News
2018
Summer: Matt and Eta join the lab! Yea!
2017
November: Our collaborative paper on the mechanical stiffness of islets in Type 1 Diabetes was accepted for publication to JBC, in close collaboration with Paul Bollyky's lab at Stanford.
September: Welcome Matt Miller and Emily Yang, rotation students from the IMMP program.
April: Congrats to Jeff for publishing his work on using CyTOF in primary immunodeficiency diseases in JACI
March: Congrats to Tim for publishing his major work on the cytoskeletal regulation of the immune synapse in Science Signaling. The paper was chosen for the cover image!
January: Welcome Ian Perrone, rotation student from the IMMP program.
2016
December: The lab move to UCLA is finished. Hooray!
June: Congrats to Ken for publishing his work on mechanical force generation and sensation in T cells.
2015
October: We received a grant from the Stanford Cardiovascular Research Institute to study T cells in adults with congenital heart disease
September: Welcome James Hardin, PhD student in Immunology, as a rotation student. He's working on a rare immune disease.
August: We received a grant from the Stanford Child Health Research Institute to study T cells in children with congenital heart disease
June: Welcome to our newest postdoctoral fellow Irina Gurevich, PhD, who trained at the Weizmann Institute under Prof. Guy Shakhar
May: In a show of force, the Butte lab shows four posters at AAI, three from the lab and one with Joleen Sweere in the Bollyky Lab:
- The Actin Capping Protein Alpha-Adducin is Required for CD28 Costimulation.
- Role of microtubule acetylation in T cell activation and downstream function.
- Rho kinase activity dampens the activation of CD4+ T cells.
- Orienting incoming PhD students through hands-on training in immunology research methods.
2014
September: We were awarded a 5-year R01 award by the NIGMS to study the influences of nanomechanical forces on T cells
2013
August: The lab is awarded an NSF grant for 3 years for mechanobiology
July: Andrew's collaborative work with Vahid Serpooshan in Pilar Ruiz-Lozano's lab is accepted for publichation in Biomaterials
June: Manish is awarded the Tashia and John Morgridge Faculty Scholar award by the Stanford Child Health Research Institute
April: Welcome Ken Hu and Adi de la Zerda to the lab. Ken is a PhD student in Biophysics and Adi is a PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering.
5/26/13 Our collaborative paper is published in Acta Biomaterialia developing microneedles for diagnosting food allergies, perfomed with the Stanford BioADD team i
2/19/13 Marc's paper on GPU-accelerated 3D deconvolution was published in Optics Express.
1/7/13 Welcome to PhD rotation students Kenneth Hu (Biophysics) and Nick Bayless (Immunology)
2012
10/9/12 Jianwei's technique for labeling a single molecule on the AFM tip is accepted for publication in Applied Physics Letters
10/1/12 Welcome to our two new PhD rotation students, Adi de la Zerda (MatSci & Eng) and Thomas Keller (Immunology)
5/18/12 Jianwei publishes a string of papers in using AFM to measure cardiomyocytes, in Science Translational Medicine, in PLoS ONE, in Stem Cells and Development, and again in PLoS ONE.
4/24/12 Tim wins a slot on the T32 -- Training Grant in Adult and Pediatric Immunology. Congrats!
3/7/12 Our second paper, on the use of our planar waveguides for counting cells, is published in Biomicrofluidics. Manish was interviewed this morning on KGO/ABC news radio!
3/5/12 Welcome Tim Thauland, our newest postdoc, who completed his PhD in the Parker Lab at OHSU.
1/23/12 Our first paper is published on waveguide-diagnostics technology in Applied Physics Letters.
1/16/12 Welcome Dara Strauss-Albee and Sarah Denny, PhD rotation students
2011
12/2011 Manish wins Stanford Immunology Outstanding Faculty Mentor award
8/2011 Congratulations to Dan for finishing his postdoc and starting med school at Columbia Univ.
5/2011 Manish gives LPCH Grand Rouds.
3/2011 Andrew Wang joins lab as postdoctoral fellow
2010
2010-2012 Manish and Brian Feldman win SPARK/C-IDEA grant to develop ultra-low cost diagnotics for Type I diabetes
10/1/10 We received a Bio-X Interdisciplinary Award in a new project collaboratin with Prof. Nicholas Melosh in Materials Engineering
10/1/10 Dan Garcia, PhD joined our lab as a postdoctoral fellow.
9/1/10 Jianwei Liu, PhD joined our lab as a postdoctoral fellow, after a postdoc in the W.E. Moerner lab.
6/7/2010 Our lab was awarded an R21 grant from the NIH/NIAID to develop microfluidic devices for immune diagnostics.
6/3/2010 Congratulations to Marc Bruce for winning a Stanford Graduate Fellowship.
5/12/2010 We received a Professor Partnership award from NVIDIA Inc. for Marc's work in 3D deconvolution.
4/21/2010 Manish received a 2010 Baxter Faculty Scholar award for our work in nanotechnology.