News | Single Molecule Biophysics at Oregon State University

2023

Yuan Gao has been selected to give a flash talk in the motility subgroup during the 2023 Annual Biophysical Society Meeting in San Diego. Congratulations Yuan.
Akasit (Bank) Visootsat has been selected to receive a travel award for the 2023 Annual Biophysical Society Meeting in San Diego. Congratulations Bank!
Dominic Perrino has been selected as a 2022-2023 URSA Engage Award Recipient. Congratulations Dominic!
Joshua Heisler has been selected as a 2022-2023 URSA Engage Award Recipient. Congratulations Joshua!
Kateyln Scott is joining the lab as a STEM Leaders undergraduate researcher.

2022

Owen Williamson won a SURE Science Award to do summer research in the lab. Congratulations Owen!

2021

Guangxi (Max) Feng successfully defended his dissertation today and became a newly-minted PhD from the lab! Congratulations, Dr. Feng!
Emily Gemmill won a Cripps Undergraduate Research (CURE) Award to do summer research in the lab. Congratulation, Emily!
Cypress Jones won a SURE Science Award to do summer research in the lab. Congratulations Cypress!
Emily Gemmill won a Barry Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most prestigious awards for undergraduate research. Congratulations, Emily!

2020

Weihong and Radhika Subramanian from Harvard Medical School served as Co-Chairs for a Cell Bio 2020 Minisymposium on “Building and Decorating Cell Skeleton”.
Weihong will give an invited talk in the “1st Symposium on Molecular Engine” in Chiba, Japan on January 8th, 2020.

2019

Ethiene Kwok (Kathy) joined the lab as a Faculty Research Assistant. Welcome back, Kathy!
The Qiu lab received a 5-year NIH R01 grant to study the mechanism and regulation of kinesin-14 motors in mitotic spindle assembly.
Weihong is co-chairing a special interest subgroup with Will Hancock of Penn State University on “building complexity to understand the microtubule cytoskeleton” at the ASCB/EMBO 2019 meeting in Washington DC!
Audrey Korte, a Sophomore of Biochemistry and Biophysics, won a Cripps Undergraduate Research (CURE) Award to do summer research in the lab. Congratulations, Audrey!
Healyn Epp, Sophomore of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, won a SURE Science Award to do summer research in the lab. Congratulations, Healyn!
Jiadi He, Junior of Physics, won a SURE Science Award to do summer research in the lab. Congratulations, Jiadi!
Dr. Kuo-Fu Tseng joined Aetio Biotherapy as a senior scientist. Congratulations, Dr. Tseng!

2018

Andrew Popchock successfully defended his dissertation today and became a newly-minted and second PhD from the lab! Congratulations, Dr. Popchock!
Allison Gicking successfully defended her dissertation today and became a newly-minted and first PhD from the lab! Congratulations, Dr. Gicking!
Our work on the role of the central stalk in the motility of mitotic kinesin-14 motors was accepted for publication in Current Biology!
Our joint work with Prof. Bo Liu’s lab at UC Davis on the discovery of the first processive minus-end-directed kinesin-14 motor was accepted for publication in Nature Communications!
Weihong gave an invited talk in the motility subgroup during the 2018 Biophysical Society Meeting in San Francisco!

2017

Weihong is co-chairing a special interest subgroup with Will Hancock of Penn State University on “the emerging phenomena of molecular motors” at the ASCB/EMBO 2017 meeting in Philodelpia!
Jeremy Meinke won the WIC Culture of Writing Award in Physics for his senior thesis on BimC!
Weihong is invited to give a keynote presentation on unconventional kinesin-14 motors at the OCPA9 International Conference that will take place in July 17-20 at Tsinghua University.
Weihong will give a plenary talk at 18th Annual Meeting of the APS Northwest Section in June 1-3.
Vi Thuy Lam won a Cripps Undergraduate Research (CURE) Award to do summer research in the lab.
Youngmin Park received a SURE Science award to do summer research in the lab.
Weihong gave a physics seminar seminar at University of California, Merced on April 6.
Our work on the context-dependent bidirectional motility of KlpA was accepted for publication in Nature Communications!

2016

The Qiu lab received a three-year award from NSF!
Weihong gave an IMB seminar on kinesis-14s at University of Oregon on October 11.
Weihong gave a talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Plant and Microbial Cytoskeleton in New Hampshire (August 14-19).
Weihong gave a talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Muscle & Molecular Motors in Vermont (July 17-22).
Alexander Jones received a CURE award for his summer research in the lab.
Jeremy Meinke received a SURE Science award for doing summer research in the lab.
Jeremy Meinke received an URISC award for his research in the lab during the Winter and Spring of 2016.
Youngmin Kim received a Biochemistry and Biophysics Department “Knowledge Advancement Research Experience” Award (KARE Award).

2015

Great news, Chad has accepted a job as a DRAM Product Engineer at Micron Technology, Inc!
Joel received a SURE Science award for doing summer research in the lab.
Zhong Bin received the Waldo-Cummings Outstanding Student Award, one of the most prestigious awards bestowed by Oregon State University.
Lindsay received a Biochemistry and Biophysics Department “Knowledge Advancement Research Experience” Award (KARE Award).

2014

Bin received an URISC award for his research in the lab during the 2014-2015 acadmic year.
Jessica received an URISC award for her research in the lab during the 2014-2015 acadmic year.
Weihong, together with Bo Sun and Kari van Zee, received an advised grant from the Soeldner Campbell Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation.
Max received a CURE award for his summer research in the lab.
Weihong recevied a New Investigator Grant from the OHSU Medical Research Fundation.
Elliott received a SURE Science award for his summer research in the lab.

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