Alex’s first paper just appeared online in PNAS! Congrats, Alex!
Alex wins the SAMSUNG oral presentation award at the MRS meeting
Congrats to Alex Hensley on winning the SAMSUNG oral presentation award for his talk on engineering two-step protocols for making macroscopic single crystals from colloids at the Fall MRS meeting in Boston! Alex was introduced at the award ceremony with "and this award goes to Alex, who made colloidal crystals 10,000 times larger than the ones his PI made". A very well-deserved recognition—
Huang's paper appears in PNAS
Huang recently published his first article in PNAS! It uses new tools in colloid science and computer simulations to shed light on a physics puzzle that dates back 100+ years. Congratulations, Huang!
A collaborative NSF-funded project on programmable active matter
Our lab received a new grant from the National Science Foundation. We will work together with Wylie Ahmed (Cal State: Fullerton) and Jenny Rose (Syracuse) to develop active materials powered by enzymes.
Congratulations to Dr. Janna Lowensohn!
Janna successfully defended their dissertation to earn a PhD in Physics! Janna had a record turnout on Zoom (100 participants!) and gave a beautiful talk about programming assembly of colloids using DNA.
Welcome to Zach, Rob, and Daniel
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.
Two new HFSP-supported projects
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 joins the lab!
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!