We will move to Washington University in St. Louis in summer 2025! [WUSTL website]
Nanotechnology for Biophysics and Biomedicine
We employ nanotechnology and advanced optical imaging to understand, detect, and engineer cell functions and diseases.
Immune cells engulf Janus particles.
Single-molecule imaging of T cell receptors (red) and actin (green) in the immunological synapse.
A bifunctional Janus particle activates a T cell.
Join Us
We have openings for highly motivated postdoctoral fellows, who will move with the lab to Washington University in St. Louis in 2025. Please check out detail of the opening [link] and send your application to Dr. Yan Yu.
We have openings for highly motivated graduate students (to be enrolled in the Chemistry graduate Program at Washington University in St. Louis). Please send your inquiry and CV to Dr. Yan Yu.
Group Highlights
January 2024: We are excited to welcome four new lab members: first-year graduate students Avani (ACS Bridge Fellow) and Navin, and postdocs Yiming and Yi!
October 2023: Zihan’s paper is accepted to publish in PNAS! In this paper, he used magnetic tweezers to manipulate the parasite Toxoplasma and showed that propulsion forces applied during pathogen cell entry allow them to evade immune degradation.
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