Looking back at 2023, Ben's official first year as tenured faculty, the lab witnessed some great additions to the already existing crew and amazing achievements by the members.
Here are some highlights:
Alex's work published in Nature communications.
Thomas was selected as one of the Rising Stars in Soft and Biological Matter by the UChiacgo and UCSD MRSEC.
Daichi received the Best Poster award in DNA29 and is an APS ESME (emerging soft matter excellence) Award finalist.
Daichi's DNA origami paper now in PNAS!
Daichi’s paper on realizing self-limited assembly of tubules with DNA origami is now out in PNAS (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2207902119). Congratulations!
Huang's Paper out in Soft Matter
Huang’s recent simulation work on understanding the kinetics of tubule growth is now out in Soft Matter (https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/sm/d2sm00679k) Congratulations!
Congratulations to Dr. Alex Hensley!
Congratulations, Alex, on defending your dissertation and earning your PhD! Alex gave a wonderful talk discussing the details of nucleation and growth of DNA-coated colloids and how that can be used to make astoundingly large crystals.
Congratulations to Dr. Huang Fang!
Huang has defended his dissertation and has earned his Physics PhD! Huang gave a fantastic talk on all his varied works about assembly using experiments and simulation.
Return to March Meeting!
We just got back from the first in-person March Meeting since 2019, held in Chicago. Rogers lab members were able to share their recent results and see a lot of exciting talks from groups from all over. We were also excited to catch up with friends and colleagues at the meeting, like Pepijn Moerman from JHU and Christine Middleton from Physics Today!
The Origami Team’s Paper Appears in JPCM
Thomas, Daichi, and Huang’s recent work on understanding the balance between assembly complexity and target specificity is now out in the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-648X/ac47dd)! Congratulations!
Return to Brandeis MRSEC Winter School
It’s been a while since our MRSEC hosted a Winter School, so we are happy to have just gotten back from a great science getaway in Vermont. It was refreshing to hear about the amazing science going on in our MRSEC and to catch up with everyone in person! This is always a great event to hear from younger graduate students about their work in progress and to discuss the future work we hope to accomplish at Brandeis. Rogers Lab members Anjali, Daichi, and Thomas presented their work on liquid-liquid phase separation of DNA nanostars and self-assembling tubules from DNA origami colloids.
