General research topics with current collaborators

• Flow transport processes in the human respiratory tract, with Boyce Griffith UNC, Aaron Barrett (College of Charleston), Cole Gruninger (Fordham University), Chris Edelmaier (Flatiron Institute), David Hill and Rich Superfine (UNC), Paula Vasquez (South Carolina)
• 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, D. Hill, J. Newby, G. Didier
• Chromosomal DNA Dynamic Organization and Structure in Living Yeast:  how the kinetics of SMC protein transient crosslinking 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 UNC Biology and his group, Xuezheng Cao Xiamen University and his group, Holger Merlitz Leibniz Institute, Dresden Germany, Daniel Kolbin U. Wyoming, Andrew Atanasiu UNC BCB graduate program, Ben Walker (UC Irvine), Paula Vasquez (South Carolina), Caitlin Hult (Gettysburg College), David Adalsteinsson UNC
• Statistical physics modeling and simulations of human bronchial epithelial mucus in health and disease, 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