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Marcello's collaborative paper in Science Advances

Our collaborative paper with the Castro, Tora, Lakadamyali and Poirier groups on delivery of DNA origami devices into live cells just got accepted to Science Advances. Congrats to Marcello from our group who developed software for tracking origamis inside live nuclei and determining their…

Marcello's mesoscopic model of DNA origami folding in Nature Communications

Marcello's new mesoscopic model of DNA that allowed him to elucidate for the first time the mechanism of DNA origami folding gets accepted for publication in Nature Communications. Congrats Marcello!

Yilong and Sam's work in Nature Communications

Yilong and Sam's simulation work on the interfacial assembly of Ag nanocubes into checkboards using non-specific interactions gets accepted for publication in Nature Communications. Congrats to both!

Po-An's collaborative manuscript in JACS

Po-An's simulations showing how double-stranded polynucleotide brushes enhance silicification of DNA origami structures was just accepted for publication in JACS.

Sebastian and Andy's work published in Current Biology

Sebastian and Andy's modeling work on elucidating the interplay between stochastic enzyme activity and microtubule stability and how it drives detyrosination enrichment on microtubule subsets just appeared in Current Biology. Congrats to both!

Yilong's study accepted into npj Comput Mater

Yilong's work on using machine learning to model the effective many-body interactions between polymer-grafted nanoparticles in a polymer matrix just got accepted for publication in npj Computational Materials. Congrats, Yilong!

New collaborative paper in Angew. Chem.

Our new collaborative paper the Zauscher and Ke groups on spatiotemporal control of polynucleotide brush growth on DNA origamis just appeared online on Angewande Chemie. Congrats to all authors, including Marcello from our group!

Marcello defends his PhD thesis

Marcello successfully defended his PhD thesis today. He did some fantastic work in our group on mesoscopic modeling of DNA origami self-assembly and organization. Congrats, Dr. DeLuca!!

Chao-Min's work appears in Science Advances

Chao-Min's collaborative work with the Castro lab on development of a software that automates the design of freeform structures just appeared in Science Advances. Congrats, Chao-Min!

Sebastian's collaborative work in ACS Nano

Sebastian's latest collaborative work on modeling steric communication between fluctuating components on DNA nanodevices has just been accepted for publication in ACS Nano. Congrats, Sebastian!

New Review Article in ACS Applied Bio Materials

Marcello, Sebastian, and Po-An's comprehensive review article on prediction and control in DNA nanotechnology just got accepted for publication in ACS Applied Bio Materials. Congrats to everyone!

Yilong's superlattice work in Nature Communications

Yilong's latest work on the development of a global optimization method for discovering novel 2D binary nanoparticle superlattices assembled at fluid-fluid interfaces just got accepted for publication in Nature Communications.

Collaborative work in Science Advances

Pranav and Sebastian's collaborative work with the Wang and Ke groups just got accepted for publication in Science Advances. In this work, they carried out coarse-grained MD simulations to predict the conformational behavior of a bistable dynamic device with encodable bonds. Congrats to…

Po-An's collaborative paper in ACS Nano

Po-An's collaborative paper with the Cohen group just got accepted for publication in ACS Nano. In this work, Po-An used MD simulations to predict the assembly behavior of octahedral, polymer-grafted MOF particles trapped at an air-water interface. Congrats, Po-An!

Joshua's FtsK work published in NAR

Joshua's latest work that uncovers the mechanism of DNA translocation by the bacterial motor FtsK using a combination of long timescale molecular dynamics simulations, free energy calculations, and mutual information analyses just got accepted for publication in Nucleic Acids Journal. Congrats…