• Fall ’26 Biochem Seminar: Crina Nimigean

    Mechanism of Lipid Modulation in Ion Channels Membrane proteins are continuously exposed to the complex lipid environment of cellular membranes, yet how specific lipids regulate their function remains poorly understood. In this talk, I will discuss two examples illustrating how membrane lipids tune ion-channel activity through defined structural mechanisms. First, I will describe how lipids

    • Photonics Initiative Seminar: Keji Lai

    Dr. Keji Lai, University of Texas atAustin Microwave Microscopy of Topological Acoustics Abstract: Topological phononics offers numerous opportunities in manipulating elastic waves that can propagate in solids without being back-scattered. Due to the lack of nanoscale imaging tools that aid the system design, however, spatially resolved acoustic metamaterial studies have been mostly demonstrated in systems operating at kilohertz