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July 11, 2024

Ithaca’s summer is a great time to get some science done, and we’ve got a solid team ready in the lab This summer we have two undergraduates and three graduate researchers...

June 20, 2024

Our lab alum, Tom Boeddeker, has won the best poster prize at the EMBO Phase Separation Conference for his PhD work on how the cytoskeleton positions protein...

May 30, 2024

Congratulations to Etienne and all co-authors for their paper, "Phase-separated droplets swim to their dissolution," now published in Nature Communications! The team used a...

May 3, 2024

Takumi, a postdoc in our team, has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Schmidt Science Fellowship by Schmidt Futures in partnership with the Rhodes Trust The fellowship aims to...

April 24, 2024

A new preprint titled "Phase Separation of a Microtubule Plus-End Tracking Protein into a Fluid Fractal Network" is now available on bioRxiv Our team investigated Bik1, a key...

April 18, 2024

Welcome to all our new members at Softliv Lab! We're thrilled to have Dr Senthilkumar (Senthil) Duraivel join us fresh from completing his PhD at the University of Florida,...

April 1, 2024

Congratulations to Nan and all co-authors for the publication of their paper titled "Elastomers Fail from the Edge" in Physical Review X! This work unveils the mechanisms...

March 19, 2024

Exciting news from our lab! Lotta, a Visiting Scholar in our lab, has been awarded the esteemed Walter Benjamin Fellowship by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German...

March 15, 2024

Teagan gave talks at the APS March Meeting 2024 in Minneapolis on the topic of partitioning client proteins to the interface Kathryn Rosowski, a former postdoc of the lab, also...

January 1, 2024

Carla's paper on elastic microphase separation (EMPS) is featured in Nature Materials News & Views with the article "Bridging the gap in mesoscopic length scales" The article...

December 20, 2023

Congratulations to Tom and all co-authors for their paper titled "Actin and Microtubules Position Stress Granules", which was just published in Physical Review X! The work...

December 2, 2023

Thanks to Cornell Engineering for making a great video about the motivation for the research in our...