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Alexandria Kerr Defends Master’s Thesis!

Last month (3/20/26), Alexandria Kerr of LeBlanc’s group successfully defended her Master’s! Her thesis was called “Validating the Robustness of Fluorescence Lifetime over Intensity-Based FRET...

Congrats to the Fall 2025 Graduates!

Fall 2025 graduation brought a lot of celebrations for the Biophysics department. The biophysics department wishes to extend a hearty congratulations to everyone! Dr. Kenya...

Joseph Lannan Defends Thesis!

On January 5th 2026, Joseph Lannan successfully defended his PhD thesis! Lannan’s thesis is called “Novel mechanism of biological contraction and building cyborg cells.” He...

Carolina Biophysics Symposium 13th Event

The Carolina Biophysics Symposium held it’s 13th Biennial event. It is an event designed to bring together NC biophysicists. This year is was held in...
Fig. 1: The dynamics of mechanical properties in dorso-ventral cell populations during gastrulation.

Grad Student Abhisha Thayambath Publishes New Paper!

Abhisha Thayambath, grad student in Dr. Belmonte’s lab, recently published a paper in Nature! Abhisha developed the physical model of gastrulation. This showed that fast...
Dr. LeBlanc and Brendan standing in front of his poster in a big room. Brendan is giving a thumbs up.

Undergrad Brendan Donovan Presents Poster

On July 25th, Brendan Donovan presented his poster at the NCSU Summer Undergraduate Research & Creativity Symposium. This was held at centennial campus. Brendan is...
Overview of the IDEA protocol

Grad Student Yafan Zhang New Publication!

Yafan Zhang has a new publication in eLife! His paper is entitled, “Interpretable protein-DNA interactions captured by structure-sequence optimization.” In this paper, he and Dr....

Elting Lab Represents at Cell Bio ’24

In December 2024, the Elting lab took 2 graduate students and 2 postdocs to Cell Bio ’24 an ASCB and EMBO meeting in San Diego....

Dr. Julio Belmonte wins NSF CAREER award

Dr. Julio Belmonte won an Early Career Development Award (NSF CAREER Award) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) on March 25, 2024. The total award...

Dr. Abbas Ghaffari wins poster award

Dr. Abbas Ghaffari wins Best Poster Award at 2022 MRS fall meeting in symposium for Plasmonics, Nanophotonics, and Metamaterials. Congratulations!

Dr. Ashkan Fakharzadeh defends Ph.D. thesis

Congratulations to Dr. Ashkan Fakharzadeh for the defense of his Ph.D. thesis titled “Structure, Stability, and Dynamics of Select Nucleic Acids Associated with Neurodegenerative Diseases.” ...