Raphael Streitberger joined the lab (Summer 2025). Welcome, Raphael!
Gurmessa gave an invited talk at the Biological Physics and Physical Biology Seminar (BPPB) (virtual, 2024)
Julie Pinchiaroli's paper is published in Soft Matter (2024). Congrats Julie!
Bernard Iringire Nkusi is awarded "The Bucknell Program for Undergraduate Research (PUR) " to conduct research in our lab (Summer 2024); Congrats, Bernard!
Gurmessa gave a talk at the APS March meeting in Las Vegas ( 2023 )
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Morgan Thomas joined the lab (Summer 2023). Welcome, Morgan!
Alex Zou joined the lab (Summer 2023). Welcome, Alex!
Sumit Dhar joined the lab (Summer 2023). Welcome, Sumit!
Gurmessa is on leave for the academic year of 2022-2023
Gurmessa chairs the Bio-II session at the APS Mid-Atlantic session annual meeting held at Pennsylvania State University on Dec 03, 2022
Gurmessa gives an invited talk at the APS Mid-Atlantic session annual meeting held at Pennsylvania State University on Dec 03, 2022
Mike Dwyer's paper is published in Polymers (2022). Congrats Mike!
Gurmessa gave an invited talk on the Microscale Mechanics of Actin-Intermediate Filaments Composite Networks at the Frontiers of soft matter and Macromolecular networks symposium (USD, San Diego, CA), 2022
Timothy Allshouse, our first STEM Scholar, joined the lab (Summer 2022). Welcome, Tim!
Julie Pinchiaroli joined the lab (Summer 2022). Welcome, Julie!
Gurmessa gave a contributed talk (virtual) at the American Physical Society March meeting, Optical tweezers microrheology of transiently crosslinked actin networks (2022).
Mike Dwyer gave a contributed talk (virtual) at the American Physical Society March meeting, Microscale mechanics and structural organization of cross-linked actin networks (2022).
Our recent collaborative work with researchers from USD, SU, UC, and RIT work has been published (2021) on Frontiers in Physics!
Mike Dwyer, a rising senior in Biophysics, is awarded "The Bucknell Program for Undergraduate Research, PUR " to continue research in our lab (Summer 2021). Congrats, Mike!
Gurmessa delivered an invited seminar talk in the Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, March 2021.
Our first research student, Mike Dwyer, joined the lab with "BU Academic Year Undergraduate Research", (2021). Welcome, Mike!
A collaborative grant for Instrumentation Supplements is awarded to our lab from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, August 2020!
Gurmessa lab officially started functioning @ Bucknell, August 2020, following the opening of the campus lockdown due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The new lab, New start!
Gurmessa gave a snap talk in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bucknell University, April 2020.
Our new IX73 fluorescence microscope (Olympus, Melville, NY), a 1064 nm Nd: YAG fiber laser (BKtel, RPMC Lasers, Inc), a position-sensing detector (PSM2-10Q PSD module) along with amplifier OT-301 (ON-TRAK Photonics, Inc) have arrived and ready to be unpacked and assembled! (March 2020).
Gurmessa arrived at Bucknell to build his independent lab (August 2019)
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