At the Rowland, the over-arching goal of the Wong Lab was to investigate how biological systems work at the nanoscale, and the physical laws that govern their behavior. They developed and applied novel methods for biophysics research, with a focus on non...
Plants are able to regenerate whole body parts like roots and shoots with relative ease because they demonstrate amazing cellular plasticity. Masters of dedifferentiation, plants not only retain pools of stem cells throughout their lives, but also create...
At the Rowland, the Fischer Lab had broad interests in the interaction of optical, electric, and magnetic fields with matter. Their particular focus is symmetry breaking & chirality, ranging from the molecular to the nano/micro-scale. Their research was...
At the molecular level, physical and chemical properties of materials are tightly coupled to the mechanical properties. The potential of mechanics for interacting with matter at the nanoscale has been largely unexplored due to lack of instruments capable...
At the Rowland, Dr. Lewis investigated parasitic angiosperms; they are unusual among parasitic organisms in that they and their hosts are in the same order and are very similar physiologically. The comparable physiology of parasite and host enables the...
At the Rowland, the Cox Lab sought to understand the computational underpinnings of high-level visual processing through concerted efforts in both reverse- and forward-engineering. To this end, the group employed a wide range of experimental techniques...
Individual animals with identical genomes, reared identically, nevertheless exhibit behavioral differences. This underpins our sense of individuality. Where these inter-individual differences arise in the causal cascade from transcription to gene products...
At the Rowland, the Speck Lab studied the response of systems to ultrafast electromagnetic pulses. These pulses have a temporal width of approximately 1 ps and a peak field of over 1 kV/cm when focussed. Due to their extremely short pulse width, most...