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Hello everyone,<br>
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The graduation reception for Bob Forties will be held on Thursday,
August 4th at noon in PRB 1136. Pizza will be provided. The title
of Bob's thesis is "Applications of statistical mechanics to nucleic
acids". He used a combination of modeling and experiments to
explore DNA flexibility, binding of proteins to single-stranded
nucleic acids, and nucleosome unwrapping dynamics. His adviser is
Ralf Bundschuh, Michael Poirier is a co-adviser, and his other
committee members are Mohit Randeria and Samir Mathur. Please join
us in congratulating Bob!<br>
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Thanks,<br>
PGSC<br>
<span><span><cite>www.<b>physics</b>.<b>ohio-state</b>.edu/~<b>pgsc</b>/</cite></span></span>
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