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  • February 21–25, 2026: Biophysical Society:
    • Ritika Gupta will present a flash talk titled ParBS condensates generate force for bacterial chromosome segregation in the Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction II session on February 24 at 10:05 am (Room 207/208).
    • Ritika Gupta also will present a poster (B120) in the Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction II session on February 25 at 10:30 am (Exhibit Halls ABC).
  • We are thrilled to announce that Ritika Gupta has been selected as one of the 10 finalists for the prestigious Biophysical Society (BPS) Art of Science Image Contest. The image is about how liquid nuclear condensates sense and restructure chromatin. If you are attending the conference, please show her your support by voting!
  • June 9-13, 2026: Laura was invited  to talk at The 2nd Next Gen. Conversation, Louisiana Tech University.
  • February 24, 2026: Laura was invited to give a talk in the NSF-funded Center for Theoretical Biophysics (CTBP), Rice University.
  • February 21-25, 2026: Biophysical Society:
    • Ritika Gupta was selected for a talk at BPS 2026 in the Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction platform on February 24th 
  • February, 2026: Laura and David will present a talk and a poster, respectively, at the Single-Molecule Biophysics meeting in Les Houches, France
  • January 11–15, 2026: Laura and David will attend the FASEB conference on Phase Transitions in Cellular Signaling and Disease, Melbourne, FL.
  • October 9, 2025: Ritika presented at the Clemson University Biophysics Seminar Series.
  • September 30, 2025: Laura was invited to present in the Clemson University Genetics and Biochemistry Club.
  • September 8, 2025: Laura was invited to present in the Clemson University Advances in Human Genetics talk series.
  • August 28, 2025: Laura was invited to present in the Clemson University Chemistry Seminar Series.
  • August 19, 2025: Catherine presented her research at SIRPA 2025.
  • August 19, 2025: Wesley, Catherine, and Azad presented their PhD research at the Clemson University SIRPA meeting.
  • May 16, 2025: Suleyman presented his work at the Institute for Human Genetics Symposium.
  • April 2025: Suleyman won the Illumina PIPseq Single Cell Prep Kit prize at the Single Cell, Revolutionized: Introducing Illumina Single Cell Prep event hosted by the Clemson University Genomics and Bioinformatics Facility.
  • April 22, 2025: Ritika and Narendar presented their research at the CU Postdoctoral Symposium on condensates and DNA phase transitions.
  • March 16–21, 2025: Laura presented an invited talk at the APS Global Summit in Anaheim, California: “MAR L-72 DNA Mechanics and Gene Expression,” Wednesday, March 18, Malibu, Level 4.
  • March 5, 2025: Laura successfully chaired the search for an experimental biophysicist to expand the biophysics group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Medical Biophysics Program at Clemson University.
  • February 15–19, 2025: Biophysical Meeting:
    • Narendar Kolimi presented a poster titled “The Effect of Macromolecular Crowding on DNA under Tension.”
    • Suleyman Ucuncuoglu presented a poster titled “Assay transcription with quantitative PCR.”
  • February 21–22, 2025: Ritika, Wesley, Catherine, and Azad gave a lab tour and presented a poster.
  • January 5–10, 2025: David and Laura presented at the 12th biannual Single-Molecule Biophysics winter conference at the Aspen Center for Physics.
  • March 16–21, 2025: Laura has been invited to speak at the APS Global Summit 2025.
  • March 16–21, 2025: Jin Qian was also invited to present his work at the APS Global Summit 2025.
  • November 21, 2024: Hosted Ian Spille from the University of Illinois Chicago.
  • November 20, 2024: Wesley, Narendar, David, and Laura attended the “ABZ” conference on DNA.
  • November 13–16, 2024: Ritika attended ABRCMS in Pittsburgh and visited Dr. Childers’ lab at the University of Pittsburgh.
  • November 14, 2024: Laura participated in the Clemson University Women’s Roundtable panel in Greenville.
  • November 7, 2024: Hosted Michael Poirier from Ohio State University.
  • November 6, 2024: David was invited to speak in the TORC international seminar series.
  • October 31–November 3, 2024: David and Laura presented at the Mountain Lake Transcription Meeting, Pembroke, Virginia.
  • October 31, 2024: Laura received the investiture as the Dr. Waenard and Sheila M. Miller Endowed Chair in Medical Biophysics.
  • October 17–18, 2024: Laura was invited to speak at the Single Molecule Biophysics (SMBio) 2024 meeting in New York City.
  • October 17–18, 2024: Ritika and Suleyman also attended SMBio 2024.
  • August 18, 2024: Laura was invited to speak at the ACS fall meeting in Denve

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