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We welcomed three new students to the Rogers Lab this summer. Rob and Zach are first-year PhD students in Physics; Daniel is a second-year undergraduate student in Biological Physics. Welcome to the group!
To celebrate Janna’s defense, welcome newcomers, and take a much needed break from remote research, the group went kayaking on the nearby Concord River.
We are thrilled to start work on two new projects supported by the Human Frontier Science Program! Melissa received a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship from HFSP to study non-equilibrium phase separation. The group also received a Human Frontier Science Program research grant to support a collaborative project studying “origin of life” with the Wang Lab at UNSW and the Kuruma Lab at JAMSTEC. We are grateful for the financial support of HFSP and are excited to get to work once our lab reopens!
Melissa Rinaldin joined our lab as a joint postdoctoral fellow with the Duclos Lab! Melissa recently completed a PhD with Daniela Kraft at Leiden University, where she worked on lipid phase separation on curved membranes. Welcome Melissa!
Janna and Guillermo’s paper on programming colloidal interactions using linker DNA oligomers was accepted in Physical Review X! To celebrate, the group went to Redbones.
Daichi, Janna, Huang, and Ben attended the Soft Matter GRC at Colby-Sawyer college and presented posters on their work. Janna’s poster was one of four winners of the poster competition and she rewarded with giving a talk! Congratulations, Janna!
Shira, Alfred, Larry, Jordan, and Hannah presented their summer research at the SciFest poster session. It was the largest SciFest yet! Congratulations to all on a great summer.
After three years we finally learned to play Kubb!
Ben and Daichi visited Kyoto University to learn about RNA-protein condensates from Hiro Saito and his student Sora Matsumoto. The visit was part of a recent SPIRITS grant (Supporting Program for Interaction-based Initiative Team Studies) aimed at developing an international collaboration focused on liquid-liquid phase separation in living systems. Thank you again to Hiro and Sora for the wonderful trip!
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