News

We would like to welcome Erin Higgins to the Betterton lab!

Adam Lamson has successfully completed his comps 3 exam. Congratulations!

Our paper "Theory of cytoskeletal reorganization during crosslinker-mediated mitotic spindle assembly" was posted on the biorxiv preprint server today.

Christopher Edelmaier received a travel grant from the American Society for Cell Biology to present at the ASCB-EMBo meeting. Congratulations!

Hui-Shun Kuan's paper with Daniel Goldman's group at Georgia Tech on traffic jam avoidance in fire ant tunnel digging has been published in Science and covered in the New York Times , Washington Post , Houston Chronicle , SF Gate , Scientific American , Science News , Ars Technica , BBC , Cosmos , Discover , Popular Mechanics , and Quartz .

Meredith Betterton spoke on modeling spindle assembly and chromosome alignment in mitosis at the Banff International Research Station in Banff, Alberta. This workshop was called “ Mathematics of the Cell: Mechanical and Chemical Signaling across Scales ”.

We would like to welcome Michele “Shelly” Jones to the Betterton lab!

Meredith Betterton received project R01GM124371 from the NIGMS for experiments on kinesin-5 motors in spindle assembly. Congratulations!

Saad Ansari and Jeffrey Moore presented posters on their work at the EMBO Microtubule meeting in Heidelberg.

Jeffrey Moore has completed his physics comps 3 exam. Congratulations!