News

Our collaborative paper with Phong Tran's lab, "Kinesin-5-independent mitotic spindle assembly requires the antiparallel microtubule crosslinker Ase1 in fission yeast," was published by Nature Communications .

Patrick Flynn received his AB in physics summa cum laude today, with the honors recognizing his thesis, Dynamics of mitotic microtubules in fission yeast. Congratulations!

Nicolas Santander has been awarded a UROP grant to fnd his research in summer 2017. Congratulations!

Physics PhD student Saad Ansari has joined the group. Welcome!

Patrick Flynn will be starting the Harvard Systems Biology PhD program this fall. Congratulations!

Alum Robert Blackwell has received a Humboldt Research Fellowship for his postdoctoral work in Germany.

Our paper "Analytical structure, dynamics, and coarse-graining of a kinetic model of an active fluid" was posted on the arXiv preprint server today.

Our paper "Contributions of microtubule dynamic instability and rotational diffusion to kinetochore capture" was published in final form today by the Biophysical Journal and highlighted on the Biophysical Journal website.

Robert Blackwell has been awarded the 2016 Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Biological Physics by the American Physical Society.

Robert Blackwell's paper "Physical determinants of bipolar mitotic spindle assembly and stability in fission yeast" was published by Science Advances .