News

Cliff back from giving a seminar in the Biomedical Engineering Department at UT Austin. Thanks to Amy Brock and colleagues for a nice visit!

Welcome to Laura Gray, our new postdoc working jointly with the Priestley lab.

The Brangwynne lab awarded a grant from the NIH as part of the 4D Nucleome Program to study phase transition-driven nuclear body assembly. Congrats!

4th annual end-of-summer party at Cliff’s house was great. Nomad pizza, frisbee, and roasting marshmallows around the fire, what could be better!

Steph and Cliff’s “alternative interpretation” (see Fig. 1 and the highlighted section of our 2012 review in Cell), i.e. the proposal that a liquid to solid transition underlies protein aggregation pathologies, appears to be exactly right! – see recent article…

Cliff back from giving a talk at the CECAM IDP meeting in Zurich. The IDP field is getting very excited about phase transitions!

Cliff back from another great Soft Matter Gordon Conference in NH. See you all again at the next one in two years!

Steph, Joel, and Nilesh’s paper accepted at PNAS! A nice combination of experiment and theory resulting from a fantastic collaboration with the Haataja group. Way to go!

Welcome to Aleena Patel, a first year CBE PhD student who is doing a mini-rotation in the lab.

Sravanti’s paper accepted to Proceedings of the Royal Society B!