News
August 2020
Lab opens at Augusta University
September 2020
Garrett Zills joins the group
January 2021
Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship (CURS) at Augusta University funds Dr. Malmi-Kakkada’s Summer Scholars Program (SSP) grant application
March 2021
Dr. Malmi Kakkada’s first senior author pre-print is posted to Arxiv and is under review - https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15043
April 2021
Garrett wins “Best Oral Presentation” award in his session at the Augusta University Phi Kappa Phi Conference
May 2021
Our paper on the role of Cadherin clustering during vertebrate embryo convergent extension is accepted to eLife
Welcome to Dominic Broglio who will conduct his honors thesis research with us
August 2021 (postdoc job opening)
We have an opening for a Postdoctoral Scholar in the area of computational biophysics and/or biological physics.
Applications received prior to September 30, 2021, will be assured of full consideration. We welcome applications from scholars of all identities and backgrounds, including those who may need to request accommodations to facilitate their application.
August - September 2021
Our paper on active matter collectives is accepted for publication in Journal of Physical Chemistry B - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c02758
Preprint on the role of microtubule deacetylation in neural crest cell collective migration is posted - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.12.456059v1
December 2021
Congrats to Garrett Zills and Dominic Broglio for a successful research presentation and Student Research Program funding for travel to the APS March meeting and open access publication fees respectively.
Our preprint on how cell-cell adhesion regulates biomechanical feedback on cell growth is posted - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.18.469073v1
January 2022
Welcome to Dr. Jonathan Dawson who joins our group as a postdoc!
February 2022
Congrats to Garrett who was 1 of 3 nominees for the Barry Goldwater Scholarship - https://jagwire.augusta.edu/three-college-of-science-and-mathematics-students-nominated-for-prestigious-barry-goldwater-scholarship/
March 2022
Our group was well represented at the annual APS March meeting (Chicago) where Dr. Malmi Kakkada, Dr. Dawson, and Garrett Zills all presented research talks.
Congrats to Dominic Broglio for presenting at the 22nd Annual Phi Kappa Phi Student Research and Fine Arts Conference.
Our preprint on tumor mechanical heterogeneity is now posted and is under review - https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01485
April 2022
Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship (CURS) funds our Summer Scholars Program (SSP) grant.
We welcome Tommy Rusch to our group who will participate in the Summer Scholars Program.
Dr. Malmi Kakkada conducts a physics outreach activity for elementary school children in collaboration with APS Physicists To Go.
Our paper is now accepted for publication in Biophysical Journal! https://www.cell.com/biophysj/fulltext/S0006-3495(22)00360-5
July 2022
Congrats to Tommy and Dominic for successfully presenting their summer research project posters at the CURS Research Symposium!
August 2022
Happy to report that our latest paper a theory and experiment collaboration paper on collective cell migration together with Elias Barriga Lab is now online at Nature Materials - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-022-01323-0