Mistakes happen. This is the case in the process of transporting genetic information in cells. How our cells keep errors in this process in check is the subject of a new paper by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
Graduate Student in ME Professor Mohammad Mofrad’s Lab Wins First Place in the 2016 Image Contest of the Biophysical Society Meeting
ME Graduate student Zeinab Jahed, a member of ME Professor Mohammad R. K. Mofrad’s lab, has won the first place prize in the 2016 Image Contest of the Biophysical Society Meeting. The image, titled “Bacterial Networking,” shows a scanning electron microscopy of Staphylococcus Aureus bacterial cells forming networks on top of poly-dimethyl-siloxane PDMS micro-posts. Congratulations, …
ME Professor Mohammad R. K. Mofrad and ME Grad Student Mohaddeseh Peyro Reveal New Clues to How the Gatekeeper for the Cell Nucleus Works
ME Professor Mohammad R. K. Mofrad and ME graduate student Mohaddeseh Peyro, along with two other researchers, have released their findings today in a paper titled “Evolutionarily Conserved Sequence Features Regulate the Formation of the FG Network at the Center of the Nuclear Pore Complex.” The paper uncovers “new clues to how a molecular machine …