(she/her/they/them) 🏳️🌈 Biophysics PhD student at UChicago, studying lipid monolayers and materials science!
Joined February 2020
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
13 Feb 2024
Congrats to Anna Gaffney for winning the poster competition in theory and computation at the @BiophysicalSoc meeting! Amazing work on a generalized continuum model of lipid monolayer elasticity implemented with finite elements.
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
4 May 2023
Introducing Dr. Thomas Shaw! Congrats to Thomas for a great talk and thesis -- and check out that cake made by veatchlab members and alums including @ss_shelbs @AdamDecker98 @JenChemFlan inspired by a figure made by @biophysnerd!
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
21 Apr 2023
Congratulations to Blessing Nnate who presented her work on fluid structure interaction modeling in aortic dissections at the @UChicago Undergraduate Research Symposium! @UChicagoAorta @uchicagosurgery
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
30 Mar 2023
Last week, my group along with @machtagroup published new measurements of cholesterol availability in membranes made from mixtures with one or two phospholipids in @BiophysJ. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
22 Feb 2023
The ladies of the Luka Lab (@SurgBioMech) took @BiophysicalSoc by storm!! Repping @UChicago all the way @anna_gaffney_ @WillaLi_1 #WomenInSTEM
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
20 Aug 2020
.@UMich's Aaron Frank receives a @UM_MICDE Catalyst Grant to explore leveraging generative AI for the De Novo Design of biomolecular probes. This is one of four U-M projects funded by MICDE to advance computational discovery. micde.umich.edu/catalyst/
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
I'm thrilled we're on @PNAS's cover (pnas.org/content/117/33.cove…). @CaitlinCornell6 & our team used cryoEM to identify domains in phase-separated membranes by probe-free & labeling techniques. Also check out the linked (simultaneous) paper by our super colleagues @LeventalLab et al!
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
15 May 2020
Happy to see this one out @PLOSBiology. We slowed down drug-resistant bacteria with...sensitive bacteria! Fun collaboration with @The_Woods_Lab and Andrew Read group (PSU). Co-led by Elsa Hansen and recent @UMBiophys PhD Jason Karslake.
journals.plos.org/plosbiolog…
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
2 May 2020
me after running experiments in complete silence for 5 hours
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
11 Apr 2020
Max Planck biophysicists are analyzing the surface protein of the coronavirus to identify binding sites for vaccines and drugs ow.ly/oUAs50zbiad
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
31 Mar 2020
So exciting to hear great news about our outstanding graduate students. Congratulations to Usha Kadiyala in being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Usha is pursuing her PhD working with Professor Qiong Yang. Huge congrats Usha!
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
27 Mar 2020
Our newest paper is out! (I guess its been a while, what has been going on to keep me from noticing?) This is our clearest evidence yet for sorting of phase markers in cells and proposes that membrane domains can work in concert with other process. molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10.…
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
26 Mar 2020
#lipidtime paper!
After a long journey, our paper on live-cell lipid biochemistry is now out at PNAS! We developed a method that allows you to change plasma membrane lipid levels quantitatively with sub-second time resolution:
pnas.org/content/early/2020/…
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
23 Mar 2020
Read about the impact of Biophysical Journal articles through the years. Publications Committee member Andrea Gohlke writes about a 17-year-old article published in BJ that explored the ground rules of phase separation in lipid bilayer. ow.ly/zoJd50yTkkQ
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
21 Mar 2020
This is cool! An ELISA for covid antibodies. Looks like smtg anyone can do to tell who’s been infected and gotten better.
20 Mar 2020
We are trying to do this two ways: 1) Establish at clinical lab at Sinai and 2) share widely so that other labs can set it up. We have sent reagents/plasmids to >50 labs including labs that will then share reagents locally. Kind of an academic grassroots movement.
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
I started making a list of all the things I need to do to take my Spring 2020 course entirely online, got immediately overwhelmed, and then procrastinated by watching @SimoneGiertz make a brain-shaped paper shredder.
26 Feb 2020
Video on how I built it here: youtu.be/AjEDvKFs_78
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
4 Mar 2020
Save the Date for the Annual Symposium in Biophysics on 3.13.2020!
Theme: Complex Systems in Biology
Anderson Hall, Michigan Union, 9am-5pm
Register for the event: ow.ly/HzP750yCJDs
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
26 Feb 2020
Introducing the Departmental talks for the 2020 Annual Biophysics Symposium
@KevinWoodUM @JulieBiteenLab and Aaron Frank.
Save the Date: 3.13.2020
Theme: Complex Systems in Biology
Anderson Hall, Michigan Union, 9-5pm
Register for the event: ow.ly/Otjz50yubDK
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
24 Feb 2020
Students are ready for the 2020 Annual Biophysics Symposium, are you?
SAVE THE DATE: 3.13.2020
Theme: Complex Systems in Biology
Anderson Hall, Michigan Union, 9-5pm
Register for the event: ow.ly/lG3A50yub3P
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Anna Gaffney retweeted
20 Feb 2020
Need a bit of post-#bps20 membrane science booster?!?
Maybe check out our new review in @TrendsCellBio... there one where we claim that "Lipid Rafts: Controversies Resolved, Mysteries Remain"
cell.com/trends/cell-biology…
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