2020
22 Jul: Tommy and Mike's paper on information and criticality appears in PRL. Congratulations both!
9 Jul: Nick receives the Fulbright Scholarship. Congratulations Nick!
26 Jun: Shivam and Sean's paper on how cells tell time appears in PRE. Congratulations both!
12 May: Nick receives the Richard W. King Award and the Ramdas Award. Congratulations Nick!
23 Apr: Shivam receives the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship. Congratulations Shivam!
22 Apr: Sean, Mike, and Nick's paper on flow sensing by self-communicating cells appears in PRL. Congratulations all!
26 Feb: Xiaoling's paper on spiral waves appears in Biophysical Journal. Congratulations Xiaoling!
18 Feb: Andrew speaks at the Advances in Theoretical and Experimental Methods for Analyzing Complex Regulatory Networks workshop at the Banff International Research Station.
2019
2 Dec: Xiaoling and Ushasi's paper on percolation statistics in bacteria appears in PLoS Computational Biology. Congratulations both!
21 Nov: Andrew gives the Physics Colloquium at Vanderbilt University.
19 Nov: Xiaoling successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Xiaoling!
30 Oct: Andrew gives the Physics Colloquium at Indiana University.
4 Oct: Nick wins second prize ($750) in the undergraduate poster competition at the Conference on Quantitative Approaches in Biology at the NSF-Simons Center at Northwestern. Congratulations Nick!
4 Oct: Mike speaks and Ushasi, Shivam, Soutick, and Nick present posters at the Conference on Quantitative Approaches in Biology at the NSF-Simons Center at Northwestern.
30 Sep: Andrew speaks at the Center for the Physics of Biological function at Princeton.
26 Aug: Tommy, Curtis, and Mike's paper on critical slowing down in immune cells appears in PRE. Congratulations all!
15 Aug: The Mugler group receives an NSF/MCB grant with Matt Bennett and Krešo Josić.
31 Jul: Andrew co-organizes and Mike presents a poster at the 13th Annual q-bio Conference at UCSF.
22 Jul: Andrew lectures at the Boulder School on Theoretical Biophysics.
12 Jul: Xiaoling receives the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship. Congratulations Xiaoling!
9 Jul: Andrew presents a poster at the Human Frontier Science Program Awardees Meeting in Japan.
10 Apr: Julien and Soutick's paper on cancer cell chemotaxis appears in PLoS Computational Biology. Congratulations both!
5 Apr: Sean successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Sean!
4 Mar: Sean, Xiaoling, Shivam, and Mike speak at the APS March Meeting in Boston, MA.
27 Feb: Andrew speaks at Yale.
26 Feb: Tommy's paper on universality in immune cells appears in PRE. Congratulations Tommy!
11 Feb: Andrew speaks at the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at Rice.
4 Feb: Andrew speaks at Carnegie Mellon.
31 Jan: Andrew speaks at the University of Pittsburgh.
10 Jan: Andrew speaks at Northwestern.
6 Jan: Sean presents a poster at the Gordon Research Conference on Stochastic Physics in Biology in Ventura, CA.
2018
17 Nov: Andrew and Sean speak and Xiaoling and Shivam present posters at the Conference on Quantitative Approaches in Biology at Northwestern.
7 Nov: Andrew gives a lecture at the 3rd course on Multiscale Integration in Biological Systems at Institut Curie in Paris.
25 Jul: Xiaoling and Sacha's paper on percolation in bacteria appears as the cover article in Cell Systems. Congratulations both!
13 Jul: Andrew and Sean's chapter on stochastic modeling appears in the q-bio textbook. Congratulations both!
9 Jul: Andrew co-organizes and Tommy speaks at the Mathematical Approaches to Cell-Cell Communication and Collective Behaviours workshop at the Banff International Research Station.
26 Jun: Sean and Shivam speak and Shivam presents a poster at the 12th Annual q-bio Conference at Rice.
7 Jun: Shivam and Julien's paper on how cells tell time appears in PLoS Computional Biology. Congratulations both!
18 Apr: Sean receives the Purdue Cagiantas Fellowship. Congratulations Sean!
31 Mar: Former REU student Sacha Greenfield receives the Goldwater Scholarship. Congratulations Sacha!
5 Mar: Tommy, Sean, Xiaoling, and Shivam speak and Andrew co-organizes a session at the APS March Meeting in Los Angeles, CA.
1 Mar: Andrew speaks at the Purdue Center for Cancer Research seminar.
18 Jan: Andrew writes the Research Focus in the department's Physics Interactions newsletter.
2017
6 Nov: Julien successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Julien!
4 Nov: Shivam presents a poster at the EMBO Conference on Quantitative Principles in Biology in Heidelberg, Germany.
30 Oct: Julien and Sean's paper on emergent chemotaxis appears in PRL. Congratulations both!
21 Oct: Curtis speaks at the APS Four Corners Meeting in Fort Collins, CO.
6 Sep: Andrew speaks at the Purdue Biological Sciences Structural Biology Seminar.
22 Aug: Andrew becomes a member of the Purdue Center for Cancer Research.
22 Aug: Graduate student Michael Vennettilli joins the group. Welcome Mike!
3 Aug: Tommy coorganizes and speaks at the Information Engines at the Frontiers of Nanoscale Thermodynamics workshop at Telluride Science Research Center.
25 Jul: Tommy and Sean speak and Sean and Xiaoling present posters at the 11th Annual q-bio Conference at Rutgers.
12 Jul: Andrew presents a poster at the Human Frontier Science Program Awardees Meeting in Lisbon.
13 Jun: Andrew speaks at the Canadian Workshop on Information Theory in Quebec City.
4 Jun: Xiaoling attends the q-bio Summer School in Fort Collins, CO.
30 May: REU student Curtis Peterson joins the group. Welcome Curtis!
8 May: Andrew gives the Physics Colloquium at Oregon State.
3 May: Julien receives the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship. Congratulations Julien!
27 Apr: Sean receives the Edward S. Akeley Award for theoretical physics. Congratulations Sean!
8 Apr: Sean speaks and Julien presents a poster at the Midwest Qbio Symposium at Notre Dame.
7 Apr: Andrew speaks at the Simons Conference on Theory & Biology.
14 Feb: Sean's paper on collective sensing appears in PRL as an Editor's Suggestion. Congratulations Sean!
8 Jan: Julien presents a poster at the Gordon Research Conference on Stochastic Physics in Biology in Ventura, CA.
2016
23 Dec: The Mugler group receives an NIH/NIGMS R01 grant with Gurol Suel.
16 Dec: Andrew speaks at TU Delft and AMOLF in the Netherlands.
22 Oct: Andrew co-organizes the Midwest QBio Symposium at Purdue.
3 Oct: Andrew speaks at the UCSD qBio Seminar.
12 Sep: Andrew speaks at the Purdue Chemistry Biochemistry Seminar.
29 Aug: Tommy's paper on cell-cell communication appears in PNAS. Congratulations Tommy!
9 Aug: Julien's paper on collective chemotaxis appears in Biophysical Journal and is featured on the homepage [video]. Congratulations Julien!
27 Jul: Tommy speaks and Julien and Sean present posters at the 10th Annual q-bio Conference at Vanderbilt.
23 Jun: Tommy coorganizes Information Engines at the Frontiers of Nanoscale Thermodynamics workshop at Telluride Science Research Center; Tommy and Andrew speak.
6 Jun: Graduate student Shivam Gupta and REU student Sacha Greenfield join the group. Welcome Shivam and Sacha!
20 May: Sean's paper on spatial gradient sensing appears in Physical Biology. Congratulations Sean!
18 May: Julien presents a poster at the Information, Probability and Inference in Systems Biology Conference at IST Austria.
16 May: Graduate student Xiaoling Zhai joins the group. Welcome Xiaoling!
11 May: Julien and Andrew present posters at the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Biomolecular Galaxy Mini-symposium at Purdue.
28 Apr: Andrew receives the Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching.
15 Apr: The Mugler Group recieves a 2016-2017 Purdue Research Foundation grant.
12 Apr: Trey's paper on molecular clustering appears in Biophysical Journal. Congratulations Trey!
9 Apr: Tommy and Luke give "lightning" talks at the 3rd Semi-Annual Midwestern Quantitative Biology (MidQBio) Seminar.
22 Mar: Luke's paper on bacterial decision-making appears in PLoS Computional Biology. Congratulations Luke!
22 Mar: Andrew speaks at the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at Rice, and then at the University of Houston.
18 Mar: The Mugler group receives a Human Frontier Science Program grant with Rik Korswagen and Marie-Anne Felix.
14 Mar: Julien, Sean, Tommy, and Andrew speak at the APS March Meeting in Baltimore.
29 Feb: Tommy presents a poster and Andrew speaks at the Biophysical Society Meeting in LA.
16 Feb: Julien's paper on collective sensing appears in Molecular Pharmaceutics. Congratulations Julien!
10 Feb: Andrew speaks at the Workshop on Modeling and Inference from Single Molecules to Cells at Ohio State.
20 Jan: Andrew's work appears in Nature Nanotech, PRL, and PNAS (twice), all in a two-month span! [press release]
11 Jan: Rotation student Teng Bian joins the group. Welcome Teng!
11 Jan: Tommy attends the School on Physics Applications in Biology, São Paulo, Brazil.
2015
3 Dec: Andrew speaks at the USC Workshop on Communications, Inference, And Computing In Molecular And Biological Systems.
30 Nov: Andrew's paper on DNA motors appears in Nature Nanotechnology. [press release]
14 Nov: Andrew speaks at the 2nd Chicago Area QBio meeting.
10 Nov: Tommy speaks at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Computational Biology Seminar.
16 Oct: Andrew gives the Physics Colloquium at UM-Dearborn.
1 Oct: Andrew gives the Physics Colloquium at IUPUI.
3 Jun: The Mugler Group receives the 2015-2016 Showalter Trust Award with Co-PI Bumsoo Han.
26 May: Graduate student Sean Fancher and REU student Luke Hayden join the group. Welcome Sean and Luke!
19 May: Andrew speaks at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems in Snowbird, UT.
18 May: Andrew is named a Simons Investigator in the Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems, 2015-2020.
14 May: Andrew speaks at the Purdue Mini-symposium, Hitchiker's Guide to the Protein Galaxy.
28 Apr: The Mugler Group recieves a 2015-2016 Purdue Research Foundation grant.
15 Apr: Andrew gives the Purdue Biomedical Engineering Colloquium.
3 Mar: Andrew speaks at the APS March Meeting.
12 Jan: Postdoc Tommy Byrd and graduate student Julien Varennes join the group. Welcome Tommy and Julien!
2014
20 Nov: Andrew gives the Purdue Physics Colloquium.
13 Oct: Andrew speaks at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
15 Sep: Undergraduate researcher Trey Roob joins the group. Welcome Trey!
25 Aug: Andrew joins the department. Welcome Andrew!