Thomas Perkins
@ThomasTPerkins
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Biophysicist; Fellow, JILA
Boulder, CO USA
Joined June 2021
Interested in mechanobiology? Checkout this hands on workshop for grad students and postdocs.
mechanotechnology.org
CPMM will be hosting a hands-on workshop from June 14-17th, 2025, open to graduate students and postdocs who would like to gain an understanding of molecular mechanobiology. Please see attached for more details, or visit our website at https://t.co/eotWNszrBt
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Six days left to apply to SMB 2025 in Aspen, CO. Lots of great single molecule biophysics in a spectacular location. For details on the meeting and the application process, see our web site: https://t.co/SZ2d0iRun7 Please RT. -Aaron and Tom
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Searching for new Fellows is part of how we learn about the most exciting work being done by young people in our field. We hope to make three new appointments with three year terms. Please apply!
Finishing your PhD and interested in the Physics of Life? We are in the midst of our annual search for new Fellows. We are looking for both theorists and experimentalists ready for a bit more independence than a regular postdoc. To learn more:
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Applications are now open for SMB 2025, the 12th biennial conference on Single Molecule Biophysics at the Aspen Center for Physics in Aspen, Colorado USA, over Jan. 5-9, 2025. Application deadline is September 15. Please RT. https://t.co/SZ2d0iRun7
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Congrats to JILA Postdoc Brandon Dzuba for getting a Best Poster Award at the 2024 Single Molecule Approaches to Biology (GRC) conference. Dzuba works with JILA and @NIST Fellow and @CUBoulder MCD prof @ThomasTPerkins. https://t.co/CnmPjXLqdV
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Save the date for Single Molecule Biophysics 2025 (SMB 2025) to be held over January 5-10, 2025 (inclusive) at the Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, Colorado. To get your name on our emailing list, contact tperkins@colorado.edu. Please RT. https://t.co/SZ2d0iRun7
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Congratulations Anna Maria Rey Ayala of @CUBoulder, @NIST, and @JILAscience, newly inducted #NASmember! #NAS161 #physics
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Watt Webb was my undergraduate mentor. And remains my role model. I walked into his office sophomore year and asked for a job, any job. I was a physics major with little to no understanding of biology. But I was curious. I started by sweeping the floors, literally (1/n)
Biophysical Journal Call for Papers Special issue dedicated to Watt W. Webb: Point spread functions—from fluorescence correlation spectroscopy to multiphoton microscopy
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Alexis Templeton, a professor #CUBoulder will be talking about a newly launched project to explore whether scientists can coax rocks deep underground to produce large supplies of hydrogen at the #AAASmtg. Follow @CUBoulderNews for more #AAAS info!
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The Greenleaf lab is looking to recruit graduate students and postdocs interested in combinatorial cell state engineering. If you are interested combining multiplex perturbations and single cell readouts to "push" cells into target states, email Will!
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This is happening 🤩 #BPS2024 @CarolynBertozzi @taekjip @binwu1 @Cisse_lab @airstreets @BiophysicalSoc
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Check out DNA mechanocapsules for programmable piconewton responsive drug delivery. Congrats Arventh and team! https://t.co/UbGl0Gtn4f
nature.com
Nature Communications - The mechanical dysregulation of cells is associated with several diseases and strategies to deliver drugs based on the “mechanical phenotype” of a cell are...
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Excited to share work led by David Jacobson measuring a light-induced energetic change in single molecules of bacteriorhodopsin (bR) As a bonus, an unexpected long-lived "misfolded" state off of bR's canonical photocycle. #singlemolecule #AFM #membrane
https://t.co/x3T2MyjNEh
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𝐆𝐀𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑 Niwot CO sophomore Addy Ritzenhein has been named the National Girls Cross Country Player of the Year, becoming the first sophomore to win the coveted award from Gatorade since Katelyn Tuohy won it in 2018.
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Congratulations to sophomore Addy Ritzenhein for capturing a NATIONAL Championship today at the Nike Cross Nationals! Congrats also to the Girls Team (2nd place) & the Boys Team (5th place) for a job well done! @SVVSDsupt @SVVSDdeputy @niwotathletics @goSVVSD @lefthandvc @SVVSD
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Niwot (CO) and Air Academy (CO) girls programs booked their tickets to Portland for NXN with 1-2 finishes at NXR Southwest on Saturday. https://t.co/GfTiyexZ4t
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Niwot and Air Academy girls officially booked their tickets to Nike Cross Nationals.
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Colorado Girls Performer Of The Week: October 8-14 https://t.co/Jifca4Fhat
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Congrats to Niwot\'s Sarah Perkins - Her victory at Warrior Lincoln Park Classic (SWL Championships) claimed last week\'s Performer of the Week!
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Excited to share that our lab received #MIRA #R35 award from @NIGMS to study the structural and functional dynamics of spike proteins using HS-AFM techniques #AFM. Two postdoc positions are open for biophysicist biochemist, or molecular biologist to join our team. #postdocjobs
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Congratulations to JILA's Physics Frontiers Center (PFC) for receiving $25 million from the @NSF! Read more about the history of JILA's PFC, its current programs, and future missions. @NIST, @CUBoulderphys
https://t.co/CYOvStYiXf
#physics #scienceaward #grant #nsf #funding
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