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Dave will be presenting "If truth is beauty, can art be science?" with collaborator Carl Flink, Department of Theatre Arts & Dance at the TEDMED2013 Event at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on April 17, 2013.
Dave and UMN Department of Theatre Arts and Dance Professor Carl Flink's collaboration is making news in the scientific community. On the heels of their recent publication Science+Dance=Bodystorming (Trends in Cell Biology, 2012), Bodystorming: Dance Grooves Show How Molecules Move, published in Science NOW in November, describes the background and progression of the collaboration, as well as reactions from other scientists invited to join the pair to use bodystorming to test their own scientific hypotheses. Photo: William Cameron
Former graduate student Dominique Seetapun's paper Estimating the GTP cap size in vivo was published in Current Biology in September, 2012.
High school research participant Lucas Kramer participated in the Central Minnesota Science Fair where he presented his poster "The Effects of Microtubule Dynamics on Glioma Cell Motility: Does the Cell Length Dependent Model for Microtubule Activity in Neurons Apply to Human Glioma cells?" from work completed in the Odde lab under the mentorship of Brian Castle during the summer of 2012. He was selected to advance to the Intel International Science Fair in Phoenix in May.
Emily presented her poster "Kinesin-5 promotes disassembly of long kinetochore microtubules" at the Microtubule Cytoskeleton in Development and Disease meeting March 18-20, 2013 .
Becky presented her poster entitled "CD44-Mediated Motility in the Progression of Malignant Gliomas" at the PhysCell 2012 Meeting "Pierre-Gille de Gennes days on Physics of cells: from soft to living matter" in Hyeres, France held September 2-8, 2012.
Dave returned to MBL as a Physiology Course Faculty member and brought Odde lab graduate students as his teaching assistants. In the two-week rotation, course students developed mathematical models of their home research topics and tested these models on Minneapolis-based dance company Black Label Movement.
In July, 2012, Ben gave a talk entitled "Optimality in a motor-clutch cell traction model" at the Signaling by Adhesion Receptors Gordon Research Seminar at Colby College in Waterville, ME. Well done, Ben!
With support from the NIH Neuorimaging Training Fellowhip, Becky will be using optical coherence tomography and two-photon imaging to study brain cancer motility. Congratulations, Becky!
With support from the UMN Graduate School IDF, Emily will collaborate with dancers, using "body-storming," to develop error correction models in mitosis during the 2012/2013 academic year. Congratulations, Emily!
The SPRBM and BMES are hosting the second inaugural Conference on Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Jan. 3-7, 2012, at the Hilton Caribe Hotel and Resort in Puerto Rico.
Effective July 1, 2011, Dave joined the editorial board of the Biophysical Journal, the official journal of the Biophysical Society.
Dominique Seetapun, a recent graduate of the Odde lab, defended her thesis “Multiscale Microtubule Plus-End Dynamics in Neurons and Epithelial Cells” last May, 2011. She continues to work in the Odde lab as a post-doc. Congratulations, Dr. Seetapun!
Graduate student Ben Bangasser received the NSF Graduate Fellowship in the spring of 2011. Congratulations, Ben!