Website of Dr.Ren’s research group

Website of my research group launched.  Please visit:

Website of Dr.Ren’s research group

 

Glad to be selected as Outstanding Reviewer of Lab Chip in 2016

Very glad to receive this recognition.  I will continue to contribute to this journal and the field of microfluidics.

http://blogs.rsc.org/lc/2017/02/24/outstanding-reviewers-for-lab-on-a-chip-in-2016/

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/lc/c7lc90051a/unauth#!divAbstract

 

 

 

 

 

A cover art we published on the front outside cover of Lab Chip

This paper was recently published on Lab Chip.

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2016/LC/C6LC00957C#!divAbstract

I would like to sincerely thank my students, Wanbo Li, Han Sun, and Chong Hu, for making this beautiful cover art on their own (I also took part in : ).

A cover art we prepared for potential journal cover page

The attached journal cover art prepared by Wanbo Li, Han Sun, and Jerry Liu, was submitted to Lab Chip for potential cover page.  The image illustrates a recently published work in our group by Han Sun, Zhengzhi Liu, and Chong Hu on developing a microchannel-imbeded agar culture system to realize linear and stable 2D gradient of drugs in the gel plate culture, making the test of drug efficacy much more powerful while retaining the advantages of conventional gel plate culture.  More details of the work is available in the attached Revised Manuscript and the link to the journal webpage.

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2016/lc/c6lc00417b/unauth#!divAbstract

 

Congratulations to Zhengzhi Liu (Jerry) for Winning the Best Undergraduate Research Project Award of the Department

Jerry was one of the seven students conducting final-year research project in my group.  His research aimed on developing a novel antimicrobial susceptibility test based on the integration of microfluidic technology and the commonly used disc diffusion assay.  In the academic year of 2015-16，Jerry worked collaboratively with my Ph.D student Han Sun on this project, and their work has recently been published on Lab Chip.  A link to the journal page of the article is enclosed, with the graphic abstract (TOC) of it also attached.

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/lc/c6lc00417b#!divAbstract

TITLE: Cell-on-Hydrogel Platform Made of Agar and Alginate for Rapid, Low-cost, Multidimensional Test of Antimicrobial Susceptibility

Incorporating microfluidics into plate culture, this inexpensive platform generates stable 2D gradients of drugs for testing their synergistic effects. Culturing sample on top of the device eliminates the concern of shear flow, enables convenient collection of cells, and allows quick test based on single-cell image analysis.

 

 

 

 

Prof. Yanyi Huang from Peking University Visiting Our Lab

A snapshot outside my lab

With Graduating BSc Students who Conducted Final Year Project in My group

Congratulations to our team won 2nd place in the Hong Kong Chemistry Olympiad

BBQ: Prof. Jianfang Wang’s group, Prof. Hongkai Wu’s group, and my group