Recent News

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…

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!

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…

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…

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…

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!!

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!

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!

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!

Brian's paper accepted in ACS Nano

Brian's theoretical model elucidating how the twist-stretch coupling of double-stranded DNA can be exploited to create reconfigurable chiral assemblies of nanorods just got accepted for publication in ACS Nano. Wonderful news and many congratulations, Brian!

Marcello's review article wins award

Marcello's review article entitled "Dynamic DNA nanotechnology: toward functional nanoscale devices" published in Nanoscale Horizons last year has won the "Nanoscale Horizons Outstanding Review 2020" award from the journal. Congrats Marcello on this wonderful accomplishment!

Joshua's work get's highlighted

Joshua's trilogy of papers elucidating the inner workings of a viral DNA packaging motor get highlighted by Duke's Pratt School of Engineering as well as various media outlets, including NSF News. Congrats Joshua!

Joshua defends his PhD thesis

Joshua Pajak from Arya lab successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Many congratualations, Dr. Pajak!!