The Salaita Lab has arrived at BPS 2024! 💪🧬 @_SarahAbd Shuhong Liu

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! To the amazing group of women who contribute to the progress, community, and research in the Salaita Group, we appreciate you and we're so proud to have you on our team!

Mechanically-triggered drug release! Congratulations to Arventh and other members of salaitalab! We create DNA capsules that release their payload at specific force levels applied by cells adhesion receptors. Emory University Emory Chemistry #salaitalabnews

How do you enhance the activity of DNA drugs? Here we copy a page from influenza and unleash drug activity only following endocytosis and acidification. Take a look pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… . Congrats Steven Narum & other members of salaitalab! Coulter BME | Emory & Georgia Tech Emory Chemistry

Happy Valentine's Day feat. new group pics!

We are hiring! Our NIH-funded center mechanotechnology.org is seeking a Director of Community Engagement! Candidate will oversee trainings and strategic communications to end users, industry partners & collaborators. salaitalab @mattheyseslab tinyurl.com/NIH-Emory

When your Director of Graduate Studies really, really supports you. (Yes, that’s Khalid Salaita playing the bells alongside our grad student-led band, Schrodinger’s Dog.)

Universal recording of immune cell interactions in vivo | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

We are excited to share a new fluorescent sensor to measure the "pushing" forces generated by cells. Probe based on pseudo-stable DNA hairpins that folds upon crowding. Congrats @_SarahAbd & salaitalab Emory Chemistry

Thrilled to share a new approach to viral diagnostics using mechanical transduction. Here we use DNA motors to "feel" viruses -with sensitivity down to the single virus level. Selma salaitalab Emory Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Rolosense is a rapid, label-free diagnostic tool employing DNA-based motors with multivalent binding to mechanically identify respiratory viruses with the simplicity of smartphone camera readouts NEW #ASAP by Khalid Salaita & colleagues Read it here: go.acs.org/a0f

It’s an exciting week for the Salaita lab! This past Tuesday, Steven Narum defended his thesis titled "Rational Design of a Modular Endosomal Escape Platform to Improve Cytosolic Delivery of Nucleic Acids." Congratulations, Dr. Narum! The future is bright.

Here we report the DNA Origami Tension Sensor (DOTS) & measure TCR-pMHC forces in cell-cell junctions! Forces measured using microscopy or flow cytometry! Emory Chemistry⁩ ⁦Yuesong Hu⁩ ⁦salaitalab⁩ ⁦Emory University⁩ nature.com/articles/s4156…

Excited to present today at ⁦Biointerfaces International Conference 2024⁩!

Make sure to sign up here airtable.com/appfeHoxCpm6q0… for this great talk!

CPMM will be hosting a hands-on workshop from June 14-17th, 2025, open to graduate students and postdocs who would like to gain an understanding of molecular mechanobiology. Please see attached for more details, or visit our website at mechanotechnology.org/workshop

Interested in mechanobiology? Checkout this hands on workshop for grad students and postdocs. mechanotechnology.org/workshop

We made a better genetically encoded tension sensor! I think it will be a game changer for #mechanobiology community. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an… Congratulations Shuhong Liu and CPMM salaitalab Emory Chemistry