Award Winner!
Leslie Conway wins the Student Research Achievement Award (SRAA) poster Award at the Biophysical Society Meeting! Congratulations Leslie on this amazing accomplishment!
Selected to Speak!
Dr. Daniel Diaz-Valencia to give a platform talk at the Biophysical Society Meeting, Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 in San Diego. He will be describing new data on fidgetin, a microtubule severing enzyme that affects mammalian development.
Microtubule Loop-de-Loops!
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter has spot-lighted our recent publication describing microtubule gliding at high density. This publication was performed by an undergraduate, Lynn Liu, now at Yale for Graduate School. link
Cover of the Biophysical Journal
Daniel’s first paper from the Ross Lab is out this week in the Biophysical Journal. And, we got the cover!! The paper is on single molecule studies of the microtubule severing enzyme katanin. This work was supported by the March of Dimes. Thank you!
For an interview with Jenny about how she and Daniel made the cover art, click the Biophysical Society Blog.
Ross wins Cottrell Scholars Award from Research Corporation
Jenny Ross, PI, wins Cottrell Scholars Award for her teaching “Optics for Biophysics” and for her work on microtubule motor proteins. “Optics for Biophysics” is an interdisicplinary optics course for physics, chemistry, biochemistry, and biology students. In the course, students learn how to build a working light microscope.
More information on the Cottrell Scholars Award
Leslie Conway wins Graduate Fellowship!
Leslie Conway, 3rd year Molecular and Cellular Biology graduate student, wins ICE IGERT Fellowship (NSF) for her work on kinesin and dynein motor traffic on microtubules.
Ross Lab in the News!
Articles about new FPALM/STORM microscope being built in the lab.
Photo credit: Jim Gipe, Pivot Media
Ross wins Dayhoff Award from Biophysical Society
The Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award is given to a woman who holds very high promise or has achieved prominence while developing the early stages of a career in biophysical research. Read the press release here.
Photo credit: Jim Gipe, Pivot Media
STORM image highlighted In Pictures
Postdoc Michael Gramlich’s image of the microtubules in a fixed cell imaged with STORM using the super-resolution user facility. See the image and caption on the In Pictures website.
New Biophysics Methods Book Review
Jenny reviews a new book of biophysical methods for Physics Today. See the review here.
Conway’s first paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA
Leslie Conway, senior graduate student in the lab, has published her first paper in PNAS. The paper examines the role of additional transport motors and crowding in helping or hindering cargo transport. This work has implications for neuromuscular diseases where very long cells rely on long-range intracellular transport to move organelles and proteins to the tips of axons.
Congratulations, Leslie!
Gramlich to speak at Biophysical Society Meeting
Dr. Michael Gramlich, postdoc in the Ross Lab, will be speaking at the Biophysical Society Meeting on Tuesday, February 5, 2013 in the Microtubule Motors platform session, 4pm-6pm , Room 103C. He will be describing new results on the effects of microtubule lattice defects on kinesin transport.
Ross Profiled in Biophysical Society Newsletter and Speaking in Awards Symposium at Biophysical Society Meeting
Biophysical Society Newsletter profiles one biophysicsist each month. This month, they profile Jenny, just as she is set to win the Oakly Dayhoff Award. Read the Biophysical Society Newsletter profile online. The Awards Symposium session is 10:45am - 12:45pm in Grand Ballroom B on Tuesday, February 5, 2013.
Photo credit: Jim Gipe, Pivot Media
Ross Named UMass Spotlight Scholar.
Spotlight Scholars are UMass Amherst faculty members who have demonstrated excellence and leadership in research, scholarship or creative activity. See the profile on UMass’s website here
Award Winner!
Leslie Conway wins the Student Poster Award at MCB Retreat, Saturday, February 23, 2013. Congratulations, Leslie!
Award Winner!
Undergraduate, Soren Hough, won a poster prize at the Northeast Undergraduate Research and Development Symposium (NURDS) conference. See note on CNS website here. Congratulations, Soren!
Cover of the Biophysical Journal
Tav’s new paper is out this week in the Biophysical Journal. And, we got the cover!! The paper is the flexibility of microtubule filaments in the presence of Taxol, a chemotherapeutic drug, and other stabilizers. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation. Thank you!
For an interview with Jenny about how she made the cover art, click the Biophysical Society Blog.
