Research Topics

General research topics with current collaborators

  • Flow transport processes in the lung, with Boyce Griffith, Aaron Barrett, Cole Gruninger, Chris Edelmaier, David Hill, Rich Superfine
  • Diffusive transport processes in pulmonary mucus and related soft biological matter, development of data classifier methods for particle-tracking microrheology, with N. Caughman, M. Lysy, R. Freeman, D. Hill, M. Markovetz, J. Newby, G. Didier
  • Chromosomal DNA Dynamics and Structure in Living Yeast:  how the kinetics of SMC protein binding-unbinding to chromosomal DNA establishes “dynamic structure and organization of the genome”, the viscoelasticity of the nucleus, and the formation pathways and timescales of molecular condensates known as nuclear bodies, with Kerry Bloom, Daniel Kolbin, Andrew Atanasiu, Ben Walker, Paula Vasquez, Caitlin Hult, David Adalsteinsson
  • Statistical physics modeling and simulations of human bronchial epithelial mucus, with Andrew Ford, Xuezheng Cao, Ronit Freeman, Micah Papanikolas, Chris Edelmaier
  • Spatially resolved exposure, infection, and progression of infection in the human respiratory tract, with Alex Chen, Andreas Aristotelous, Jason Pearson, Karen Medlin, Leyi Zhang, Ric Boucher, Sam Lai, Ronit Freeman, Ray Pickles