News Archive

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(12.20.05)
- TODAY RIH Seminar Series - December 20th, Raz Jelinek of Ben Gurion University, “Bio-mimetic Chromatic Membranes for Studying Biological Processes.” at 1:30pm in the seminar room.

(12.16.05)
- Trapped Ion Dynamics lab has published a paper “Size-dependent fivefold and icosahedral symmetry in silver clusters.”

- Rowland's Complex Fluids Group has a paper to appear in Physical Review Letters, “Entropy driven formation of a chiral liquid crystalline phase of helical filaments”
UPDATE: see the article in PhysicsWeb

(12.08.05)
- RIH Methods Seminar TODAY , Dec. 7th - 12:00pm
 Anette Hosoi (MIT) “Building a better snail”

(12.01.05)
- RIH Seminar Series, Thursday, December 1, 1:30pm - Dr. Joanna Aizenberg from Bell Laboratories. “Lessons in Optics From the Deep.”

(11.28.05)
- Peer Fischer published a review article “Nonlinear optical spectroscopy of chiral molecules.”

(11.14.05)
- RIH Methods Seminar - TODAY Nov. 9th - Timothy Gardner (MIT), “Freedom and Rules: The Acquisition and Reprogramming of a Bird’s Learned Song”

(11.09.05)
- RIH Methods Seminar Nov. 9th - Timothy Gardner (MIT), “Learning in Song Birds”

(10.26.05)
- RIH Methods Seminar Oct. 26th - Jun Zhang (Courant Institute, NYC) “Studying Biomechanical and Geophysical Problems through Prototype Experiments”

(10.21.05)
Members of Rowland's Single-Molecule Biophysics Group, in collaboration with other researchers at Harvard and Urbana-Champaign, published a PNAS paper on the dynamics of single DNA molecules within a narrow protein pore.

(09.26.05)
- Zvonimir Dogic has published two papers on the behavior of fd-virus in solution.

(09.19.05)
- Employment Opportunities
New postings from Biofunctional Photonics, Single-molecule Biophysics Group and Nanoelectronics & Nanosensors Group

(09.09.05)
- RIH Methods Seminar - Sept. 7th, Daniel Nelson (Rockefeller University) Bacterial Lysis

(08.24.05)
- RIH Seminar Series - TODAY Yan Han, University of Florida. 1:15pm, Rowland 2nd Floor Seminar Room

- Nanosensors and Nanoelectronics group's research profiled in “Si nanowires see the light,” Nano Today, August 2005.

- Welcome Juraj Topolancik who is joining the Biofunctional Photonics group as well as Joshua Edel joining the Single-Molecule Biophysics group both as postdoctoral fellows.

(08.16.05)
- RIH Seminar Series - TODAY - Zhiyong Wang - Virginia Tech, 2pm - Seminar Room

(08.08.05)
- RIH Seminar Series - TODAY - Alan Haas (Harvard School of Public Health) 2:00 PM - 2nd Floor, Seminar Room.

(08.05.05)
- RIH Seminar Series - TODAY Zhihong Lin (University of Regensburg) 2:00 PM - 2nd Floor, Seminar Room.

(08.03.05)
- Minjun Kim has joined the Single Molecule Biophysics Group.

(08.02.05)
- New paper published by the Berg lab in collaboration with George Whitesides's group.

- Garrett Eastman's Rowland Institute Library Blog is profiled in Business Blogs: A Practical Guide by Bill Ives and Amanda Watlington

(07.21.05)
- Upcoming Methods Seminars
July 20th - Wei Lu (Harvard, Lieber group) Quantum Transport in Nanowires

(07.18.05)
- Rowland's own Winfield Hill was mentioned in Harvard's DEAS newsletter, Spring 2005 issue (p.7)

- Announcement introducing our new Rowland Junior Fellows

- New paper published by Nanoelectronics & Nanosensors Group

(07.08.05)
- Zvonimir Dogic has two preprints in Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0506182
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0506186 on the behavior of fd virus in solution.

(06.29.05)
- Please join us in welcoming Amanda Farniok to the Electronics Engineering Lab staff for the summer.

- Tony Iavarone and Joel Parks of Rowland's Trapped Ion Dynamics lab published a paper in Journal of the American Chemical Society on gas-phase protein unfolding.

(06.10.05)
- Joining the Trapped Ion Dynamics Group, please welcome Susanne Schulze and Jan Meinen to the Institute for the next six months to work with Tony Iavarone on the biomolecule fluorescence experiments.

(06.06.05)
- Methods Seminar TODAY!
June 1 “Visualizing Single Viruses in Living Cells.” Melike Lakadamyali (Harvard, Zhuang Lab)

(06.01.05)
- Rowland Institute Discussion Forum is underway. Link now located on the index page in the QuickLink list. (Internal - for Institute members only)

(05.27.05)
- RIH Methods Seminar - May 25, 12:00pm, MinJun Kim (Brown University) “Bacterial Microfluidics”

(05.12.05)
- RIH Methods Seminar - May 11, 12:00pm, “Physical Aspects of Evolution and Artificial Cells.” Albert Libchaber (Rockefeller University, NYC)

(05.10.05)
- Current Biology interviews Rowland's Howard Berg on physics and biology and his work with the bacterial flagellar motor. (Harvard ID and PIN required)

(04.28.05)
RIH Methods Seminar TODAY April 27, In vivo FRET - Kurt Thorn (CGR)

(04.27.05)
- Douwe Jan Bonthius of the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands joins Amit Meller's group.

(04.14.05)
- Amit Meller's Group has won the prestigious Human Frontier Science Program grant entitled, “Folding kinetics and stability studies of individual RNA molecules, application to RNA interference” - More Info

- Method Seminar TODAY
April 13, Fourier-Transform Mass Spec. - Bogdan Budnik (BU/BC)

(04.12.05)
- RIH Seminar Series TODAY, April 11, 1:30pm - Mary Upton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Abstract

(04.11.05)
- RIH Seminar Series continues with Yong Ok Kim from Washington State University. Thursday, April 7th, 1:30pm. Abstract

(04.05.05)
- Frank Vollmer co-authored a paper in Optics Letters with colleagues at Polytechnic University

(03.31.05)
- Jiwoong Park is a co-author on the latest McEuen group (Cornell) molecular electronics paper

(03.23.05)
- RIH Methods Seminar - TODAY March 23, Fluorophores - Jim Foley (Rowland)

(03.18.05)
- RIH Seminar Series Friday, March 18th, 1:30pm. - Janice Alers Garcia from Indiana University. “Active host choice and parasitism by Cuscuta gronovii: Its effects on individuals and populations”

(03.16.05)
- Methods seminar Today, March 16th, 12:00pm, Juraj Topolancik, “Photonic Crystal Biosensor.”

- Rowland Seminar Series
Tuesday, March 15th 1:30pm, Xinhua He from U.C Davis, “What have we learned about mycorrhizas in nitrogen transfer in oak woodlands?”

(03.14.05)
- UPDATE Rowland Junior Fellow Frank Vollmer has added some posters as well and some content to his index page.

- Next Methods seminars, March 9th, 12:00pm, Rich Ferrieri, “Signalling in Plants.”

(03.08.05)
- New paper by Single Molecule Biophysics Group on single molecule fluorescence

(03.02.05)
- John Eid in Amit Meller's Single Molecule Biophysics Group is the winner of the 2004 PI NanoInnovation Grant

- CANCELLED -- Rowland Seminar Series Tues. March 1st Dr. A.J. Libchaber of Rockefeller University, “Physical Aspects about the Origin of Life.”

(02.24.05)
- Next Methods Seminar, Wednesday, Feb. 23rd, Nasuhi Yurt (Opitcal Science Center, Phoenix, Arizona), “Optical Biosensing”

(02.04.05)
- UPDATE Rowland Junior Fellow Frank Vollmer has added an animation explaining part of his research.

(02.03.05)
- Harvard Libraries to collaborate with Google for a pilot program to digitize a substantial number of volumes. (more information here)

(02.02.05)
- Howard Berg has a new paper on FRET imaging of bacterial chemotaxis receptors.

- Rowland Method Seminar, Wed. Jan. 26th - Erlie Chen, Harvard Nanofabrication Facility (CIMS), will talk about available methods/techniques and what kind of structures can be fabricated.

(01.25.05)
- Rowland Method Seminar, Today, Wed. Jan. 19th - Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli (MIT, Mechanical and Biological Engineering), “DNA Antenna: Molecular Remote Control”

(01.19.05)
- Garrett Eastman's latest presentation About a blog, ASIS&T.

(01.04.05)
- The Single Molecule Biophysics Lab presents results on unzipping of DNA hairpin molecules in a nanopore.