Principal Investigator
Joshua W. Shaevitz
Professor of Physics
Lewis-Sigler Institute
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Office
244 Carl C. Icahn Laboratory
Contact Information
Lab location: Carl C. Icahn Laboratory 007
Lab Phone: (609) 258-5959
Faculty Assistant
Svitlana Rogers
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Office
258 Carl C. Icahn Laboratory
Postdoctoral Researchers
Katherine Copenhagen
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Courtney Ellison
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Endao Han
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Matthias Koch
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Graduate Students
Zoe Aridor
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Matthew Black
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Aaron Bourque
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Grace C. McKenzie-Smith
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Diana Valverde Mendez
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Scott Wolf
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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)
- 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 Assistant Professor at Yale.
- Mingzhai Sun (Postdoc). Currently Assistant 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 at The 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 (sven at princeton.edu)
- Molly Carton '14
- George Liu '15
- Milos Nikolic '15
- Daniel Mossing '15
- Manon Wigbers, Visiting Masters Student 2015
- Gordon Berman (Postdoc). Currently Assistant Professor at Emory University
- Nikolay Ouzounov PhD '15
- Shashi Thutupalli (Postdoc). Currently Assistant 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)