Krapf Lab

The Histochemical Society awarded Arturo Matamoros Volante a highly competitive 2024 Keystone Grant.

Our News & Views “Effectively detecting anomalous diffusion via deep learning” was accepted for publication in Nat. Comput. Sci.

Congratulations to Adrian! Our article on the interpretation of the Langevin equation for diffusion in heterogeneous environments was accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett.

Our article on the role of VCP in sperm during capacitation, in collaboration with the Buffone Lab was accepted for publication.

Congratulations to Adrian! Our article on fractional Brownian motion with fluctuating diffusivities was accepted for publication.

Pilar Ameijeiras (IBYME), Lucila Gomez Olivieri (IBYME), Anna Mellizo Kroll (CU Boulder), and Benjamin Brown (UW) are spending the summer in our lab.

Michał Balcerek is visiting our lab from Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

Diego Krapf was awarded the Outstanding Faculty Award of the School of Biomedical Engineering

Mariana Olivares Urbano is visiting our lab from the UNAM.

Our article in collaboration with Dario Krapf’s lab on cAMP detection and PKA analysis in sperm has been accepted for publication.

Our article on astrocyte contact sites in collaboration with the Tamkun lab has been accepted for publication.

The challenge aims at benchmarking methods for characterizing heterogeneous anomalous diffusion. The manuscript has been accepted in principle in Nature Comms.

Bram Copeland, D’andre Rogers, and Lydia Seese joined our group within the Scott Undergraduate Research Experience program.

Emily Kaplan started an MS degree in our group.

Our article on switching FBM was accepted in New J Phys.

Congratulations to Matt! Our article linking nucleosome mobility to acetylation and transcription state was accepted in Sci. Adv.

Analía Novero from IBR, Argentina, is visiting the lab from August to October to work on sperm capacitation signaling pathways.

Adrián Pacheco has accepted a postdoctoral position in the lab starting in October.

SOURCE highlighted the Teaching Effectiveness approaches implemented by Prof. Krapf in ECE courses.

Our article “Extending resolution within a single imaging frame” made it into the 25 most downloaded Nature Communications articles in physics published in 2022.

Arturo Matamos Volante joined our team as a postdoctoral researcher. He will be working on the sperm capacitation project.

Our article on MSSR as a single frame superresolution tool in collaboration with the Guerrero group was accepted for publication in Nat. Commun.

We have been awarded an R01 grant by NIH (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 1R01HD106968). The title of our new project is Regulation of Soluble Adenylate Cyclase During Mammalian Sperm Capacitation.

Snehal, a new graduate student in the lab, will be working on on microRNA-based gene regulation.

Our article on multifractional Brownian motion has been accepted for publication in Chaos.

Ryan completed his B.S. in Physics at CSU and he is starting his M.S. degree in Bioengineering in our group.

Diego Krapf received the Art Corey Award for Outstanding International Contributions.

Our article in collaboration with Aljaz Godec about using the intermediate scattering function and the dynamic structure factor to identify multi-state dynamics.

Congratulations to Grzegorz. Our article on the empirical anomaly measure for Gaussian processes was accepted for publication.

Our article about the power spectrum of non-ergodic diffusion processes was accepted for publication.

The results from the anomalous diffusion challenge were published as an article in Nat. Commun.

We have received the award 2102832, “NSF/BSF: Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression: From Molecular Interactions to the Network Level” by the program Physics of Living Systems. The project is an international collaboration with Tim Stasevich (CSU), Eytan Katzav, and Ofer Biham (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Jack Burford, Macklin Harrington, and Michelle Hefner are joining the lab as a BME Senior Design team.

Reshma, a new graduate student in the lab, will be working on 3D superresolution imaging.

Ryan joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher.

Our article, in collaboration with the Buffone Lab, about Cdc42 localization role in mouse sperm, was accepted in the FASEB Journal.

Our article about identifying diffusive states in live cells using a hidden Markov model was accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics.

Diego Krapf received the George T. Abell Outstanding Research Faculty Award of the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering.

In collaboration with the Teves lab at Virginia Commonwealth University, we have received the R03 grant “Trafficking of proteins: relevance to male fertility”.

Congratulations to Hasan! Our article “Dynamics of long-term protein aggregation on low-fouling surfaces” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Colloid & Interface Science.

Congratulations to Samu Thapa! Our article on the large deviations test for Brownian motion was accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics.

Congratulations to Cintia Stival and all co-authors. The prestigious award was received for the work on PKA localization modulation during sperm capacitation.

Terrance Bishop has submitted his MS thesis to the graduate school.

Our article about heterogeneous diffusion in the cytoplasm, in collaboration with Matthias Weiss, was accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett.

Diego was promoted to the rank of full professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at CSU

Our article about sperm differentiation and the role of protein trafficking was published.

Takuma Akimoto is visiting our lab from Tokyo University of Science

Erez is visiting our lab from the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

Our article on anomalous kinetics of BSA on low fouling surfaces was accepted for publication.

The 6^th Colorado Single Molecules in Membranes Meeting is taking place at CU Denver on January 10.

Congratulations to Hasan! Our article on surface characterization techniques has been accepted for publication.

Our article has been accepted for publication in Physics Today and is appearing in the September issue.

Dominic Asebiah, a graduate student in materials science is starting a 10-week rotation in our lab.

Eric has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis.

Our article on mu-opioid receptors in collaboration with the Hentges lab has been accepted to Scientific Reports

Diego Krapf received a Milstein award to spend four months in the IBR (Rosario) and the IBYME (Buenos Aires) in Argentina.

Our article on the power spectra of individual fractional Brownian motion trajectories was accepted in Physical Review X.

Our article on the identification of the diffusive type of motion in the plasma membrane using ARFIMA models was accepted for publication.

Diego Krapf received the Outstanding Mid-Career Faculty Award from the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering at CSU