People

Principal Investigator

Joshua W. Shaevitz
Professor of Physics
Lewis-Sigler Institute
Office Phone
Office
244 Carl C. Icahn Laboratory

Contact Information

Lab location: Carl C. Icahn Laboratory 007
Lab Phone: (609) 258-5959

Faculty Assistant

Svitlana Rogers
Office Phone
Office
258 Carl C. Icahn Laboratory

Postdoctoral Researchers

Ahmed Al Harraq
Katherine Copenhagen
Grace C. McKenzie-Smith

Graduate Students

Matthew Black
Aaron Bourque
Haolin Liu
Pearl Thijssen
Scott Wolf

Undergraduate Students

Nate Tavakolian
Allie Zhao

Lab Alumni

  • Peter Combs '08 (Senior Thesis, 2008). "Probing Cell Structural Forces in Escherichia coli"
  • Alexandre Roberts '08 (Senior Thesis, 2008). "Towards Nanometer Resolution in Three-Dimensional Fluorescence Microscopy"
  • Gregory Hohensee '10 (Summer Student, 2008)
  • Bingkan Xue (Grad Experimental Project, Summer 2008). Current: Assistant Professor University of Florida
  • Renee Park '09 (Senior Thesis, 2009). "Physical Properties of Escherichia coli Outer Membrane Tethers Measured by Optical Tweezers"
  • Hugo Arellano-Santoyo (Senior Thesis, 2009). "In Vitro Reconstitution of the FtsZ Ring from Escherichia Coli"
  • Irene Perez '10 (Summer REU student from FIU)
  • Sarah Denny '10 (Senior Thesis, 2010). "Outer Membrane Tethers in Escherichia coli"
  • Yangle Wu (Grad Experimental Project, Spring 2010)
  • Rick Baker (Mol Bio Rotation Student Fall 2010)
  • Tina Huang '12 (Summer 2009)
  • David Tsao '10 (Summer 2009)
  • Lakshmi Bhaskaruny
  • Laura Klotz (Summer 2010)
  • Peter Jin '12 (Summer 2010)
  • Bryan Lincoln (postdoc)
  • Mindy Lin '11 (Senior Thesis, 2010). "Experimental observations of Myxococcus xanthus rotation during motility gliding"
  • Oleksiy Onishchenko '11 (Summer REU student from Lafeyette)
  • Steven Siyuan Wang PhD '11. Currently Associate Professor at Yale.
  • Mingzhai Sun (Postdoc). Currently Professor at University of Science and Technology of China-USTC
  • Bohao Liu '13
  • Patrick Morton '13
  • Alexia Miller '12 (Senior Thesis, 2012). "Investigating the Surface Area of Escherichia Coli Membranes"
  • Stephen Pollard '12 (Senior Thesis, 2012). "The Response of Escherichia coli to Hypoosmotic Shock"
  • Teuta Pilizota (Postdoc). Currently: Professor University of Edinburgh
  • Yi Deng PhD '12. Currently a postdoc with Charles Asbury at the University of Washington.
  • Fabian Czerwinski (postdoc)
  • Nataniel Mandelberg '13
  • Alva Strand '13
  • Benjamin Banusch (2013 visiting student, University of Basel)
  • Sven van Teeffelen (postdoc). Current: Associate Professor Université de Montréal
  • Molly Carton '14
  • George Liu '15
  • Milos Nikolic '15
  • Daniel Mossing '15
  • Manon Wigbers, Visiting Masters Student 2015
  • Gordon Berman (Postdoc). Currently Associate Professor at Emory University
  • Nikolay Ouzounov PhD '15
  • Shashi Thutupalli (Postdoc). Currently Associate Professor at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research
  • Akeisha Belgrave (Postdoc). Current Assistant Professor at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
  • Eugenie Martineau (visiting student from CNRS 2016)
  • Oihane Irazoki (visiting student from Univ of Barcelona 2016)
  • David Jacobowitz '16
  • Mary Kate O'Gorman '16
  • Camille Rullon Buxo '17
  • Daniel Choi PhD '17
  • Jeffrey Nguyen PhD '15
  • Jason Manley '17
  • Ashley Linder PhD '17
  • Ugne Klibaite PhD '18
  • Guannan Liu PhD '19
  • Mochi Liu PhD '20
  • Sagar Setru PhD '20
  • Cassidy Yang
  • Benjamin Bratton (postdoc). Current: Assistant Professor Vanderbilt University
  • Talmo Pereira PhD '21. Current: Salk Fellow, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
  • Silke Bergeler (postdoc)
  • Muhammad Junaid Amin (postdoc)
  • Courtney Ellison (postdoc). Current: Assistant Professor University of Georgia
  • Endao Han (postdoc). Current: Assistant Professor Nanyang Technological University
  • Matthias Koch (postdoc). Current: Assistant Professor Texas A&M
  • Diana Valverde Mendez PhD '23