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08/2019:      ​We are honored and excited that our R15 award from the National Institute of Health is renewed!!!

08/2016:      ​We are honored and excited to receive a R15 award from the National Institute of Health!!!

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Jing Xu
​​Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, Physics
Conferences: Biophysical Society Meeting (Subgroup 2021, Platform 2020, 2018, 2016), American Physical Society March Meeting (Focus sessions 2021, 2017, 2013), Bay Area Cytoskeleton Virtual Symposium (2020), American Society for Cell Biology (Microsymposium, 2019), Mechanobiology Conference: The Mechanome In Action (Keynote, 2018),  International conference on Natural and Artificial Molecular Machines (2017), Current Trends in Intracellular Transport and Molecular Motors (2017), 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)

Colloquia and Seminars: National Institute of Health (2020, 2019, 2013), University of Michigan-Dearborn (2020), Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology Motors in Quarantine (2020), UC Santa Cruz (2018), U Waterloo (2018), 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), Sac State (2016, 2013), U Utah (2014, video), Fresno State (2016), Harvey Mudd (2014)

Outreach: Dinner with a Scientist (2018, 2017, 2015), ​Course on Modern Biophysical Techniques, IIT Bombay (2017, 2016), qBio Boot Camp, UC San Diego (2015, 2014), Nerd Nite East Bay, C​habot Space and Science Center (2015, video).

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John O Wilson
Graduate Student Researcher
3/2022 Michael, John and Luis's new paper is live on bioRxiv. Good job everyone!

12/2021:
 John in the news: with Fellowship, Graduate Students Pay It Forward at Community College Level. Well done John! 

6/2021: John awarded a Faculty Diversification Fellowship. Congrats John!

4/2021: John and Arturo's paper published. Congrats John and Arturo!

10/2020: John and Arturo's paper submitted. Congrats John and Arturo!

10/2020: John presented at APS Far West.


8/2019:  John advanced to Candidacy.  Congrats John!

6/2019:  John awarded the NSF-CREST: CCBM fellowship for Fall 2019.  Congrats!​

3/2019:  John's first paper published at Scientific Reports.  Excellent work John!​


2/2019:  John awarded a Physics Fellowship for Summer 2019.  Congrats John!​

10/2018:  John awarded the NSF-CREST: CCBM fellowship for Spring 2019.  Congrats!​

8/2018:  John's first paper live on BioRxiv and submitted. Excellent work John!​

7/2018:  John serves as a graduate student mentor for high school student Maciel for our CCBM: Science and Technology Enrichment Program.  ​Welcome Maciel!

11/2017:  John selected as a 2017 NSF-CREST: CCBM fellow for Spring 2018.  Congrats!​

08/2017:  John selected as a 2017 NSF-CREST: CCBM scholar.  Congrats!​

08/2016:  John selected as a 2016 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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Jeanette Batres
Undergraduate Student
Spring​ 2020-present

5/21  Jeanette accepted to UC Santa Cruz  Post-baccalaureate Research Program (PREP). Well done Jeanette!

5/21  Jeanette graduated from UC Merced. Congrats Jeanette!

10/20 Jeanette presented at the UROC Undergraduate Research Symposium. Well done Jeanette!

3/2020:   Undergraduate Jeanette selected as a UROC SOAR scholar for summer 2019. Congrats Jeanette!

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Valeria Valencia
Undergraduate Student
Fall 2019-present


4/2020:  Valeria presented at the UC Merced MACES & CCBM Undergraduate Research Virtual Symposium.  Well done Valeria!

9/2019:   Undergraduate student Valeria selected as a NSF-CREST scholar.  Congrats Valeria!
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Arturo Zaragoza
Undergraduate Student
MS, 
​Fall 2018-Spring 2019


​4/2021: John and Arturo's paper published. Congrats John and Arturo!

4/2020: Arturo graduated from UC Merced. Congrats Arturo!

4/2019: Arturo selected as a UROC SOAR scholar for summer 2019. Congrats Arturo!
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​12/2018:   Arturo collects his first set of independent FRAP data.  Beautiful data Arturo!

10/2018:   Undergraduate Arturo selected as a NSF-CREST scholar.  Welcome!
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Michael Qiaochu Li
Graduate Student Researcher
PhD in Physics, 2014-2018
Apple Inc. 2018-present
3/2022 Michael, John and Luis's new paper is live on bioRxiv. Good job everyone!

​5/2018:   Michael joins Apple, Inc.. Congratulations Michael!

​5/2018:   Michael successfully defends his PhD.  Great job Michael!  We will miss you!

1/2018:   Michael's 4th paper from our lab published in the Journal of Chemical Physics.  Congrats!
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11/2017:   Winnie and Michael's paper selected for the latest collection from the Biophysical Journal on Microtubules and Molecular Motors. Congrats!​

​08/2017:   Michael selected as a 2017 NSF-CREST: CCBM scholar.  Congrats!​
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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 an NSF-CREST: CCBM summer fellowship, sponsored by the Physics department at UC Merced.  Double congrats!​
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​08/2016:   Michael selected as a 2016 NSF-CREST: CCBM scholar.  Congrats!​

​06/2016:   Michael advanced to candidacy for PhD.  Congrats!​
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06/2016:   Michael's paper published in Biophysical Journal.  Congrats!​

​05/2016:   Winnie and Michael's paper published in Biophysical Journal. Congrats!​

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Maria Martinez
Undergraduate Student Researcher
BS in Physics, 2018

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5/2018:   Maria presentes her senior thesis, graduates from UC Merced, and starts a summer internship at Barbara Jacak's lab at UC Berkeley.  Excellent job Maria!

09/2017:  Maria selected as a 2017 NSF-CREST: CCBM undergraduate scholar.  Congrats!​


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Winnie H. Liang
Undergraduate Student Researcher
BS in Physics, 2015
11/2017:   Winnie and Michael's paper selected for the latest collection from the Biophysical Journal on Microtubules and Molecular Motors. Congrats!​
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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!​

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​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!

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Laura Miller
Undergraduate Student Researcher
BS in Physics, 2017




5/2017:   Laura presented her senior thesis and graduates.  Good job Laura!

4/2017:
   Laura partakes in STEM outreach at the Howard Elementary School, Madea, and worked with 2nd grade students.  Good job Laura!

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Rong Guo
​Summer Undergraduate Researcher
(Grinnell College)
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Yun Tang
​Summer Undergraduate Researcher
(Grinnell College)


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05/2017:  Grinnell rising sophmores Yun and Rong joined 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!​

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Summer Undergraduate Researcher
(PG&E Scholar, UC Merced)
BS in Bioengineering, 2014
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​Undergraduate Student Researcher
BS in Physics, 2014
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05/2014:  Brian and Enrique graduated from UC Merced.
Enrique attends Graduate School in Bioengineering at UIUC. 
Congrats!

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​Summer Undergraduate Researcher
(Mobility Scholar, McGill University)
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Undergraduate Student Researcher
BS in Physics, 2013

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​​​11/2013:  Brian and Maryse coauthored a paper in the Biophysical Journal. Congrats!

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​09/2012:
  Our optical trap is up and running. Maryse and Jing built our optical trap together.

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​11/2011:
 Huston, we have a lab.