News

Jan. 2024

Our lab latest paper just got published in PNAS, congrats to all the authors!

Dec. 2023

Holidays Lab outing

We celebrated the holidays season and the 2023 accomplishments in our lab.



Dec. 2023

Optical trap installation

A joined effort from Duclos Lab and Rogers Lab team members. 

This new tool in our lab will enable to manipulate single active particles. Stay tune for more cool science to come!



Nov. 2023

Thanksgiving potluck



Oct. 2023

Annual pumpkin carving 🎃 Enjoying everyone's creativity and having fun altogether!



Sept. 2023

96th New England Complex Fluids Workshop @ Brandeis

Congratulations to everyone who presented a soundbite about their research. It was so exciting to meet new people and discuss cool science.

Credits: Dr. Amelie Chardac



Sept. 2023

Salman's Thesis Defense

Congratulations Dr. Salman Alam for your graduation, and thanks for your presence in our lab for those past 5 years. 

Can't wait to see what's next for you! 

Credits: Dr. Shibani Dalal



August 2023

 We've been awarded a DOE Early Career Research award to work on "Hierarchical assembly of biomimetic active matter driven by non-equillibruim actin turnover".Thanks for the support 🙏 !!

Summer 2023

Poster awards

Congratulations Ben and Bennett for winning best poster's awards respectively at GRC Liquids Crystals 2023 and GRC Soft Condensed Matter 2023! 

Credits: Amelie Chardac



July 2023

Sci Fest 2023 

Congratulations Gauri, Izaiah and Noah on presenting your posters about your summer projects at Brandeis SciFest. It was a blast! 

Credits: Bennett Sessa



June 2023

Tubulin purification

As part of the Brandeis MRSEC, associated with the BMF, we purify tubulin from calf brains every 3-4 months. Tubulin is needed to perform our active matter experiments. 

Thanks Dr. Shibani Dalal for your help with this 12hr procedure.


Credits: Dr. Shibani Dalal


June 2023

Bootcamp for research assistants for the summer

Welcome Gauri, Izaiah and Noah!


Thanks Jeremy for organizing the bootcamp.


May 2023

Najma's graduation

Congrats Dr. Bibi Najma for your amazing work, your very clear thesis defense and your presence in our lab for those past 5 years. 

Can't wait to see what's next with your postdoc position at Caltech! 


May 2023

Undergrads projects 

Gauri Gajeshwar and Izaiah Alvadaro, undergraduate students working as research assistants in the Duclos Lab presented posters about their yearly project . Good job to both of you! 

Happy to have you continuing working in the lab during the summer. 

Credits: Benjamin Strain



May 2023

Seniors' thesis 

Anthony Djoko and Hriday Talreja sucessfully defended their senior thesis. 

It was a pleasure to have you in the lab for the past 3 years.  Good job to both of you and good luck with your future projects.  

Credits: Benjamin Strain



April 2023

Bowling lab outing

Lot's of fun improving our technical skills by playing bowling together! 

Credits: Amelie Chardac

March 2023

APS March Meeting 2023 in Las Vegas

Jeremy, Salman, and Guillaume represented the lab. They gave 10min presentations on their projects. 


Credits: Salman Alam

February 2023

All lab members presented their work either as a poster or an oral presentation. Good job everyone!

Credits: Anahita Zare, Chris Amey


February 2023


January 2023

Microscopic interactions control a structural transition in active mixtures of microtubules and molecular motors, Bibi Najma, Aparna Baskaran, Peter J. Foster, Guillaume Duclos 

June 2022

We were at SACNAS conference at Brown University and saw some amazing science!

June 2022

We had a blast at our second BootCamp for REU students and undergraduate researchers. Thanks to Jeremy, Salman, Najma and Ernest for being amazing instructors!

June 2022

Wellcome to all summer REU students Izaiah, Anthony, Isabelle, and Hriday!

April 2022

Joe presented at the Brandeis MRSEC retreat, go Joe!

September 2021

Multiple members presented their work at the 88th New England Complex Fluid Workshop, and it was awesome!

June 2021

That's the end of our first Bioinspired Materials Summer Bootcamp, I hope you liked it!

June 2021

Wellcome to all REU students joining us this summer, Anthony, Anthony and Ernest

May 2021

 We've been awarded a Provost’s Teaching Innovation Grant for our project, Making Material Physics Welcoming/Equitable for All Students (middle school through graduate students). Thanks for the support 🙏 !!

May 2021

 We've been awarded a NSF CAREER award to work on "Topological dynamics of three-dimensional active fluids".Thanks for the support 🙏 !!