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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...

November 21, 2023

Nan and Takumi attended the 76th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics and both gave talks Nan presented his recent research on droplets sliding on soft materials...

November 16, 2023

Beginning of November 2023, we successfully ran our first 49-hour beamtime at CHESS, Cornell's synchrotron! It was a great team effort and a lot of fun! We studied protein samples...

November 9, 2023

A very warm welcome to Teagan Bate (PhD), Takumi Matsuzawa (PhD), Harsha Koganti (B Sc) and Kaarthik Varma (M Sc) who joined our lab after our start at Cornell...