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NEWS!

New paper published in Soft Matter!! Explores the importance of weak, transient interactions in overcoming strong interactions to make a knob that can tune the microtubule system from extensile to contractile to static.

 

(June 2017)

Graduate Student, Sid Advani, awarded Dissertation Research Grant! Congratulations, Sid!

 

(May 2017)

Graduate Student, Sid Advani, awarded travel grant to go to present her research at the American Society for Cell Biology in Philadelphia, PA! Congratulations, Sid!

 

(May 2017)

Graduate student, Leila Farhadi, awarded University of Massachusetts Department of Physics Arthur Quniton Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for 2017!

 

Congratulations, Leila! 

 

(April 2017)

Graduate student, Leila Farhadi, awarded Division of Biological Physics Student Travel Award  

 

(March 2017)

New review article on microtubule-based autonomous molecular robots in Chemical Society Reviews! 

 

(March 2017)

New paper accepted at Scientific Reports!

Our paper collaborating with Jing Xu from UC Merced on how single kinesin motors dissociate at microtubule defects is accepted in Scientific Reports. 

 

(February 2017)

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