Rotating Light Demo
The laser entering the two columns of fluid is linearly polarized and passed through a rotating a 1/2-wave plate. Karo syrup (left column), which is high fructose corn syrup, has … Read More
Bio-Optics Laboratory
Role of PKA in Dendrite Development (with B. Firestein, CBN)
Funding: NIH (MPI with Bonnie Firestein)
Measuring cellular forces
Funding: NSF
Label-free microscopy
Collaboration with Institut d’Optique in France
Combining FRET Microscopy with Optical Tweezers for the Study of Mechanobiology PIs: Nada Boustany and Nathalie Westbrook (Funding: Rutgers Global 2020 – 2023, TREMPLIN INP 2020, LabEx-PALM 2021)
FLIM for mechanobiology
Funding: NSF-GOALI