The Biophysical Society of Canada is pleased to announce that Dr. Sarah Rauscher @sarahrauscher.bsky.social is the recipient of the 2026 Early Career Investigator Award. Congratulations!!
#INSPIRE2026 is now open for registration. Spend 2-weeks getting hands on experience in #QuantitativeBiology and #ResearchTranslation @utm.utoronto.ca
www.utm.utoronto.ca/dean/inspire
Just out…our recent preprint on how she shapes of #bacteria can affect the stability of the #microbial communities they form
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Learn more about #INSPIRE, a program we developed at the interface of #biophysics, drug development, #innovation and #entrepreneurship
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At long last, are newest article on "Enhancing the applied force and range of axial optical tweezers” is out. #singlemolecule #biophysics
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Our experimental lab w/ the Hilfinger lab @uoft.bsky.social are jointly looking to hire a #postdoc in experimental biological #physics. Exploring noise and dynamics within single-cells and bacterial populations. Please share with anyone you think might be interested.
Here’s a great opportunity if you know of anyone looking for a postdoc.
This is based on our publication in #BioinformaticsAdvances, but is much much faster, does all the preprocessing for you, and has a nice GUI.
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If anyone is interested, we’ve developed a nice GUI in Python for molecular counting with #SMLM. Just give it a localization file and it will estimate the monomer/dimer fraction.
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A big shout out to everyone who’s marching at today’s #standupforscience events.
Another successful collaboration with the Beharry lab on #antimicrobial photodynamic therapy. This just out in @rscmedchem.rsc.org:
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Question: How much effort should go into library work? Hamming: It depends upon the field. I will say this about it. There was a fellow at Bell Labs, a very, very, smart guy. He was always in the library; he read everything. If you wanted references, you went to him and he gave you all kinds of references. But in the middle of forming these theories, I formed a proposition: there would be no effect named after him in the long run. He is now retired from Bell Labs and is an Adjunct Professor. He was very valuable; I'm not questioning that. He wrote some very good Physical Review articles; but there's no effect named after him because he read too much. If you read all the time what other people have done you will think the way they thought. If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what a lot of creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one. So yes, you need to keep up. You need to keep up more to find out what the problems are than to read to find the solutions. The reading is necessary to know what is going on and what is possible. But reading to get the solutions does not seem to be the way to do great research. So I'll give you two answers. You read; but it is not the amount, it is the way you read that counts.
Sometimes reading Hamming makes me sad, because I recognize myself in this quote.
Here’s an event I would highly recommend. Just around the corner if you’re in the GTA.
Lots of #imaging and #microscopy workshops coming up in Canada. Just thought I would share. Thanks @bioimagingna.bsky.social and #CanadaBioimaging
Here’s a bit more information on #INSPIRE2024. Feel free to print out and post.
Registration for #INSPIRE2025 is open to all #Physics, #Chemistry, and #Biology undergraduates with an interest in Quantitative Biological and Translational Sciences. Work directly in labs @uoft.bsky.social @uoftmississauga.bsky.social while also learning about #innovation and #entrepreneurship.
Look what I just found in my mailbox. It’s nice to finally see this is print.
Pleased to see that #SpinUP made the news. Lot’s of innovative research translation efforts happening here @uoftmississauga.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social
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Elegoo Saturn 2 8K Resin 3D Printer. That’s about $400 CAD!
We simply used an Elegoo Saturn 2. About $400 CAD!
Serpentine mixer mold
Forget a clean room, we can do most of our larger feature #microfluidics on a resin based #3Dprinter. Here’s a PDMS mold for a serpentine mixer that you can even bake at 120C.
We mostly do our own photolithography at a core facility on campus (craftmicrofluidics.ca). But for the Mother Machine video I posted, we actually inherited those molds from a colleagues lab.
Finally starting to get this system working. While these movies might not look too impressive, they make me feel good. #microfluidics #biophysics
Would be happy to participate if you need any speakers for next year.
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We’re looking to hire a theoretical #biological #physicist at either the Assistant or Associate professor level. The post closes soon, so please spread the word. #Toronto is a great place to live and work.
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Congrats to Zhang and Tianyi on successfully pulling off their #PhDs! Now I need more students…so if you know of anyone...
Could you add us please?
Please add my lab as well. Cheers.
