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Science of Art Contest Submission Receives Honorable Mention, Displayed in San Diego Museum of Natural History

In 2022 the UC San Diego Library’s Research Data Curation Program (RDCP) hosted the second annual Art of Science contest. This event was inspired by the visually remarkable data sets that data curators from RDCP have seen arise from researchers at UC San Diego.

The Art of Science contest invites students, post-docs and faculty researchers, and project scientists to submit art in the form of graphics and images accompanied by a description to explain the work in an engaging and accessible way to those, not in their field of science.

UC San Diego students, postdoctoral and faculty researchers, and project scientists are invited to submit images, graphics, and descriptions related to their research that explains their work in a way that is both engaging and accessible to non-scientists.

Our lab member, Loren Phillips, submitted an arrangement of images taken in the optics lab, inspired by the global health-focused theme of Poulikakos Lab. This work received the Judge’s Honorable Mention Award and was displayed with the other winners in both the UC San Diego Library WongAvery Breezeway as well as the first floor of the San Diego Natural History Museum in Balboa Park.

Below is the image, caption, and description that won the Honorable Mention:

The properties of butterfly wings may help us understand how to better diagnose cancer.

This image contains an arrangement of various images taken through a microscope. There is no color correction or grading, the color you see was captured under the microscope. The rainbow-like kaleidoscope pattern is created with dozens of images of butterfly wings as seen through a microscope through a Berek compensator. The central image is a tissue sample containing breast cancer. The colored squares are nanofabricated metasurfaces.

Loren is delighted to represent the lab and share some of the beautiful work that comes from our science. He looks forward to creating a submission for the 2023 Art of Science competition!

LINK TO ARTWORK:

https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/embed/bb4344382g/0

KPBS ARTICLE:

https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2022/08/24/subliminal-beauty-discovering-the-art-of-science

NBC SAN DIEGO ARTICLE:

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/entertainment/the-scene/art-of-science-contest-winners-share-uc-san-diego-labs-most-beautiful-discoveries/3033234/

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AFOSR YIP Award

Poulikakos Lab was selected for the Air Force grant, the AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award. A special congrats to Jiuk, Julia, Shahrose as well as Tamal for their awesome work leading up to this – the preliminary data provided in the proposal was absolutely critical in making this possible! This grant will support our work on nano-photonic and plasmo-acoustic metasurfaces for flow visualization and many other super-resolution imaging applications, including the outstanding collaboration with the Boechler lab.

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Holiday Ice Cream at Somi Somi

Poulikakos Lab wrapped up Fall Quarter 2022 at SomiSomi! We also said farewell to Joshua as he is moving on to do great things in the world of medicine. We will miss you, Joshua!

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Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research (SCCUR) Presentation

In November, undergraduate researcher, Anna My Nguyen, attended the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research (SCCUR) hosted by Pepperdine University. She gave a talk about current findings and research on Amyloid Beta for Alzheimer’s Detection through the Human Eye.

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Butterfly Farm Excursion!

Poulikakos Labs took a lovely trip to the Butterfly Farms in Encinitas! There were great conversations with labmates, yummy food, and a few insect friends along the way.

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Sam and Jiuk Received their Master’s!

Congratulations to Sam and Jiuk for passing their qualification exam and acquiring a Master’s Degree in their respective fields! We are so proud!

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Summer Research Conference Presentations

Paula and Anna presented their wonderful projects at UC San Diego’s Summer Undergraduate Research Conference. A job well done to both of them!

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Sam and Jiuk’s Co-First Author Paper

Samantha Bordy and Jiuk Byun’s paper on “Nanophotonic materials: enabling targeted cancer diagnostics and therapeutics with light” was recently published in “Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering.” This amazing accomplishment was achieved by both of them and their hard work. Be sure to check out their phenomenal paper!

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End of Academic Year Celebratory Dinner!

Poulikakos Labs celebrated all their accomplishments from the academic year at Gravity Heights! Here’s to many more memories and adventures!

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Poulikakos Labs Awarded Beckman Young Investigator Award

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation announced today the selection of its 2022 class of Beckman Young Investigator Awardees from U.S. colleges and universities. The awardees exemplify the Foundation’s mission of supporting the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments, and materials that will open new avenues of research in science. They were selected from a pool of over 225 applicants after a three-part review led by a panel of scientific experts. Congratulations Poulikakos Labs!