Anna Gaffney
@biophysnerd
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(she/her/they/them) 🏳️🌈 Biophysics PhD student at UChicago, studying lipid monolayers and materials science!
Chicago, IL
Joined February 2020
Congrats to Anna Gaffney for winning the poster competition in theory and computation at the @BiophysicalSoc meeting! Amazing work on a generalized continuum model of lipid monolayer elasticity implemented with finite elements.
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Introducing Dr. Thomas Shaw! Congrats to Thomas for a great talk and thesis -- and check out that cake made by veatchlab members and alums including @ss_shelbs @AdamDecker98 @JenChemFlan inspired by a figure made by @biophysnerd!
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Congratulations to Blessing Nnate who presented her work on fluid structure interaction modeling in aortic dissections at the @UChicago Undergraduate Research Symposium! @UChicagoAorta @uchicagosurgery
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Last week, my group along with @machtagroup published new measurements of cholesterol availability in membranes made from mixtures with one or two phospholipids in @BiophysJ.
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The ladies of the Luka Lab (@SurgBioMech) took @BiophysicalSoc by storm!! Repping @UChicago all the way @anna_gaffney_ @WillaLi_1 #WomenInSTEM
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.@UMich's Aaron Frank receives a @UM_MICDE Catalyst Grant to explore leveraging generative AI for the De Novo Design of biomolecular probes. This is one of four U-M projects funded by MICDE to advance computational discovery. https://t.co/vB0BlVlNj2
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I'm thrilled we're on @PNAS's cover ( https://t.co/2yGOFARQwp).
@CaitlinCornell6 & our team used cryoEM to identify domains in phase-separated membranes by probe-free & labeling techniques. Also check out the linked (simultaneous) paper by our super colleagues @LeventalLab et al!
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Happy to see this one out @PLOSBiology. We slowed down drug-resistant bacteria with...sensitive bacteria! Fun collaboration with @The_Woods_Lab and Andrew Read group (PSU). Co-led by Elsa Hansen and recent @UMBiophys PhD Jason Karslake. https://t.co/8F9koT2Vsz
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Adding antibiotic-susceptible cells to otherwise resistant bacterial populations can be used to slow microbial growth in the presence of antibiotics; this provides support for a containment strategy...
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me after running experiments in complete silence for 5 hours
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Max Planck biophysicists are analyzing the surface protein of the coronavirus to identify binding sites for vaccines and drugs
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Max Planck researchers want to analyse the surface protein of the coronavirus to identify binding sites for vaccines and drugs
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So exciting to hear great news about our outstanding graduate students. Congratulations to Usha Kadiyala in being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Usha is pursuing her PhD working with Professor Qiong Yang. Huge congrats Usha!
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Our newest paper is out! (I guess its been a while, what has been going on to keep me from noticing?) This is our clearest evidence yet for sorting of phase markers in cells and proposes that membrane domains can work in concert with other process.
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B-cells become activated by ligands with varying valency and mode of presentation to the B-cell receptor (BCR). We previously demonstrated that clustering the immunoglobulin M (IgM) isotype of BCR...
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#lipidtime paper! After a long journey, our paper on live-cell lipid biochemistry is now out at PNAS! We developed a method that allows you to change plasma membrane lipid levels quantitatively with sub-second time resolution: https://t.co/zVA9XQ6vZX
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Read about the impact of Biophysical Journal articles through the years. Publications Committee member Andrea Gohlke writes about a 17-year-old article published in BJ that explored the ground rules of phase separation in lipid bilayer.
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For Biophysics Week, members of the Publications Committee selected a few influential articles from Biophysical Journal to highlight as well as the people who wrote them. This is the first in the...
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This is cool! An ELISA for covid antibodies. Looks like smtg anyone can do to tell who’s been infected and gotten better.
@Laurie_Garrett We are trying to do this two ways: 1) Establish at clinical lab at Sinai and 2) share widely so that other labs can set it up. We have sent reagents/plasmids to >50 labs including labs that will then share reagents locally. Kind of an academic grassroots movement.
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I started making a list of all the things I need to do to take my Spring 2020 course entirely online, got immediately overwhelmed, and then procrastinated by watching @SimoneGiertz make a brain-shaped paper shredder.
Video on how I built it here:
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Save the Date for the Annual Symposium in Biophysics on 3.13.2020! Theme: Complex Systems in Biology Anderson Hall, Michigan Union, 9am-5pm Register for the event: https://t.co/VIUdpMjRkn
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Introducing the Departmental talks for the 2020 Annual Biophysics Symposium @KevinWoodUM @JulieBiteenLab and Aaron Frank. Save the Date: 3.13.2020 Theme: Complex Systems in Biology Anderson Hall, Michigan Union, 9-5pm Register for the event:
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Students are ready for the 2020 Annual Biophysics Symposium, are you? SAVE THE DATE: 3.13.2020 Theme: Complex Systems in Biology Anderson Hall, Michigan Union, 9-5pm Register for the event: https://t.co/5aBhzQfICu
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Need a bit of post-#bps20 membrane science booster?!? Maybe check out our new review in @TrendsCellBio... there one where we claim that "Lipid Rafts: Controversies Resolved, Mysteries Remain" https://t.co/WdCYL4rtW1
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