This past weekend we celebrated Philip, the older brother of the group 😊 Philip will be leaving our group soon as he graduates with his M.Sc. while we are proud 🥹, we will miss him!

Congratulations, Rendy Kartika!!!

Philip's official last day 🥳

𝗙𝘂𝗻 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆! The average person exhales more carbon in a day than is contained in 40 pencils. ✏️ Stay Sharp! #FinalsWeek #LSUChemDemo

Congratulations to #LSUChemistry graduate student Fatimat Badmus for successfully defending her #PhD dissertation. Fatimat worked under the guidance of Professor Rendy Kartika.

Congratulations to #LSUChemistry graduate student Callie Stern for successfully defending her #PhD dissertation. Callie worked under the guidance of Assistant Professor Noémie Elgrishi .

Shoutout to undergraduate Macallister Davis for taking over our Instagram page last week to share her summer research experience at Baylor College of Medicine! Missed her takeover? Click the "Takeovers" highlight on our Instagram page to watch hers and other students' takeovers.

Congrats to Dr. Garcia! 🥳 We are extremely proud of our PI!!

Congratulations to Ella for winning one of the ⁦@LSUDiscover⁩ Project Grants for the fall semester. With this grant, she will continue her project on Photoactive Molecular Containers in our lab ⁦LSU Chemistry⁩ 🎉🥳🎊

Enjoy free food, claim free giveaways, meet campus departments and units and show off your LSU spirit at Fall Fest! 💜💛 Learn more: lsu.edu/fallfest/

As this week comes to a close, we would like to congratulate our PI, Víctor García-López, for receiving the Sauvage-Stoddart-Feringa Junior Award earlier this week. Dr. Garcia is the first recipient of this prestigious award in #MolecularMachines. We are extremely proud of him!

Ella Madura is one of our Fall '22 Project Grant recipients. Her research is on "Synthesis and Photophysical Characterization of Molecular Cages for Triplet Energy Transfer Photocatalysis in Nanoconfinement."

Congrats to one of our grad students, Soumya Kanti Dawn, for giving a SPECTACULAR presentation for his literature talk on #molecularmotors ⚙️ Great job Soumya!

𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿: Benjamin P. Boussert Lecture 🗓Fri, Sept 30 | 3:30 PM | LSA A101 Bryce Sadtler, Assoc Prof of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis- "Nanoscale Imaging of Catalytic Activity in Semiconductor Nanostructures using Single-Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy"

Stay tuned, this is the second molecular machine developed by our group.

Great job Udyogi!! 😆😆

Super Science Sunday event at the Louisiana Arts & Science Museum. #LSUCHEMVR Children learning about hemoglobins! Nanome #SWRM2022 SWRMACS LSU Chemistry

First time as a judge at Adam Spangler conference @SWRM_ACS_2022 ⁦LSU Chemistry⁩

The Garcia-Lopez group was present at SWRMACS with several posters and talks! Great job Udyogi Conthagamage Senuri Gayara Soumya Kanti Dawn Nasim Akhtar, PhD Clara Ellis Macallister Davis Ella Madura

ICYMI: Víctor García-López gave two phenomenal presentations SWRMACS on our molecular machines ⚙️ and metal organic cages 📐 projects !