Tay Group News & Events

Our single-cell analysis method is one of the technology features covered by Nature: "The Deepest Differences"

Microfluidic single-cell analysis work covered by the journal Science: "The power of one"

ETH Zurich rank in the world:

• 7th Engineering, 11th Physical Sciences, 15th overall (Times-Thompson Reuters)
• 8th in Engineering, 10th in Natural Sciences, 18th overall (QS top universities)
• 9th Science, 43th Engineering, 23th overall (ARWU: Academic ranking)
• 8th Engineering, 10th Natural Sciences, 19th overall (US News)
  
• 20th overall (ICU)

Started as an assistant professor at ETH Zurich, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering in Feb 2011.

Our paper on digital NF-κB signaling regarded "Exceptional" by Faculty of 1000 Biology, and was ranked #2 among all Biology papers as of July 29, 2010.

In signaling, not all cells are equal (nice review of our NF-κB paper by Biotechniques.com)

NF-κB single-cell model available here (Tay et al. Nature doi:10.1038/nature09145)

New paper published in Nature : "Singe-cell NF-κB dynamics reveal digital activation and analogue information processing" (Nature 466, 267-271,July 2010). PDF

Stanford news story on digital signaling in cells

Seminar at ETH Zurich, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (June, 2010)

Seminar at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign Bioengineering Department (March 10, 2010)

Seminar at University of Illinois, Chicago, Bioengineering Department (March 12, 2010)

Will be presenting at the Biophysical Society 54th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Feb 23, 2010

Seminar at Emory University Dept. of Physics (March 3, 2010)

Seminar at NIH Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (rescheduled, March 2010)

Gave a seminar at NYU Medical School, Skirball Institute (Jan 26, 2010)

Gave a seminar at Boston University Bioengineering Department (Jan 20, 2010)

Gave a seminar at UNC Chapel Hill Dept. of Biology (Jan 7, 2010)

Gave an invited talk at SPIE Photonics West (BiOS) on the use of microfluidics in decoding genetic signaling networks (25 January 2010, San Francisco)

Will be giving a talk at APS March Meeting about latest results on the systems biology of NF-KB(2010, Portland, OR)

Gave a seminar at the  Molecular and Cellular Biology Department, University of Arizona (Nov 24, 2009)

Giving a talk at BMES at the cell signaling session, October 09, Pittsburgh (missed the talk!)

Presented a poster at International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2009) September at Stanford, CA

Presented at Q-BIO conference, August 09, Los Alamos, NM

3D display spin-off company launched by former UA team TIPD LLC

New paper published: Plasmonic narrow-band thermal IR emitter based on nano-amorphous carbon (APL 94, 071113) (2/2009)

Was CNN's hologram really a hologram? Read here

Our holographic displays were featured on CNN (Holographic TV to become reality) Oct, 2008. (note: this news story has nothing to do with the "hologram interview" CNN showed during 2008 US presidential elections. For an explanation of the difference between real holograms and CNN's stuff, see above)

PhD dissertation nominated for the CGS Award by the University of Arizona, Aug 2008.

3D displays at the cover of OPN (Optics and Photonics News) July, 2008.

Presented photorefractive 3-D displays at an invited talk at the International Conference on Organic Electronics (ICOE 2008) in Eindhoven, Netherlands 6/17/08

Started a new postdoctoral position at Steve Quake's lab at Stanford Bioengineering

Listen to the interview at Nature Podcast about the holographic 3-D displays (mp3)

News story on 3-D displays attracted record breaking traffic at Uni. of Arizona News web site, reaching 20,000 hits a day. 2/13/08

3-D display paper was covered by BBC, NPR, Daily Telegraph, National Geographic, , Discovery Channel, Physics World, Die Welt, Focus, Nikkei Newspaper, Materials World, Laser Focus World, IEEE Spectrum, Photonics Spectra, The Herald, MIT Technology Review, Science et Vie, The Economist, and many others. 2/10/08

Holographic 3-D display paper published in Nature (Vol 451, p 694)(pdf) 2/7/08

Photonic crystals infiltrated with nanoparticle/polymer composites (APL 91, 221109) (pdf) 11/29/07

Review of high performance photorefactive polymers in Optics and Photonics News article 12/1/05

IR sensitive photorefractive polymer work covered in Technology and Research NewsPlastic records infrared light) 11/15/05

IR sensitive photorefractive polymers with high diffraction efficiency and fast response time (APL  87, 171105)(pdf) 11/20/05

Photorefractive polymers operate at the optical communication wavelength (1550nm) for the first time (APL 85, 4561) (pdf)11/15/04