NEWS & Events

• September 30, 2016: Graduate student Krista Freeman is recognized at the Cleveland State University Distinguished Alumni Award Gala as the first distinguished alumna of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Honors College.


• April 29, 2016: Graduate student Ting Liu successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Biophysics of encapsidated DNA states in viruses and their role for infectivity".


• August 20, 2015: Graduate student Ting Liu selected to the inaugural class of CMU Presidential Fellows as a recipient of Bruce McWilliams Presidential Fellowship in the Mellon College of Science 2015-16.


• July 20, 2015: Carnegie Mellon University Press Release "Scientists identify achilles' heel of virus's tough outer shell."


• April 13, 2015: Graduate student Dave Bauer successfully defended his PhD thesis, "Influence of internal genome pressure on viral particle infectivity and stability".


• "Graduate Student Krista Freeman is selected to attend the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany." Only the 55 most qualified young scientists from the United States are given the opportunity to enrich and share the unique atmosphere of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.The meeting is held from 28 June to 3 July 2015.


• October 14, 2014: PNAS article, "Rapid transitions in viral DNA story, highlighted in PNAS In this issue front page"


• November 11, 2014: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Body temperature linked to DNA activity inside disease-causing virus"


• September 30, 2014: Carnegie Mellon University Press Release, "Viral Infection Might Just Be a Phase Transition"


• Graduate student Dave Bauer was awarded an NIH fellowship from MBSB graduate program based on his successful grant application.


• Listen to the popular science podcast "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe" in the final segment, "Science or Fiction" starting around 63 min our discovery of Herpes pressure is being discussed.


• July 24, 2013: Carnegie Mellon University Press Release, "First Experimental Evidence of Internal Pressure Inside Herpes Virus".


• Graduate Student Krista Freeman was awarded a 2013 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship.


• March 21, 2013: Graduate student Dave Bauer is awarded an Outstanding Presentation Prize at the Grad Expo 2013 at the University of Pittsburgh.


• June 2012: Professor Evilevitch has been awarded an NSF grant.


• February 2012: Graduate student Udom Sae-Ueng receives Astrid and Bruce McWilliams Fellowship for impressive research accomplishments in Physical Virology.


• July 17, 2010: Carnegie Mellon Front Page, "Physicist Makes Pivotal Discovery"


• February 17, 2010: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article, "Researcher says physics may outsmart viruses" features our research.


• February 5, 2010: Carnegie Mellon University Press Release, "Carnegie Mellon Physicist the First To Measure Energy Released From a Virus During Infection"


• January 2010: Science Daily article, "Energy of Attacking Virus Revealed" , discusses our recent calorimetry findings.
  January 2010


• "High-powered living DNA cannon" Nano Tsunami - Nano Medicine in depth, 2005


• "DNA Goes Ballistic" Science,
  July 2003


• "Some viruses faster than a speeding bullet" ABC News,
  July 2003

(PhD thesis defense of Udom Sae-Ueng, December 2014)

Principal Investigator: Prof. Alex Evilevitch Associate Professor (Physics) Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA Courtesy Appointments: CMU Biology Department, CMU Chemistry Department Faculty at Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology Program, Center for Mechanics and Engineering of Cellular Systems Program, and Lund University, Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology Office: Wean Hall 6418 Phone: (412) 268-2748 Fax: (412) 681-0648 Email: alexe@andrew.cmu.edu   Postdoctoral Scholar Picture Name Information Dr. Dong Li Email: dongli@andrew.cmu.edu Office: Wean Hall 6402 Tel: (412) 268-4473 Research Topic: small angle x-ray scattering   Graduate Students Picture Name Information Ting Liu Email: tingl1@andrew.cmu.edu Office: Wean Hall 6402 Tel: (412) 268-4473 Reserach Topic: micro-calorimetry, fluorescence microscopy Dave Bauer Email: dwbauer@andrew.cmu.edu Office: Wean Hall 6402 Tel: (412) 268-4473 Research Topic: differential scanning calorimetry Krista Freeman (webmaster) Email: kfreeman@andrew.cmu.edu Office: Wean Hall 6402 Tel: (412) 268-4473 Research Topic: atomic force microscopy, scattering methods (light, X-ray, neutron)   Research Scientist Picture Name Information Dr. Ivetta Shefer Email: ivettas@andrew.cmu.edu Office: Wean Hall 6402 Tel: (412) 268-4473   Undergraduate student Picture Name Information Kaitlin Hamilton Email: kaitlinh@andrew.cmu.edu

Former Group Members

- Udom Sae-Ueng (defended Ph.D thesis on December 15, 2014)

- Elmar Nurmemmedov (Postdoc)

- Meerim Jeembaeva (defended Ph.D. thesis on March 15, 2011)

- John Pettersson (Ph.D. student)

- Katherine Robbins (Ph.D. student)

- Alice Basin (Undergraduate student)

- Marilia Cabral do Rego Barros (Ph.D. student)

- Abhishek Mandal (Graduate student)

- David Marino (Research assistant)

- Katherine Forsyth (Undergraduate student)

- Sean MacGahan (Undergraduate student)

- Aditya Das (Undergraduate student)