Faculty
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David Barret Olin College (781) 292-2556 david.barret@oilin.edu |
Robotics, Development and designer of the SCOPE program and corporate partnership that supports it |
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Bulbul Chakraborty (chair, Physics) Abelson 345/346 (781) 736-2843 bulbul@brandeis.edu |
Condensed matter theory, especially systems far from equilibrium; glassy dynamics in supercooled liquids; granular media and the jamming of granular flows; modelling the dynamical instability in microtubules. |
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Zvonimir Dogic Abelson 206 (781) 736-2167 zdogic@brandeis.edu |
Complex fluids and biological physics; understanding and controling the self-assembly of matter on a colloidal length scale; assembly, phase transitions and dynamics of colloidal systems under nonequilibrium conditions. |
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Irving R. Epstein Edison-Lecks 118a (781) 736-2503 epstein@brandeis.edu |
Oscillatory chemical reactions, spatial pattern formation, dynamical systems, and neurobiology. |
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Seth Fraden Abelson 222 (781) 736-2888 fraden@brandeis.edu |
Complex fluids; interparticle interactions and phase transitions in colloidal suspensions; entropy driven disorder-to-order transitions; physics of protein crystallization and the development of microfluidic-based, high-throughput crystallization devices |
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Jeff Gelles Kosow-Wolfson 208 (781) 736-2377 gelles@brandeis.edu |
Macromolecular motion, motor enzymes, visualization of nanometer-scale movements and individual chemical reactions in single enzyme molecules. |
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Bruce Goode Kosow-Wolfson 208 (781) 736-2451 goode@brandeis.edu |
Cell mobility, endocytosis, vesicle and organelle transport, and cytokinesis. Study of actin cytoskeleton regulation and functional cooperation of cytoskeletal elements. |
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Michael Hagan Abelson 350 (781) 736-2845 hagan@brandeis.edu |
Quantitative biology. Assembly and dynamic pattern formation in biological and biomimetic systems; computational and theoretical methods; viral capsids and other large protein complexes; rational design of novel materials with biomimetic function. |
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Jané Kondev Abelson 301 (781) 736-2812 kondev@brandeis.edu |
Condensed matter theory; biological physics; mechanical properties of polymers; regulation of gene expression and DNA packing in viruses; effect of confinement and constraints on the equilibrium structure and dynamics of fluctuating lines and surfaces. |
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Robert B. Meyer Abelson 216 (781) 736-2870 meyer@brandeis.edu |
Liquid crystals and complex fluids; patterns formed in two-dimensional systems; liquid crystal gels; basic science of these systems and possible practical applications. |
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Daniela Nicastro Rosenstiel 449 (781) 736-2408 nicastro@brandeis.edu |
Study of three-dimensional structure of macromolecular machines, organelles, and cells using cryo-electron tomography. >>See Nicastro Laboratory |
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Robert Pelcovits
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Theoretical liquid crystal physics, including large-scale simulations on parallel machines and scientific visual animations |
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Azadeh Samadani Abelson 221 (781) 736-2857 azadeh@brandeis.edu |
Soft condensed matter and biological physics. Study of biological questions at the systems level, e.g., directional sensing mechanisms in eukaryotic cells; swimming microorganisms; population dynamics, pattern formation, predator-prey interaction. |
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Bing Xu Edison-Lecks EL320 (781) 736-5201 bxu@brandeis.edu |
Materials Chemistry; biomaterials; polymer chemistry and surface chemistry; synthesis and fabrication of functional molecular nanomaterials. >>Research group |