The group collaborates with a wide range of researchers including at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (USA), Utrecht University (Netherlands), Harvard University (USA), Leipzig University (Germany), Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA), and Indiana University (USA). The group is part of the biophysics effort which includes the group of Jaan Mannik at the University of Tennessee (http://www.phys.utk.edu/research/soft-matter.html)
Undergraduate Students
Christian Biadasz - Christian is a WSU student working on 3D modelling of cancer growth. In collaboration with the Kaes group at the University of Leipzig in Germany, we are trying to understand the impact of tumor geometry on cancer progression and competition between different tumor strains.
Aidan Desilets - Aidan is a WSU student working on understanding how the extracellular matrix influences breast cancer tumor growth. He is building lattice models and using cancer imaging data to inform his simulations. We are always looking for undergraduate researchers!
Research Associates
Dima Bolmatov - Dima is a research assistant professor at UT and works
on understanding the structure and function of heterogeneities in
biological membranes. He uses scattering techniques including elastic
and inelastic neutron and X-ray scattering. He is an expert in using
solid state approaches to understand fundamental aspects of soft
materials. (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4179-8971)
Graduate Students
Guilherme Freire Oliveira - Gui works on aspects of non-equilibrium pattern formation. He is developing numerical PDE solvers for noisy, non-linear PDEs describing conserved order parameter dynamics. He is in the process of developing the PDE for the driven Widom-Rowlinson lattice gas, which exhibits a fascinating stripe pattern formation. I am co-advising Gui along with his primary advisor, Ronald Dickman, at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil.
Mu-Hung Chang - Mu-Hung works on understanding the formation and
structure of the bacterial nucleoid and the general organization of the
internal components of the bacterial cell. Mu-Hung uses ideas from the
physics of polymers and liquid-liquid phase separation to describe the
effects of crowding and DNA compaction. Mu-hung works in close
collaboration with the Mannik group (http://www.phys.utk.edu/jmannik/LCBHome.html).
Alumni
Ioanna Tchangova (Spring 2024) - undergraduate researcher working on lattice models of cancer
Dominique Odens (Summer 2022) - undergraduate summer research intern. Dominique works on random walk
models for understanding molecular motion within biological membranes.
Nora Bauer (2018-2023) - graduate student, now graduate student at UTK
Clara Castillo (2018-2021) - graduate student, now postdoc at UTK
Adam Bryant (2018-2021) - undergraduate researcher, now engineer in Colorado
Christal Martin (2018-2020) - undergraduate researcher, honors thesis, now graduate student at UTK
Immanuel Schmidt (2021-2022) - undergraduate researcher, honors thesis, now graduate student at UIUC
Charles Ladd (2018) - undergraduate summer research intern
Mary Kemp (2017) - undergraduate researcher