4/1/2026: 📰 We are on the Gates Foundation Global Grand Challenge news!
3/31/2026: 🧑🎨 The Li Lab artist, Makenzie, created a crochet model of a single cell in a droplet. The cell even contains circular double-stranded DNA inside it!
3/28/2026: 👍🏼 Big win for the Li Lab! Seven members (from right to left: Ackshaya, Jingjing, Ana, Makenzie, Kyle, Chance, and Hassan) attended FLASM, presenting five posters and one talk. The team earned two travel awards (Ana and Kyle) and a third-place graduate presentation award (Makenzie).
3/24/2026: 💡 Hassan successfully passes his second-year talk. Congratulations!
3/19/2026: 🎉 Ana and Kyle win the FLASM Travel Awards! Congratulations, Ana and Kyle!
3/12/2026: 🧬 Dr. Li hosts Dr. Pengyu Chen for a seminar on advanced biosensing technologies.
3/2/2026: ✅ The Florida Board of Governors approves the Li Lab’s Gr-ADI project: https://tinyurl.com/yztxbxse
2/12/2026: 🎯 Makenzie successfully passes her second-year talk—well done!
1/23/2026: 🏛️ The FSU Board of Trustees advances the Li Lab’s Gr-ADI project toward consortium participation: https://tinyurl.com/yz5h7ws6
12/4/2025: 🌱 Ackshaya joins as the third graduate student, growing the lab further.
11/18/2025: 📄 The Li Lab celebrates its first paper accepted in iScience—congratulations team!
11/17/2025: 💡 Big win! The Li Lab secures Gr-ADI funding for groundbreaking antibiotic discovery research.
11/15/2025: 🧪The Li Lab now has a new toy: iFour droplet printer (https://www.m2-automation.com/en/products/ifour)
11/1/2025: 📊 Hassan presents research at SEBASM at UGA on microbiota profiling.
8/1/2025: 🎓 Jingjing joins as the first postdoctoral scholar—welcome aboard!
4/3/2025: 🔍 Dr. Li hosts Dr. XiuJun (James) Li for a seminar on microfluidics and nanotech innovations.
3/29/2025: 📢 Makenzie shines at FLASM with both a poster and an oral presentation!
3/28/2025: 🤝 Dr. Li hosts Dr. Kim Lewis for an exciting seminar on novel antibiotics from the microbiome.
3/27/2025: 🔬 Major milestone: The Li Lab is officially approved as a BSL-2 laboratory!
1/30/2025: 💰 Dr. Li receives the prestigious FYAP Grant from the FSU Council on Research and Creativity.
1/24/2025: 🌟 Makenzie joins the lab as the second graduate student, expanding the team!
12/24/2024: 🏆 A strong first semester concludes with outstanding evaluations for Dr. Li’s Bioanalytical Chemistry course.
12/15/2024: 🎉 Hassan joins as the first graduate student—welcome to the Li Lab!
10/23/2024: 🌎 Dr. Li presents innovative research at SERMACS 2024 in Atlanta on high-throughput single soil particle sequencing.
10/1/2024: 🧪 The Li Lab levels up with the installation of a brand-new qPCR machine!
9/11/2024: 🎤 Dr. Li delivers an invited talk at the FSU School of Medicine on cutting-edge single-cell sequencing in microbiology.
8/5/2024: 🚀 Dr. Li officially joins the FSU Chemistry Department as a new Assistant Professor, launching the Li Lab!