Congratulations to our biomedical engineering senior design team on tying for First Place at CSU’s E-Days on Thursday, April 12. 

Every year, CSU hosts E-Days, where senior undergraduate engineering students can showcase their senior design projects. This is the third year the Henry Group has hosted a senior design team from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, where students help further one of our many projects. This year’s group designed and fabricated a solar-powered device that fully automates all the steps of one of our complex biological assays for bacteria detection at the push of a button. Additionally, they programmed a Raspberry Pi to automatically calculate the bacteria concentration in the sample based on an image the Pi obtains and analyzes the image’s color intensity. 

Congratulations, team!

Biomedical Engineering Senior Design Team From Left: Taylor Langer, Sam Allsup, Mitch Cooper, Jase Wyeno

Cody recently took part in a CSU challenge to present his research in a flash 3 minute presentation, to a panel of judges and using only 1 slide. Happily, he nailed it and has been awarded a Vice President for Research (VRP) Fellowship for his performance, which includes a scholarship and travel support to attend conferences.

You can check out his talk on “Delivering Bacterial Detection to the Point of Need” below, or read the full article full article on the College of Natural Sciences website.

Henry Group having dinner at Taverna Opa.

Nine members of the Henry Group plus Dr. Chuck Henry gave presentations at Pittcon 2018 in Orlando, Florida, from February 26 – March 1.

Five group members gave oral presentations:

Kat Boehle, Cody Carrell, Cynthia McCord, Eka Noviana, and Rob Channon

Four group members presented posters:

Mike Nguyen (also selected for a 4 minute flash presentation), Chase Gerald, Alyssa Kava, and Kate Berg

Dr. Chuck Henry presented at the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry (SEAC) meeting on thermoplastic electrodes. He also organized a symposium on point-of-care diagnostics for infectious diseases where he presented on paper-based devices for bacteria and virus detection. 

Mike Nguyen giving a 4 minute flash presentation on fast-flow devices.

Chase Gerald presenting a poster on potassium detection.

With Kentaro sadly leaving us next week, the Henry and Kean research Groups went bowling after work to commemorate his time in the Group. Kentaro captained a seniors team (Kentaro, Rob, Mike and Kat) and was very pleased to score 160 and get a team victory over the youngsters (Melissa, Alyssa, Zach and Cody).

Back row left to right: Melissa, Alyssa, Zach, Kat and Cody.
Front row left to right: Mike, Rob and Ken.

To keep in spirit with the Winter Olympics, Henry Group members past and present have been taking part in a recreational curling league in Fort Collins. The team is skippered by Cody, and the league has even made local news.

From left to right: Rob Channon (current Postdoc), Rachel Feeny and John Wydallis (former Graduate students), and Cody Carrell (current Graduate student)

Congratulations to our second year graduate student, Cody Carrell, who participated in the CSU Graduate Student Showcase, and won the silver award for CSU Ventures Drivers of Innovation award! Cody presented research on improving point-of-care detection of Salmonella using a 3D-printed rotational manifold. 

Congratulations to Sid who has become a member of the International Presidential Fellows program 2017/18. 
Sid, Chuck and the group are very pleased.

http://international.colostate.edu/sidhartha-jain/

The Henry Group recently welcomed Kentaro Yamada, a visiting scholar from Keio University in Japan. Kentaro will be working on paper-based analytical devices for detecting transition metals during his time here. 

Our recent paper by visiting student Thiago Cardoso on the colorimetric detection of falsified whiskey has won a Brazilian science award.

The work in collaboration with Wendell Coltro (Universidade Federal de Goiás) won 5th place in the “exact sciences and the earth” category, from the SBPC (Brazilian Society for Science Progress) Goiás regional awards. These honors are awarded to the best studies which help the community, and to demonstrate that science can help common people in their day-to-day lives.

We are very sad to see Camila Proença leave to return to the Bioanalytical and Electroanalytical Laboratory at the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil.

Fortunately, her time here was very productive and we look forward to writing up the publications on all the excellent research she carried out during her stay.