Our lab has empowered numerous undergraduate students with impactful research experiences, resulting in five undergraduate co-authorships in peer-reviewed publications and one first-authorship featured in a Special Collection by the Biophysical Journal.
Nat Brown
Graduate Student Researcher April 2023 - Feb 2024 |
2/2024 Nat moves onto greener pastures. Best wishes Nat! 10/2023 Nat receives the APS DSOFT Young Investigator Travel Award. Congrats Nat! 10/2023 Nat presents at the APS Farwest Meeting and the Frontiers in SoftMatter and Macromolecular Networks conference. 9/2023 Nat completes his first committee meeting. 7/2023 Nat travels to the NIH for data collection with Jing. Yay fun! 4/2023 Nat joins the lab. Welcome Nat! |
John O Wilson
Graduate Student Researcher PhD in Physics, 2023 |
5/2023 John graduates to Dr. Wilson. Congrats Dr. Wilson!
4/2023 News article on our paper in the PNAS, research highlight here. 1/2023 Michael, John and Luis's new paper is published in PNAS. Great 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! |
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! |
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! |
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! 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! |
Michael Qiaochu Li
Graduate Student Researcher PhD in Physics, 2018 Apple Inc. 2018-present |
4/2023 News article on our paper in the PNAS, research highlight here.
1/2023 Michael, John and Luis's new paper is published in PNAS. Great 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! 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! 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! 08/2016: Michael selected as a 2016 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! |
Maria Martinez
Undergraduate Student Researcher BS in Physics, 2018 |
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! |
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!
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! |
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
(Mobility Scholar, McGill University) |
Undergraduate Student Researcher
BS in Physics, 2013 |
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.