We are honored and excited to be awarded the AREA award from the NIGMS, National Institute of Health
Funding period: 08/2016-07/2023, 09/2024-08/2027 In addition to supporting the successful development of graduate students (as evidenced by their research findings), our lab has empowered numerous undergraduate students with impactful research experiences, resulting undergraduate co-authorships in peer-reviewed publications (PNAS, Biophysical Journal, Scientific Reports, Physical Biology) and one first-authorship featured in a Special Collection in the Biophysical Journal.
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8/2024 Marlen, Cassidy, and Charles presented their summer research at the SURI 2024 18th Annual Symposium. Great job everyone! 5/2024 Cassidy and Charles joins us for summer research via the UC Merced Physics REU. Marlen joins us for summer research via the UC Merced CAMP. Welcome everyone! |
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 Travel Award. Congrats Nat! 10/2023 Nat presents at the APS Farwest Meeting and SoftMatter and Macromolecular Networks conference. 7/2023 Nat travels to the NIH for data collection with Jing. Adventures! 4/2023 Nat joins the lab. Welcome Nat! |
Luis Arteaga-Castaneda
(Undergraduate thesis student, Fall 2018-Spring 2020) BS in Physics 2020 coauthor in PNAS 2023 |
01/2023 Luis coauthors on our paper at the PNAS, as the result of his senior thesis work. Great job Luis! 05/2020 Luis graduates with a BS in Physics from UC Merced. Congrats Luis! 8/2018 Luis joins our lab to conduct his senior thesis project. |
John O Wilson
Graduate Student Researcher PhD in Physics, 2023 |
8/2023 John graduates and joins UC Merced as lecturer, yay Prof. Wilson!
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.