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08/2016: We are honored and excited to receive a R15 award from the National Institute of Health!!!
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Principal Investigator
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Conference talks: American Physical Society March Meeting (Focus sessions 2017, 2013), International conference on Natural and Artificial Molecular Machines (2017), the Biophysical Society Meeting (2016), International Symposium on Computational and Experimental Studies of Microtubule and Microtubule-based Motor Proteins (2016), Lorentz Center Workshop on Anisotropy and Shape in Biological Materials (2016), Multiscale Motility of Biomolecular Machines (2015)
Research seminars: UC Santa Barbara (2016), UT Austin (2016), Texas A&M (2016), UC Irvine (2016), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (2016), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (2016), U Utah (2014), National Institute of Health (2013). Colloquium at PUI: Sac State (2016, 2013), Fresno State (2016), Harvey Mudd (2014) Outreach: Course on Modern Biophysical Techniques, IIT Bombay (2017, 2016), Dinner with a Scientist (2017, 2015). qBio Boot Camp, UC San Diego (2015, 2014), Nerd Nite East Bay, Chabot Space and Science Center (2015). |
Graduate Student Researcher
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07/2017: Michael's paper published in Cytoskeleton. This is Michael's third paper with us! Congrats! 03/2017: Michael awarded the NSF-CREST: CCBM summer fellowship, sponsored by the Physics department at UC Merced. Double congrats! 08/2016: Michael selected as a NSF-CREST: CCBM scholar. Congrats! 06/2016: Michael advanced to candidacy for PhD. Congrats! 06/2016: Michael's paper published in Biophysical Journal. Congrats! 05/2016: Winnie and Michael's paper published in Biophysical Journal. Congrats! |
Graduate Student Researcher
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5/2017: Joe awarded a NSF-CREST: CCBM research fellowship for Fall 2017. Congrats!
4/2017: Joe awarded a summer fellowship from Physics, UC Merced. Congrats! 4/2017: Joe partakes in CCBM outreach. Read about it here. Yay Science! 12/2016: Joe advanced to candidacy for PhD. Congrats Joe! 12/2016: Joe awarded a NSF-CREST: CCBM research fellowship for Spring 2017. Congrats! 08/2016: Joe selected as a NSF-CREST: CCBM scholar. Congrats! 05/2016: Joe awarded a summer fellowship from Physics, UC Merced. Congrats! 02/2016: Joe's paper with the Hirst lab published in Frontiers in Materials. Congrats! 05/2015: Joe awarded a partial summer fellowship from Physics, UC Merced. Congrats! |
Undergraduate Student Researcher
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3/2017: Winnie's second paper from our lab, a collaboration with the Ross lab, is published in Scientific Reports. Congrats Winnie! 05/2016: Winnie and Michael's paper published in Biophysical Journal. Congrats! 05/2015: Winnie won the Outstanding Graduating Student award in Physics, attends graduate school in Optics at U Oregon. Congrats! 03/2015: Winnie takes Jing's place to present at the APS March Meeting. Great job Winnie! |
Undergraduate Student Researcher
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5/2017: Laura presented her senior thesis with our group. Good job Laura! 4/2017: Laura partakes in Society of Physics outreach at a local elementary school. Yay Science! |
Rotation Graduate Student
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08/2016: John selected as a NSF-CREST: CCBM scholar. Congrats! 07/2016: John selected to receive a Bridge Fellowship from the Graduate Division at UC Merced. Congrats! |
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05/2017: Grinell rising sophmore Rong joins us for summer research. Welcome! |
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05/2017: Grinell rising sophmore Yun joins us for summer research. Welcome! |
08/2016: New paper by Amanda Tan published in the Royal Society of Chemistry: Advances. Yay!
10/2014: New paper with the Gopinathan group published in the Scientific Reports. Yay!
Summer Undergraduate Researcher
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Undergraduate Student Researcher
05/2014: Brian and Enrique graduated from UC Merced. Enrique attends Graduate School in Bioengineering at UIUC. Congrats! |
Summer Undergraduate Researcher
(Mobility Scholar, McGill University) |
Undergraduate Student Researcher
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09/2012: Our optical trap is up and running. Maryse and Jing built our optical trap together.
09/2012: Our optical trap is up and running. Maryse and Jing built our optical trap together.
11/2011: Huston, we have a lab.
11/2011: Huston, we have a lab.
