By FiskLast 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... |Faculty
By FiskOn February 26, 2026, Niaz Goodbee passed his PhD oral preliminary exam! He is now a PhD candidate. His oral prelim was called “Probing Nuclear... |Graduation, NC State
By FiskFall 2025 graduation brought a lot of celebrations for the Biophysics department. The biophysics department wishes to extend a hearty congratulations to everyone! Dr. Kenya... |Graduation, NC State
By FiskOn 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... |NC State
By FiskThe 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... |Publication
By FiskDr. Weninger’s group recently published a new paper called “DNA mutagenesis driven by transcription factor competition with mismatch repair.” This paper deals with how transcription... |Faculty
By FiskDr. Nathan Ennist has recently joined the BioPhysics department! He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017 with his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular... |NC State, Publication
By FiskAbhisha 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... |NC State, Publication
By FiskOn July 25th, Brendan Donovan presented his poster at the NCSU Summer Undergraduate Research & Creativity Symposium. This was held at centennial campus. Brendan is... |NC State, Publication
By FiskYafan 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.... |Interviews, NC State
By FiskKenya Gordon is a graduate research assistant in LeBlanc Lab at NCSU. She is a Doctoral Candidate in the Physics program with a minor in... |Funding, NC State
By FiskRecently, Yafan Zhang was awarded the 2025 Genetics and Genomics Academy (GGA) travel award. This award gives travel funds to support NCSU grad students &... |NC State
By FiskCongratulations to Alexandria Kerr! She passed her oral preliminary exam to advance to PhD candidacy in Chemistry on May 27, 2025! |Interviews, NC State
By FiskCameron Stephens is a research technician in LeBlanc Lab at NCSU. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and a Bachelor’s in Math. Both of... |Publication
By FiskDr. Mary Elting and Dr. Sharonda LeBlanc recently came out with a new paper titled, “Mechanical Coupling With the Nuclear Envelope Shapes the Schizosaccharomyces pombe... |Funding, NC State
By FiskDr. Robert Riehn and Dr. Shuang Lim were awarded the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund for “Room Temperature Quantum Optical Encryption System for Quantum Computing Data Security”... |Interviews
By FiskDr. Julio Belmonte is organizing the first Cytoskeleton Modelling workshop in North America. It will take place at the Riddick Hall 314, Department of Physics,... |Publication
By FiskDr. Sharonda LeBlanc was an author on a new paper that was published earlier this month. The paper is titled, “Design and Characterization of DNA-Driven... |NC State
By FiskEduardo Cisneros of Lin Lab won the 2025 GAANN Molecular Biotechnology Fellowship. This is an acronym for the Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need....
