RESEARCH
LAB NEWS
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6/15/2020. Jeff was selected as one of 22 nationwide Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences.
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6/8/2020. The lab welcomes its newest member, Nicole.
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2/27/2020. Jeff speaks in the Rising Stars session at Chromopalooza! at the Vienna BioCenter. Thanks to the student organizers for a great event!
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2/10/2020. Our FLUCS paper is now online at the Journal of Cell Biology. A great collaboration with the Kreysing Lab!
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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.
FEATURED MOVIE
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 (green) during anaphase. DNA is magenta.
Mittasch, Tran et al., 2020 Journal of Cell Biology
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.