Kunle wins UC Merced's Grad Slam competition! He will represent UCM at the Grad Slam finals in Sacramento! Way to go Kunle! News: March 12, 2025
Anthony and Andre attend Spring MRS Meeting in Seattle. Anthony wins best poster award!! Great Job Anthony! News: April 08, 2025
Dr. Debasis Ghosh joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow! Welcome to Merced! News: September 01, 2022
Very first preprint from the Merg lab is out! Congrats Anthony and Yumie! News: May 24, 2023 Read it here!
Hollow spherical gold nanoparticle superstructures with tunable diameters and visible to near-infrared extinction Publication: Journal Article Zhang, Chen, Yong Zhou, Andrea Merg, Chengyi Song, George C. Schatz, and Nathaniel L. Rosi. 2014. “Hollow Spherical Gold Nanoparticle Superstructures With Tunable Diameters and Visible to Near-Infrared Extinction”. Nanoscale 6: 12328-32.
Merg lab is looking to hire a postdoc with experience in peptide assembly, bioconjugation, and/or related fields! Please contact Prof. Merg directly News: March 04, 2022
Nayeli Perez Person: Undergraduate Student Year Joined: 2021 Research Project: Collagen-DNA Nanoimprinting
Coiled Coil Peptide Tiles: Expanding the Peptide Building Block Design with Multivalent Peptide Macrocycles Publication: Journal Article Perez, Anthony R., Adekunle Adewole, Daphney Sihwa, Michael E. Colvin, and Andrea D. Merg. 2024. “Coiled Coil Peptide Tiles: Expanding the Peptide Building Block Design With Multivalent Peptide Macrocycles”. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 146: 30252-61.