Horia Petrache

I am really happy with the experiments. While students are busy doing all the hard work, here I am filling up a vial with deionized water. This water has so few free charges (ions) that a cubic centimeter of it has a resistance of 18.2 million Ohms. For comparison, a 1cm3 of sea water has 100 Ohms while copper has just 0.000006 Ohms [check!]. Potable water has about 2000 Ohms depending on many things, including your kitchen reverse osmosis system. You can guess just from this that our work has to do with electrostatic interactions.

Bruce D. Ray, Ph.D.

Bruce (left) is an Associate Scientist in the Department of Physics. As a biochemist, Bruce is our expert in sample preparations, NMR spectroscopy, and lab operations in general.

Merrell A. Johnson, Ph.D.

Ryan Z. Lybarger

Ryan is a graduate physics student doing secret (discrete?) measurements on biological membranes and ions.

Luis A. Palacio, P.E.

Luis is a Physics graduate student working on x-ray scattering, ion channel measurements, and theory. Attended the Biophysical Society meeting, San Francisco, CA 2010 and the Biophysical Society meeting, Baltimore, MD 2011.

Robinah Maasa

Robinah is a biology major woking on the interaction of macrophages with lipid vesicles.

Simran Gurdasani

Simran is an Applied Mathematics major, currently working within a MURI group.

Lynsie Harper

Lynsie is an undergraduate student current participating in a MURI project.

Lincoln Wallis

Lincoln is a physics major working in the lab on his capstone project.

Michael Weisman

Mike is a biology major working on x-ray measurements.