Asst. Professor of Physics Zvonimir Dogic has won a $500,000 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development Program. The five-year award supports junior faculty who “exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through oustanding research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations,” according to the NSF. Dogic’s research seeks to explain how biopolymers organize themselves into macroscopic materials.
Physics Department welcomes new faculty member Aparna Baskaran
September 1, 2010 By
The physics department welcomes its newest faculty member, Professor Aparna Baskaran. Professor Baskaran is a theorist who studies non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and its biophysical applications.
New in Pubmed
March 23, 2010 By
Have no time to write News and Views, but there are a few new papers from our labs that have recently popped up in Pubmed.
- Understanding the Concentration Dependence of Viral Capsid Assembly Kinetics-the Origin of the Lag Time and Identifying the Critical Nucleus Size.
Hagan MF, Elrad OM.
Biophys J. 2010 Mar 17;98(6):1065-1074. - Structural Characterization of Intact Proteins Is Enhanced by Prevalent Fragmentation Pathways Rarely Observed for Peptides.
Cobb JS, Easterling ML, Agar JN.
J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 2010 Feb 11 - One-Step RT-LATE-PCR for mRNA and Viral RNA Detection and Quantification.
Hartshorn C, Wangh LJ.
Methods Mol Biol. 2010;630:153-85. - Small RNAs in the animal gonad: Guarding genomes and guiding development.
Lau NC.
Int J Biochem Cell Biol. 2010 Mar 18 - Stochastic transitions between neural states in taste processing and decision-making.
Miller P, Katz DB.
J Neurosci. 2010 Feb 17;30(7):2559-70.
HPC cluster hits milestone
January 31, 2010 By
Our high-performance computing cluster passed the 1000 core mark this month, thanks to computer purchases for the computational biophysics and computational neuroscience groups and infrastructure support from Library and Technology Services. I’m looking forward to another great year working with you all.
Biophysical Society Meeting this weekend
February 26, 2009 By
The 2009 Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society is in Boston this coming weekend (Feb 28 – Mar 4, 2009). As usual, a strong contingent of Brandeis researchers will be presenting at the meeting. A list of Brandeis related posters is available if you want to catch up with your colleagues at the meeting, or use the itinerary planner online.
Bouncy, sticky, slimy chemistry
December 1, 2008 By
Susannah Gordon-Messer, a graduate student in the Biophysics and Structural Biology Ph. D. program, talks about her experiences with science outreach in an article in NSF Discoveries. Her work with the Discovery Museums in Acton was supported as part of a training grant awarded to Brandeis by NSF’s IGERT program.
