News
August 20, 2018: Congrats to Patrick for publishing his FEATHER algorithm in Biophysical Journal
May 07, 2018: Congrats to Matt for passing his dissertation defense!
January 08, 2018: Congrats to John and Rob for their work being featured on the front cover of PhysChemPhys
October 31, 2017: Congrats to John and Rob on the results of their collaboration with David Baker’s lab that shows a beautiful fit between AFM data and Olga Dudko’s theory
October 19, 2017: Congrats to David for winning an APS thesis award
October 13, 2017: Congrats to Tom for being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
October 11, 2017: Tom wins Governor’s High Impact Research Award
August 28, 2017: Congrats to Stephen and Lyle for the lovely paper on Force-activated DNA substrates
June 26, 2017: Perkins lab awarded an NSF grant to study globular protein folding and response to mechanical force
June 15, 2017: Hau Yu departs to start his own group as a Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Good luck and thanks for being part of the lab
May 01, 2017: Physics Today reviews Perkins lab AFM research over last 5 years in a multi-page article. Thanks to everyone for this collaborative effort
April 07, 2017: Congratulations to Rob on the birth of his daughter, Flora Rosemarie Walder
March 03, 2017: Congrats to Hao and Matt for their Science paper and its accompanying perspective
January 30, 2017: Welcome to David Jacobson, our NRC post-doc from UCSB
January 30, 2017: Congrats to Stephen and Ashley for their new paper in Methods in Molecular Biology
January 30, 2017: Congrats to Jaevyn and Devin for their new paper in Methods of Enzymology
May 03, 2016: Tom elected Associate Chair of JILA. Beginning Jan 1, 2018, Tom will become the Chair of JILA
April 21, 2016: Congrats to John on graduating Summa Cum Laude, well deserved
March 08, 2016: Tom highlights AFM work in SPIE interview
February 18, 2016: Devin and Tom publish an invited review article on modifying commercial cantilevers to improve force spectroscopy