Check out our recent publication (rdcu.be/dyVe5), showing how fascinating intrinsically disordered proteins are, aggregating to star-like nanostructures or stretched as charged polymers. Thank you Mathar, Gil, and Omar Saleh for this beautiful collaboration

got a new rug, and just noticed it is decorated with DNA nanostars

We are saddened as we share that Nobel Laureate and emeritus professor Herb Kroemer has passed away. He was 95. The visionary theoretician and experimentalist brought forth ideas that literally changed our world. Read about his pioneering work and tributes engineering.ucsb.edu/news/nobel-lau…

1) 500 mm lens plus blue band pass filter to knock down intensity, projected on paper 2) tree leaves as pinhole cameras, projected on sidewalk

Happy to share our just-published review article on liquids (condensates) formed from nucleic acids. We tried to be pretty comprehensive, yet during the publication process ~6 more papers in the area appeared...ah well. see here, hope you like it: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Save the date for Single Molecule Biophysics 2025 (SMB 2025) to be held over January 5-10, 2025 (inclusive) at the Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, Colorado. To get your name on our emailing list, contact [email protected]. Please RT. jila.colorado.edu/smb/

Another paper from super post-doc Sam Wilken on DNA nanostars, quantifying the delay for droplet appearance after a quench. The dynamics are consistent with distinct nucleation and spinodal decomposition regimes, and we map the spinodal curve. More here: doi.org/10.1063/5.0204…

Condensate fans and attendees of #apsmarch! Consider sending your abstract (due Oct 25!) to: "Bio-inspired phase-separation" the APS DSOFT and APS Division of Biological Physics focus session I am organizing with Sam Wilken (session # 02.01.20 or, identically 04.01.39) Thanks!