April 19, 2024
Patteson Lab undergraduates representing at the Undergraduate Research Festival.
March 3, 2024
The Patteson Lab attends the APS March Meeting in Minneapolis. We showed off our Pocket Rheometer at Squishy Science day and got interviewed by APS news.
October 24, 2023
American Physical Society Honors Professor Alison Patteson with Maria Goeppert Mayer Award. See news link here: https://artsandsciences.syracuse.edu/news-all/news-2023/american-physical-society-honors-professor-alison-patteson/
October 20, 2023
Undergraduate and 2022 SUPRh star Emma Kaputa received BEST IMPACT poster at the annual BioInspired Symposium. Great job Emma! See the Univiersity News Article on Emma’s achievements.
September 11, 2023
Thanks to BIRS and the Mechanics of Cells and Polymer Networks: Bridging Theory, Simulation and Experiment organizers for a great meeting and inviting the Patteson Lab. Talks available here: https://www.birs.ca/events/2023/5-day-workshops/23w5120
August 18, 2023
Patteson receives the NSF CAREER award to pursue new studies linking vimentin and nuclear stability. See College of Arts and Sciences article here.
August 10, 2023
Congratulations to Sarthak Gupta for successfully defending his PhD thesis Aug 10, 2023!! We are excited to see what Dr. Gupta does next.
August 4, 2023
Congratulations to our 2023 SURPh Cohort. Thanks to everyone who helped makes this year another success!
See the College’s News Story on it here.
June 13, 2023
Grad Student Maxx Swoger is featured in SU article, “Peek Into the Hidden World Inside of Cells.”
“I recently figured out how to do a 3D rendering of a nucleus under stress,” Swoger gushes. “I was able to see an indentation, where a bundle of fibers was pushing down on the nucleus. It was amazing.”
https://www.syracuse.edu/stories/blatt-bioimaging-center/
March 10, 2023
Congratulations to Sarthak Gupta on winning Emerging Soft Matter Excellence Award at the APS March Meeting in Las Vegas. Go Sarthak!
Feb. 2, 2023
Our PRIMO and new Leica microscope is here! Thank you Laurent from Alveole for the visit and demo. Excited to start photo-patterning!
Dec. 5, 2022
Merrill Asp successfully defends his PhD thesis. Congratulations Merrill!!
Aug. 12, 2022
Patteson lab outing to celebrate our REU Student Maya Geiss. Best of wishes to Maya.
Aug. 5, 2022
A Home-Grown Path for Future Physicists
Best wishes to our SCSD high school students who joined our group this summer!
Dec. 15, 2021
Reaching Out: Grad Students Inspire and Teach Local High Schoolers
Sarthak Gupta and Merrill Asp lead Physics Outreach in Syracuse-area high schools.
December 12, 2021
Patteson Lab featured on the Season Premier of Cycle of Health by PBS- WCNY.
https://video.wcny.org/video/fighting-future-pandemics-ulugph/
Oct 12, 2021
Sarthak’s first paper is out! Thanks CAS for the great article.
https://thecollege.syr.edu/news-all/news-from-2021/modeling-cellular-migration/
Aug 31, 2021
Graduate student Maxx Swoger wins Poster Award at 12th Physics of Cancer Symposium. Way to go Maxx!
May 13, 2021
April 28, 2021
Merrill Asp receives a Summer Dissertation Fellowship. Congratulations Merrill!
January 13, 2021
Kicking off 2021 with The Physics of Living Matter! Catch Prof. Patteson’s talk here.
November 19, 2020
Patteson, Schwarz, and Hougland groups join in a BioInspired-hosted public webinar to discuss COVID-19 research. Thanks to Lisa Manning and Jeremy Steinbacher for hosting ‘BioInspired Research: How does COVID-19 work and how can we stop it?’! You can watch the webinar on Youtube here.
October 28, 2020
Congrats to Maxx Swoger and his featured SU News article.
Ph.D. Candidate’s Work in the Patteson Lab Requires Tools from Multiple Disciplines
October 24, 2020
Thanks to our speakers, and congrats to Bobby Carroll on organizing a great virtual conference!
October 3, 2020
Thanks to Rob Enslin and Syracuse University for the wonderful article on our lab’s work. See the article here: BioInspired Mind
September 1, 2020
Sarthak Gupta receives University Graduate Student Fellowship. Congratulations Sarthak!
July 9, 2020
Our group receives our first NSF award! We are starting work on SARS-CoV-2. See the link here – How Physics Is Helping the Fight Against COVID-19.
April 13, 2020
Merrill Asps wins TA Award for 2020. Congrats Merrill!
January 31, 2020
Thanks to Heidi Hehnly and Rob Morris for the invitation to speak at the 6th Bio Art Mixer!
August 11-16, 2019
2019 Soft Matter Gordon Research Conference in New London, NH. Thanks to Lisa Manning for organizing a great meeting and congrats to Jenny Ross as the 2023 chair.
July 2, 2019
New lab space available
May 8, 2019
Ali presents at the Fibrous Networks in Biology meeting along with invited speakers Jen Schwarz and Josef Kas.
April 10, 2019
The rheometer arrives!
March 25, 2019
Isaac Newton Institute – GFS follow on: Mathematics of form in active and inactive media, Cambridge, UK
Alison invited to give a talk on the ‘Physical limits of cell migration’ at the Isaac Newton Institute. The meeting includes dinner at the high table in St. John’s College.
January 1, 2019
Alison starts her position as Assistant Professor of Physics at Syracuse University.
November 12, 2018
Pennsylvania Muscle Institute Annual Symposium, UPenn, Philadelphia, PA
This year’s focus was intermediate filaments! Alison invited to talk on the role of vimentin in protecting the nucleus from damage during 3d cell motility and chats with Robert Goldman, a world-leading cell biologist, pioneering intermediate filament research.
September 26, 2018
9th Annual Physics of Cancer Symposium, Leipzig, Germany
Alison gets food poisoning and loses is her luggage. The trip is worth it to present her work on vimentin. Alison meets with Josef Kaes, a world leader in the field of the physics of cancer, and visits Kasia Pogoda (Polish Academy of Sciences), expert in cell and tissue mechanics and Poland’s Leading Young Scientist.
June 11, 2018
Generation and Control of Forces in Cells, Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden
Alison invited to attend Nordita conference and presented first talk, titled “A hitchhiker’s guide to cell motility: Nonlinear physics approach to swimming bacteria and crawling cells”
March 5, 2018
APS March Meeting, Los Angelos, California
Alison receives the 2018 Dissertation Award in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.
January 1, 2018
Physics Department at Syracuse University
Alison joins the Physics Department at Syracuse University as Research Assistant Professor: New Faculty Snapshot.
December 12, 2017
3rd International Symposium on Mechanobiology, Singapore
Alison invited to present a talk on the role of vimentin intermediate filaments in 3d cell motility.