Welcome to the website of the Lazenby Lab, established in August 2019 at the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Florida State University (FSU). We are an electroanalytical chemistry lab at FSU, with research interests in:
- Electrochemical biosensing, including simultaneous multi-analyte detection using aptasenors.
- Electrochemical imaging using scanned probe microscopy, including analytical method development for single cell analysis.
- Electrocatalysis of industrially relevant reactions, such as the investigation of low cost transition metal carbides as electrocatalytic materials for the oxygen evolution reaction.
We are a collaborative and interdisciplinary research group, and currently have a team of PhD students (Debashis, Yusuf, Ana, Mikey, Mrudula), undergraduate students (Mia, Kayla and Ihuoma), and a high school student (Donald). We are seeking highly motivated graduate students to join us in our research efforts in Fall 2025. To enquire about these positions, or undergraduate research positions, please contact Dr. Lazenby via email about joining the lab.
Recent News
April 2025 – New microelectrode array paper! Debashis’ paper on the design and fabrication of a multi-electrode probe, to be used for multiplexing, sensing and localized measurements is accepted for publication in Analytical Chemistry (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.4c05175).
April 2025 – Mia, Kayla and Ihuoma present posters at the FSU URS. Our undergraduate researchers presented posters at the 24th annual undergraduate research symposium (URS).
March 2025 – Debashis and Yusuf win the 2025 Philip Schlenoff Endowment for Excellence — Graduate Student Travel Award. Congratulations to both students. This award was used to travel to Pittcon 2025.
March 2025 – Lazenby Lab attends Pittcon 2025 in Boston. Rob, Yusuf, Ana and Debashis presented talks on their research at this year’s Pittcon conference, and the students also participated in the society of electroanalytical chemistry’s (SEAC) student group meeting.
February 2025 – Donald presents on his lab experience to his high school. Donald has been conducting research on aptamers in our lab, as part of Leon High School’s Honors/Gifted Executive Internships. His sponsors joined him to attend the sponsor appreciation banquet.
February 2025 – Lara joins the lab. We welcome our new group member.
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Contact
Office Room: CSL 3006
Lab Room: CSL 3401
Email: rlazenby@fsu.edu
Phone: (+1) 850-645-1769