Dec 2020: Both Jules and Chengxuan received Student Travel Awards from the Division of Biological Physics, American Physical Society to present their research at the virtual APS March Meeting 2021! Congratulations!
Dec 2020: Yossi's paper entitled, "Insights from graph theory on the morphologies of actomyosin networks with multilinkers" was accepted by Physical Review E! Congratulations!
Oct 2020: Andrei has defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Gasic!
Sept 2020: Yossi has defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Eliaz!
Sept 2020: Andrei was selected as one of the Rising Stars in Soft and Biological Matter by the MRSEC at the University of Chicago! Congr
May 2020: We welcome Atrayee Sarkar to the Cheung group!
Apr 2020: Press release on "Actin avalanches may make memories stick" https://phys.org/news/2020-04-actin-avalanches-memories.html.
Apr 2020: Jacob's paper entitled, "Molecular-level exploration of the structure-function relations underlying interfacial charge transfer in the subphthalocyanine/C60 organic photovoltaic system" was accepted by Physical Review Applied! Congratulations!
Mar 2020: James' paper entitled, "The role of the Arp2/3 complex in shaping the dynamics and structures of branched actomyosin networks", was accepted by PNAS! Congratulations!
Feb 2020: Dr Jaeboem Han received a UH Provost's Postdoctoral Travel Award! He will present his research about developing polarizable force fields for molecules at the electronically excited states at the upcoming ACS national meeting in Baltimore!
Feb 2020: Dr. Cheung has launched a twitter account @MARGARETSCHEUNG. Tweeting about science and work-life balance.
FEB 202: Dr. Cheung is humbled to be the Inaugural speaker for the Rice Women in Physics Distinguished Lecture Series!
Feb 2020: Jake's paper entitled, "Molecular Dynamics Ensemble Refinement of Intrinsically Disordered Peptides from Circular Dichroism Spectra”, was accepted by Biophysical Journal ! Congratulations!
Feb 2020: Andrei's sixth paper entitled, "A Tale of Two Desolvation Potentials: An Investigation of Protein Behavior under High Hydrostatic Pressure", was accepted by J. Phys. Chem B! Congratulations!
Feb 2020: Millad's paper entitled "Towards A Portable Hierarchical View of Distributed Shared Memory Systems: Challenges and Solutions" was accepted by The 11th International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores (PMAM 2020)!
Jan 2020: Former Ph.D. student Qian Wang will start his new post as an assistant professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in March 2020. Congratulations, Professor Wang!
Jan 2020: Jake has defended his Ph.D. thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Ezerski!