Gracheva Research Group

Graduate student Nelson Barker presented a talk at the Research and Project Showcase (RAPS) at Clarkson University and is awarded "Best Oral Presentation" in his category. Congratulations Nelson!

Graduate student Craig's paper is published online today. Read the article here.

"Concentration Polarization, Surface Charge, and Ionic Current Blockade in Nanopores" is published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Read the article here.

New graduate student Nelson Barker joins our group. Welcome Nelson!

Graduate student Arjun Verma has defended his PhD thesis at Clarkson University. Congratulations Arjun!

Graduate student Arjun Verma presented a poster at the 2020 BPS Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA

Graduate student Andrei Sinitsyn has defended his PhD proposal at Clarkson University.

Graduate student Arjun Verma has defended his PhD proposal at Clarkson University. Congratulations Arjun!

Graduate student Matthew Rogers has completed his Masters thesis. Congratulations Matthew!

Congratulations to Josh Cirillo for presenting his Honors thesis and graduating from Clarkson University!

Graduate student Craig's paper is published online today and is the Editor's Pick. Read the article here.

Graduate student Craig Wells presented a poster at the 2019 BPS Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD

Graduate student Andrei Sinitsyn has presented a seminar in the Physics Colloquium at Clarkson University.

Graduate student Matthew Rogers has presented a seminar in the Physics Colloquium at Clarkson University.

Graduate student Zachery Hulings has defended his PhD thesis at Clarkson University. Congratulations Zach!

Graduate student Zach's paper is published online today. Read the article here.

Undergraduate student Josh Cirillo presented a talk at the Symposium on Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE) Conference at Clarkson University and is awarded "Best Oral Presentation in Modeling and Computational Methods" Category. Congratulations Josh!

Graduate student Craig Wells has defended his PhD proposal at Clarkson University.

Graduate student Andrei Sinitsyn presented a poster at the 2018 Research and Project Showcase at Clarkson University.

Graduate student Craig Wells has presented a seminar in the Physics Colloquium at Clarkson University.

Graduate student Craig Wells participated in local outreach by presenting a talk to Potsdam High School's AP Biology class on nanotechnology.

New graduate student Matthew Rogers joins our group. Welcome Matthew!

Graduate student Craig's paper is published online today. Read the article here.

Undergraduate student Josh Cirillo presented a talk at the Symposium on Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE) Conference at Clarkson University.

Graduate student Zachery Hulings presented a talk at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany.

Graduate student Zach's paper is published online today. Read the article here.

Undergraduate honors program student Joshua Cirillo joins our group. Welcome Josh!

Congratulations to Stuart Synakowski for graduating from Clarkson University!

Graduate student Craig Wells presented a poster at the 2017 APS Annual March Meeting in New Orleans, LA

Graduate student Zachery Hulings has presented a seminar in the Physics Colloquium at Clarkson University.

Graduate student Zachery Hulings has defended his PhD proposal at Clarkson University.

New graduate student Andrei Sinitsyn joins our group. Welcome Andrei!

Graduate student Amy Jou has successfully defended her Ph.D thesis. Congratulations Amy!

Graduate student Amy Jou's paper is published online today. Read the article here.

Graduate student Craig Wells presented a poster at the 2016 APS Annual March Meeting in Baltimore, MD.

Graduate student Zachery Hulings presented a poster at the 2016 APS Annual March Meeting in Baltimore, MD.

Graduate student Amy Jou presented a talk at the 2016 APS Annual March Meeting in Baltimore, MD.

Graduate student Craig's paper is published online today. Read the article here.

Graduate student Zach's paper is published online today. Read the article here.

There are three students joining us for summer research this year: undergraduate Stuart Synakowski from Clarkson University, Craig Wells who is now a graduate at Clarkson University, and graduate student Vitalii Kotomenkov from Moscow State University. Welcome to the fun.

Graduate Amy Jou has been selected to attend the "Hands-on Workshop on Computational Biophysics" in Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center in Pittsburgh, PA.

Undergraduate Craig graduated today. He has been named Presidential Scholar at Clarkson University four years in a roll. Congratulations Craig!

Graduate Amy Jou received the following award at the University Recognition Day ceremony during the spring semester: Physics Department Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Congratulations Amy!

Undergraduate Craig received the following awards at the University Recognition Day ceremony during the spring semester: Physics Department Outstanding Senior Award and The Hamlin/Darraugh Award for Mathematics. Congratulations Craig!

Graduate student Ining Jou presented a poster at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.

Professor Gracheva gave a seminar titled "Computer Simulations of Separation and Characterization of Biological Molecules with an Electrically Tunable Membrane" at the Department of Biological Engineering at the University of Rochester.

"Poisson-Nernst-Planck model for an ionic transistor based on a semiconductor membrane" is published in Journal of Computational Electronics. Read the article here.

Undergraduate Craig is assisting with the Roller Coaster Camp in Clarkson University which has been featured in local news. Wath the short news clip here.

Undergraduate Craig is here to join us in summer research through the funding of McNaire Program.

Prof. Maria Gracheva has been awarded a CAREER Award by the National Science Foundation. The duration of the award is five years, starting on June 20, 2014.

Prof. Maria Gracheva visits the Oxford Nanopore US-Based site in Boston.

Graduate students Amy Jou and Zachery Hulings each presented a poster at the 2014 CAMP Technical Meeting in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Graduate student Tetiana Timchenko has successfully defended her master degree thesis. Congratulations Tetiana!

Graduate student Zachery Hulings has presented a seminar titled "Solution of Poisson Equation in the Debye Approximation inside a Nanochannel" in the Physics Colloquium at Clarkson University.

Undergraduate student Craig Wells presented a poster in Symposium on Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE) Conference at Clarkson University and is awarded "Best Poster in Chemistry/Physics Category". Congratulations Craig!

"Charged Particle Separation by an Electrically Tunable Membrane" is published in Nanotechnology. Read the article here.

Undergraduate student Craig Wells is accepted into the Ronald E. McNaire Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program. The program will be funding Craig for his summer research with us. Congratulations Craig and we are thrilled to have you!

Prof. Maria Gracheva presents a poster at the Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society in San Francisco, CA. (poster by I. Jou, D. Melnikov, A. Nadtochiy and M. Gracheva).

Graduate students Amy Jou, Tetiana Timchenko and Zachery Hulings each presented a poster at the Clarkson Joint Graduate Student Symposium in Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York.

Graduate student Amy Jou presents a freshman seminar on "Nanoparticles filtering by size/charge through a semiconductor membrane" at Clarkson University.

Undergraduate student Craig Wells joins our research group. Craig is currently a junior double major Physics/Mathematics at Clarkson University.

Graduate student Zachery Hulings presents a talk on "DNA dynamics inside a nanochannel and the solution of Poisson equation in the Debye approximation for a wedge-like giometry" in the Physics Department Colloquium.

Filtering of nanoparticles by size is published in ACS Nano. Read the article here.

Undergraduate student Anna Nadtochiy from Moscow State University joins us again for another summer of research.

Amy Jou attends "MPI Multi-Site Programming" workshop in Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center in University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Our group is awarded computational allocation on XSEDE network (funded by NSF). We now have access to supercomputer ("Kraken") in Texas Advanced Computing Center.

Another supercomputer "Kirk" is installed (through the NSF grant Professor Gracheva received) for research simulation for our group.

Congratulations to Chris for graduating from Clarkson University Honors Program with double major and thesis presentation.

Amy Jou received "Teaching Assistant Recognition Award" for her outstanding TA performance during the academic year 2011-2012.

Graduate student Tetiana Timchenko presents a talk on "Coarse-grained Model of DNA" in the Physics Department Colloquium.

Prof. Maria Gracheva presents a poster at the Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (poster by I. Jou, T. Timchenko, Z. Hulings, C. McKinney, D. Melnikov and M. Gracheva).

DNA translocation through singly-layered doped semiconductor membrane paper is published in Physical Review E. Read the article here.

Graduate student Amy Jou presents a talk on "DNA translocation through a nanopore in a single-layered doped semiconductor membrane" in the Physics Department Colloquium.

Prof. Maria Gracheva received NSF REU Supplement award for her EAGER project to conduct research with undergraduate students.

Prof. Maria Gracheva joins Faculty Senate at Clarkson University.

New graduate students Tetiana Timchenko and Zachery Hulings join our group.

International visiting student Anna Nadtochyaj joins our group for summer research.

Prof. Maria Gracheva presents an invited talk at the CECAM conference on ''DNA sequencing and detection with nanoprobes'', in Pisa, Italy, June 9 - June 13 (2012).

Our paper on DNA Brownian Dynamics simulation is highlighted by an editorial in Nanotechnology Journal. The article can be found here.

DNA Brownian Dynamics paper is published in Nanotechnology. Read the article here.

Local publicity for Prof. Maria Gracheva. An article about her research is published at a local news paper and can be found here.

Graduate student Amy Jou is granted access to XSEDE cluster: Ranger machine (TG-TRA120010) 120,000 units, and Kraken machine (TG-TRA120010) 200,000 units.

Amy Jou attends Parallel Computational Workshop in Cornell University, May 16 to 17 (2012). See details here.

Prof. Maria Gracheva edits a book on "Nanopore-based Technology".

Prof. Maria Gracheva presents a poster at the Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society in San Diego, California (poster by I. Jou, D. Melnikov and M. Gracheva).

Undergraduate student Christopher McKinney joins our group. Chris is a Clarkson University Honor student. He will be working on a special project for his undergraduate thesis.

Our group is awarded computational allocation on TeraGrid (XSEDE) network (funded by NSF). We have access to computational clusters in Texas and Purdue (Steele and Ranger), Grant TG-PHY110023, "Controlling DNA translocation through a semiconductor membrane", January 21 (2012) - April 7 (2013).

Amy Jou presents a talk entitled "Affecting the Translocation Dynamics of Biomolecules through Nanopores in a Single Layer Semiconductor Membrane" at Clarkson Graduate Student Seminar for Department of Physics.

Prof. Maria Gracheva presents an invited talk entitled ''Electrically tunable DNA translocation through a nanopore in a multilayered semiconductor membrane'' at Nano-DDS conference at Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

New graduate student Ining Amy Jou joins our group.

Undergraduate student Padraic Cashin presents a talk at SURE conference at Clarkson University. Pad's talk is entitled "DNA translocation through a nanopore in a single layered semiconductor membrane".

Graduate student Alexey Nikolaev bids farewell to Clarkson. He joined graduate school at Hunter College, Computer Science department.

Alexey Nikolaev presents a talk at his Master thesis defense. Alexey's thesis is entitled "Poisson-Nernst-Planck model for simulating ionic current through the nanopore in a semiconductor membrane".

Dmitry Bikulov joins our group for summer research one more time. Welcome back Dmitry! Dmitry is a undergraduate student at the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Maria Gracheva presents an invited talk at CECAM Workshop on "Molecular Simulation in External Electric and Electromagnetic Fields" in University College Dublin, Ireland. The title of the talk is "Controlling DNA translocation through a semiconductor membrane".

Padraic Cashin will be performing summer research in our group. Padraic is an undergraduate student at Clarkson University. You can find his short report here on a Brownian dynamics model of a DNA in a single-layered semiconductor membrane with a nanopore.

Prof. Maria Gracheva receives NSF EAGER award to develop computational model of nanoporous solid-state membrane for ion and protein filtering applications.

Gracheva's group receives 50,000 hour allocation on the TeraGrid, an NSF funded resource for scientific computing on supercomputers.

Maria Gracheva presents an invited talk at Department of Physics SUNY, Potsdam on "DNA sensing with a semiconductor nanopore".

A new paper by Alexey Nikolaev and Prof. Maria Gracheva has been recently published and can be found here: "Simulation of ionic current through the nanopore in a double-layered semiconductor membrane", A. Nikolaev, M. Gracheva, Nanotechnology 22(16), p. 165202 (2011).

George Nelson presents a poster at the Biophysical Society Meeting in Baltimore, MD entitled "Electrostatic trapping of polymers during translocation through a semiconductor nanopore".

Prof. Maria Gracheva presents a poster at the Biophysical Society Meeting in Baltimore, MD entitled "Simulation of ionic current through the nanopore in a double layered semiconductor membrane".

Prof. Maria Gracheva presents at invited seminar at Department of Physics, Binghamton University on "DNA sensing and characterization with a semiconductor nanopore".

Prof. Maria Gracheva presents a freshman seminar on "Single molecule sensing with a semiconductor nanopore" at Clarkson University.

Prof. Maria Gracheva gives an invited talk on "The effect of the nanopore geometry on ionic currents in double layered semiconductor membranes" at summer school "Biosensing with channels", Berder Island, France.

Sergey Makarov will be joining our group for summer research for the second time. Welcome back Sergey!

Alexey Nikolaev gives a talk on "A model of fibroblast motility on substrates with different rigidities" (American Mathematical Society 2010 Spring Central Meeting, St. Paul, Minnesota).

Alexey Nikolaev presents a poster on "Nanopores" (American Physical Society 2010 March meeting, Los Angeles, California).

Alexey Nikolaev gives a talk on "Modeling of a semiconductor membrane with a nanopore in a KCl solution" (Physics Seminar, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York).

Irina Dokukina gives a talk on "Analysis of fibroblast motility on substrates with rigidity gradient" (Physics Seminar, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York).

New members of our group: Andrey Borunov(graduate student) and Sergey Makarov(graduate student) join our group for two summer months.

Maria Gracheva gives a talk on " Fibroblast motility on substrates with different rigidities: modeling approach" (American Physical Society 2009 March meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).

Alexey Nikolaev gives a talk on "Computational model of controlled translocation of DNA molecule through a nanopore membrane with tunable electrostatic potential" (American Physical Society 2009 March meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).

Prof. Maria Gracheva presents a poster on "Controlled DNA translocation through a nanopore membrane with different electrostatic landscapes" (Biophysical Society 53rd Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts).

Irina Dokukina gives a talk on "Fibroblast motility on substrates with different rigidities" (Physics Seminar, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York).

Highlight: Beckman faculty papers among most accessed in nanotechnology.

Alexey Nikolaev gives a talk on "Simple model for controlled DNA translocation through a nanopore" (Physics Seminar, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York).

Prof. Maria Gracheva gives a talk on Multi-layered semiconductor membranes for tunable ion current and biomolecule manipulation(Fourth Focused Workshop on Electronic Recognition of Bio-molecules, Liege, Belgium).

New members of our group: Irina Dokukina, Ph. D.(Research Associate) and Alexey Nikolaev(graduate student) joined recently our group.

Highlight: Small wonders.

Highlight: New design of semiconductor membranes more efficient than biological membranes.

Highlight: Semiconductor membrane better than biological ones.

Highlight: Semiconductor membrane offers more flexibility than biological membranes.

Highlight: Semiconductor membrane mimics biological behavior of ion channels.