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10/02/2024

New preprint quantifying the propulsive forces that cells use to squeeze through small confinements

Check out Max’s paper using microfabrication, microscopy, and finite element modeling to understand how cells propel themselves through small confining spaces: preprint.

09/01/2024

Congrats to Yu Shi on his new position

Congratulations to Yu Shi on his new position as Assistant Professor of Physics at Western University in Ontario Canada! Check out his lab webpage here.

07/27/2024

New preprint on multiplexed super-resolution imaging in the nucleus

Check out Fariha’s paper using 3D super-resolution DNA PAINT to explore how a dozen different proteins and histone post translational marks are organized in the cell nucleus: preprint.

05/09/2024

Congrats to Dr. Daugird for defending his Ph.D.

News updates took a break during COVID, but now they’re back! Congrats and farewell to Tim Daugird who successfully defended his Ph.D. in Pharmacology and will be moving to a post doc in Computational Medicine at UNC. The microscope will miss you Tim!

10/15/2019

Support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation

We’re honored to receive support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering. This award will provide flexible funding to develop a new generation of light sheet microscopes and to apply them to new areas of cell and developmental biology.

 

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10/01/2019

NIH New Innovator Award

Wesley Legant selected as one of the 2019 NIH New Innovators. This award will allow us to further develop our light sheet microscopes and apply them to new and exciting directions studying how gene expression patterns regulate cell fate decisions.

07/10/2019

3D Dynamics of mitotic spindle formation

Two recently published papers with the Gerlich and Kapoor labs using lattice light sheet to investigate mitotic spindle formation.  Congrats to Ana and Melissa on the great work.

Augmin accumulation on long-lived microtubules drives amplification and kinetochore-directed growth

High-resolution imaging reveals how the spindle midzone impacts chromosome movement

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06/05/2019

Beckman Young Investigator Award

Wesley Legant named a 2019 Beckman Young Investigator. Arnold Beckman was a pioneer of scientific instruments. We’re honored by this award which will allow us to combine new machine learning algorithms together with lattice light sheet microscopy. Learn more about the Arnold Beckman and Mabel Beckman Foundation here.

06/01/2019

New Lab Member!

Very excited to have Tim Daugird join the group through the UNC Pharmacology graduate program. Welcome!

 

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04/18/2019

Searle Scholars Program

Wesley Legant named a 2019 Searle Scholar. We are extremely grateful for this funding to advance our work using light sheet microscopy to study the relationship between biophysical factors, nuclear architecture, and gene expression. Learn more about the Searle Scholars Program here.

 

11/7/2018

Art of Science and Innovation

Our work (as well as other UNC researchers) is featured in an exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art!

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11/1/2018

Swiss Army Knife (SwaK) Microscope Build:

The optics rooms are complete, tables are installed, and we’re starting construction of our next-gen light sheet microscope! We’ll post photos of the build progress here.

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08/31/18

Improving Probes for Super-Resolution:

Regan’s news and views article is published in Nature Methods.  Congrats!

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