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...
At the Rowland, the Hur Lab focused on developing innovative microfluidic techniques for sheathless particle positioning, cellular biophysical property measurements and label-free target cell purification. Inertial Focusing is a unique microscale...
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...
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...
Reactions useful for the conversion of light energy into chemical energy are often complex because they require multiple charge transfer steps. Coupling electron and proton transfer facilitates these reactions by avoiding the high-energy intermediates...