- Our project gets highlighted during the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC) meeting of the US Department of Energy.
- Duckhoe Kim wins the best poster award at ISPM 2012 . Congratulations Duckhoe!
- Sahin Laboratory wins the highly selective Early Career Research Program Award from the US Department of Energy.

We investigate biological systems that function under physical extremes like short timescales, confinement to nanoscale regions of space, and high mechanical forces. Quite often we encounter interesting phenomena in these biological systems that we enjoy applying to medical, environmental, and energy related problems.