News

Curtis Wins CMBE Travel Award, Gives Talk

January 2022

Curtis Shoyer received a travel award for the 2022 BMES CMBE (Cellular and Biomolecular Engineering) Conference, where he gave a research talk titled "A Mechanochemical Switch for Supracellular Migration." Great work, Curtis!

Ben Presents at BSURF Poster Session

July 2021

Congrats to Benjamin Johns, rising sophomore, on his recent poster presentation titled “Biosensors to Investigate Collective Cell Migration.” Thank you to Duke’s Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Fellowship (BSURF) program for an awesome summer!

Congratulations Dr. Collins!

April 2021

Kasie Collins successfully defended her thesis titled "Developing a Generalizable Assay for Probing the Effects of Mechanical Force on the Function of Fluorescent Proteins within Molecular Tension Sensors" on March 30th, 2021. Congratulations DR. Collins!

Hoffman Lab Virtually Attends CMBE Awards Symposium

January 2021

Congratulations Dr. Hoffman for hosting a successful CMBE Awards Symposium on January 22nd, 2021 and congrats to all the awardees!

Hoffman Lab Virtually Attends BMES 2020

November 2020

Congratulations to Arnold, Curtis and Juilee who presented talks virtually!

Meghan Wins CBTE Fellowship

July 2020

Congratulations to Meghan Reynolds, rising second year PhD student on receiving the CBTE fellowship/ NIH National Institute for General Medical Science training grant!

Welcome Siyan and Erick!

July 2020

The Hoffman lab welcomes Siyan and Erick to the lab as first year PhD students! Congratulations and welcome aboard!

Dr. Hoffman Wins Bass Fellowship and Named Appointment!

April 2020

Dr. Hoffman was named a 2020 Bass Fellow as one of five faculty members who demonstrated excellence in research and undergraduate instruction. Congratulations Dr. Hoffman, we are very proud!

Curtis Wins NSF Fellowship

March 2020

Congratulations to Curtis on being awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

Congratulations Dr. Gates!