Krapf Lab

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.