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 (Ana, Lara, Brandon, Robbie and Airionna). We are seeking highly motivated graduate and undergraduate students to join us. To enquire about these positions, please contact Dr. Lazenby via email about joining the lab.
Recent News
June 2026 – Young Scholars Program (YSP) students join the lab for Summer research! Welcome to Sarah and Alejandro, who will be working with Arionna and Robbie, respectively.
April 2026 – Debashis wins the Dorothy and Russell Johnsen Graduate Dissertation award! Congratulations to Dr. Sen for winning this award which goes to the top graduate student in the Chemistry & Biochemistry Program.
April 2026 – Ana wins the Johnsen Award for Excellence in Analytical Chemistry! Congratulations to Ana on this award, which recognizes top-performing graduate students in six traditional areas of Chemistry.
April 2026 – Lara passes her Candidacy Exam. The group congratulates Lara for advancing to candidacy.
March 2026 – Raphaela and Brett present posters at the FSU URS. Our undergraduate researchers presented posters at the 25th annual undergraduate research symposium (URS). Furthermore, Brett also presented at the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC), at the University of North Florida, sponsored by a travel award.
February 2026 – New review paper. Our review on SICM is accepted for publication in ACS Meas. Sci. Au. (just accepted, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.5c00192).
December 2025 – Two new PhDs! Dr. Debashis Sen and Dr. Yusuf Muhammed celebrate their graduation, in the Fall 2025 doctoral hooding ceremony.
December 2025 – New SECM paper! Debashis’ paper on aptamer-based scanning electrochemical microscopy (AB-SECM) is accepted for publication in ACS Electrochemistry (just accepted, https://doi.org/10.1021/acselectrochem.5c00341).
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Contact
Office Room: CSL 3006
Lab Room: CSL 3401
Email: rlazenby@fsu.edu
Phone: (+1) 850-645-1769