2024

• June. 2024. Catherine Tan graduates! Congrats on all your accomplishments and contributions to the lab and UCSF.

• March 2024. Joel and Arthur give talks at APS in Minneapolis

2023

• December 2023. A busy ASCB meeting in Boston! The lab presented 5 posters, Catherine and Joel gave talks, and Arthur and Rikki organized a whole session on the Cytoplasm.

• November 2023. Congrats to Joel for publication of his paper Quantifying turgor pressure in budding and fission yeasts based upon osmotic propertie in MBoC.

• Oct 2023 Fred gives a keynote address on nuclear size scaling at the CSH Yeast meeting in Matsue, Japan

• September 2023. Zhidong starts graduate school in the Tetrad program at UCSF.

• July 2023 Fred and Arthur play with a carnivorous fungi as part of the MBL Physiology course with Stephen Grill and his lab at Woods Hole.

• June 2023. Joel’s manuscript on turgor pressure measurements is posted on BioRxiv

• Fred and his family are featured in an article in Nature on scientists and their families.

• May 2023. Fred presents and co-chairs at the large international meeting of fission yeast labs at the POMBE2023 meeting in Hiroshima, Japan.

• April 2023. Fred is elected to Council of the American Society of Cell Biology.

• March 2023. Our paper Vast heterogeneity in cytoplasmic diffusion rates revealed by nanorheology and Doppelgänger simulations is published in Biophysical Journal. Congrats to Aurthur, Rikki on a great collaboration with the Theriot lab and the MBL Physical Biology of the Cell course.

• January 2023. Arthur and Catherine both present at the CZ Biohub Physics of Life symposium.

2022

• December 2022. The whole lab presents at the ASCB meeting in Washington DC.

• Sept 2022. Fred gives a “Leading Edge” seminar at UPenn

• July 2022 Our paper Control of nuclear size by osmotic forces in Schizosaccharomyces pombe is out in eLife. Congrats to Joel, Paula, and Thomas!

• July 2022. Another fun summer at MBL Woods Hole. Fred, Arthur, Joel, Zhidong and Catherine work on carnivorous fungi traps and a protozoa Spirostomum, among other things.

• March 2022. Fred goes to the Fungal 2022 meeting in Asilomar to learn about wild and wonderful fungi.

• Feb 2022: Our paper Physical properties of the cytoplasm modulate the rates of microtubule polymerization and depolymerization is out in Developmental Cell! Congrats to Arthur, Joel and many others!

• Feb 2022. Fred is super-honored to be nominated to run for President of the American Society of Cell Biology! Election is in April. Please vote!

• Feb 2022. Fred and Arthur present at the Biophysical Society Meeting in SF. First big meeting in a convention center with masks and lots of social distancing.

• Feb 2022. Arthur goes to do in vitro microtubule experiments with Gary Brouhard’s lab at McGill U. in Montreal.

• Jan 2022. Welcome Zhidong! He’s an undergrad on an internship from Nankai University in Tianjin, China.

2021

• December 2021 Joel’s manuscript is posted on bioRxiv: Control of nuclear size by osmotic forces in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

• Welcome to the lab Vien, an undergraduate from Cal.

• June 2021. Our Odermatt et al., paper is out in eLife: Variations of intracellular density during the cell cycle arise from tip-growth regulation in fission yeast. Congrats to Pascal and Joel!

• June 2021. Lab receives a seed grant to study a carnivorous fungus that makes ring traps to capture and eat worms!

• January- May 2021. Fred presents “zoom seminars” on the lab’s findings at the Flatiron, U. Colorado, ETH Zurich, and the Biological Physics and Physical Biology seminar series.

• January 2021. Fred is promoted to co-chair of the LGBTQ+ committee at ASCB, working to support and build a community of LGBTQ cell biologists.

2020

• December 2020. Lab attends the ASCB Meeting which is all online this year. Joel, Arthur and Fred give online talks.

• December 2020 Arthur’s manuscript: Physical properties of the cytoplasm modulate the rates of microtubule growth and shrinkage is posted on bioRxiv

• Nov. 2020. Pascal’s manuscript: Variations of intracellular density during the cell cycle arise from tip-growth regulation in fission yeast is posted on bioRxiv

• October 2020. Fred gives a talk on intracellular density regulation in the Cell Size and Growth online seminar series.

• March 2020 COVID Pandemic! Lab shutdown (and subsequent gradual restart). Lab meetings move to zoom.

• January 2020. Catherine, Paula, Pascal and Joel attend NSF-sponsored Hackathon in Half Moon Bay, CA.

• January 2020. Fred participates in the Aspen Institute for Physics workshop on New Physical Models of Cell Growth.

2019

• December 2019. Much of the lab goes to ASCB meeting in Washington DC. Arthur gives a talk at the meeting on his work on microtubules. Catherine and Fred visit Congressional offices at the US Capitol for ASCB Hill Day 2019, getting a taste of science advocacy.

• November 2019. Lab retreat with KC Huang lab! 3 days of brainstorming about cells and communities in woodsy Portland.

• November 2019. Supergrowth paper is out in Cell Systems! UCSF News Office has written an article to highlight the piece.

• November 2019. Welcome to Amilcar Perez, a new postdoc in the lab.

• October 2019. Paper with Rafael Daga on microtubules, DNA and cohesins is out in MBoC.

• September 2019. Supergrowth paper is in press at Cell Systems! Congrats to Ben Knapp, Pascal and KC.

• August-September 2019. Pascal gives talks the AFM BioMed 2019 conference in Germany and at U. Geneva.

• August 2019. Catherine gives a talk at qBIO meeting in San Francisco.

• August 2019 Arthur takes the Physical Biology of the Cell Course at MBL.

• July -August 2019. Arthur goes on tour— giving talks at GRC Motile and Contractile Systems, as well as in Cambridge, London, Paris, Lyon and Grenoble.

• July 2019. Paula and Fred present at the International Pombe Meeting in Barcelona, Spain.

• June-July 2019. Pascal and Fred go the Woods Hole to do experiments with Liam Holt, Amy Gladfelter, Tobias Baskin and Michael Shribak etc.

• April-May 2019. Congratulations to Gabby and Catherine on passing their Qualifying Exams!

• January 2019. Welcome to Jack Strickland from iPQB program on his rotation in Chang’s Lab.

2018

• December 2018. Chang lab off to ASCB in San Diego to present their research.

• August 2018.  Fred, Gabby,  Joël and Arthur all present at the Plant and Microbial Cytoskeleton Gordon Research Conference in New Hampshire.

• July 2018.  Arthur, Fred, Joel, and Catherine go to MBL at Woods Hole to do experiments with our collaborators Liam Holt, Morgan Delarue and Gohta Goshima.  

• July 2018.  Welcome to Giuseppe Fachietti, a postdoc from Martin Howard’s lab in the UK, for visiting the lab for collaboration on cell size control.  

• June 2018.  Our rotation students Gabby and Catherine have decided to join the lab!!  Welcome! 

• May 2018. Arthur wins the poster prize at EMBL meeting "Microtubules: From Atoms to Complex Systems" at Heidelberg, Germany! congrats!

• May 2018. Arthur presents poster at EMBL meeting "Microtubules: From Atoms to Complex Systems" at Heidelberg, Germany 

• April 2018.  Congratulations to Pascal!  Our paper is in press at Nature!  "The outer membrane is an essential load-bearing element in Gram-negative bacteria."  Enrique Rojas .... KC Huang.     

• April 2018.  Our paper "The XMAP215 ortholog Alp14 promotes microtubule nucleation in fission yeast" has been accepted at Current Biology.  Congratulations to Nacho (Chang lab ex-postdoc)!  

• April 2018. Welcome to our rotation students: Gabriella Estevam from the Tetrad Program and Catherine Tan from the BMS Program! 

• April 2018. Welcome to Joel Lemiere, a new postdoc coming from Yale University and Curie Institute (Paris, France). 

• March 2018.  Lab outing with Dumont lab -- ice skating, escape rooms and Thai food in SF.  

• February 2018. Arthur presents poster at 62nd Biophysical Society Meeting at San Francisco, California. 

• February 2018. Chang's lab retreat with K.C. Huang's lab from Standford, Will Ludington's lab from Berkeley and Manuel Banzhaf from Birmingham at Las Vegas.

• January 2018.  Pascal gives a talk on AFM at the Advanced Imaging Microscopy Workshop at UC Berkeley

• January 2018.  Congratulations to Paula for redoing the Changlab website!

2017

• December 2017. Our new TIRF/Spinning Disk confocal microscope system (Andor Diskovery System from Technical Instruments) arrives

• December 2017. Lab is off to ASCB meeting. Ben Knapp presents “Supergrowth” story at ASCB mini-symposium. Arthur and Pascal present posters. Fred is featured speaker at LGBT session at ASCB

• December 2017. Welcome to Kieran Collins, a new postdoc from UC Santa Cruz

• November 2017. Welcome to Paula Real, our new super-tech from Cadiz, Spain

• November 2017. Fred gives seminar at MIT Biophysics

• September 2017. Welcome to Suckjoon Jun, a visiting professor from UC San Diego, for his sabbatical!

• September 2017. Good luck to Ben Knapp as he embarks for grad school at Stanford Biophysics. We’ll miss you!

• August 2017. Presentations by Arthur and Fred at the GRC Motile and Contractile System Meeting in New Hampshire.

• July 2017. Fred and Arthur do experiments at MBL in Woods Hole

• May 2017. International Pombe Meeting at Banff, Canada

• Feb 2017. Welcome to Arthur Molines, a new postdoc arriving from France

2016

• Dec 2016. Welcome to Pascal Odermatt, a new postdoc arriving from Switzerland.

• Dec 2016. Ben, Fred and David Burgess present posters at ASCB.

• July 2016. Fred, Ben and Nacho Flor-Parra work with Greg Adams and Ethan Garner at the MBL Physiology course to investigate S. pombe ameboid movement! Fred and Ben begin experiments with Liam Holt on microrrheology using GEMs nanoparticles.

• Feb 2016. Joint lab retreat with K.C. Huang’s lab at the Russian River.

• Jan 2016. The Chang lab moves from Columbia University to UCSF! Thanks to Ben Knapp, the CTB Department, and the Dumont lab for a smooth transition!