News in Media
15. Lab-on-a-Chip, "Bacteria to pump microflows," Vol. 8, p380-382, 2008 [PDF]
14. Nanowerk, "Live bacteria as mechanical actuators in fluid systems," January 23, 2008 [PDF]
13. Biophotonics International, "Arrays of nanopores help detect individual molecular events en masse," November, 2007 [PDF]
12. MedGadget, "Nanopore-based Single Molecule Spectroscopy," September 5, 2007 [PDF]
11. Nanowerk, "Sucking nanospaghetti through nanopores," September 4, 2007 [PDF]
10. R&D Magazine, "Nano & Micro," August, 2007 [PDF}
9. Scienceticker, "Bakterien als Packesel," July 14, 2007 [PDF].
8. Softpedia: Nano-Biotechnology, "Nanomachines Powered by Bacteria," July 11, 2007 [PDF].
7. Physics Web, "Tiny organisms move microstructures," July 10, 2007 [PDF].
6. Lab-on-a-Chip, "Bacteria support mixing," Vol 7, p417-419, 2007 [PDF].
5. Washington Post, "Bacteria Make Fine Machines When the Job is Small Enough," January 15, 2007 [PDF].
4. ACS PressPac, "Mixing it with E.coli," January 10, 2007 [PDF].
3. Biomachinations, "Bacterial Pumps," December 28, 2005 [PDF].
2. New Scientists, "Bacteria harnessed as miniature pumps," April 30, 2004 [PDF].
1. APS News, "Bacterial Carpets for Microfluidics," Vol 13, No 1, p6, 2004 [PDF].
FY 2010
2. Anmiv Prabhu wins the Best Paper Award at the ASME IMECE 2009. (January 2010) 
1. Prof. Kim will speak to the 'UConn-Drexel-POSTECH Joint Workshop on Frontier Research in Nano/MEMS/Bio Technology' at the University of Connecticut on January 27th. (January 2010)
FY 2009
17. Prof. Kim will speak to the Center for Research and Education in Optical Sciences and Applications at Delaware State University on December 3rd. His talk is entitled "Bacterial Microfluidics and Nanofluidics for Microbiorobotics and Single Molecule Analysis ". (December 2009)
16. Hosted by the Laurence A. Baiada Center for Enterpreneurship in Technology, the Drexel Green Initiative and the Great Works Symposium, Dheeraj Roy and Kevin Freedman entered the competition with the idea that a novel scientific device would contribute to the nationalwide green initiative. "Carbon Nanotube Filter to Reduce Greenhouse Effect," won the 2nd place overall and a cash prize of $400 (November 2009)
15. Prof. Kim chaired the Microfluidics Symposium: Fluid Engineering in Micro- and Nanosystems at the 2009 ASME IMECE meeting, which covered the latest developments in uses of fluid mechanics for the design and optimization of micro-devices for mechanical, chemical and biological applications and devices in research and industry (November 2009)
14. Matt Federici has been selected as a 2009-10 recipeint of the Department of Education GAANN Fellowship. Dr. Kim (with Drs. Lowman and Zavaliangos) was contributed to the GAANN award ($653,280) from DoEd, entitled "GAANN: Engineering for Pharmaceutical Applications". The three-year grant is a need-based fellowship that funds Ph.D. students who will receive exceptional training in research and education in the field of engineering for pharmaceutical applications. Congratulations! (September 2009)
13.Rafael Mulero has been selected as a 2009 recipient of the Koerner Family Fellowship, which was established to encourage and mentor Ph.D. students to pursue a career in academia. Congratulations! (September 2009)
12. Ed Steager has successfully done his PhD defense, entitled "Actuation and Control of Microfabricated Structures Using Flagellated Bacteria." He will join Prof. Vijay Kumar's group for his postdoctoral fellowship to further study microbiorobotics. Contratulations, Dr. Steager!!! (September 2009)
11. Matthew Federici is the 2009 Submeta Open Notebook Secience Challenge Award winner. Matt has applied an NMR technique to measure solubility See his experments here. (July 2009)
10. The IGERT selection committee at Drexel University has decided to award Kevin Freedman NSF-IGERT fellowship. Congratulations! (June 2009)
9. Prof. MinJun Kim will present as a keynote speaker at the 2009 International Symposium on Nature-Inspired Technology in Jeju, Korea. His talk is entitled "Microbiorobotics for Locomotion and Manipulation at Low Reynolds Number," in which a new class of synthetic bacteria will be introduced for drug delivery. (May 2009)
8. Our article, "Galvanotactic and phototactic control of Tetrahymena pyriformis as a microfluidic workhorse," published in Applied Physics Letters 94, 163901 (2009), has been selected for the May 1, 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research. The Virtual Journal, which is published by the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics in cooperation with numerous other societies and publishers, is an edited compilation of links to articles from participating publishers, covering a focused area of frontier research. (May 2009)
7. Bill Hesse has received the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for his PhD research program. Congratulations! (April 2009)
6. The prestigious National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship has been given to Bill Hesse for his advanced research. (April 2009)
5. Prof. MinJun Kim’s international team (with Dr. Josh Edel, Imperial College London, UK and Dr. Per Jemth, Uppsala University, Sweden) has received the prestigious Human Frontier Science Program Young Investigator Award for his project entitled, “High Resolution Folding/Binding Kinetics of Single Protein Molecules within Nanofluidic Structures.” The HFSP Young Investigator Grants support international teams of scientists who are focusing on fundamental issues in the life science by combining expertise from different disciplines. Only 9 teams among 600 proposals have made it this year. The objective of the project is to define a new single-molecule nanoanalytical technology which will enable the efficient detection of non-covalent molecular interactions with microsecond resolution in order to answer fundamental questions about these proteins, for example, what comes first, folding or binding? The budget of the HFSP Young Investigator Award program is $1.05M for 3 years. (March 2009)
4. Micrographs taken by Bill Hesse have been recognized in the CRF (Centralized Research Facilities) Competition for Best Image. Five black and white micrographs will be colorized and displayed on the CRF website. (March 2009)
3. Bill Hesse has been awarded the Undergraduate Research Award from the College of Engineering for his work on biologicall inspired microrobots for drug delivery applications. One undergraduate from each department in the College of Engineering is chosen to receive the award for their excellence in research. (February 2009)
2. Through the NSF REU program, Rafael Mulero and Yaminah Watshon (Cheyney University of Pennsylvania) are going to present their findings in the 23rd National Conference on Undergraduate Research. The paper is entitled "Investigation into the use of chemically modified solid-state sub-micropores for biomolecular assembly" (February 2009)
1. Prof. MinJun Kim has organized a workshop for "Single Molecule Biophysics World Networking" (Feb 16-17), in which world-recognized scientists in the field of bionanotechnology will talk about their ongoing research topics at Drexel University. (January 2009)
FY 2008
24. Dal Hyung Kim and Dave Casale (UG) have been to Semmelweis Univeristy in Hungary to initiate international collaboration research activities, in which they studied the motion of Tetrahymena pyriformis under chemotactic environments. (December 2008)
23. Anmiv Prabhu has received the "Best Presentation Award - ASME IMECE Microfluidics 2008 - Fluids Engineering in Micro- and Nanosystems Symposium" for his presentation on "Synthetic Nanoscale Architectures for Lipoprotein Separation". Congratulations! (December 2008)
22. Dr. MinJun Kim has been selected as Chair of a symposium for Microfluidics 2009: Fluid Engineering in Micro- and Nanosystems at the 2009 ASME IMECE meeting. The microfluidics symposium 2009 will cover the latest developments in uses of fluid mechanics for the design and optimization of micro-devices for mechanical, chemical and biological applications and devices in research and industry. The conference is sponsored by the ASME Fluid Engineering Division and is being held jointly with the MEMS subdivision. (November 2008)
21. Dr. MinJun Kim will speak to the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London on November 13th. His talk is entitled "Solid-State Nanopore Fabrication and Its Application for Single Molecule Analysis". (November 2008)
20. Edward Steager, Rafael Mulero, Anmiv Prabhu, Bill Hesse (UG), Dave Casale (UG), and U Kei Cheong (UG) will present their works on bacterially-powered microbots, nanopore sensors for flagellar polymorphism, and lipoprotein separation in nanoscale architectures at the ASME IMECE meeting on 4 - 6 November. (October 2008)
19. Dr. MinJun Kim will speak to the Northwestern Mechanical Engineering Department (29 October 08) and the URI Mechanical Engineering Department (7 November 08). His talks are entilted "Biologically Powered Robotic Microswimmers". (October 2008)
18. Edward Steager becomes a recipient of the Koerner Family Fellowship award. Ed will be recognized at the Annual CoE Welcome Back Reception on Friday October 3rd in the Bossone Lobby. Congratulations!!! (October 2008)
17. Dr. MinJun Kim has been invited to join the Editorial Advisory Board of Recent Patents on Nanotechnology. (September 2008)
16. Dr. MinJun Kim has given an invited talk at the KSME BioEngineering Conference, in which microbots powered by bacteria were highlighted. (September 2008)
15. A small grant from the National Science Foundation (OISE & CMMI) has been given to initiate a collaborative research in the participation of Semmelweis University in Hungary. The objective of this project is to characterize the motion of Tetrahymena pyriformis for cell-based actuation and sensing in low Reynolds number fluidic environments. This project extends and complements the ongoing research by introducing a new cell-based actuation for biological sensing systems. (Aug. 2008)
14. Dr. MinJun Kim has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (CBET: Fluid Dynamics Program) for his project entitled, "Biologically Inspired Robotic Microswimmers." Drexel is the leading institution in this collaborative research project with Brown University. The objective of the program is to understand the fundamental scientific principles that govern the assembly and operation of flagella-propelled devices, as well as to demonstrate the enabling technologies necessary to harness polymeric protein nanostructures such as bacterial flagellar filaments on microstructures for use in micron-scale engineered propulsion system. (Aug. 2008)
13. Edward Steager has been awarded the GAANN fellowship, which is given to graduate students with excellent records who demonstrate financial need and plan to pursue the highest degree available in their course study in a field designated as an area of national need. (June. 2008).
12. Edward Steager has received the "Highly Commended" award in the Graduate Student Research Awards Competition 2008. The Graduate Student Excellence Committee grants these awards to graduate students (full-time masters and doctoral) who have performed outstanding research/scholarship in the past year. (May. 2008)
11. Dr. MinJun Kim (as CoPI, PI:Dr. Mira Olson) has been awarded the USDA equipment grant (50K), which will be used to purchase a real-time PCR equipment for qualification of environmental pathogens. (Apr. 2008)
10. Dr. MinJun Kim has been selected as a recipient of a Drexel University Career Development Award (10K), which enables to organize a working group of collaborators in Imperial College of London and National Institute of Standards and Technology to visit Drexel concurrently to discuss a potential collaborative research project as well as offer a "two-day" workshop to introduce development of nanomanufacturing, single molecule analysis for nucleic acids and biomimetic design and fabrication of organic-inorganic nanoarchitectures for faculty, students, and post docs at Drexel. (Apr. 2008)
9. Rafael Mulero has been awarded the NSF IGERT fellowship, which provides the best and brightest students with an opportunity to embark on research in the multidisciplinary field of nanotechnology. Congratulations!!! (Apr. 2008)
8. Rafael Mulero of the Micro/Nanofluidics & Biotransport lab was awarded first place in the graduate oral research presentation competition at the 11th Annual Philadelphia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Research Symposium and Mentoring Conference on April 5, 2008. The symposium hosted students, professionals, and faculty from its nine-university consortium (Cheyney University, Community College of Philadelphia, Delaware State University, University of Delaware, Drexel University, Lincoln University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, and Temple University) and surrounding industry. During the Conference, students from Philadelphia AMP and other LSAMP Alliances showcased their research and competed for cash prizes, awards, and giveaways. In addition, representatives from academia and industry provided mentoring and professional/career development for undergraduate and graduate students to transition successfully into graduate and/or doctoral programs, industry and academia. (Apr. 2008)
7. Rafael Mulero, Ed Steager, and Dr. MinJun Kim have been awarded NSF fellowships to attend the NSF Summer Institute on Nanomechanics, Nanomaterials and Micro/Nanomanufacturing with a focus on "the Energy Challenge and Nanotechnology". The summer institute (June 23 - 26, 2008) held at Northwestern University provides courses on fundamental and recent new developments in selected areas of nanotechnology. The pool of instructors from industry and academia are well known for their research and teaching. The emphasis of their courses is placed on identifying and promoting important areas of nanotechnology, and creating new areas of focus which will augment current nanotechnology research and development by universities, industries and government. The objective of the NSF Summer Institute also includes the training of future and practicing engineers, scientists and educators in the emerging areas of nanotechnology, nano-engineering, nano-mechanics, and nano-materials. The event will also be a national forum to exchange new ideas, disseminate knowledge and provide valuable networking opportunities for researchers and leaders in the nanotechnology field. (Mar. 2008)
6. Dr. Kim has received a NSF REU Supplements grant to support active research participation by undergraduate students. Two undergraduate students will be financially supported and get involved in ongoing research projects: Bacterial Actuation, Sensing, and Transports at Micro/Nanoscale. Interested undergraduate students should start by emailing Dr. Kim with a resume and research interests. (Mar. 2008)
5. Dr. Kim has published a book entitled, "Bacterial Microfluidics - Autonomous Bacterial Actuators in Miniaturized Systems" by VDM Verlage. The book is addressed to professionals in Science and Technology like fluid mechanicians, microbiologists and nanoengineers. It is also directed towards researchers in Microfluidics, Micro/Nanofabrication and Biophysics. (Mar. 2008)
4. Ed Steager has been awarded the Lockheed Martin-George Law Fellowship, which provides financial support to graduate students in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics, based on academic merit (Feb. 2008)
3. Dr. Kim has won the Louis and Bessie Stein Family Fellowship to study the mechanical and structural properties of nucleic acids using solid-state nanopores. This is a collaborative research initiated at Drexel University with Prof. Irit Sagi at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel (Feb. 2008)
2. Dr. Kim will speak 14 Feb 2008 in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Auburn University and initiate collaboration with Dr. Hong' nanofluidics group for developing pathogenic single cell analysis (Feb. 2008)
1. A paper published in Small has been introduced as a news feature on Nanowerk Spotlight section: "Live bacteria as mechanical actuators in fluid systems". Nanowerk is the No. 1 ranked information site for nanoscience and nanotechnology with thousands of readers everyday. (Jan. 2008)
FY 2007
26. Dr. Kim has received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his project entitled, "CAREER: The Integration of Biomolecular Motors for Bacterial Actuation, Sensing, and Transport (BAST) at Micro/Nanoscale." The objective is to demonstrate the use of flagellated bacteria as controllable, reconfigurable elements in a microfluidic network of microengineered systems and to adapt polymeric protein nanostructures such as bacterial flagellar filaments for use in nanoscale devices. His educational plan includes offering a course in the emerging technologies in nanoscale manufacturing and metrology for engineering and technology creating enormous potential for increasing student learning experiences. (Dec. 2007)
25. Dr. Kim has been elected as a cochair for the Microfluidic Symposium at the 2008 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) Meeting. He served as a session chair and a keynote organizer for Microfludics 2007: Fluid Engineering in Micro- and Nanosystems. (Nov. 2007)
24. The Best of Program Award was awarded to Drexel University's MEM Senior Design Team in the 2007 National competition sponsored by the James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation. Four mechanical engineering seniors: Jigar Patel, Chandan Naik, Socheth Bith, Lindsay Reber shared the award for their entry, entitled "Autonomous Bacterial Transportation Systems in Microfluidic Environments". The purpose of the project advised by Dr. Kim was to harness the power of nanoscale biomolecular motors for engineering applications. The Best of Program Award is awared based on originality, ingenuity, feasibility, results achieved or expected, engineering competence, and clarity of the presentation. The James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation was established in 1936 by the Lincoln Electric Company to advance the science and application of arc welding. Awards have been offered annually for 71 years to recognize superior achievement in these fields. The Lincoln Foundation sponsors this competition to recognize and reward achievement by engineering and technology students in solving design, engineering or fabricating problems. (Oct. 2007)
23. "Using Bacteria as a Power Source" has been featured on Drexel Innovations [Watch Video]. (Sep. 2007)
22. Nanowerk and MedGadget have highlighted our single molecule research: "Sucking nanospaghetti through nanopores - the art of single molecule spectroscopy" and "Nanopore-based Single Molecule Spectroscopy." (Sep. 2007)
21. Marquis Who's Who has selected Dr. Kim for inclusion in the forthcoming 10th Anniversary (2008-2009) Edition of Who's Who in Science and Engineering (Aug. 2007).
20. Our research progress has been announced by Softpedia - Nanobiotechnology and Scienceticker: Nanomachines Powered by Bacteria - Microscopic organisms can move tiny structures when stimulated with UV light (Jul. 2007).
19. Physics Web, the community web site of Physics World magazine published by IOP, has highlighted autonomous bacterial transportation systems: Tiny organisms move microstructures (Jul. 2007).
18. Peggy Savage (Richmond Elementary School) and Michael Johnson (Thurgood Marchall K-8) have joined us for participating in the RET program (Jun. 2007).
17. Visit the "Cool Video Collection" to see recent progresses in Kim Group research (Jun. 2007).
16. Controlled mixing in microfluidics using bacterial chemotaxis has been recently highlighted in Lab-on-a-Chip as an article of particular significance/value to miniaturization research (Jun. 2007).
15. Dr. Kim has been selected for inclusion in the AcademicKeys Who's Who in Engineering Higher Education (WWEHE) (Jun. 2007).
14. Controlled mixing in microfluidics using bacterial chemotaxis has been recently highlighted in Lab-on-a-Chip as an article of particular significance/value to miniaturization research (Jun. 2007).
13. Paul Kim has joined us to study bacterial cell lysis using synthesis of gold nanorods for summer. Paul is currently a Junior at Carnegie Mellon University (May. 2007).
12. Dr. Kim has been invited for a book chapter in "Nanobiotechnology: A New Era of Modern Science," published by Studium Press, LLC in October 2007 (May. 2007).
11. Dr. Kim has reviewed NSF CHE proposals - Analytical and Surface Chemistry: Electro, Nano, and Surface Chemistry. (May. 2007).
10. Dr. Kim has been invited to hold a seminar in Stenvens Institute of Technology on Sep 12th. 2007: Bacterial Actuation, Sensing, and Transport at Micro/Nanoscale (May. 2007).
9. The IGERT selection committee at Drexel University has decided to award Rafael Mulero a NSF-IGERT fellowship. Congratulations! (Apr. 2007).
8. Dr. Kim was invited to lecture "Bacteria Actuation, Sensing, and Transport (BAST) in Micro/Nanoscale" in the University of Pennsylvania (Apr. 2007).
7. Ed Steager has been choosen as one of Honorable Mention awardees for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, which is extremely competitive and prestigious fellowship (Mar. 2007).
6. Ed Steager has been awarded the Joseph Carleone Fellowship, which is awarded to a student in the College of Engineering in recognition of academic contributions (Mar. 2007).
5. Dr. Kim's recent research was featured in the Washington Post: Bacteria Make Fine Machines When the Job is Small Enough (Feb. 2007).
4. Dr. Kim was invited to be a panelist to review Nanoscale Exploratory Research (NER) proposals in the area of biomolecules and electrospinning at NSF (Feb. 2007).
3. Research in Kim Group was featured in tens of science magazine and newspaper internationally: Surfwax College News, Medical News Today, Science Daily News, Physics Org, The Clinician's Ultimate Reference, Librian Resource Center, Scienceticker, Gastroenteritis: the latest RSS news, Biology Daily, Medicine & Health, The Buffalo News, XenoMed, Medical Lead, and so forth.
2. Analytical Chemistry featured Dr. Kim's exciting research with an article entitled "Controlled Mixing in Microfluidic Systems Using Bacterial Chemotaxis." The article showed up in the Feb. 2nd issue of the journal. Dr. Kim's research was also publicized in the ACS News Service Weekly PressPac (selected among hundreds of ACS journal), a package of brief announcements that was sent to journalists at newspapers, magazines, broadcast outlets and online sites.
1. Three papers have been submitted to the 18th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena (ISTP-18), which will be held in Daejeon, Korea
FY 2006
6. Dr. Kim will serve as a keynote organizer for the Microfluidics Symposium at the 2007 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) Meeting. He served at the 2006 ASME IMECE as a Session Chair for the Forum on Fluids Engineering in Micro- and Nano-Systems IV.
5. Dr. Kim was invited to present his seminar "Novel Approaches to Nanofabrication for Single Molecule Biophysics," on Nov. 17th by Dr. John Kasianowicz of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
4. Dr. Kim had his paper entitled "Rapid Fabrication of Uniformly Sized Nanopores and Nanopore Arrays for Parallel DNA Analysis" pulbished in Advanced Materials.
3. Dr. Kim has presented a paper, "Nanopore Sensor for Ultra-fast DNA Analysis", at the 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) in Chicago. He was also selected as a recipient of the Microfluidic Symposium Over-Achiever's Award and served as a reviewer for 2006 ASME IMECE Microfluidics Symposium.
2. Ed Steager has started his Ph.D study in Micro/Nanofluidics & Biotransport Lab. He will not only investigate bacterial transportation systems in microfluidic environments but also utilize nanoparticles for cell lysis. Ed received his BS degree from Duke University and currently holds the prestigious DoE GAANN Fellowship and the GK-12 Fellowship (08/14/06).
1. Rafael Mulero has joined Kim's group to study nanopore sensor systems, in which he is going to detect biohazardous organism, such as bacteria and virus, using ultra-sensitive electronics devices. Rafael completed his BS degree at Drexel University and is currently holding the prestigious NSF Bridge Fellowship (08/01/06).