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 focus of the Brucker Lab was on interactions of environmental toxins metabolized by the gut microbiome. They utilized natural product chemistry, ecotoxicology, population genetics, evolution, and experimental microbiota to test...
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...
The ability to adjust one’s actions based on past experience (learning) and retain the value of past actions (memory) is one of the most complex, fascinating, and mysterious processes mediated by the animal brain. Fundamental questions remain about the...
James Foley’s research interests centered on understanding fundamental structure/function relationships pertaining to the photophysics that govern the properties and behavior of organic dyes. We use this knowledge to develop improved chromophores for use...
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...