News

October 12, 2015: Congrats to Devin and his coauthors on their Nano Letters paper
August 21, 2015: Congrats to Rob and co-authors on their paper getting highlighted in Spotlight on Optics and the MIT Technology Review
July 02, 2015: Congrats to Chengzhi He and Prof Hongbin Li; delighted to collaborate with them on their exciting paper.
June 15, 2015: Congrats to Rob and his co-authors on their Optics Express paper. Sub-nm drift in 3D over 15 h is very impressive.
March 31, 2015: Congratulations to Stephen for winning an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
January 22, 2015: Single Molecule Biophysics 2015 in Aspen, CO was a great success
November 11, 2014: Congrats to Jaevyn and Toby on their UROP grants to support their undergraduate research efforts
October 19, 2014: Congratulations to John and Ayush for both winning HHMI funding to support their undergraduate research
August 13, 2014: Stephen attends CPLC summer school in Biophysics at UIUC
August 13, 2014: Rob Walder wins a Best Poster Award at the Single Molecule Approaches to Biology Gordon Research Conference in Italy
July 05, 2014: The Perkins lab is awarded an NSF grant to develop a next generation ultrastable AFM
June 21, 2014: Stephen wins an NIH Molecular Biophysics Training Grant. Good job, Stephen
June 16, 2014: Tom publishes his Annual Review of Biophysics article on Angstrom-precision optical traps and applications
May 14, 2014: Allison and Tom publish an invited review on ultrastable AFM in FEBS Letters
April 26, 2014: Congrats to Matt Bull for his paper being featured as an Editor’s Choice in Science, a rare honor for an undergraduate researcher
April 26, 2014: Tom wins a 2013 Arthur S. Flemming Award, awarded by George Washington University School of Public Policy. Time for Tom to rent a tux
April 26, 2014: Tom gives an invited talk at OSA Biomedical optical (BIOMED)
April 09, 2014: NIST publishes a press release on Matt’s AFM probe paper
April 07, 2014: Congrats to Devin for receiving a prestigious NRC fellowship
March 27, 2014: Matt Bull’s ACS Nano article on improved single molecule force spectroscopy using micromachined cantilever published