Cheng Lab UCR

Biosensor Fabrication & Technology Research Lab @UCRiverside

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The Cheng Lab is proud to announce that our summer students, George Tsai, Chloe La and Chris Espinoza, have completed their studies and presented their results with posters and oral presentations organized by UCR campus.

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Papitcha (Mint) Jongwachirachai from Mahidol University has completed her one-year, Fulbright-supported research visit with us. The group went out to have a farewell lunch today. We wish her continuous success in Thailand!

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We had a great beach party this weekend in Newport Beach. Fantastic group T-sheets by Westley and delicious BBQ by Victor! See you next year!

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A great pleasure to have Prof. Kamonrat Phopin and Dr. Waralee Ruankham from Mahidol University, Thailand, visit us this week. We enthusiastically look forward to more collaborations in the future.

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The Cheng Lab gathered today in a pub in Riverside to celebrate Luke’s successful passing of the qualifying exam and advancement to PhD candidacy. A fantastic performance by him! Congrats! We cheered with soccer fans watching the World Cup ⚽️

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The Cheng Lab welcomes George Tsai, Chloe La and Chris Espinoza for conducting summer research with us through UCR MacREU and RISE programs.

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Attended this weekend‘s commencement. Congrats to all new PhDs and their families!

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Congratulations to Cole for successfully defending his PhD thesis. Well done, Dr Ebel! Looking forward to future great work with you!

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Congratulations to Cole and Luke for receiving the Best Participation Award of UCR Chemistry Seminars in Fall 2025!! Keep asking in 2026! Fantastic group lunch today to celebrate Fall Quarter coming to an end.

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Gold and silver are excellent plasmonic metals. We have shown that aluminum is in fact better for some SPR applications. How about indium? Check out our latest work on indium's plasmonic properties in Kretschmann configuration-based SPR sensing(https://t.co/CpQ65fv9Wc).

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Honored to have Prof. Bob Kennedy of University of Michigan visit our lab on Thursday. He also gave a very inspiring seminar on microfluidics in the Chem Department.

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We are pleased to announce that Ms Papitcha (Mint) Jongwachirachai has joined our lab as a visiting graduate student from Mahidol University, Thailand. She will conduct biosensor research for one year at UCR, supported by Fulbright Junior Scholarship Program.

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Glad to have Dr. Justin Fu visit us today. Justin was an undergraduate student working with me at UC Berkeley campus and we even published a paper together https://t.co/la1yqQ6cGg. He is now an associate professor at UCR med school.

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The Cheng Lab gathered today to celebrate Victor’s advancement to PhD candidacy! Another stellar performance by members of the Cheng Lab. We wish him the best for the PROTAC work. The evening concluded with karaoke, a favorite Cheng Lab pastime and the perfect way to celebrate!

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Fantastic beach party this past weekend in Newport Beach. Group T-shirts are fun, great job Westley! See you next year!

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The Cheng Lab gathered to celebrate Westley’s passing of the qualifying exam and advancement to PhD candidacy. A stellar performance by him! Congrats! We expect more exciting work on α-syn and small molecule sensing with SPR.

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Check out our latest work on curvature-tuning membrane mimetics for protein sensing published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics https://t.co/WXCC92UqJV.

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The Cheng Lab welcomes Brianna Morris from the University of La Verne. She will be conducting research in our lab over the summer through the MacREU program.

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Congratulations to Cole Ebel for winning the 2025 Excellent in Analytical Chemistry Research Award at UCR. Well done, Cole!

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The Cheng Lab gathered at Hangar 24 Brewery to celebrate Xin’s advancement to PhD candidacy. Great job Xin! Look forward to seeing great stuff from your C. elegans research.