Biophysics News and Events
September 2017
Jacob Zahn
Postdoctoral fellow Jacob Zahn successfully defended his thesis!
September 2016
The Department welcomes our fall rotation students:
Anna Brown
Nam Lab
Michael Cotton
Reynolds Lab
Abner Gonzalez
Rosenbaum Lab
Leigh Manley
Ranganathan Lab
Sean Rogers
Rosen Lab
Bryan Ryder
Rosen Lab
Yujiao Wu
Ranganathan Lab
July 2016
The Biophysics Department welcomes a new employee!
Jaqaman Lab
Luciana de Oliveira joined the lab from the Università di Bologna.
May 2016
New Primary Faculty Member
The Department welcomes new primary faculty member Svetla Stoilova-McPhie!
April 2016
Thomas Scheuermann has left to take a position with GE. Best of luck to you Thomas!
March 2016
The Biophysics Department welcomes two new employees!
Jaqaman Lab
Bruno da Rocha-Acevedo joined the lab from UTSW’s Cell Biology Department.
Erzberger Lab
Nagesh Peddada has joined the lab from the UTSW Department of Pharmacology.
Baoyu (Stone) Chen has left to take an assistant professor position at Iowa State University. Good luck, Stone!
Postdoc Mark Kittisopikul in Khuloud Jaqaman’s lab has been named one of two recipients of the one-year UT Southwestern Wellstone MDCRC Training Grant. Congratulations Mark!
February 2016
New Secondary Faculty Member
The Biophysics Department welcomes new secondary faculty member Youxing Jiang! His research focuses on the structural and functional studies of ion channels and transporters.
January 2016
The Biophysics Department welcomes a new employee!
Rizo-Rey Lab
Jose Moreno Beltran comes to UTSW from the University of Seville, Spain, where he received a graduate degree in biophysics.
November 2015
New Secondary Faculty Member
The Department welcomes new secondary faculty member Xuelian Luo!
September 2015
Alexander Piala
Alex has moved on to UT Austin to study law. Good luck, Alex!
Bradley VanderWielen
Bradley has taken a new position with BioRad. Good luck with the new job, Brad!
August 2015
New Primary Faculty Member
The Department welcomes new primary faculty member Jan Erzberger!
New Primary Faculty Member
The Department welcomes new primary faculty member Kendra Frederick!
New Secondary Faculty Member
The Department welcomes new secondary faculty member Milo Lin!
July 2015
New Secondary Faculty Member
The Department welcomes new secondary faculty member Daniela Nicastro!
June 2015
Alexander Piala
Postdoctoral fellow Alexander Piala successfully defended his thesis!
The Department welcomes spring rotation students:
Yuan Xue – Rosen Lab
May 2015
Soyeon Kim
Postdoctoral fellow Soyeon Kim successfully defended her thesis!
Sudeep Banjade
Postdoctoral fellow Sudeep Banjade successfully defended his thesis!
April 2015
The Biophysics Department welcomes the following employees!
Henne Lab
The Mike Henne Lab has two new postdocs.
Hanaa Hariri was previously at Florida State University, Tallahassee.
Yang (Lydia) Liu came to UTSW from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
X. Zhang Lab
Postdoc Guijun Shang came to the lab from Shandong University in China
The Hibbs Lab has a new graduate student
Anat Gharpure previously studied at Brown University.
February 2015
The Department welcomes spring rotation students:
- Mingjian Du – Rosen Lab
The Department welcomes Green Fellows:
- Jenny Jiou – Goldsmith Lab
- Suna Burghul – Goldsmith Lab
January 2015
Felipe Andres-Piedra
Graduate student Felipe Andres-Piedra successfully defended his thesis!
November 2014
The Biophysics and Biochemistry Departments hosted the 2014 interdepartmental retreat on Nov 7–9 this year.
McKnight Prize Finalists
The Biophysics department sponsored three finalists for the Sara and Frank McKnight Undergraduate Prize in Biophysics.
Congratulations to the winners!
Competition was tough this year with many qualified applicants. It is very encouraging to see such potential from the next generation of scientists!
Alpay Seven
Postdoctoral fellow Alpay Seven successfully defended his thesis!
Kyle Brewer
Postdoctoral fellow Kyle Brewer successfully defended his thesis!
October 2014
Farewell Da Jia
Postdoctoral fellow Da Jia (Rosen lab) is leaving us for his new job as an Assistant Professor at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China. Congratulations, Da!
Farewell Arati Ramesh
Postdoctoral fellow Arati Ramesh (Gardner/Winkler labs) is leaving us for her new job as a Reader (equivalent of tenure track Assistant Professor) at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, India. Congratulations, Arati!
September 2014
New Secondary Faculty Member
The Department welcome new secondary faculty member Mike Henne. Read about Mike and his research here on the Henne Lab website.
Farewell Yuxiao Wang
Graduate student Yuxiao Wang (X. Zhang Lab) is off to his postdoc with Ron Vale at UC San Francisco. Yuxiao’s work in Ron’s lab will be funded by a Jane Coffin Childs fellowship. We will miss you Yuxiao! Best of luck in your future endeavors.
The Department welcomes fall rotation students:
- Allyson Rice – Rosen Lab
- Rajshri Iyer – Rosen Lab
- Wenmin Xing – Nam Lab
- Andrew Schober – Jaqaman Lab
August 2014
A bumper crop! Nine students joined the Department (and the Molecular Biophysics Graduate Program) this year:
UMass Amherst
Joined the Rizo-Rey Lab
Austin College
Joined the Rizo-Rey Lab
UC Berkley
Joined the Nam Lab
Canisius College
Joined the Rice Lab
UT Dallas
Joined the Nam Lab
St. Mary's University
Joined the Jaqaman Lab
Indian Institute of Technology
Joined the Rizo-Rey Lab
University of Georgia
Joined the Hibbs Lab
Wuhan University
Joined the Grishin Lab
NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship
Postdoctoral fellow Jon Ditlev (Rosen Lab) was awarded an NIH postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations, Jon!
July 2014
The Department welcomes undergraduate SURF students and new graduate and MSTP students doing summer rotations.
Undergrads in the Department:
- Alex Burns (UT Dallas) - Rice Lab
- Maria Batangan (Chaminade U of Honolulu) – Nam Lab
- Michael Schnebly (UT Austin) – Ranganathan Lab
Graduate students doing summer rotations:
MSTP students doing summer rotations:
- Tae Kim – Rice Lab
- David Goodwin – Ranganathan Lab
- Paul Blazek – Rosen Lab
April 2014
First-year Molecular Biophysics graduate student Beth Geyer (Rice lab) was awarded an NSF predoctoral fellowship. Two other first-year Molecular Biophysics students received honorable mention. Congratulations, all!
Awarded NSF Predoctoral Fellowship
Honorable Mention
Honorable Mention
January 2014
The Department welcomes new secondary faculty member Kim Reynolds. Read about Kim and her research on the Reynolds Lab website.
November 2013
Another year, another joint departmental retreat with the Biochemistry Department! The Biophysics Department hosted the three finalists for the Sara and Frank McKnight Undergraduate Prize in Biophysics. Congrats to all and best wishes for the future. It is always a pleasure to meet such talented young scientists.
