Review on Droplet Microarrays is out!
Our new Advanced Materials paper titled "Droplet Microarrays: From Surface Patterning to High‐Throughput Applications" is published!
Plant Polyphenols Polymerization and Patterning
Congratulations to Farid for acceptance of his paper on "Bioinspired Strategy for Controlled Polymerization and Photopatterning of Plant Polyphenols" in Chemistry of Materials!
Mijanur Molla joins the group
Dr. Mijanur Molla is back in the group, now as a visiting professor. Welcome back!
Dr. Levkin represented KIT during the signature ceremony between MoU with Polytechnic University of Hong Kong
See attached some photographs of the celebration!
William Jefferson and Jason Darmadi have joined our group
William Jefferson and Jason Darmadi have joined our group as internship students. Welcome!
Anna receives a DFG grant for a Post-Doc position about Seq-on-a-chip
Check out our newest job opening to learn more about the project. Congratulations Anna!
Jiaqi's article in Cellulose
Find a new article by Guo and co-workers in Cellulose on photo-inducible wettability patterning of paper. Congratulations!!
DMA in the News!
Congratulations to Alisa Rosenfeld who won a writing contest on a popular-science Russian website "Biomolecula" for a publication about our droplet microarray technology!
Fish-Microarray: A Miniaturized Platform for Single-Embryo High-Throughput Screenings
Group Retreat 2017
From the 3rd of November to the 5th of November, the Levkin Lab had its first group Retreat with tons of interesting presentations and discussions - looking forward for more!
Simon wins the Product Slam of Cytometry 2017 in Jena
Congratulations to Simon for winning the Product Slam for Aquarray
(www.aquarray.com) at a Cytometry 2017 conference in Jena!
Zebra Fish Embryo Array paper published in Advanced Functional Materials
Anna's paper about a miniaturized platform for single-embryo high-throughput screenings of zebra fish was accepted to Advance Functional Materials. Congratulations Anna!
Anna receives a Tony B. Academic Travel Award to attend SLAS2018 in San Diego
Congratulations!
Advanced Healthcare Materials paper on the application of droplet microarrays for miniaturized stem cell screenings
Congratulations to Tina, Anna and Mona, who combined the effect of inhibition of stem cell differentiation by our polymer with the ability to create microarrays of nanoliter-sized droplets to enable high-throughput stem cell screening.
Droplet microarray based on patterned superhydrophobic surfaces prevents stem cell differentiation and enables high-throughput stem cell screening
Tina´s and Anna´s paper on "Droplet microarray based on patterned superhydrophobic surfaces prevents stem cell differentiation and enables high-throughput stem cell screening" has been just accepted to Advanced Healthcare Materials as a VIP paper. Congratulations! Well done.
Cover in Polymer Chemistry
Here is our recent cover in Polymer Chemistry:
Levkin Group on KIT Open Day
On June 24. 2017, KIT invited for an Open Day. In total over 35.000 people visited the large research facilities in campus north. The KIT open day was a full success and we appreciated the possibility to present our work.
Our group presented functionalized superhydrophilic, superhydrophobic surfaces and array patterns of different geometries. Visitors could interactively test different surface wettabilities by pipetting water onto the different functionalized substrates. Thanks to all the visitors for the interest and the many questions! Our group members were enthusiastically organizing the event and enjoyed the open day very much.
Meet us in Boston, USA, in November at the MRS Symposium BM10—Bioinspired Interfacial Materials with Superwettability
Meet us in Boston, USA, in November at the MRS Symposium BM10—Bioinspired Interfacial Materials with Superwettability which we are coorganizing with Haeshin Lee, Robin Ras and Shutao Wang.
Invited speakers include Joanna Aizenberg (Harvard), David Quéré (École Polytechnique), Hans-Jürgen Butt (Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research), Lei Jiang (Chinese Academy of Science), Tom McCarthy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Phil Messersmith (UC Berkeley), Atsushi Hozumi (AIST), Stanislav Gorb (Kiel University), Dimos Poulikakos (ETH Zurich), Chang-Jin "CJ" Kim (UCLA), Anish Tuteja (University of Michigan), Frieder Mugele (University of Twente), Evelyn Wang (MIT), Stefan Seeger (University of Zurich)
Aquarray to be funded by the "EXIST Forschungstransfer" programme
The project "Aquarray: Miniaturization of biological screenings based on Droplet Microarrays" will be funded by the EXIST Forschungstransfer programme. The EXIST programme is competitive grant supported by the European Social Fund (ESF), European Union (EU) and the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi). The goal of the project is to support the foundation of our spin-off project Aquarray: www.aquarray.com Congratulations to Anna, Simon and Konstantin for this success!
Our group photo 2017
29.03.2017
Here is our new Group Photo from 2017. It does not include everyone and Marius, Julius, Philipp and Dorothea are missing on this photo.