April 9, 2024
Josh successfully defends his PhD thesis and becomes the 7th student to graduate from the Lab. Congratulations!
April 3, 2024
Salama lab NIH grant renewed! This grant will support new collaborative work between the Salama and Gahlmann labs. We will track cell shape-determining proteins in living Helicobacter pylori cells. The corkscrew shape of Helicobacter pylori cells enables this bacterium to efficiently colonize the human stomach, which causes gastritis, peptic ulcers, and, in some cases, gastric cancers.
Thanks to NIAID for the support!August 17, 2023
Is it possible to “weigh” soluble proteins and protein complexes in living cells by measuring their diffusion coefficients? Find out our opinion on this question in our review article: Single-molecule tracking to determine the abundances and stoichiometries of freely-diffusing protein complexes in living cells: past applications and future prospects
July 18, 2023
Yibo successfully defends his PhD thesis and becomes the sixth student to graduate from the Lab. Congratulations!
July 16, 2023
New Paper published! Alecia’s work reveals how iLID optogenetic interaction domains function in a single-molecule tracking experiments: Dimerization of iLID Optogenetic Proteins Observed Using 3D Single-Molecule Tracking in Live E.coli.
Now in press in the Biophysical Journal.
June 15, 2023
New NIH grant funded to support collaborative work between the Pires and Gahlmann labs! We will develop new approaches to understanding how antibiotics enter and are processed by bacterial cells, which could lead to new possibilities for treating antibiotic resistant infections. Thanks to NIAID for the support!
see also the associated press release.
March 10, 2023
Maddie Miles and Deepika Parthasarathy receive a Double Hoo Research Award for Undergraduate-Predoctoral Fellow Pairs. Congratulations and thanks for the support!
February 14, 2023
Josh wins the best poster prize (sponsored by the Microbiology Society) at the 4th Bacterial Cell Biology Fusion Conference in Cancun, Mexico! Congratulations and thanks for all the organizers and all attendees for a wonderful conference experience!
December 17, 2022
New Paper! Improved cell segmentation with Bacterial Cell Morphometry in 3D (BCM3D). BCM3D 2.0 is the newest version of our image analysis pipeline for single-cell measurements in 3D bacterial biofilms. BCM3D 2.0: Accurate segmentation of single bacterial cells in dense biofilms using computationally generated intermediate image representations. Now published in npj Biofilms and Microbiomes.
Congratulations to all the authors in the Gahlmann and Acton labs!see also the associated blog post
Nov 15, 2022
Deepika Parthasarathy and Rifa Iqbal join the group. Welcome!
Nov 10, 2022
New Paper! Josh’s work reveals new insights into the cytosolic assembly of type 3 secretion system proteins: Distinct complexes containing the cytosolic type III secretion system ATPase resolved by 3D single-molecule tracking in live Yersinia enterocolitica. Now published in Microbiology Spectrum.
August, 10, 2022
Alecia Achimovich successfully defends her PhD thesis and becomes the fifth student to graduate from the Lab. Congratulations!
May 09, 2022
Caroline Tyndall and Oliva de Cuba receive a GIDI-UP: Summer Research Award for Undergraduate-Pre/Postdoctoral Fellow Pairs from the UVA Global Infectious Disease Institute. Congratulations and thanks for the support!
May 02, 2022
Josh’s work reveals new insights into the cytosolic assembly of type 3 secretion system proteins: Distinct complexes containing the cytosolic type III secretion system ATPase resolved by 3D single-molecule tracking in live Yersinia enterocolitica. Now available on the bioRxiv.
April 28, 2022
Now available on the bioRxiv: BCM3D 2.0: Accurate segmentation of single bacterial cells in dense biofilms using computationally generated intermediate image representations.
April 11, 2022
Our long-term collaborator Jie Wang joins Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications as a Lecturer.
Congratulations and best of luck!April 20, 2022
Eric is awarded a Dean’s MPH-PhD Fellowship in Public Health. Another dual-degree in the making! Congratulations!
March 30, 2022
Maddie receives a College Science Scholar Summer Research Stipend. Congratulations and thanks!
February 24, 2022
The Gahlmann lab attended the 2022 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in San Francisco - our first in-person meeting after interacting with our colleagues mostly virtually. We presented three posters and two oral presentations and came home with so many new ideas. Thanks to everyone who came out. It’s been a while and it was so good to see you!
February 17, 2022
The Festschrift to honor W. E. Moerner is published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry. Organized by Guest Editors Julie S. Biteen, Matthew D. Lew, and Katherine A. Willets, it is a wonderful collection of articles celebrating the pioneering work and mentorship of W.E., an outstanding scientist who has and continues to inspire so many around the world!
- Tribute to W. E. Moerner
- Autobiography of W. E. Moerner
- About the cover
- Our contribution to the Festschrift: “Optically Accessible Microfluidic Flow Channels for Noninvasive High-Resolution Biofilm Imaging Using Lattice Light Sheet Microscopy”November, 25, 2021
Ji successfully defends his PhD thesis and becomes the fourth student to graduate from the Lab. Congratulations!
August 25, 2021
Caroline Tyndall and Maddie Miles join the group. Welcome!
April 28, 2021
Alina receives a Andrews summer research scholarship. Congratulations and thanks!
April 13, 2021
Ting successfully defends her PhD thesis and becomes the third student to graduate from the Lab. Congratulations!
March 25, 2021
Olivia de Cuba and Muaaz Luqman join the group. Welcome!
December 1, 2020
Bacterial Cell Morphometry 3D (BCM3D), our newest image analysis pipeline for single-cell measurements in 3D bacterial biofilms, is now published in Nature Communications: Non-Invasive 3D Single-Cell Morphometry (BCM3D) in Living Bacterial Biofilms
Congratulations to all the authors in the Gahlmann and Acton labs!
November 28, 2021
Eric Donarski and Alina Jiang join the group. Welcome!
January, 2021
Mingxing joins China’s Northeastern University as an Assistant Professor.
Congratulations and best of luck!November 20, 2020
Mingxing successfully defends his PhD thesis and becomes the second student to graduate from the Lab. Congratulations!
August 28, 2020
NIH NIGMS funds our proposal titled: Non-Invasive Single-Cell Morphometry and Tracking in Living Bacterial Biofilms.
Super excited and immensely grateful for the support!
May 28, 2020
Our collaborative effort with the Acton lab is now available on the bioRxiv: Non-Invasive 3D Single-Cell Morphometry (BCM3D) in Living Bacterial Biofilms (using in silico-trained U-Net convolutional neural networks followed by mathematical post-processing.)
December 6, 2019
Yibo is awarded a Dean’s MPH-PhD Fellowship in Data Science. An exciting dual-degree in the making! Congratulations!
November 21, 2019
Julian defends his PhD thesis and is the first student to graduate from the Gahlmann Lab. Congratulations and best of luck in your next position!
October 31, 2019
Mingxing’s and Jie’s joint project is highlighted by the UVA Data Science Institute.
Using machine learning and image data to study bacterial communities
May 1, 2019
Alecia’s review paper is online! Congratulations!
Enabling technologies in super-resolution fluorescence microscopy: Reporters, labeling, and methods of measurement.
April 19, 2019
Ting’s paper is published! Congratulations!
Computational correction of spatially-variant optical aberrations in 3D single-molecule localization microscopy
April 3, 2019
Patrick receives a Andrews summer research scholarship.
Congratulations and thanks!
March 25, 2019
Julian's paper is published. Congratulations!
Resolving cytosolic diffusive states in bacteria by single-molecule tracking
March 14, 2019
Yibo Wang joins the group. Welcome!
March 2, 2019
Mingxing and Jie were selected for the Presidential Fellows Program in Data Science. Congratulations!
These fellowship will support their research on 3D bacterial cell segmentation and shape analysis in bacterial biofilms.
March 1, 2019
Arslan gets accepted into the Janelia Undergraduate Scholars Program. Congratulations!
November 18, 2018
Joshua Prindle and Patrick Hart join the group. Welcome!
September 20, 2018
Alecia advances to Ph.D. candidacy. Congratulations, future Dr. Achimovich!
August 8, 2018
Julian's paper is accepted! …and it made the front cover!
Single-molecule tracking in live Yersinia enterocolitica reveals distinct cytosolic complexes of injectisome subunits
May 2, 2018
Arslan wins a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship from UVA's NanoSTAR Institute. Congratulations!
February 13, 2018
Ji advances to Ph.D. candidacy . Congratulations, future Dr. Zhang!
September 5, 2017
Welcome to our new group members!
Jackie Corbitt joins us as a postdoctoral scholar. Jackie comes to us from Paul Wiggins' lab at the University of Washington.
Mika Poblete joins the group as an undergraduate student. Welcome!
April 13, 2017
Arslan wins first place at the local ACS meeting poster session. Congratulations!
April 7, 2017
Mingxing wins second place at the 3rd year graduate student poster session. Congratulations!
March 17, 2017
Alecia Achimovich joins the group. Welcome!
February 13, 2017
Ting advances to Ph.D. candidacy . Congratulations, future Dr. Yan!
February 1, 2017
Ji Zhang and Arshiya Ansari join the group. Welcome!
November 26, 2016
Andreas will present new data at the 2017 Future of Biophysics Burroughs Wellcome Fund Symposium at the upcoming Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Hope to see you there!
October 28, 2016
Alma Rivera joins the group. Welcome!
August 30, 2016
Charles receives a Hartwell Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Congratulations, Charles!
This fellowship will support his research on elucidating the molecular mechanisms of exopolysaccharide biosynthesis and secretion that enable biofilm formation by the opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
August 1, 2016
Maya Hand joins us as a visiting high school student from St. Timothy's School in Stevenson, MD. Welcome!
April 1, 2016
Franziska Birmes joins us as a visiting scholar from the University of Muenster in Germany. Welcome!
March 7, 2016
Shariq wins the Mitchell Summer Research Scholarship in the UVA Physics Department. Congratulations!
March 2, 2016
Funding arrives from the Jeffress Memorial Trust Awards Program in Interdisciplinary Research. Thank you!
The award will support undergraduate and graduate research as well as a new project in microbial biofilm imaging.
February 1, 2016
Arslan Aziz joins the group. Welcome!
December 4, 2015
Ting Yan joins the group. Welcome!
June 3, 2015
Shariq wins the Mitchell Scholarship in the UVA Physics Department. Congratulations!
June 1, 2015
Welcome to our new group members!
Charles Richardson joins us as a postdoctoral scholar from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport.
Soraya Tarrah joins us as a summer research student through the VA/NC Alliance.
April 7, 2015
Caroline and Eugene have won a Bass and a Xiang scholarship to support their summer research.
Congratulations and thanks UVA!
Sven Lidin, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, explains the significance of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
November 20, 2014
Mingxing Zhang and Julian Rocha join as the first graduate students.
October 8, 2014
Congratulations to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell, and W. E. Moerner for winning the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.
August 25, 2014
Caroline Darch, Eugene Cai, and Michael MacKnight join as the first group members.