Faculty Guide

Title

Assistant Professor of Physics and of Quantitative Biology

Physics

Awards and Honors

Alberta Gotthardt Strage '56 and Henry Strage Award for Aspiring Young Science Faculty (2012)

Courses Taught

PHYS	11a	Introductory Physics I
PHYS	40a	Introduction to Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
PHYS	105a	Biological Physics
PHYS	163a	Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics
QBIO	110a	Numerical Modeling of Biological Systems

Scholarship

Barry, E., Dogic, Z., Hagan, M.F., Yang, Y., Perlman, D.. Aligned Arrays of Nanorods, and Methods of Making and Using Them. Patent Pending.

Redner, G., Hagan, M.F.*, Baskaran, A*. "Structure and Dynamics of a Phase-Separating Active Colloidal Fluid." Phys. Rev. Lett. 110. (2013): 055701.

Dhason, M.S, Wang, J. C., Hagan, M.F., Zlotnick, A. "Differential assembly of Hepatitis B Virus core protein on single- and double-stranded nucleic acid suggests the dsDNA-filled core is springloaded." Virology 430. (2012): 20-29.

Gibaud, T., Barry, E., Zakhary, M. J., Henglin, M., Ward, A., Yang, Y. S., Berciu, C., Oldenbourg, R., Hagan, M. F., Nicastro, D., Meyer, R. B., Dogic, Z.. "Reconfigurable self-assembly through chiral control of interfacial tension." Nature 481. 7381 (2012): 348-U127.

Giomi L., Mahadevan L., Chakraborty, B., and Hagan, M.F.. "Banding, excitability and chaos in active nematic suspensions." Nonlinearity 25. (2012): 2245–2269.

McCandlish, S. R., Baskaran, A., Hagan, M. F.. "Spontaneous segregation of self-propelled particles with different motilities." Soft Matter 8. 8 (2012): 2527-2534.

Ni, P., Wang, Z., Ma, X., Das, N.C., Sokol, P., Chiu, W., Dragnea, B., Hagan, M.F.*, Kao, C.C*.. "An Examination of the Electrostatic Interactions between the N-Terminal Tail of the Coat Protein and RNA in Brome Mosaic Virus." J. Mol. Biol. 419. (2012): 284-300.

Patel, Amish J., Varilly, Patrick, Jamadagni, Sumanth N., Hagan, Michael F., Chandler, David, Garde, Shekhar. "Sitting at the Edge: How Biomolecules use Hydrophobicity to Tune Their Interactions and Function." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 116. 8 (2012): 2498-2503.

Ruiz-Herrero, T., Velasco, E., Hagan, M.F. "Mechanisms of budding of nanoscale particles through lipid bilayers." J. Phys. Chem B 116. (2012): 9595-603.

Yang, Y., Barry, E., Dogic, Z., Hagan, M. F.. "Self-assembly of 2D membranes from mixtures of hard rods and depleting polymers." Soft Matter 8. (2012): 707-714.

Yu, N., Hagan, M.F. "Simulations of HIV capsid protein dimerization reveal the effect of chemistry and topography on the mechanism of hydrophobic protein association." Biophys. J. 103. (2012): 1363-1369.

Giomi, L., Mahadevan, L., Chakraborty, B., Hagan, M. F.. "Excitable Patterns in Active Nematics." Physical Review Letters 106. 21 (2011).

Hagan, M. F., Elrad, O. M., Jack, R. L.. "Mechanisms of kinetic trapping in self-assembly and phase transformation." J. Chem. Phys. 135. (2011): 104115.

Sumedha,, Hagan, M. F., Chakraborty, B.. "Prolonging assembly through dissociation: A self-assembly paradigm in microtubules." Physical Review E 83. 5 (2011).

Yang, Yasheng, Hagan, Michael F.. "Theoretical calculation of the phase behavior of colloidal membranes." Physical Review E 84. 5 (2011): 051402.

Elrad, O.M., Hagan, M. F.. "Encapsulation of a polymer by an icosahedral virus." Physical Biology 7. (2010): 045003.

Giomi, L., Mahadevan, L., Chakraborty, B., Hagan, M. F.. "Excitable Patterns in Active Nematics." arXiv:1011.3841 (2010).

Hagan, M. F.. "Understanding the Concentration Dependence of Viral Capsid Assembly Kinetics - the Origin of the Lag Time and Identifying the Critical Nucleus Size." Biophysical Journal 98. (2010): 1065-74.

Kivenson, A, Hagan, M. F.. "Mechanisms of Capsid around a Polymer." Biophysical Journal 99. (2010): 619-628.

Yang, Y., Meyer, R. B., Hagan, M. F.. "Self-Limited Self-Assembly of Chiral Filaments." Physical Review Letters 104. 25 (2010): 258102.

Hagan, M. F.. "A theory for viral capsid assembly around electrostatic cores." Journal of Chemical Physics 130. (2009): 114902.

Huang, F., Addas, K., Ward, A., Flynn, N. T., Velasco, E., Hagan, M. F., Dogic, Z., Fraden, S.. "Pair Potential of Charged Colloidal Stars." Physical Review Letters 102. 10 (2009).

Sumehda, Hagan, M. F., Chakraborty, B.. "Role of GTP remnants in microtubule dynamics." arXiv:0908.1199v1 (2009).

Whitelam, S., Feng, E. H., Hagan, M. F., Geissler, P. L.. "The role of collective motion in examples of coarsening and self-assembly." Soft Matter 5. 6 (2009): 1251-1262.

Elrad, O. M., Hagan, M. F.. "Mechanisms of Size Control and Polymorphism in Viral Capsid Assembly." Nano Letters 8. 11 (2008): 3850-3857.

Hagan, M. F.. "Controlling viral capsid assembly with templating." Physical Review E 77. 5 (2008).

Jack, R. L., Hagan, M. F., Chandler, D.. "Fluctuation-dissipation ratios in the dynamics of self-assembly." Phys. Rev. E 76. (2007): 021119.

Hagan, M. F., Chandler, D.. "Dynamic pathways for viral capsid assembly." Biophysical Journal 91. 1 (2006): 42-54.

Hagan, M. F., Chakraborty, A. K.. "Hybridization dynamics of surface immobilized DNA." Journal of Chemical Physics 120. 10 (2004): 4958-4968.

Hagan, M. F., Dinner, A. R., Chandler, D., Chakraborty, A. K.. "Atomistic understanding of kinetic pathways for single base-pair binding and unbinding in DNA." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences24 (2003): 13922-13927.

Hagan, M. F., Majumdar, A., Chakraborty, A. K.. "Nanomechanical forces generated by surface grafted DNA." Journal of Physical Chemistry B 106. 39 (2002): 10163-10173.

Wu, G. H., Ji, H. F., Hansen, K., Thundat, T., Datar, R., Cote, R., Hagan, M. F., Chakraborty, A. K., Majumdar, A.. "Origin of nanomechanical cantilever motion generated from biomolecular interactions." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 98. 4 (2001): 1560-1564.