December 2011
17th LACE in Fort Lauderdale, FL

Many thanks to Norberto, Bruce, Marina, and all those that contributed to LACE this year. Once again, we had a fantastic meeting, with a very strong scientific program, and lots of social activities!

Now we need to get ready for LACE 2012, in Buenos Aires.

December 2011
Pure glamour!

Jess is featured in several brochures for the university. It is always good to be on the correct news!

November 2011
Visit to Florida International University

Once again, thanks a lot for the great time I spent at FIU... specially Dr. McCord who even took me sailing!

October 2011
Fer's first paper from JPL featured in C&E News!

They described a single four-layer microfluidic device capable of performing automated end-to-end analyses of amino acids by microchip capillary electrophoresis with laser-induced fluorescence detection. This is the first demonstration of a completely automated end-to-end ?CE analyses on a single, fully integrated microfluidic device. Read the feature article here and the full paper here.

October 2011
Visit to Mexico

We did a short trip to Mexico to develop contacts with CIE, Universidad de Morelos, CINVESTAV, and UNAM. Many thanks to all our hosts for the wonderful time we had!

August 2011
Congrats to Matt

Many thanks to Lisa Palacios and the Provost Mentor Program, who supported Matt during the summer. Besides gettig to know an excellent guy, "Mateo" made incredible progress in a really cool project. We hope to finish the paper very soon!

Read teh entire article in UTSA Today!

July 2011
Reserach seminar at JPL/NASA

Many thanks to Peter, Fer, and Morgan for the fantastic visit at JPL!

June 2011
Visit to ORNL

Many thanks to Cathy Forbes and Jeff Kantor, who coordinated a visit of UTSA faculty to ORNL/ORAU. We had a great time and expect to start new projects. Read more at UTSA Today.

June 2011
Seminar at USP-Campinas

Ana Valeria with her students before the seminar at USP. During the visit we also met with Fracassi and his students.

May 2010
Outstanding Teaching Award

Gabby received one of the 2010 Outstanding Teaching Awards from the TLC. Without a question she deserves this recognition!!!!.

May 2010
Specisal Issue of Electrophoresis

The special issue of Electrophoresis is in press! This issue presents a variety of research papers focusing on the analysis of different biologically active molecules but having the developments in Instrumentation as the common theme. The objective is to highlight a selection of contributions from some of the most promising investigators in our community into the state-of-the-art and the future directions of the field.

December 2009
Karen graduated

Karen Scida graduated with a BS in Chemistry. She has decided to stay with us for a semester to finish some projects and then head to graduate school. Congratulations!!!

May 2009
Jessica receives two Scholarships!

Jessica received the College of Sciences Presidential Scholarship 2009-2010 and the USAA Foundation Scholarship 2009-2010. Congratulations!!!

December 2008
COS for Research Achievements Awards

Dr. Garcia received one of the Awards from the College of Sciences for Research Achievements at the Tenure-Track Level.

March 2009
First PhD Graduate from the lab

Fer sucesfully defended her Doctoral Dissertation "Strategies Toward the Analysis of Biologically Active Compounds by Capillary Electrophoresis and Microchip-Capillary Electrophoresis". Congratulations Dr.Mora!!!

June 2008
PASI / Tambopata - Peru

Dr. Garcia and M.F. Mora survived the trip to Peru (Pan American Advanced Studies Institute, PASI). This was an incredible experience to discuss topics related to ecology and chemical ecology. Great pictures are available...

October 2008
Fer returned from Harvard

Fer returned from her visit to G. Whitesides' lab. We are very happy to have her back! We would like to thank the entire group for the hospitality and specially Dr. E. Carrilho for being such a great host.