February 16th, 2014
Congratulations to Zack Scholl who won the 2014 Student Research Achievement Award for his outstanding poster presentation at the National Biophysical Society 58th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. His research in molecular biophysics was titled "N-terminal domain of Luciferase prevents folding pathway from falling into kinetic traps."
December 14th, 2012
Congratulations to Dr. Anna Lokstejn and Zack Scholl for getting the outside cover of Chemical Communications with their manuscript entitled "Atomic force microscopy captures folded ribosome bound nascent chains"
April 4th, 2011
Congratulations to Dr. Minkyu Kim for successful completion of his Ph.D. with the dissertation entitled "Design and Characterization of Protein-Based Building Blocks for Self-Assembled Nano-Structured Biomaterials."
February 28th, 2011
Congratulations to Dr. Whasil Lee for successful completion of her Ph.D. with the dissertation entitled "Nanomechanics of Ankyrin repeat proteins."
December 8th, 2010
Congratulations to Dr. Mahir Rabbi for successful completion of his Ph.D. with the dissertation entitled "DNA Nanomechanics Probed with Atomic Force Microscopy."
April 24th, 2010
Congratulations to Piotr for climbing to the top of Grand St. Bernard Pass (2,469m)!
April 10th, 2010
Whasil Lee won a 2010 Best Student Presentation Award and Travel Award at the 2010 MRS (Materials Research Science) meeting on April 10 in San Francisco, California. Her research in molecular biophysics was titled "Nanomechanics of ankyrin repeats probed by single molecule atomic force spectroscopy."
February 21st, 2010
Minkyu Kim won a 2010 Student Research Achievement Award for his outstanding poster presentation at the National Biophysical Society 54th Annual Meeting on February 21 in San Francisco, California. His research in molecular biophysics was titled "Single-Molecule Atomic Force Spectroscopy Captures A Novel Class Of Molecular Nanosprings With Robust Stepwise Refolding Properties."
2007
Our paper, by Ke, Ch., Humeniuk, M., S-Gracz, H. and Marszalek, P.E. (2007), "Direct Measurements of Base Stacking Interactions in DNA by Single Molecule Atomic Force Spectroscopy. Physical Review Letters, 99, 018302, was selected by the APS News, a publication of the American Physical Society, as one of the 36 most important works in physics in 2007. This paper was one of only two articles representing biological physics in this summary of physics highlights for the past year.