RESEARCH
LAB NEWS
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12/10/2019. Jeff and Dan Jarosz co-chair the session, "Phase transitions: from phenomenon to function" at the ASCB conference in Washington, D.C.
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12/6/2019. Our FLUCS paper uncovering the functional material properties of centrosomes is now on BioRxiv.
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11/11/2019. Manolo is granted a travel award for the ASCB conference.
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7/13/2019. Manolo is selected for the Pharmacological Sciences training grant. Congrats!
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4/2/2019. We present FlexiBAC, our baculovirus expression system for difficult proteins. Read it at BMC Biotechnology.
FEATURED MOVIE
With a FLUCS microscope, we use light to induce flows within a living embryo. This allows us to apply tunable force against centrosomes to study their material properties. In the movie, FLUCS deforms and ruptures a centrosome (white).
Credit: Vanna Tran and Matthaus Mittasch
Eggs can survive in a dormant state for many years. They then reawaken and form a complex organism after fertilization. How does this happen? We use synthetic biology, live-cell imaging, and nano-scale rheology to understand how eggs guard themselves against ageing and faulty cell division.