News

3/2023 Zach’s CRAAVE manuscript for AAV genome quantification is published in Gene Therapy. Congratulations!

3/2024 Sina is recognized as an Outstanding Referee for the journal Communications Materials. Congratulations!

2/2024 We completed the first in-person GEARS program after the pandemic by hosting three excellent visiting students: Jialin, Xiangjun, and Shutong. Best wishes to your future endeavors!

2/2024 Excited to be selected as the 23-24 Class of University Faculty Scholar. Many thanks to the students, collaborators, the Department, and College for the tremendous support!

2/2024 Sina selected as one of the 8 mentees from NC State for the Bayer Crop Science University Mentoring Program. Congratulations!

2/2024 Zach received a CBE Travel Award. Well deserved!

2/2024 We are excited to receive an NSF Convergence Accelerator Phase I award to develop VOC sensors for plant, human, and environmental health. Thanks for your support, NSF!

1/2024 Sina’s review on liquid metal-based biosensors published in Adv Funct Mater. Congratulations!

1/2024 Noor received the Graduate Merit Award (GMA) from COE. Well done!

1/2024 Sina received the Mentored Teaching Fellowship (MTF) from COE. Congratulations!

12/2023 Zach’s review article on biomanufacturing sensors published in Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering; Zach’s CRAAVE assay for AAV vector genome titering and Noor’s new CRISPR assay based on plasmid reporter are now available on bioRxiv. Great work, everyone!

11/2023 Noor won the Fall 2023 GSA Travel Award. Congratulations!

11/2023 Noor won 1st place in oral presentation in the Student Competition in Sensors session, and Jenna won 2nd place in the undergraduate student poster competition at 2023 AIChE. Zach and Oindrila delivered great talks, too. Congratulations to all!

10/2023 Sina won 3rd place in the 2-min pitch competition at the BASF Innovation Day. Congratulations, well done!

10/2023 Mahsa and Belinda joined us as new PhD students. Welcome to the group!

9/2023 Yan’s smartphone-based luminescence lifetime scope published in PNAS Nexus. Great work!

8/2023 Noor’s new work of hybrid CRISPR reporters is published in Nucleic Acids Research. Congratulations!

8/2023 Multiple recent presentations made by the team members, including the BioLunch, FOPAM, and ACS Fall 2023. Great job, Noor, Zach, Sina, and Oindrila!

8/2023 Talked about the plant sensor work a little bit on the WSJ podcast – The Future of Everything. Listen here. Thanks for highlighting!

7/2023 Officially become part of the Global One Health Academy, co-leading the Infectious Diseases focus area.

7/2023 Morgan and Jenna shine at the NCSU Undergraduate Research Symposium. This month’s God of Longevity is Zach, happy birthday!

7/2023 Together with Yong Zhu (MAE), Jean Ristaino (EPP), and Alper Bozkurt (ECE), we are funded by a new USDA grant to develop plant sensors. Thanks for your kind support, USDA!

6/2023 Refreshing the mind with Occoneechee hiking and picnic!

5/2023 Sina received a travel award from Foundations of Process/product Analytics and Machine learning (FOPAM) 2023 conference. Congratulations!

5/2023 Wei Group is on Twitter now! Follow us @SensorNCSU, if you want to learn the most recent development on point-of-care sensor technologies for human, plant, animal, biomanufacturing, and the environment!

5/2023 Lab’s first preprint manuscript: video-rate smartphone device for fast fluorescence lifetime imaging (See here), led by former postdoc Yan. Well done!

4/2023 Sina successfully defended his prelim. Aditi, Alireza, Selen, and Mohammadreza completed their proposition presentations. Congratulations to all!

4/2023 Thrilled to be promoted to Associate Professor (see News here). Thanks to students, collaborators, and colleagues for your great support!

4/2023 Sina received the 2023 Associate Member Scholarship from the Comparative Medicine Institute (CMI) division of Emerging & Infectious Diseases (EID). Congratulations!

4/2023 Aditi received the CoE Graduate Enhancement Award! Congratulations!

4/2023 Excited to receive the Goodnight Early Career Innovator award! See the Department News here.

4/2023 In collaboration with Yong Zhu, Jean Ristaino, Anna Whitfield, and Dorith Rotenberg, we demonstrated a multi-channel plant wearable sensor that can be used for real-time plant stress monitoring and disease detection. See the Science Advances publication here and NC State News here. Congratulations to Giwon and the team!

4/2023 Lab alumna Emily Ostermann has won the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF)! See news here. Congratulations on the new achievement!

3/2023 Noor received the 2022-23 Vivian Stannett Early Publication Award from the department (see News here). Congratulations! Well done!

3/2023 Yan will start a faculty position in China Agricultural University. Congratulations and best wishes for your future endeavors! Thanks for your great contribution to the group!

3/2023

Team 2023!

2/2023 We are pleased to have a new group member, Mohammadreza, co-advised by Michael Dickey. Welcome!

12/2022 We warmly welcome three new PhD students, Aditi Dey Poonam, Selen Dalgan, and Alireza Velayati. Thank you for joining!

11/2022 It is the 4th consecutive year of the “Student Competition” session in the Sensors Topical Conference at AIChE. Congratulations to the winners this year: Jazmine Torres (Auburn University) and Zahra Panahi (University of New Hampshire). Our own Noor also did a fantastic presentation!

10/2022 Noor’s work on unexpected Cas12a trans-cleavage activity against double-stranded λ DNA published in Angewandte Chemie. Well done!

9/2022 Giwon’s review article on wearable sensors published in Small. Congratulations!

9/2022 We are glad to have a new group member, Dr. Mingzhuo Li, who will be the Research Scholar in the group. Welcome!

8/2022 Great talks by Noor and Zach in the ACS Fall 2022 meeting. Well done! Zach’s CO₂ sensor paper has also been accepted by Frontiers in Chemistry. Congratulations!

8/2022 Best wishes, Giwon, for your future endeavors. We will miss you.

8/2022 Oindrila and Lydia presented their research to BASF and COE leadership teams.

7/2022 Noor’s CRISPR diagnostics review published in the CRISPR Journal. Congratulations, Noor and Shrinivas!

5/2022 Celebrate the May. Lydia and Zach passed prelim, congratulations!

5/2022 We moved to the new Plant Science Building! Thank everyone’s hard work, in particular, Oindrila, for her organization.

5/2022 Today’s farewell is just for a better meeting in the future. Thank you Rajesh and Emily for your significant contribution to the group. We will miss you!
Sina, happy birthday!

4/2022 Lydia received the prestigious NSF graduate research fellowship. Congratulations! Well done.

3/2022 Happy recruiting~

3/2022 Wei team 2022!

From left to right: Back row: Noor, Shengwei, Qingshan, Sina J, Giwon, and Zach; Front row: Rajesh, Lydia, Oindrila, Yan, and Sina S.

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