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Rowland Junior Fellows 2009

The Rowland Junior Fellows are selected to perform independent experimental research for five years, with full institutional support and access to the Institute's outstanding technical and scientific resources. The number of Rowland Junior Fellows will equal about ten over five years, with the first nine already appointed. Candidates in all the natural sciences (physics, chemistry, biology,...) as well as in engineering will be considered, with special attention given to interdisciplinary work and to the development of new experimental methods.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES -

Postdoctoral positions are available in Chris Richard's Propulsion Physiology Lab and Yuki Sato's Applied Superfluidity Group. There are also undergraduate opportunities with Rowland Jr. Fellow Chris Richards.

NEWS

Howard Berg has a review paper in the special issue of Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, "From bacterial chemotaxis to cellular systems biology: a tribute to Dennis Bray."

Masaru Tsuchiya, a recent graduate of Shriram Ramanathan's group, recieves award for his research on fuel cells.
Howard Berg in the news - ScienceNOW Daily News article "Cells Mind the gaps".
RJF Wesley Wong and his Single-molecule force studies group have developed a unique optical tweezers system that uses a combination of interference imaging, light modulation and custom software algorithms to achieve the necessary resolution and stability to watch proteins fold. Their work will be presented at Frontiers in Optics 2009, Oct. 11-15 in San Jose, Calif., and has been highlighted as a "Bio-optics breakthroughs" Read more.....
The Oxides Research Group's Changhyun Ko and Shriram Ramanathan report on Dispersive capacitance and conductance across the phase transition boundary in metal-vanadium oxide-silicon devices.
Photochemistry's Xiangzhi Song and Nanomechanical Sensing's Mingdong Dong and others collaborate to create xanthan scaffold with a pore structure that has a potential to accommodate micro-sized cells for tissue engineering. See article in Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces.

RJF ALUMNI - WHAT'S NEW

Jiwoong Park and his group are in the news- "New research may lead to revolutionary new devices" Read more of Park's news......
Zvonimir Dogic directly visualizes the condensed structures of individual semi-flexible actin filaments in Exploring the Frontier of Physics article. Also of note is his contribution in a collaborative effort on active polymer networks reported in PNAS.
Peer Fischer and Alexander Kuhn report on absolute asymmetric synthesis in their article in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Frank Vollmer and others report on Out-of-plane scattering from vertically asymmetric photonic crystal slab waveguides with in-plane disorder.