We are excited to have four new undergraduate students joining us for the summer: Larry Luster, Nathan Weber, Alfred Yeung, and Guoxi Zhu. Larry is an REU student from Hampton University in Virginia; Nathan is a student in the Quantitative Biology Research Community at Brandeis; Alfred is working on a collaborative project between the Rogers Lab and Ivanovic Lab, which is supported by a Provost's Research Award; and Guoxi is a Summer MRSEC Undergraduate Research Fellow. Welcome!
Ben receives the Smith Family Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research! /
Ben was selected to receive the Smith Family Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research. The award comes with three years of financial support to initiate a new research direction in RNA structure and interactions.
Details on the award can be found here: https://hria.org/tmf/smith/
The lab plants an American Elm /
To atone for all the gloves and pipette tips we throw away, the lab planted an American Elm tree on campus.
Important update: The tree has been named Jahbs.
We received our first grant from the National Science Foundation! /
We are grateful to the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research (DMR-1710112) for their support of our work on colloidal phase transitions. Thank you, NSF!
Daichi joins the lab /
Daichi Hayakawa joins the lab from Tokyo as a first-year PhD student in Physics. Welcome, Daichi!
The lab welcomes 6 new students! /
We are thrilled to have 6 new students joining the lab this summer: James Sheehy, Janna Lowensohn, and Huang Fang will join the lab as first-year PhD students in Physics; Shira Rosenberg and Gabe Freiman join as undergraduate research assistants from the QBReC program; and Kess Ofunrein joins as an REU student from Hampton University. Welcome!
Alex passes his advanced exam /
On Monday, Alex passed his advanced exam on "Characterizing the dynamics of self-assembly of DNA-coated colloids." Congrats, Alex!
Rogers and Ivanovic Labs receive the Provost Research Award! /
The Rogers and Ivanovic Labs receive the Provost Research Award to initiate a collaborative project on viral adaptation.