Beckman Institute researcher awarded Postdoctoral Scholar Award

Yue Zhuo, a postdoctorate fellow in the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory and at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at Illinois, has been awarded a Postdoctoral Scholar Award for a paper that was submitted to the annual Microscopy and Microanalysis Conference.

The paper is titled “Label-free Imaging of Stem Cell Adhesion and Dynamic Tracking of Boundary Evolution using Photonic Crystal Enhanced Microscopy (PCEM).” The Microscopy Society of America will honor Zhuo and others at the conference, to be held Aug. 6-10 in St. Louis.

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