Thanks to Min Wu from Yale Cell Bio for a great talk today about information processing at the immune cell surface in the second edition of our new PEB / QBio seminar series. Yale friends, we hope you join us at future talks in this series, happening on Fridays at 11AM!
Thanks to Dr. Aaron Kuan for being the kickoff speaker of our PEB and QBio weekly seminar series! Special shoutout to PEB trainee Aiyanna Doss for organizing this talk!
Congratulations to Physics PEB student Halona Dantes on being awarded a NSF GRFP fellowship 🎉 Halona's thesis research will focus on characterizing hyperuniformity in the squid lens.
SECOND YEAR FLASH TALKS ⚡️🧪📊🔬
Come by to hear all of our 2nd year students present on their work so far and celebrate the end of the academic year with pizza!
Check out his recent publication in @biophysj.bsky.social to learn more! www.cell.com/biophysj/ful...
🎓Congratulations to Dr. Zachary Gao Sun! He earned his PhD in Physics in the Murrell Lab researching mechanics of the cell cytoskeleton.
Learn more about Garrett's work in his preprint!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🎓Congratulations to Dr. Garrett Sager! He earned his PhD in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology in the Clark Lab studying the organization of mitochondria in circuits of neurons.
A special congratulations to all of our recent PEB graduates!! 🎓🥂 We will be featuring some of our newly minted PhDs throughout this week so stay tuned to hear about some exciting research!
Celebrate the end of the semester with us at our PEB Pizza Party TODAY!! We'll have pizza, drinks, and fun ☀️🍹
Join us TODAY at NOON for this month's PEB Discussion Group! 👥 We have two exciting talks and free pizza 🍕
Join us this afternoon in enjoying the warm weather at our Spring PEB Happy Hour ☀️🪻🌸
We'll have food, drinks, and fun activities!
Gautham's research is centered around the physics of motion in biological systems, particularly in cell packing and cell aggregates. Check out his undergraduate work on modeling the glass transition published in
Physical Review Letters!
🔗 doi.org/10.1103/Phys...
This week's PEB Spotlight is featuring Gautham, a 3rd year Physics PhD student in the O'Hern Lab!
Sara works in marine biophysics and her research in the Sweeney Lab focuses on ctenophores, also known as comb jellies, and what makes them gelatinous 🪼 If you're interested in reading more, check out this paper with some of her work on marine sponges!
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
For our next PEB Spotlight, meet Sara! Sara is a 6th year PhD student in Yale Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry working in the Sweeney Lab 🦑
Join us tomorrow at noon for our March PEB Discussion Group! 👥🧬 We have two speakers from MB&B and MCDB with exciting talks and free pizza 🍕
Thank you to Prof. Erwin Frey for a wonderful, engaging visit to the Yale PEB and QBio institute! Special shout out to our wonderful PEB Physics PhD student hosts XJ Xu and Yu Fu!
Zach works in the Murrell Lab studying the physics of living matter and in particular, a protein called cofilin, which is linked to diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s 🔬 Be sure to check out his recent publication in Physical Review Letters!
🔗 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
For our second PEB Spotlight, we're excited to introduce Zachary Sun! Zach is a 6th year physics PhD student in the Murrell Lab at the Yale Systems Biology Institute 🧪
Sylvi is a physics PhD student in the Bewersdorf Lab working in method development for super-resolution microscopy, particularly for imaging nuclear proteins and DNA 🔬
We're excited to share that Yale PEB is now on Bluesky! 🎉 We'd like to kick off with a series featuring various members of the PEB community. To begin, meet Sylvi, the graduate student behind the PEB social media!