Rebecca Taylor
@jrbexbox.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, cell-interfacing nanostructures, microrobotics, and both automated design and automated science - also molecular model fanatic
Taylor Lab website: https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex
Taylor Lab website: https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/bex
What a great idea!! See solution for puzzle #376 with 84 walls!
June 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
What a great idea!! See solution for puzzle #376 with 84 walls!
In honor of #DNAday, here is a 3D printable model of a g-quadruplex (PDB 139B) separated into a few layers, showing the non-canonical binding that makes the g-quadruplex possible.
April 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
In honor of #DNAday, here is a 3D printable model of a g-quadruplex (PDB 139B) separated into a few layers, showing the non-canonical binding that makes the g-quadruplex possible.
In an obsessive bit of bookkeeping over break, I tallied my performance over the first 200+ #Celtix puzzles (plot attached). The slight downward slope is always encouraging.
10 walls: 34, 153, 171, 182, 185
9 walls: 12, 45, 56, 62, 131, 161, 198, 208
8 walls: 70, 201, 213
7 walls: 7 (today!)
10 walls: 34, 153, 171, 182, 185
9 walls: 12, 45, 56, 62, 131, 161, 198, 208
8 walls: 70, 201, 213
7 walls: 7 (today!)
January 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
In an obsessive bit of bookkeeping over break, I tallied my performance over the first 200+ #Celtix puzzles (plot attached). The slight downward slope is always encouraging.
10 walls: 34, 153, 171, 182, 185
9 walls: 12, 45, 56, 62, 131, 161, 198, 208
8 walls: 70, 201, 213
7 walls: 7 (today!)
10 walls: 34, 153, 171, 182, 185
9 walls: 12, 45, 56, 62, 131, 161, 198, 208
8 walls: 70, 201, 213
7 walls: 7 (today!)
I'm not sure what makes me more frustrated: (1) the stark state-to-state variation in structural sexism, (2) the association between structural sexism and late life memory loss in women or (3) the terrible line spec choices in Figure 1 with this bombshell data. www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/sexism-...
December 24, 2024 at 12:11 AM
I'm not sure what makes me more frustrated: (1) the stark state-to-state variation in structural sexism, (2) the association between structural sexism and late life memory loss in women or (3) the terrible line spec choices in Figure 1 with this bombshell data. www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/sexism-...
Message from my dog: stay cool and do NOT create a giant todo list for the holiday break.
November 25, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Message from my dog: stay cool and do NOT create a giant todo list for the holiday break.
Whoa, that's not DNA! Thanks to Dave Doty for updating scadnano.org/dev/ to allow for modified helicity in the dev fork of scadnano. Now we can design peptide nucleic acid nanostructures in the browser!
November 21, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Whoa, that's not DNA! Thanks to Dave Doty for updating scadnano.org/dev/ to allow for modified helicity in the dev fork of scadnano. Now we can design peptide nucleic acid nanostructures in the browser!
Based on the complexity of the DNA nanostructure models I'm weaving together, you can always tell when I have a big deadline looming.
February 7, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Based on the complexity of the DNA nanostructure models I'm weaving together, you can always tell when I have a big deadline looming.
DOG checking out new BSKY world
August 26, 2023 at 3:43 PM
DOG checking out new BSKY world
As we work to build ever-smaller and more uniform micro- and nanorobots, milliscale models help us understand locomotion determinants!
Buoyant magnetic milliswimmers reveal design rules for optimizing microswimmer performance - now published in Nanoscale pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Buoyant magnetic milliswimmers reveal design rules for optimizing microswimmer performance - now published in Nanoscale pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
August 26, 2023 at 2:58 PM
As we work to build ever-smaller and more uniform micro- and nanorobots, milliscale models help us understand locomotion determinants!
Buoyant magnetic milliswimmers reveal design rules for optimizing microswimmer performance - now published in Nanoscale pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Buoyant magnetic milliswimmers reveal design rules for optimizing microswimmer performance - now published in Nanoscale pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...