Students are ready for the 2020 Annual Biophysics Symposium, are you? SAVE THE DATE: 3.13.2020 Theme: Complex Systems in Biology Anderson Hall, Michigan Union, 9-5pm Register for the event: ow.ly/lG3A50yub3P

hello darkroom my old friend so much microscopy again

Introducing the Departmental talks for the 2020 Annual Biophysics Symposium Kevin Wood Julie Biteen and Aaron Frank. Save the Date: 3.13.2020 Theme: Complex Systems in Biology Anderson Hall, Michigan Union, 9-5pm Register for the event: ow.ly/Otjz50yubDK

Save the Date for the Annual Symposium in Biophysics on 3.13.2020! Theme: Complex Systems in Biology Anderson Hall, Michigan Union, 9am-5pm Register for the event: ow.ly/HzP750yCJDs

I started making a list of all the things I need to do to take my Spring 2020 course entirely online, got immediately overwhelmed, and then procrastinated by watching Simone Giertz make a brain-shaped paper shredder.

This is cool! An ELISA for covid antibodies. Looks like smtg anyone can do to tell who’s been infected and gotten better.

Read about the impact of Biophysical Journal articles through the years. Publications Committee member Andrea Gohlke writes about a 17-year-old article published in BJ that explored the ground rules of phase separation in lipid bilayer. ow.ly/zoJd50yTkkQ

#lipidtime paper! After a long journey, our paper on live-cell lipid biochemistry is now out at PNAS! We developed a method that allows you to change plasma membrane lipid levels quantitatively with sub-second time resolution: pnas.org/content/early/…

Our newest paper is out! (I guess its been a while, what has been going on to keep me from noticing?) This is our clearest evidence yet for sorting of phase markers in cells and proposes that membrane domains can work in concert with other process. molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10.10…

Max Planck biophysicists are analyzing the surface protein of the coronavirus to identify binding sites for vaccines and drugs ow.ly/oUAs50zbiad

me after running experiments in complete silence for 5 hours

Happy to see this one out PLOS Biology. We slowed down drug-resistant bacteria with...sensitive bacteria! Fun collaboration with the woods lab and Andrew Read group (PSU). Co-led by Elsa Hansen and recent Michigan Biophysics PhD Jason Karslake. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

I'm thrilled we're on pnas's cover (pnas.org/content/117/33…). Caitlin Cornell & our team used cryoEM to identify domains in phase-separated membranes by probe-free & labeling techniques. Also check out the linked (simultaneous) paper by our super colleagues Ilya Levental et al!

.University of Michigan's Aaron Frank receives a MICDE Catalyst Grant to explore leveraging generative AI for the De Novo Design of biomolecular probes. This is one of four U-M projects funded by MICDE to advance computational discovery. micde.umich.edu/catalyst/

The ladies of the Luka Lab (Pocivavsek Lab) took Biophysical Society by storm!! Repping The University of Chicago all the way Anna Willa Li #WomenInSTEM

Last week, my group along with Ben Machta published new measurements of cholesterol availability in membranes made from mixtures with one or two phospholipids in Biophysical Journal. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to Blessing Nnate who presented her work on fluid structure interaction modeling in aortic dissections at the The University of Chicago Undergraduate Research Symposium! UChicagoAorta UChicago Surgery

Introducing Dr. Thomas Shaw! Congrats to Thomas for a great talk and thesis -- and check out that cake made by veatchlab members and alums including Sarah Shelby Adam Decker (he/him) Jenny Flanagan-Natoli, PhD inspired by a figure made by Anna Gaffney!

Congrats to Anna Gaffney for winning the poster competition in theory and computation at the Biophysical Society meeting! Amazing work on a generalized continuum model of lipid monolayer elasticity implemented with finite elements.