentations


August 14, 2024

Jingshan Du Receives Postdoctoral Award at Microscopy & Microanalysis 2024

Dr. Jingshan Du, a Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the De Yoreo Group, has been awarded a Postdoctoral Scholar Award from the Microscopy Society of America (MSA) at Microscopy & Microanalysis 2024. At this conference, held in late July in Cleveland, OH, Jingshan delivered an invited talk titled, “Molecular-Resolution Electron Imaging of Defects and…


June 27, 2024

Jay Dua to Attend the 12th Bio-SPM Summer School at Kanazawa University

Jay Dua, a graduate student in the De Yoreo Group, has been accepted to participate in the 12th Bio-SPM Summer School organized by the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University. The Bio-SPM summer school provides young researchers and students with an opportunity to use state-of-the-art Bio-SPM systems to image their samples and realize their…


December 1, 2023

Chenyang Shi Receives MRS Best Poster Award

Dr. Chenyang Shi, a Post Doctorate Research Associate at PNNL working with Jim, has recently received a conference-wide Best Poster Award from the 2023 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. His poster titled, “Multiphase Silk Assembly for Two-Dimensional Composites,” was chosen as one of the six winners from over 400 posters presented in the Wednesday poster…


May 25, 2023

Ying Xia Receives a Clean Energy Institute Travel Grant

Ying Xia, a graduate student co-advised by Jim and Professor Jun Liu, receives a Student Travel Grant from the Clean Energy Institute at the University of Washington to cover her trip to the 2023 Gordon Research Conference/Seminar on Crystal Growth and Assembly. This conference is one of the most important gatherings in the field and…


March 9, 2023

Jingshan Du Receives a Distinguished Student Award from the American Physical Society

Dr. Jingshan Du, a Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the De Yoreo group, receives a Distinguished Student Award from the American Physical Society (APS) at the APS March Meeting 2023 in Las Vegas, NV. The Distinguished Student program was established by APS and its Forum of International Physics in 2015 to award outstanding non-US…


June 29, 2022

Ying Xia Receives Best Poster Award at the 27th AACGE Western Section Conference on Crystal Growth & Epitaxy

Congratulations to Ying Xia, a graduate student jointly advised by Jim and Professor Jun Liu, for receiving a Best Poster Award from the 27th AACGE Western Section Conference on Crystal Growth & Epitaxy. Ying’s poster titled “Controlled 2D peptides assembly on twisted van der Waals substrates” was one of only two posters to receive this…


May 10, 2022

Group Members Featured in the 2022 MRS Spring Meeting

Several group members are representing the group at the 2022 MRS Spring Meeting, which is held during May 8-13, 2022, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ying Xia, Susrut Akkineni, Dr. Sakshi Yadav, and Dr. Chenyang Shi will give presentations on various topics across protein assembly fundamentals and biomineralization. Check out the press release from PNNL to see…