8/15/22
Welcome back to Hannah, who is returning from a summer internship at Novavax!
6/7/22
The group participated in the Midwest Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (MTSM) meeting at Purdue, where Honor, Hannah, Nikhil, and Greg presented their work. Congrats to Greg for winning the poster competition!
1/11/22
Congrats to Greg for being named an NIH T32 fellow!
12/9/21
Celebrating Gaurav’s defense and time in the group!
(After a long pandemic-induced hiatus, we are back to posting updates!)
Congrats to Jacob, who was recognized with a Merit Award for Research at the Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EUReCA)! He presented on "Mechanical Feedback in the Active Search for Antigens by T Cells.”
4/17/20
2/17/20
Steve visited the Banff International Research Station in Canada to participate in the workshop, “Advances in Theoretical and Experimental Methods for Analyzing Complex Regulatory Networks.”
12/16/19
Celebrating Bing’s time with a send-off lunch at Chaiyo’s.
11/8/19
Steve, Bing, Gaurav, and Nikhil participated in the “Workshop on Neutrons in Biology: Emergent Topics” sponsored by the Shull Wollan Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
6/12/19
The group participated in the High School Introduction to Engineering Systems program at UTK. Congrats to Aaron, Ekemini, and Karah on their successful computer simulations of membranes!
6/3/19
Steve and Bing attended the Midwest Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Conference at UIUC. Steve gave an invited talk on forces in immunology. Bing presented his work on shaping vesicles by polymer adsorption.
5/31/19
Celebrating Rob’s defense!
5/12/19
Congrats to our graduating undergraduate researchers! They are moving on to great things:
Annabel will spend a year in Sweden as a Fulbright scholar before starting the PhD program in bioengineering at UC Berkeley/UCSF.
Chloe will be joining the PhD program in chemical engineering at Vanderbilt.
Drake will be starting the PhD program in chemistry at UNC-Chapel Hill.
5/9/19
Congrats to Rob on finishing his Ph.D.!
3/6/19
Honor presented on “Effects of confinement and crosslinking on the organization of actin networks” at the APS March Meeting in Boston.
2/21/19
Chloe presented her work at the Annual CBE Undergraduate Poster Presentations. She described her work on “Stochastic switching of a bistable reaction network in spatially patterned environments.”
Welcome to new Ph.D. student Nikhil Nambiar!
1/2/19
Older news
10/25/18: Congratulations to Paul on his successful Ph.D. defense!
10/19/18: Steve enjoyed his visit to the CBE department at Colorado State.
9/14/18: Steve and Rob attended the Mechanobiology Annual Symposium at UPenn.
8/23/18: Steve receives a 2018 NSF CAREER award.
7/27/18: Steve enjoyed his visit to southern California, where he attended the 2018 Mechbio Conference and gave a Biophysics and Systems Biology seminar at UC Irvine.
7/19/18: Welcome to new graduate student Tom Gaetjens!
4/25/18: Gaurav's collaborative work with the Simpson group was published in ACS Synthetic Biology.
3/30/18: Steve enjoyed his visits to the ChBE departments at Vanderbilt and Clemson this week.
2/8/18: Steve enjoyed his visit to the Department of Chemistry at Trinity University.
1/3/18: Bing's paper is featured on the front cover of Soft Matter.
12/11/17: Steve visited the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry at UTHSC in Memphis, where he gave a talk on "Deconstructing antigen recognition at the T cell surface."
11/28/17: Welcome to new Ph.D. student Honor Akenuwa!
11/21/17: Congratulations to Aaron on his successful Ph.D. defense!
11/9/17: Steve gave a talk on "Characterizing biological networks using computer simulations and machine learning" at the Data Science and Engineering seminar at UTK.
10/26/17: Paul, Rob, and Steve will present at next week's AIChE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis.
7/10/17: Steve, Rob, and Paul are hosting students from the High School Introduction to Engineering Systems (HITES) program.
5/19/17: Rob's paper investigating forces on T cell receptors was accepted for publication in Biophysical Journal.
3/21/17: Paul and Rob's work on positive feedback networks was selected as a 2016 Editors’ Choice article in J. Chem. Phys.
2/13/17: Rob gave a talk at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
12/20/16: Welcome to new Ph.D. student Gaurav Chauhan!
11/15/16: Aaron's paper on redesigning signaling networks was accepted for publication in Physical Biology.
9/6/16: Welcome to Bing Li, who is joining the group as a postdoctoral associate!
8/16/16: Our collaborative work with the Binder lab was accepted for publication in Frontiers in Plant Science. Congrats to Aaron and former undergrads Forest and Bryan.
7/27/16: The group attended the 10th q-bio Conference at Vanderbilt.
7/11/16: Steve and Rob directed a project for high school students participating in the High School Introduction to Engineering Systems at UTK.
5/26/16: Steve presented at the Midwest Thermo and Stat Mech Meeting at Miami University in Ohio.
5/17/16: Aaron and Rob presented at the International Conference on Mathematical and Computational Medicine in Columbus, Ohio.
3/17/16: Steve presented at the APS March meeting in Baltimore.
12/17/15: Sina's paper was accepted for publication in Soft Matter.
12/16/15: Paul and Rob's paper was accepted for publication in The Journal of Chemical Physics.
8/5/15: Aaron, Paul, and Rob presented posters at the 9th q-bio Conference at Virginia Tech.
4/2/15: Steve was awarded the 2015 Outstanding Teacher Award in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
12/2/14: Steve gave a talk on T cell signaling at the 2nd Zing Mathematical and Computational Medicine Conference in Mexico.
11/25/14: Steve was the seminar speaker at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS).
9/10/14: Steve was the seminar speaker in the Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology (BCMB) at UTK.
Upcoming conferences (Fall 2014): Steve will be attending the BMES and AIChE annual meetings, as well as the 2nd Zing Mathematical and Computational Medicine Conference in Mexico.
7/25/14: Steve has been appointed the CBE faculty liaison to the Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Computational Science (IGMCS) at UTK. Please contact him if you are interested in completing the program.
7/7/14: The Abel group is hosting high school students from the HITES program throughout the week. We are exploring mathematical models of cell population growth and cancer.
4/21/14: Steve gave a talk and chaired a panel discussion on cell signaling at the iBME symposium.
4/16/14: Congrats to Eva, who was recognized with a College of Engineering Award for her research poster at the Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EUReCA)!
4/12/14: Steve participated as an event organizer for the Science Olympiad state tournament.
11/7/13: Steve gave a talk on "Pattern formation and coarsening in molecularly-tethered lipid membranes" at the AIChE annual meeting in San Francisco.
11/1/13: Welcome to new Ph.D. students Aaron, Paul, and Rob!
10/14/13: Steve gave a talk at the "Workshop on Stochasticity in Biochemical Reaction Networks" at the Banff International Research Station.
8/21/13: Welcome to Beini Chen, a new undergraduate research student!
8/16/13: Steve gave a talk at the International Conference on Computational Cell Biology (ICCCB) at Virginia Tech.