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 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 Rowland, the Quan lab sought to understand novel optical phenomena in nanoscale structures and apply these novel phenomena to build functional devices. Optical cavities and nanostructures provide powerful means for modifying the interactions...
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 Kane Lab sought to understand how brains convert sensory inputs into behavioral outputs at a neural circuit level using interdisciplinary techniques from biophysics, genetics, and neuroscience. The lab utilized the innate light...
Cynthia M. Friend, Ph.D, is the president of The Kavli Foundation. Prior to joining the foundation in January 2021, Dr. Friend was a member of the Harvard University faculty since 1982. At Harvard she served in numerous leadership positions, including...
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...
Microbes are social organisms that are most commonly found forming complex ecological communities. Every species in a community is typically represented by large numbers of cells which may also differ in their individual behaviors. A fascinating fact is...