Robert R. & Katherine B. Penn Associate Professor
Appointments and Affiliations
- Robert R. & Katherine B. Penn Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Chemistry
- Director of Graduate Studies in Chemistry
Contact Information
- Office Location: 2213 French Science Center, Durham, NC 27705
- Email Address: kdw32@duke.edu
- Websites:
Education
- B.Sc. Emory University, 2005
- Ph.D. Stanford University, 2010
- Princeton University, 2015
Courses Taught
- PHYSICS 493: Research Independent Study
- CHEM 801: Research
- CHEM 701S: Research Orientation Seminar
- CHEM 590: Special Topics in Chemistry
- CHEM 494: Research Independent Study
- CHEM 493: Research Independent Study
- CHEM 394: Research Independent Study
- CHEM 393: Research Independent Study
- CHEM 301: Elements of Physical Chemistry
In the News
- Two Trinity Faculty Named 2023 Sloan Research Fellows (Feb 16, 2023 | Trinity C…
- Watch a Virus in the Moments Right Before it Attacks (Nov 10, 2022)
- 3D Virus Cam Catches Germs Red-Handed (Jun 22, 2017 | Duke Research Blog)
- Kevin Welsher: Blocking the Virus Torpedo (Oct 1, 2015)
Representative Publications
- Hou, Shangguo, Jack Exell, and Kevin Welsher. “Real-time 3D single molecule tracking.” Nature Communications 11, no. 1 (July 2020): 3607. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17444-6.
- Patel, Siddharth, N. Ashwanikumar, Ema Robinson, Yan Xia, Cosmin Mihai, Joseph P. Griffith, Shangguo Hou, et al. “Author Correction: Naturally-occurring cholesterol analogues in lipid nanoparticles induce polymorphic shape and enhance intracellular delivery of mRNA.” Nature Communications 11, no. 1 (July 2020): 3435. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17025-7.
- Patel, Siddharth, N. Ashwanikumar, Ema Robinson, Yan Xia, Cosmin Mihai, Joseph P. Griffith, Shangguo Hou, et al. “Naturally-occurring cholesterol analogues in lipid nanoparticles induce polymorphic shape and enhance intracellular delivery of mRNA.” Nature Communications 11, no. 1 (February 2020): 983. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14527-2.