Recent News

August 1, 2023

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!

February 24, 2023

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!

February 14, 2023

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!

December 15, 2022

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.

October 20, 2022

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 both of…

October 8, 2022

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!

July 20, 2022

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…

July 1, 2022

Sebastian Sensale secures faculty position

Dr. Sebastian Sensale accepts offer to join Cleveland State University as tenure-track Assistant Professor in their Department of Physics. Fantastic news and congratulations on this new exciting position, Sebastian!

May 24, 2022

Josh's collaborative paper out in Cell Reports

Josh's collaborative paper with the Silva group at Duke just appeared in Cell Reports. In this work, Josh used docking calculations to predict for the first time two possible binding poses of the enzyme Rad6 responsible for K63-ubiquitination of ribosome, a key player in the oxidative stress…

April 19, 2022

Yilong's new paper in ACS Nano

Yilong's manuscript showing how trapping surface-functionalized faceted nanoparticles at fluid-fluid interfaces could be a viable strategy for assembling low-dimensional superstructures with controllable particle orientation got accepted for publication in ACS Nano. Many congratulations, Yilong…

April 6, 2022

Sebastian's latest paper in Physical Review E

Sebastian's and Pranav's manuscript on derivation of a new analytical theory for predicting the binding kinetics of harmonically confined random walkers, and application of the theory to maximize the communication speed of DNA walkers, just got accepted for publication in Physical Review E....…

March 21, 2022

Marcello's poster wins award at APS meeting

Marcello's poster titled "Modelling the Dynamic Self Assembly of DNA Nanostructures Using a Switchable Forcefield Coarse Grained Model" won the 2nd Best Poster Award at the APS DSOFT poster session. Congratulations, Marcello!!

February 19, 2022

Brian's new paper in Nanoscale

Brian's latest work on uncovering the assembly pathway of ligand-grafted nanocubes just got accepted for publication in Nanoscale. Many congratulations, Brian!

December 6, 2021

Jiuling Wang secures faculty position

Dr. Jiuling Wang, a former postdoc in the group, just joined the School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology as a tenure-track faculty. Wonderful news and congratulations on this new exciting position, Jiuling!

July 22, 2021

Chao-min's paper in Angewandte Chemie

Chao-Min's collaborative work with the Zauscher and Ke labs on developing polymer brush-functionalized DNA origami structures just got accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie. Many congratulations, Chao-Min!