RESEARCH
LAB NEWS
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1/1/2021. Happy New Year! Welcome Weronika and Matt, our newest grad students!
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12/1/2020. Check out our latest review on the material properties of centrosomes.
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9/8/2020. The lab welcomes Malgosia, our newest member!
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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. We welcome Nicole and Jessica to the lab.
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.