The Cissé Laboratory

---

​​We  leverage expertise in Single Molecule and Super-Resolution imaging in live cells to study collective behaviors (e.g. protein clustering) emerging from weak or transient biomolecular interactions in mammalian cells.
​
We unveil, often for the first time, that these clusters exist in living cells, and we expand both on the imaging approaches and the cellular and molecular biology techniques to discover the biophysical mechanisms of action, and their function in vivo .

MIT Department of Physics 

---

​We acknowledge support from the following programs​​

---

 Ibrahim Cissé
The Class of 1922 Associate Professor
Department of Physics, MIT 
 
MIT
Bldg.-Room: 68-371b
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA, 02139
 
Tel: (617) 253-4446
click here to email
 
Administrator:  Karen Sagna
Tel: (617) 715-4999
 click here to email

---

Tweets by Cisse_lab

News updates: (last update 05/2016, see Twitter for latest updates)

• For all the latest updates, follows us on twitter!      twitter.com/cisse_lab
• Publication: Congratulations Wonki Cho et al., "Pol II clustering dynamics predict mRNA output in living cells" is now in eLife  - May  3rd  2016
• Endowed Physics Professorship:  Ibrahim has been named to hold the Class of 1922 Career Development Chair at MIT.  Thank you Class of 1922!
• Infinite Mile Award: Congratulations Monica for being awarded MIT's Infinite Mile Award. Thank you for your continued administrative support!
• Research highlight: Check out Takuma & Owen's profiles in MIT News!
• Best Poster Prize:  Congratulations Takuma, winner of the Best Poster prize at MIT's 2015 Biophysics retreat!
• Ferry Fund Award: Ibrahim wins the Ferry Fund Award. The award will be used to support Namrata Jayanth's DNA repair studies in the lab.
• Presidential visit:  His Excellency Issoufou, President of the Republic of Niger visits our lab at MIT to learn about our Biophysics research!
• NSF Fellows: Congratulations Owen (MIT Physics)  & Lyndon (MIT Biology) on securing NSF Fellowships!
• Human Frontier Finalist: Congratulations Won-Ki on making the reserve list for HFSP Fellows. Fingers crossed!
• New members: Welcome to the group, Dr. Arjun Narayanan (NYU/Oxford) & Dr. Jan Hendrik Spille (Bonn)

• Ibrahim will deliver the Commencement Address for NCCU Fall 2014 graduation
• Ibrahim receives a 2014 NIH Director's New Innovator Award. Thanks NCI and NIH Director's Office!
• We will be presenting new data at 2014 MIT Biophysics retreat!  See the talk by Wonki, and posters by Namarata/Will, Takuma, and Owen!
• Owen Andrews (MIT-Physics PhD Student) and Lyndon Zhang (MIT-Biology PhD Student) join the lab. Welcome Owen & Lyndon!
• Will Conway (MIT-Physics &Biology undergrad) and Dr. Wonki Cho (POSTECH)  join the lab. Welcome Will & Wonki!
• Dr. Namrata Jayanth (Cambridge Univ. & NCBS/Tata Institute) joins as the lab's first Post-doc. Welcome Namrata!
• Jordan Santana (MIT-Physics Undergrad/UROP) joins the lab. Welcome Jordan!
• We will be at the APS March meeting. Catch Ibrahim's invited talk on Thursday March 6,  See you in Denver, CO!
• Takuma Inoue (MIT-Physics PhD student) joins the lab as of January 2014. Welcome Takuma!
• Cissé Lab officially starts at MIT,  January 16 2014!
• Ibrahim featured in the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) November Research Spotlight
• Ibrahim invited to give a Public Lecture in New York City.   Join us  at Lycee Français de New York, on December 6th, 2013
• We will be in Heidelberg, Germany, at EMBL-Seeing is believing: Imaging the processes of life conference. October 3-6 2013

• In this highlight in Science Magazine, Ibrahim shares his thoughts on the Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting

---

Cissé Laboratory
Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Building 68-371
77 Massachusetts Avenue  
Cambridge, MA 02139