After left Dr. Drezek’s lab as a postdoc late March, Mingqiang returned to China and started his own bioengineering career at Hunan University. His current interest is to study the synthesis of Q-dots. I had a chance to visit his lab on a Monday afternoon.
The lab space is housed in a new three-story chemistry building. The wet lab is well equipped with centrifuges, cell incubator etc. His colleague professors showed me some expensive fluorescent microscopes. They are also in the process of purchasing a confocal microscope. The main research direction in the department is bio-sensing.
I asked Mingqiang about his short-term goals. Besides preparing grant applications, he is looking for international collaborations. He is also recruiting two graduate students next spring. He mentioned the biggest difference between researching at Rice and Hunan University is, in China, some chemicals from Sigma can be really expensive to order and the shipping can be a very long wait.
Well, we happened to wear the same polo shirt that day…Does that mean I look like a professor too? ;)
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