2023.08.18 The Curtis lab welcomes Noah Anderson, a third year undergraduate student majoring in BME and biochemistry.
2023.08.18 The Curtis lab welcomes Emma Poma, a first year undergraduate student majoring in physics.
2023.08.01 Rob Emiston presents his work on depletion aggregation of bacteria at the iPoLS meeting (International Physics of Living Systems) at Georgia Tech.
2023.07.01 Jennifer selected as ADVANCE professor for Georgia Tech College of Sciences.
2023.06.30 Jennifer joins the editorial board of Proteoglycan Research
2023.06.04 Jennifer co-moderates the session on "Biophysics and Structural Biology of Hyaluronan" at the ISHAS Hyaluronan 2023 conference in Portland, OR.
2023.06.04 Katherine Powell and Yu Jing selected to present their work at the ISHAS Hyaluronan 2023 conference in Portland, OR.
2023.05.22 Welcome to the Curtis lab, REU summer researchers Mariela Lopez Gonzalez and Dessie Durham!
2023.05.15 Congratualations to Ethan Coburn who recevied a Letson Scholarship for summer research.
2023.05.15 Congratualations to Sakina Bhinderwala and Andrea Cromeyer Gallardo who both received with PURA awards for their research.
2023.03.09 Katherine Powell presents her work on how "Mechanics of biofilm adhesion to ultra-thick polymer brushes" at the APS March meeting.
2023.03.07 Yu Jing presents his work on how "Hyaluronan glycocalyx mechanically modulates cell shape and focal adhesion dynamics" at the APS March meeting.
2023.03.06 Undergraduate Ethan Coburn presents his work on glycocalyx-induced cell membrane protrusions at the APS March meeting.
2023.01.09 Welcome visiting scholar Mishal Khan, a graduate student and member in Dr. Christine Selhuber-Unkel's lab at University of Heidelberg.
2023.01.01 Curtis lab welcomes several new undergraduates: Sakina Bhinderwala, Alejandro Martinez, and Andrea Croymer Gallardo
2022
2022.11.13-23.11.16 Jennifer attends her first ASM Biofilm conference!
2022.11.13 Rob Edmiston's work was selected for presentation at Early Career Symposium at the ASM Biofilm meeting
2017
2017 March Jennifer will present Curtis lab research at the APS March Meeting in the Invited Session on Multiscale Physics of Cellular Remodeling.
2016
2016.11.11 Congrats Dr. Dan Kovari whose paper on frustrated phagocytosis will be published in Biophysical Journal.
2016.11.11 Rebecca Keate officially became the Curtis Lab's first Petit Scholar, a prestigious undergraduate distinction. Congrats!
2016.11.07 Jennifer presents work on hyaluronan-mediated cell adhesion and self-healing polymer brushes at the 63rd AVS Symposium in the Bio-Interface division.
2016.10.11 Congrats Dr. Patrick Chang for successfully defending his PhD thesis today!
2016 Fall Jennifer is teaching a new introductory calculus-based physics course aimed at biologists (Introductory Physics for Living Systems).
2016.08 Wenbin Wei has officially made the thickest reported polymer brush ever (~8um) and he did it with hyaluronan synthase!
2016.05.13 Congrats Patrick, whose paper on bottlebrush regulated cell surface access was just accepted to Biophysical Journal.
2016.03.04 GT Physics REU program has been funded by the NSF with Jennifer as the PI.
2016.03.02 Dan Kovari presents a poster about his work on phagocytosis at the Biophysical Society Meeting.
2016.02.29 Jennifer presents an invited talk at the Biophysical Society Meeting.
2016.02.14 Jennifer presents research on hyaluronan-mediated cell adhesion at the Winter quantitative biology (Q-BIO) meeting in Hawaii
2016.02.09 Congrats Patrick for reaching the stage of his thesis data review - one step closer to a PhD...
2016.02.08 Welcome back to the Curtis lab, Jan-Simon Toro!
2016.02.05 Congrats Patrick, Louis for submission of manuscript to Biophysical Journal on role of bottlebrush proteoglycans mediating cell surface access.
2016.02.02 Congrats Wenbin for delivering a top notch thesis proposal!
2016.01.01 Curtis lab welcomes new graduate student Hemaa Selvakumar!
2015
2015.12.13-20 Wenbin and Jennifer visit the Weigel lab to learn how to handle and characterize hyaluronan synthase.
2015.12.19 Congrats Michelle Truong for becoming an Air Products ME Undergraduate Researcher
2015.12.07 Goodbye Mauricio and good luck! Mauricio starts his new job at Antra this week.
2015.11.16 Next proposal due at NSF in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences. No rest for the weary.
2015.11.09-10 Experimental biophysicist Prof. Jenny Ross from U. Mass Amherst will give Physics colloquium and Biophysics Seminar at Georgia Tech.
2015.11.06 APS March meeting absracts are due.
2015.11.02 Proposal submitted to NSF Division of Materials Research, Polymer Program! Fingers crossed.
2015.07.08 Congrats to Dr. Mauricio Bedoya who successfully defended his PhD thesis.
2015.06.02 Ms. Karen Porter, teacher from Chamblee Charter High School, returns for another summer of research.
2015.06.01 Undergraduate Michelle Truong joins the lab! Welcome!
2015.15.15 Congrats Dr. Daniel Kovari who began as post doc in Prof. Laura Finzi's lab at Emory University.
2015.03.16 Congrats to Dr. Daniel Kovari who successfully defended his PhD thesis.
2014
2014.12.07 Miriam Belle Behrens is born, our newest permanent Curtis lab member!
2014.07.25 Goodbye, and thanks to teacher Ms. Porter-Davis, for her fantastic work using structured illumination microscopy (SIM) to study phagocytosis.
2014.07.22 Patrick and Wenbin present their research at the 3rd international Physics of Living Systems (iPoLS) Conference in Munich, Germany.
2014.07.08 Jennifer presents an invited talk at the 7th World Congress of Biomechanics.
2014.07.01 Congrats to Jennifer, who has been selected to join the Editorial Board of Biophysical Journal.
2014.06.02 Welcome Chamblee Charter High School teacher Ms. Karen Porter-Davis to the Curtis lab!
2014.05.28 Congrats Keith Carroll for his most recent publication in ChemPhysChem on Thermochemical Nanolithography.
2014.05.14 Wenbin presents soundbite on mechanics of HA Synthase at the 8th Southeast Meeting on Soft Materials.
2014.05.14 Dan presents soundbite on mechanics of phagocytosis at the 8th Southeast Meeting on Soft Materials.
2014.05.02 Welcome undergrad Jan-Simon Toro to the Curtis Lab!
2014.04.18 Jennifer presents Curtis Lab research at University of California, Merced Physics Colloquium.
2014.04.01 Congrats Dr. Louis McLane who began as post doc in Prof. Ido Golding's lab at Baylor College of Medicine.
2014.04.01 Congrats Dr. Keith Carroll who began as post doc at IBM Zurich in Switzerland.
2014.03.14 Wenbin presents his research on HA synthase at the Molecular Biophysics Research Review.
2014.03.02-03.08 Jennifer presents Curtis lab's work on phagocytosis and TCNL at the APS Annual March Meeting.
2014.03.03 Anton Souslov, collaborator in the Goldbart Group presents his work related to hyaluronan-aggrecan aggregates at the APS March meeting.
2014.03.02 Jan Scrimgeour, now at Clarkson University, presents single molecule tracking of aggrecan in PCM of living cells at APS March meeting.
14.02.28 Jennifer presents Dan Kovari's research on frustrated phagocytosis at the annual GT Immunoengineering Symposium.
14.02.21 Patrick presents his research on the pericellular coat at the PoLS Lunch and Learn Seminar series.
2013
11.05.2013 Louis McLane successfully defended his dissertation: "Probing the structure of the pericellular matrix via novel biophysical assays" and will receive his Ph.D. at December Graduation.
10.18.2013 Wenbin Wei was awarded a stipend supplement as a "Molecular Biophysics Senior Student"
09.09.2013 Keith Carroll successfully defended his dissertation and will receive his Ph.D. at December Graduation.
03.26.2013 Jennifer Curtis was awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor
03.20.2013 Various group members presented at the APS "March Meeting" in Baltimore, MD
02.12.2013 Daniel Kovari presented a poster at the annual GTRIC and was awarded a travel grant in the poster competition.
2012
07.12.2012 Daniel Kovari & Patrick Chang attended the annual Physics of Living Systems meeting @ Yale University. Both presented posters detailing their work.
09.28.2010 REU students Maitri Desai and Robyn Cross present their summer research at national SACNAS conference
08.30.2010 Undergrad Brandon Wiles bids Curtis Group farewell and starts grad school in Ireland
08.02.2010-08.05.2010 Jennifer and Louis present at Optical Trapping and Manipulation (OTOM) at SPIE Meeting in San Diego
06.2010 Maitri Desai and Robyn Cross start summer REU (CMDTIR) program in Curtis lab
03.30.2010 New Curtis Website goes online
03.01 Undergraduate researcher Brandon Wiles accepted into Cergy Research Program in Paris, France
02.16 Jennifer Curtis receives NSF Career Award.
02.05 Article on light-activated chemical micropatterning accepted in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Special Edition focused on cell substrate interactions.
2009
12.01 TCNL research highlighted on cover of Advanced Functional Materials and noted in several online publications:
02.16 Jennifer Curtis receives NSF Career Award.
