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New NIH grant to Elting group

NC State Physicist Awarded $1.8 Million for Research on Cell Division     MIRA grant (Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award) from NIH’s National Institute of General Medical...

Three new papers from Weninger group

July saw three new papers from the Weninger Group: Hao, P., LeBlanc, S., Case, B.C., Elston, T.C., Hingorani, M.M., Erie, D.A., Weninger, K.R., “Recurrent mismatch...

New paper in Nucleic Acids Research

A paper from a collaboration between the Weninger and Sagui groups has appeared in Nucleic Acids Research “Dynamics of strand slippage in DNA hairpins formed...

New Paper by Drs. Choi and Weninger

Drs. Choi and Weninger published a paper that describes the spontaneous switching among conformational ensembles in intrinsically disordered proteins in the journal Biomolecules.

Final PhD Defense Pengyu Hao

Congratulations to Dr. Pengyu Hao who defended his dissertation “Single Molecule Study of DNA Mismatch Repair” that was prepared under the direction of Dr. Weninger.

New paper by LeBlanc

Sharonda LeBlanc (and co-workers in weninger group) publish new paper on DNA MMR Coordinated protein and DNA conformational changes govern mismatch repair initiation by MutS...

Paper by Elting

New review paper by Elting (getting good Twitter press) The Spindle: Integrating Architecture and Mechanics across Scales   Elting, Suresh, Dumont TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY (2018)...

Paper by Weninger Group: World-wide, 20 lab collaboration

Weninger Group paper in Nature Methods: A worldwide study involving 20 laboratories has established and standardized a method to measure exact distances within individual biomolecules,...

Carolina Biophysics Symposium, Oct 25-26

The 11th Carolina Biophysics Symposium will be on October 25th and 26th, 2018 at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, NC.  This year’s meeting will...