At the Rowland, the Sato Lab’s interests included quantum engineering based on superfluidity and superconductivity, multifunctional artificial materials & devices, inertial sensing technologies, matter wave interferometry, heat transport through hybrid...
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 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, the Wilson Lab was interested in understanding bacterial motility, particularly relating to the formation and propagation of biofilms. Most studies had focused either on macroscopic phenomena (for example, the size of colonies growing on...
At the Rowland Institute, the Schonbrun Lab developed technologies for capturing 2D, 3D and hyperspectral images of cells in fast moving fluids. In addition to spatial and spectral information, they were also interested in performing quantitative...
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...
Muscle is a spectacularly efficient and powerful motor that drives behaviors that impress biologists and engineers alike. How do muscle properties influence the structure-function relationship of vertebrate limbs? How do these relationships depend on...
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...