User Spotlight: Where you can find
C-Trap data at BPS 2026?
The best part of BPS is seeing the science our customers are producing. This year, C-Trap users are presenting data across the entire biological spectrum, from single DNA & nucleosomes, chromosomes, protein condensates, to cell membranes.
We're proud to see so many researchers presenting their work using the LUMICKS C-Trap during the poster sessions this week.Check out the "LUMICKS Science Trail" below 👇
| Type | Name | Affiliation | Date | Time | Location | Session | Title |
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| Talk | Erwin Peterman | Vrije Universiteit | 21 February 2026 | 4:00 PM | Room 303/304 | Biological Fluorescence Symposium | COMBINING FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY WITH OPTICAL TWEEZERS TO SHINE LIGHT ON DNA AND CHROMOSOMES |
| Talk | Ramesh Adakkattil| MPI-CBG | 22 February 2026 | 4:00 PM | Room 201/202/203| Platform: Condensates from Biophysics to Disease I | A PROTEIN-DNA SURFACE HYDROGEL MECHANICALLY REINFORCES THE CELL NUCLEUS AND PROTECTS THE GENOME. |
| Talk | Longfu Xu | UC Berkeley | 24 February 2026 | 10:00 AM | Room 207/208 | Platform: Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction II | Correlated Dynamics and Activity Mapping (C-DAM) Reveals Rapid DNA Polymerase Exchange and SSB |
| Talk | Ritika Gupta | Clemson University | 24 February 2026 | 10:05 AM | Room 207/208 | Platform: Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction II | PARBS CONDENSATES GENERATE FORCE FOR BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION |
| Talk | Jia Gao | Penn State University Chemistry | 24 February 2026 | 12:30 PM | Room 207/208 | Platform: Condensates from Biophysics to Disease II | ROLES OF HISTONE CHAPERONE NAP1 AND HISTONE ACETYLATION IN REGULATING PHASE-SEPARATION OF NUCLEOSOME ARRAYS |
| Talk | Raya Sorkin | Tel Aviv University | 24 February 2026 | 9:05 PM | Room 209/210/211| Workshop: Mechanistic Understanding of Cell Membranes | MEMBRANE TENSION AND ASYMMETRY AFFECT FUSION, AND INFORM VIRAL FUSION MECHANISMS |
| Talk | Sergei Rudnizky | Harvard Medical School | 25 February 2026 | 1:30 PM | Room 201/202/203| Platform: Genome Organization and Dynamics | DYNAMIC CTCF CONFORMATIONS CONTROL COHESIN BARRIER FUNCTION |
| Poster | Jia Gao | Penn State University Chemistry | 21 February 2026 | 1:45 PM | B151 | Posters: Condensates: Physical Properties and Modeling I | ROLES OF HISTONE CHAPERONE NAP1 AND HISTONE ACETYLATION IN REGULATING PHASE-SEPARATION OF NUCLEOSOME ARRAYS |
| Poster | Tomoko Sunami | National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology | 23 February 2026 | 1:45 PM | B166 | Posters: Genome Organization and Dynamics | SINGLE-MOLECULE OPTICAL TWEEZERS ANALYSIS OF POLYNUCLEOSOME UNDER MOLECULAR CROWDING CONDITIONS |
| Poster | Sergei Rudnizky | Harvard Medical School | 23 February 2026 | 1:45 PM | B177 | Posters: Genome Organization and Dynamics | DYNAMIC CTCF CONFORMATIONS CONTROL COHESIN BARRIER FUNCTION |
| Poster | Peter Murray | Boston Children's Hospital | 23 February 2026 | 1:45 PM | B170 | Posters: Genome Organization and Dynamics | LIGHT-ACTIVATED CRISPR FOR ON-DEMAND PERTURBATION OF CHROMATIN INSULATORS |
| Poster | Ramesh Adakkattil| MPI-CBG | 24 February 2026 | 1:45 PM | B120 | Posters: Condensates in Physiology and Disease | A PROTEIN-DNA SURFACE HYDROGEL MECHANICALLY REINFORCES THE CELL NUCLEUS AND PROTECTS THE GENOME. |
| Poster | Sneha Bhat | UC Merced | 24 February 2026 | 1:45 PM | B144 | Posters: Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction I | SINGLE-MOLECULE STUDIES REVEAL THAT THE DNA SENSOR IFI16Β INHIBITS AIM2 INFLAMMASOME VIA DNA COMPETITION |
| Poster | Ritika Gupta | Clemson University | 25 February 2026 | 10:30 AM | B120 | Posters: Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction II | PARBS CONDENSATES GENERATE FORCE FOR BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION |
| Poster | Longfu Xu | UC Berkeley | 5 February 2026 | 10:30 AM | B116 | Posters: Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction II | CORRELATED DYNAMICS AND ACTIVITY MAPPING (C-DAM) REVEALS RAPID DNA POLYMERASE EXCHANGE AND SSB DISPLACEMENT AT THE REPLICATION FORK |
