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Final Defense Scott Lindauer

Congratulations to Dr. Scott Lindauer for defending his dissertation “Flow-stabilized Solids: From Colloids to Bacteria” prepared under direction of Drs. Daniels and Riehn.

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.

Biophysical Society Meeting 2019

Dr. Sharonda LeBlanc presented an oral paper on the function of DNA repair proteins stemming from a collaboration with Dr. Weninger. There were 4 poster...

NC State Biophysics @ March APS

Prof Elting presented work by Mark Begley probing the mechanical organization of k-fiber microtubule bundles. Saroj Dangi (Riehn group) presented a new device that will...

New paper by Saroj Dangi (Riehn group)

Graduate student Saroj Dangi has published a paper that introduces a velocity-dependent nanofluidic sorting device. To describe the device, he has adapted a drift-diffusion equation...

Elting lab presents at ASCB

Dr. Elting presented a poster in December at the American Society for Cell Biology meeting in San Diego, CA on work from graduate student Marc...

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...

Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting – Register now!

The Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting will be held on September 24 at the Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw, NC, and it’s not too late to register!...
Dr. Julio Belmonte

Dr. Julio Belmonte joins NC State

We welcome Dr. Julio Belmonte to the Physics Department at NC State.  Dr. Belmonte joins as a Assistant Professor. He will build a group using...
Kymographs of DNA in nanochannels

Paper by Drs. Riehn, Weninger, and Lim

Graduate Student Maedeh Roushan authored a publication in Scientific Reports that reports the discovery of Motor-like DNA motion due to an ATP-hydrolyzing protein under nanoconfinement
Raman spectroscopy of DNA

Paper by Drs. Lim, Hallen, Riehn

Graduate student Ling Li published a paper in Biophysical Journal that reports DNA Methylation Detection Using Resonance and Nanobowtie-Antenna-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy.

Paper by Drs. Sagui and Roland

Graduate student and postdoc Feng Pan published a paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B exploring the Structure and Dynamics of DNA and RNA...

Paper by Drs. Sagui and Roland

Graduate student and postdoc Feng Pan published an article in Nucleic Acids Research that reports the E-motif formed by extrahelical cytosine bases in DNA homoduplexes of...

New NIH R01 to Drs. Wang and Riehn

Drs. Wang and Riehn were awarded research support for their project SEQUENCE AND STRUCTURE SPECIFIC DNA BINDING BY COHESIN AND GENOME STABILITY. In it, they...

Paper by Drs. Sagui and Roland

Graduate student Yuan Zhang published a paper in Chemical Neuroscience that explores the Structural and Dynamical Characterization of DNA and RNA Quadruplexes Obtained from the...
SA2 binding to gapped DNA substrates

Paper by Drs. Wang and Riehn

“Graduate Student and Postdoc Preston Countryman (Wang/Riehn labs) publishes paper on “previously unknown interaction between cohesin and gapped DNA.