News Archive

November 22, 2013 - Brent gives an invited talk at the South East Section of the American Physics Society in Bowling Green, KY
November 10, 2013 - Brent travels to Atlanta for the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society Meeting
November 6, 2013 - Brent gives an invited talk to the Duke Cardiovascular Research Center
October 23, 2013 - The Hoffman Lab joins the Duke Structural Biology and Biophysics Program. We are looking forward to recruiting some great students!
October 14, 2013 - Brent gives an invited talk to the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology at UNC-Chapel. It was great to take a trip to "Focal Adhesion Heaven"!
October 2, 2013 - The Hoffman and Gersbach Labs receive a seed grant from the Pratt School of Engineering! Thank you, Pratt!
September 25-28, 2013 - Brent attends the BMES National Meeting in Seattle Washington. It was great catching up with old colleagues and meeting new ones!
September 19-20, 2013 - Brent gives an invited talk at Cambridge University during the eighth annual Physics of Living Matter Symposium . This was an amazing conference (and trip)!
September 9, 2013 - Brent gives a talk to the Structural Biology and Biophysics Program at Duke University
September 1, 2013 - Check out this great write-up about our and others work on molecular tension sensors in the Scientist!
August 19, 2013 - Evan Gates joints the lab as a graduate student in BME. Welcome, Evan!
August 1, 2013 - Matthew Berginski joins the lab as a Post-doc. Welcome, Matt!
July 8, 2013 - Andy LaCroix is awarded the James McElhaney Fellowship!! Congrats, Andy!
June 20, 2013 - Vidya Venkatraman joins the lab as a technician. Welcome, Vidya!
June 2, 2013 - Undergraduate Andrew Lokker joins the lab. Welcome, Andrew!
June 1, 2013 - Check out this nice summary of the work going on in the Hoffman lab.
May 12, 2013 - Congrats to the first alums of the Hoffman Lab! Thanks for all the hard work, Ben and Niloy!
April 25, 2013 - Brent gives an invited talk to the Triangle MRSEC at NCSU
April 3, 2013 - The Hoffman Lab is awarded a Searle Scholar Award! This is first time a Duke BME faculty member has been named a Searle Scholar!!
March 29, 2013 - Katy Rothenberg is awarded a NSF Graduate ResearchFellowship!! Congrats, Katy!
March 29, 2013 - Andy LaCroix is awarded Honorable Mention for his
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship application! Congrats, Andy!
February 2, 2013 - Brent travels to Philadelphia for the Biophysical Society Meeting. The BPS has started a Mechanobiology Subgroup!
February 1, 2013 - First grant!! The March of Dimes has awarded a Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Award to the Hoffman Lab for a project entitled "Molecular Forces Across Vinculin as a Primary Determinant of Collective Migration."
January 13, 2013 - Brent travels to Fort Lauderdale for the International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering

December 7, 2012 - Katy Rothenberg receives a Feng Fellowship from the Pratt School of Engineering. Congrats, Katy!
November 26, 2012 - Joshua Lewis joins the Hoffman lab as a Pratt Fellow. Congrats, Josh!
November 10, 2012 - Brent travels to San Diego for the American Society of Matrix Biology Meeting
November 8, 2012 - Brent gives a invited talk at the Carolina Biophysics Symposium
October 24, 2012 - Brent travels to Atlanta to give a talk at Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting
October 4, 2012 - Brent travels to Dublin, Ireland for the Exciting Biologies: Forces in Cell Biology Meeting
September 4, 2012 - The Hoffman lab welcomes high school student Wes Maloney
August 28, 2012 - Brent joins the Ce nter for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering
August 20, 2012 - The Hoffman lab welcomes our first BME graduate students Andrew LaCroix and Katy Rothenberg
June 1, 2012 - The Hoffman lab welcomes undergraduate students Niloy Ghosh and Ben Trautman
May 7 2012 - Brent receives a secondary appointment in Cell Biology
April 12, 2012 - Brent joins the Duke Cardiovascular Research Center
March 1, 2012 - Aarti Urs joins the Hoffman lab as our first graduate student
January 1, 2012 - The Hoffman lab opens