The Steves Lab is a chemistry group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign contributing optical tools that redefine the limits of single molecule and super-resolution microscopy to solve problems in biophysical chemistry.

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news

  • Oct 06, 2026
    We are recruiting a postdoc! See the job ad for details, and visit Join to apply.
  • Aug 16, 2026
    Megan will join UIUC as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry starting in August (see Chemistry Dept. news story). Stay tuned!

selected publications

  1. Megan A. Steves and Ke Xu
    Nature Communications, 2025