News
March 27, 2014: Single Molecule Biophysics conference approved for Jan 4-9, 2015. Details to follow
February 17, 2014: Matt Bull gives his first science talk to ~300 people at the BPS. Good job Matt. Rob and Tom present posters
December 20, 2013: Congrats to Rebecca and colleagues on their Optics Express paper on improving force precision in optical traps
December 03, 2013: Nanochamical infrared imaging of membrane proteins published JACS, a collaborative effort with the Raschke group. Congrats Duc
November 14, 2013: Stephen Okoniewski joins the group to help our optical trapping experiments
October 15, 2013: Congrats to Allison on the birth of Eleanor, her second child
October 14, 2013: Devin Edwards from UCSB joins the group as a post-doc to work on AFM related projects
September 07, 2013: Matt Bull leaves the lab to start his graduate work at Stanford University. Congrats Matt
September 06, 2013: Tom finally submits his 'Annual Review of Biophysics' article on Angstrom precision optical for Single molecule biophysics. Whew
September 06, 2013: Tom presents a special 1 hour long tutorial on Angstrom Precision Optical traps and applications at SPIE
August 09, 2013: Hern and Violet’s paper on Torsionally constrained DNA published in Nucleic Acids Research
July 22, 2013: Lyle joins the group to help out on all things biological.
June 28, 2013: Congrats to Matt Siewny on getting his NIH Molecular Biophysics Training grant fellowship renewed
June 10, 2013: Allison Hallock from MIT joins the group for the summer as an NSF REU student.
June 10, 2013: Tom presents a Plenary Talk at NanoBioEurope 2013
June 07, 2013: Violet leaves the lab, we will miss her and her expertise. Good luck at ArcherDx
May 31, 2013: A fond farewell to Duc, our champion AFM imaging. Good luck in Seattle pursuing your engineering dreams
May 04, 2013: Congrats to Dr. Allison Churnside on graduating with her Ph.D. Allison will stay on for a short post-doc the Perkins Lab
April 26, 2013: Congrats to Matt Bull on being named the outstanding Engineering Physics student of his class
April 14, 2013: Allison and Rob fly to Venice to participate in the Global Challenges -Opportunities for Nanotechnology