News
November 08, 2021: Perkins lab awarded a new $1.15 M grant from the NSF
March 30, 2021: Congrats to David on his PNAS paper studying energetics of bacteriorhodopsin point mutants in their native lipid bilayer
March 17, 2021: Congrats to Devin and Marc-Andre for their PNAS paper showing biological insights can be derived for fast folding, mechanically labile proteins despite artifacts in AFM based force spectroscopy.
March 17, 2021: Congrats to Marc-Andre for his new PNAS paper demonstrating Type 3 secretion systems are mechanically labile
March 17, 2021: Congrats to David for his K99/R00 Pathway to Independence award
March 17, 2021: Congrats to former post-doc Ruby Sullan, now an Assistant Prof. at U. Toronto, on her Cottrell Scholar award
September 04, 2020: Congrats to David on his Phys. Rev. E paper on correcting molecular transition rates in SMFS
September 04, 2020: Congrats to Hao and David on their PRL paper on quantifying native energetics stabilizing bacteriorhodopsin
April 01, 2020: Congrats to Stephen for getting his PhD. Best wishes to him at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
April 01, 2020: Congrats to Patrick on his NAR paper on imaging PRC2 bound to DNA by AFM, our first paper in collaboration with the Cech lab
April 01, 2020: Tom’s term as JILA Chair ended. Good luck to Andreas Becker, the new JILA chair starting Jan. 2020
April 01, 2020: Congrats to David on his Biophysical J. paper on bacteriorhodopsin using an zigzag force ramp. It was featured as a New and Notable by Prof. Michael Nash
April 01, 2020: Tom steps into the role of Acting Division Chief of NIST’s Quantum Physics Division
April 01, 2020: Congrats to Patrick on defending his PhD
March 21, 2019: Congrats to Hao and his co-authors on his new Angewandte Chemie paper probing the initial unfolding of bacteriorhodopsin
March 21, 2019: Congrats to former Perkins lab undergraduate William “John” Van Patten for being awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship for his research in the Bustamante Lab
November 28, 2018: Tom elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
November 03, 2018: Bon voyage to Matt. Have fun at Intel!
September 21, 2018: Congrats to Meredith for being named a BSI Scholar
September 21, 2018: Congrats to Meredith for being named a BSI Scholar