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(12.15.04)
- Today at 12pm - Rowland Method Seminar, Marko Loncar (Harvard, DEAS), “Optical Waveguides and Photonic Crystals”

(12.08.04)
- Rowland Methods Seminar, Howard Berg, "Microscopy" Wednesday, Dec. 1st, 12pm (Rowland seminar room)

- NIH Grant for DNA Sequencing Technology Development Awarded to Amit Meller's Group, Rowland Institute at Harvard

(11.30.04)
- Employment Opportunities! Postdoc postions available.

- UPDATE - Our three new Rowland Junior Fellows have added content to their web pages.

(11.17.04)
- RIH Seminar -- November 9th, 1:30pm. Sam Wang Princeton University “Multiphoton optical approaches to learning rules in the brain.”

(11.08.04)
- Now Online -- 2005 Rowland Junior Fellows Program Brochure

(11.01.04)
- RIH Seminar October 14, 1:30pm. Ambarish Ghosh Brown University “Using light and sound to study electron bubbles.”

(10.14.04)
- UPDATE - Director's Page

- Read about the new Rowland Junior Fellows in the Harvard Gazette.

(09.14.04)
- thestubstopshere! is getting closer. The next paystub will be your last hardcopy stub! Learn how to view your online paystub.

(09.01.04)
- Amit Meller and colleagues are presenting at the ACS symposium Biophysical Chemistry and Novel Imaging of Single Molecules and Single Cells on August 26.

(08.20.04)
- Signs of the times; new Rowland Institute at Harvard signs.

(08.09.04)
- RIH Seminar this Thursday, August 5th at 11:00 AM. Geun Woo Lee of Washington University. “First X-Ray Scattering Studies on Electrostatically Levitated Metallic Liquids: Demonstrated Influence of Local Icosahedral Order on the Nucleation Barrier.”

(08.03.04)
- New 2003-04 Rowland member publications list. See what your fellow scientists have been writing about.

(07.22.04)
- Howard Berg and colleagues explore how mycoplasma mobile glide.

(07.21.04)
- A recent paper by Manfred Kappes's group at Karlsruhe features a collaboration with Joel Parks and Allison Danell

(07.20.04)
- New publication from Wei Yi, Mike Burns and others: “Electron microscope and electron diffraction images of iron-oxide crystals on Fe whiskers.”

(06.29.04)
- Did you know that you can download some software for free from FAS Computer Services? (Harvard ID and PIN required)

(06.22.04)
- Rowland Institute Seminar, Thursday (6/17) at 11:00am by Peter Schall (a postdoc in Frans's group at Harvard). The topic will be “Visualization of dislocation dynamics in colloidal crystals.”

- The Trapped Ion Dynamics Lab has published two presentaions, “Fluorescence Detection of Ion Frequencies in a Quadrupole Ion Trap” and “Electron Autodetachment and Fluorescence Measurements of Trapped Oligonucleotides”, that Allison and Ryan Danell made.

(06.16.04)
- Rowland Librarian, Garrett Eastman's presentation, RSS: What's in it for science libraries, SLC, April 5, 2004 is now available online as a PDF.

(06.01.04)
- On-Line Chemical Hygeine Training (requires VPN client, available from FAS computing)

- Freshman Seminar Presentations, Friday, 21 May at 3:30, seminar room (speckle interferometry, the inverted pendulum (Kapitza force) and fluorescence imaging of single DNA molecules thru carbon nanotube mats.

- Rowland Seminar Series starting off with Ryan C. Hayward on April 27th. Title: “Templated thin films of nanostructured inorganic oxides.”, Host: Zvonimir Dogic

- Rowland staff computational scientist Alan Stern is mentioned in an article in the Oregonian about developers and programmers working with Linux code.

(05.05.04)
- Amit Meller will present “Nanopore unzipping of DNA molecules” at the Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium Friday April 9, Pierce 209, 4PM

(04.26.04)
- Howard Berg (of Rowland's Bacterial Motor Works and Harvard's MCB) and Victor Sourjik have studied bacterial signalling networks using fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Recent papers, including their latest in Nature demonstrate the interactions and cooperativity of the proteins that make up these networks. (Harvard affiliates enter here)

- Rowland Junior Fellow Zvonimir Dogic is among a group at UPenn that reported a new method of aligining carbon nanotubes and from them forming a liquid-crystal like gel. The work was published in PRL. (see also Physics News Update and the Penn press release)

(04.03.04)
- Rowland's Bacterial Motor Works lab just published new results on harnessing swarms of bacteria, with their rotating flagella, to move fluids through microfluidic channels, dubbing them “bacterial carpets.”

(03.25.04)
- Amit Meller's Single-Molecule Biophysics Laboratory reports new single-molecule fluorescence results from a confocal microscope adapted with a custom flow cell.

(02.27.04)
- Rowland Institute At Harvard Open House For Graduate Students Monday, February 23, 2004 at 6:30 PM.

(02.13.04)
- Nick Darnton and Jake Jaffe posted their bacterial tracking software on the Bacterial Motor Works lab site.

(02.06.04)
- Rowland members photo directory (Internal use only)

(01.30.04)
- Linda Turner's collaborators at Brown are mentioned in an APS article about microfluidic hydrodynamics (“bacterial carpets”)

(01.30.04)
- The Rowland Library was mentioned in a recent article about blogging at Harvard.

(01.30.04)
- Recent paper by Joel Parks and Allison Danell - “Fraying and Autodetachment of Electrons in Gas-phase Oligonucleotides” - from a conference on ion activation in chemistry and biochemistry.

- Electronics Engineering Lab Project Highlights: two instruments (Tweezer Squeezer and the Rowland USB Response Box) are featured with more to come…

- Amit Meller is giving a talk at Northeastern next week: Thursday, January 22, 2004, 4:00pm, “Rapid DNA Analysis Using a Nanopore,” Dana 114. Maps: http://www.campusmap.neu.edu/map_buildings
/Dana.html
; http://www.campusmap.neu.edu/

- See recent paper and poster on fluorescence measurements of oligonucleotide duplexes by the Trapped Ion Dynamics Group.

- Howard Berg publishes E Coli in Motion

- Read recent news coverage of Linda Turner and colleagues' work harnessing the energy of the bacterial motor in the September 2003 issue of Scientific American http://80-www.sciamarchive.org.ezp2.harvard.edu/qpdf.cfm?
ArticleID_CHAR=DD1AA16F-EE15-EEAB-40B036DE84DDC626
(Harvard ID and PIN required) and Nature Science Update http://www.nature.com/nsu/030707/030707-9.html.